¿Qué nos hace ser individuos? Por un enfoque post-humano, pragmático y relacional

Oriana Bernasconi Ramirez

doi:10.5565/rev/athenea.1402

What makes us to be individuals? A post-human, pragmatic and relational framework

Authors

Oriana Bernasconi Ramirez Departamento de Sociología Universidad Alberto Hurtado

Abstract

The crisis of the idea of society and the turn towards the individual as the unit of problematization of contemporary western societies, eminently individualistic, have placed research on individuals and subjectivities at the core of social sciences’ work. With the aim of contributing to the renovation of this field’s theoretical and methodological tools, in this article I introduce a post-anthropocentric, pragmatic and relational framework for the study of individuals, based on multi-sited ethnographic inquiries and supported over principles that draw from post-constructivist and post-social sensibilities. As a result of the turns this proposal entails in relation to conventional approaches, new lines of inquiry open up adding complexity to this field of study. I illustrate this proposal with data from a research on the entrepreneur in Santiago de Chile.

Keywords

Enactment, Agency, Practice, Entrepreneur

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Author Biography

Oriana Bernasconi Ramirez, Departamento de Sociología Universidad Alberto Hurtado

Académica del Departamento de Sociología de la Universidad Alberto, Hurtado, profesora de los programas de pregrado, magister y doctorado en Sociología de esta unidad académica Phd en Sociología (LSE, 2008), Master en Estudios Culturales y Sociología (Birmingham 2002), Socióloga (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (1996). Areas de investigación: estudios sociales del individuo, moral, estudios narrativos y subjetividad, la relación entre sociología y sociedad y los fundamentos políticos, epistemológicos y éticos de la sociología empírica