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This paper presents a theoretical-methodological proposal to research movements and the state based on the associations they establish. It is grounded in three investigations: the first one about the transformations of the Landless People's Movement (LPM) of South Africa, the second about interactions between Brazilian rural movements and the National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform (Incra); the third focuses on the transnational ties of the National Confederation of Agricultural Workers (Contag). The main effect of the article is an ontological definition of movements and the state as collectives whose existence is defined by continuous assemblages of heterogeneous and unstable elements. Since it is not possible to take them as enclosed analytical units, it is up to the research to observe continuous constructions of groups and collectives which are contingent and contextual. Researchers will often follow these processes before their public expression. The proposal is to understand which elements allow things to take the courses we normally observe and analyze. It is also suggested the methodological use of controversies as analytical categories and the observation of the processes in the long term. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyses the contributions of the sociologies or theories of the South to the contemporary debates on the production of theory in the social sciences. Starting with the assumption that these projects adopt a critical view of how sociology has privileged certain objects over others in a colonial way, it proposes an analysis that makes use of certain aspects of the actor-network theory. This approach, it is suggested, will help the sociologies of the South to focus on the production of ontoforms as their specific object, ontoforms which expand and at times challenge the established hegemonic notions of the social and of agency in this area of knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article critically reviews the recent publications in the field of social sciences regarding the themes of ‘Southern theories’, ‘theories from the South’ and ‘epistemologies of the South’ seeking to understand the limits and perspectives of this current wave of critique to the social sciences establishment. Analyzing the works of Boaventura Santos, Raewyn Connell and Jean and John Comaroff the article defines the use of the term ‘South’ as a circumstantial project under which different notions of theory are in a dispute for legitimacy. Such disputes are bringing to the center of the sociological debate the very notion of ‘theory’ and its production in a geopolitical context where Southern social scientists are actively participating in the international debates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reviews the recent literature in the field of social sciences in which the term "South" is regarded as a theoretical, methodological or epistemological alternative to the colonial effects of our disciplines. Analysing the books of Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Reawyn Connell and Jean and John Comaroff it seeks to point out some of their fragilities and possible alternative paths for a sociology beyond the Euro-American tradition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article offers information on the contribution of land claim movements in the creation of social meaning in the sugar plantation region in Pernambuco, Brazil. Interviews with militants from various land claim movements coordinating land occupations and supporting rural workers' access to land in Brazil have been analyzed. The analysis of interviews has revealed that these organizations enable their leaders to become popular in local urban politics. By doing so, they contribute to the transformation of power structures in Brazil.

Este artigo discute as recentes publicações na área de ciências sociais que buscam apontar a noção de Sul com alternativa teórica, metodológica ou epistemológica aos efeitos coloniais nesta área do conhecimento. Por meio de uma revisão crítica dos argumentos de Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Raewyn Connell e Jean e John Comaroff em suas obras mais recentes, procura apontar as principais fragilidades destas perspectivas e possíveis caminhos alternativos à produção acadêmica fora da euro-américa