George Floyd and Latin America Action, Practice and Experience in the Scriptures of America’s Global Past
by Gibran Bautista y Lugo
pp. 90-115 Issue 14 ( 7,2) – July-December 2020 ISSN (online): 2539/2239 ISSN (print): 2389-8232 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14718/SoftPower.2020.7.2.5
Abstract
The article promotes a dialogue between history, philosophy and sociology with the aim of formulating a global history from America transcending decolonial particularisms. The first section addresses the scope and limits of the critical historiographic perspectives of the center-periphery model, the contributions to the study of the role of America in the first globalization, as well as the approaches centered on the agency of subordinate subjects (by race, gender, language or class) without understanding the dynamics that framed their histories. Thus, a starting point is formulated to dialogue with other disciplines and traditions of thought that affect the globality of Latin American history in line with the Mediterranean one. The second section addresses the scope and limits of Latin American particularism, with special emphasis on decolonial assumptions that affect the knowledge of history. Finally, a set of reflections are proposed that serve as the basis for a story that moves away from the presumption of individual or collective identities and, instead focuses in action, practices and experiences as diachronic dynamics of the configuration of the social. Sub- sequently, it is stated that any global history from Latin America should be oriented towards the understanding of the universal human experience, within the framework of the realities of the continent as a whole, taking as a turning point the assassination of George Floyd in May 2020.