1. De la democracia fragmentaria al Ubuntu africano: aportación de los movimientos afrodescendientes a la democracia relacional en América Latina.
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Rafael Ramírez, Jorge and Ladrón de Guevara, Lourdes Consuelo Pacheco
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PAPER products , *LITERATURE reviews , *AFRICAN philosophy , *DEMOCRACY , *HUMANITY - Abstract
This paper is the product of doctoral research and aims to introduce the discussion and analysis of Ubuntu and traditional African philosophy as a contribution to thinking about the fragmentation of democracy in Latin America, giving way to the role that African movements and organizations have in assuming a political and ethical struggle to build a relational democracy as a necessary proposal to the crisis of liberal democracy. The methodology consists of a bibliographic review of literature and intellectuals from the social sciences and African thought to highlight a trend that is not only framed in the questioning of the democratic model in force in Latin America, but also provides some clues for the construction of a community society project in the region, based on relational ontology. It concludes that, in the crisis of the Western political model, the struggles of Afro-descendant movements must transcend the logic of strengthening liberal democracy, to propose the ethical path of Ubuntu as a route to deconstruct the political and societal structures in place, promoting a message of humanity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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