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Colombian anthropologist Eduardo Restrepo has just published a thought-provoking article titled “Social Theory, Fugitive Methodologies, and Materialities in the Academic Establishment: Notes from an Anarchist Prism” in the latest issue of Tabula Rasa. In this text, from the very first lines, Restrepo points to a trend in the social sciences that consists of asking questions and producing answers that largely repeat what we already know. It is as if there were an “economy of knowledge” that...

The forum “ Vocabulary for Ethnographic Experimentation ”, on the website of the Society for Cultural Anthropology and coordinated by Adolfo Estalella, Tomás Criado, and Francisco Martínez, brings together thought-provoking contributions in which various Spanish-speaking authors sketch what could be understood as initial, open, and evolving outlines for contemporary ethnographic experimentation. From the outset, the forum coordinators clarify that ethnographic experimentation is conceived...

The recent issue 62 of the Revista Andina , published by the Centro Bartolomé de las Casas (Peru), is dedicated to the dossier Towards critical research from the South . Among its contributions, two articles stand out: “Critical approaches and embodied methodologies: commitments for transformative research” , by Caroline Weill, and “Between centralism and the (absence) of critique: briefly discussing two tensions that traverse the Peruvian social sciences” , by Pável Aguilar Dueñas....