The compilation made by professors Olver Quijano Valencia and Carlos Corredor Jiménez, collects the reflections of different thinkers, thinkers and activists on the current global pandemic, the pandemic nature of neoliberal capitalism, the crisis of care and the need to try other forms of be in society.

 

Pandemia Al Sur is a compilation made by the professors of the graduate program of the University of Cauca, Master in Interdisciplinary Development Studies, Ólver Quijano Valencia and Carlos Corredor Jiménez. "It constitutes a kind of conversation, not so much about the current global pandemic, but, in particular, about the pandemic nature of neoliberal capitalism, the crisis of care and the need to try other ways of being in society," he said. Professor Ólver Quijano Valencia.

 

With COVID-19 expanded and the new pandemic declared, it did not take long for numerous analyzes of influential global thinkers to circulate, such as Žižek, Chul Han, Agamben, Houellebecq, among others, who have moved between utopia and dystopia, war with an invisible enemy or a civil war and the idea that the world after the pandemic will be the same, only a little worse. Other positions, already numerous and even innumerable, are also anchored in other locations and with other actors, this time in the global south, as a societal project, a principle of intelligibility and a place of hope.

 

Different thinkers and activists participate in this collective work: the teachers Ailton, Krenak (Brazil), Boaventura de Sousa Santos (Portugal), Enrique Leff (Mexico), Arturo Escobar (Colombia / United States), Gustavo Esteva (Mexico), Raúl Zibechi (Uruguay), Walter Mignolo (Argentina / United States) and the teacher Rita Segato (Argentina / Brazil), who nurture and qualify this work with their emergency analyzes, the commitment to non-avant-garde critical thinking and the transitional solutions to the civilizational collapse and the absence of human immunity.

 

Likewise, as part of an initiative of the French collective Écran Total and the Transdisciplinary Research Group on Socioecological Transitions (GinTRANS2) and as a singular section for this work, Jorge Reichmann / Adrián Almazán and 300 signatures, among groups and people from different parts of the planet they generously contribute a momentous manifesto regarding the need to fight a "virtual" world.

 

Other contributions to the book and from common elements but with specificities of their places, trajectories and stories, have to do with the reflections of Olver Quijano Valencia (Colombia), Tulio Clavijo Gallego (Colombia), Yuri F. Tòrrez (Bolivia), Carlos Corredor Jiménez (Colombia), Catalina Toro Pérez (Colombia) and Hackeo Cultural (Guatemala and Mexico), a collective of narrators, storytellers, artists, communicators, radio players, journalists and cultural hackers, as well as the group made up of Cynthia Angulo Jara, William A Cisneros Ordoñez, Alex L. Dagua Mosquera, Rocío Hernández Romero, Gloria Ángela Niebles Gutiérrez, and Víctor A. Yarza de los Ríos.

 

Everyone, with their concerns, concerns and bets, contributes to emphasize the need to come together to design ideas, think disruptively and continue to make the streets the epicenter of protest, proposal and party.

 

The illustrations in the book are contributions from the teacher Adolfo Albán Achinte from the University of Cauca, who from Valle del Patía and with his series # 40rentenagrafica, helps us in another way to understand what is happening in this stage of transitory isolation for some and of customary isolation for significant segments of the population.

 

The book that will be published by Prometeo Editorial of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, will soon be available to all audiences interested in approaching this collective work.

 

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Olver Quijano Valencia

Professor University of Cauca

Email: oquijano@unicauca.edu.co