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Revisiting Bruno Latour from postcolonial and intersectional perspectives

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Article by Francisca Ortiz, MICARE postdoctoral researcher

This academic essay reviews the book “We were never modern” (2007) by Bruno Latour, which addresses an idea of modifying the concept of “modernity” as it is understood in the sciences, and in anthropology in particular. This includes understanding that Human and Nature are not dissociated, but that there are also hybrid spaces to find.

For the author, in addition to rereading Latour’s text, the exercise of incorporating these new perspectives must also include a feminist, ecological and care justice perspective. It also requires understanding of the diversity of roles and processes that countries have experienced over the last centuries. That is to say, a country in South America, Africa or Asia has not produced knowledge and culture in the same way as a colonizer country.

The author establishes that this is a process that should take years to complete, however, she emphasizes that those who investigate should always keep it in mind.

El filósofo Bruno Latour posando con los brazos cruzados