2024/08/05 by Inés Valdez, Raymond Rocco, Arturo Chang · 2 voices
Social Sciences · #American political science #Colonialism #Epistemology #Field (mathematics) #Gender studies #Latin Americans #Law #Philosophy #Political Philosophy and Ethics #Political economy #Political philosophy #Political science #Politics #Politics and Society in Latin America #Populism, Right-Wing Movements #Social science #Sociology #Sovereignty #State (computer science) #Transnationalism
paper · pdf · doi:10.1017/s0003055424000534
openalex publication_date 2024/08/05 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/15
Abstract This article presents Latinx political thought as a distinctive tradition in political theory that reworks central concepts in response to historical experiences of conquest, colonialism, migration, and transnational politics. In reconstructing this tradition, we argue that its problem space converges with US-based Latin American political thought. The article first traces a genealogy of Latinx political theory and then explores three realms of theorizing around which Latinx and Latin American political thought cluster: sovereignty and state violence, peoplehood, and transnationalism. We explain how the surveyed works disrupt and enrich political theory accounts of these problems. In arguing for the recognition of this field as a tradition, the article also aims to make it intelligible as an area of concentration for PhD students in political science.