- Researcher
- Date
- Friday 22 Sep 2023, 13:00 - 14:00
- Type
- Seminar
- Spoken Language
- English
- Room
- Room 4.39
- Location
- International Institute of Social Studies
- Ticket information
No registration is required to attend this event in-person.
Please send an email to Dr Zemzem Shigute Shuka at shuka@iss.nl if you would like to receive the Zoom link to this event.
In this Research in Progress Seminar, Ángeles Eraña investigates the individual-society dyad.
In the beginning of the years 2000, Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos (from the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional) and Luis Villoro (a Mexican philosopher) held a correspondence where they discussed (and questioned the basis of) the so-called individual-society paradox.
With their main ideas as a starting point, Eraña aims to rethink this dyad. To do so she will examine the following questions:
- Is it necessary that the world be as it is now?
- How is the world now?
- What kind of persons inhabit this world?
In her seminar, she will contend that we live in an unjust world that needs to be transformed. There are different actions and new theories needed to attain such a goal.
In the theoretical side of this quest for a better world we need to question whether this dyad is in fact a paradox. On the practical side we need to become (real) persons.
- More information
The Research in Progress seminars provide an informal venue for presentations of ongoing research by ISS researchers and scholars from the wider development studies community.