This article examines how certain metaphysical, historical, and conceptual frameworks produce an abstraction of nature and space that facilitates their appropriation, administration, and exploitation within the logics of capital. This analysis is articulated through what Jacques Derrida (1988) calls the “hypothesis of idealization,” understood as an operation of thought that reduces the singularity of lifeworlds through processes of abstraction and conceptual emptying. Within this framework, the study explores how such forms of idealization sustain contemporary extractivist rationalities and how their deconstruction opens the possibility of thinking world-compositions grounded in ecological interdependence. The aim of the paper is to contribute to the critique of the metaphysical assumptions that legitimize extractivist rationality, enabling the imagination of alternative forms of ecological justice and world-making. Through theoretical analysis and the case of the Cerro Blanco Mine as an analytical vignette, the article shows that the ecological crisis is not merely a technical problem, but the effect of a metaphysical configuration that fragments the relation between nature, space, and life, while the situated experiences of affected communities reveal forms of knowledge that exceed dominant state and techno-administrative frameworks.
In this article we analyze how the COVID-19 pandemic along with the preventive isolation measures implemented by national states exacerbated gender and socioeconomic inequalities in Latin America, especially in relation to the social organization of care in poor neighborhoods in Argentina. We focus on the crucial role played by socio-community organizations in the provision of care and food assistance during the crisis. We analyze 26 territorially-based social organizations in seven regions of the country. We used a data sheet and surveys to develop a description based on a quantitative approach and attempt to link the characteristics of the organizations with the type of service they offer, the sources and amount of resources available to them, as well as their relationship with the different levels of the State. Finally, we highlight how the context of the socioeconomic and health crisis has made visible the importance of community care and the need to shift it from the private sphere to a public and collective responsibility.
The article analyzes the relationship between coloniality, political-religious conservatism and the criminalization of abortion in Latin America through the lens of bioethics. It is a study of the Manuela Vs. El Salvador case, judged by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in 2021, about human rights violations by El Salvador, based on the criminalization of abortion in the country. The question is why critical bioethics is not making progress in relation to gender issues in Latin America. The method is empirical, and the approach is qualitative. The results point to the need for progress in critical bioethics to overcome conservative influences and promote gender justice. It was possible to conclude that there is a need to strengthen the commitment to international cooperation, with the Court playing a crucial role in protecting rights and preventing setbacks.
