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Reseña de "Ringe, N. y Rennó, L. (Eds.) (2022). Populist and the Pandemic. How Populists Around the World Responded to COVID-19. Routledge, 320 p."

Reseña de: Agamben, G., ŽiŽek, S., Nancy, J.L., Berardi, F., López Petit, S., Butler, J., Badiou, A., Harvey, D., Han, B.C., Zibechi, R., Galindo, M., Gabriel, M., Yañez González, G., Manrique, P., Preciado, P.B. (2020). Sopa de Wuhan. Pensamiento contemporáneo en tiempos de pandemias. ASPO, 188 p.

Sociological research into the transregional North-South circulation of knowledge in the social sciences and humanities has tended to have a unidirectional bias to date. The standard assumption is that as a result of globalization, theories and methods are spread from the global North to the global South. Based on this premise, many of the studies of circulation focus on the transfer of knowledge in terms of ideas, traditions, authors and concepts from the North to the South. Thus far, little attention has been paid to the transregional circulation of theoretical approaches from the South to the North and their impact on the transformation of the European social sciences and humanities. Analysing the circulation of the Latin American dependency theories in the Federal Republic of Germany, this article addresses precisely this gap. The focus is on processes of institutional consolidation of area studies, North-South mobility, the translation-process into German, application in empirical research, modification and rejection. Focusing on this little-explored orientation regarding the circulation of knowledge, this article is in keeping with the current attempt to analyse transregional entanglements within European social sciences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Este artículo muestra que no es adecuado analizar los procesos de descolonización y de construcción de Estados en el sudeste asiático a partir de estudios de área, con el argumento de que dichos estudios no permiten captar la diversidad de procesos históricos y políticos de cada país durante la segunda mitad del siglo XX porque utilizan categorías homogéneas y con pretensión de universalidad. Algunas de estas categorías provienen del paradigma teórico del Estado-nación moderno que es inadecuado para estudiar los resultados políticos de estos procesos. El artículo toma los ejemplos de Tailandia, Timor Oriental, Birmania y Filipinas para estudiar los problemas de unidad nacional, construcción de burocracias y culturas políticas, y los nexos entre tradición y modernidad.

There has been considerable debate about the challenges and opportunities posed for geographical scholarship by globalization. In similar contexts, however, the discipline's relationship to area studies merits careful review and reworking. Three prospective pathways through this are presented here: the status of geographical knowledge in the aftermath of the critique of orientalism and associated postcolonial departures, debates about language and translation, and attention to the situatedness and operation of perspective in geographical imaginations. Charting these tracks, the article notes obstacles and highlights opportunities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]