Open research questions in Latin American Cultural Politics
45 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 1,961 Latin American Cultural Politics papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.
What the literature leaves open
The complexity of the problem of colonialism, - The need to develop a critical understanding of the role of social media and technology, - The challenge of promoting a more just and equitable society
The current education system is monocultural and monolingual. There is a need to transition from a superficial to a critical interculturality approach in teacher training.
Interculturalidad crítica y descolonización educativa en la formación docente: una experiencia en la ESFM Rafael Chávez Ortiz · 2026 · DOILa necesidad de una propuesta teórica y una herramienta metodológica para un análisis histórico-estructural sobre los problemas sociales y ecológicoambientales. La falta de consideración de las relaciones de poder que buscan controlar los principales ámbitos de la existencia social.
Descolonialidad del poder. Una propuesta epistemológica y teórico-metodológica para el análisis de los problemas sociales y ecológico-ambientales. · 2026 · DOIThe article identifies a gap in understanding the formation of the political. The study highlights the need for a phenomenological perspective on the issue.
The paper identifies a gap in the understanding of how national identity is problematized in Le dedico mi silencio. The study highlights the need to explore the role of music in shaping collective memory and the failure of mestizaje in Peru.
La utopía de la identidad nacional en Le dedico mi silencio (2023): música, literatura y el fracaso del mestizaje cultural · 2026 · DOIThe paper identifies a gap in the research process related to the lack of reflexivity. The author recognizes that their own perspective and biases can influence the research process. The paper highlights the need to incorporate new dimensions and perspectives in the research process.
¿Qué ves cuándo me ves? (¿y qué no ves?): interrogar la propia mirada en la investigación socioantropológica de identidades narrativas en la ruralidad · 2026 · DOIFuture research should prioritize the well-being and safety of researchers and participants - Future research should engage with the complexities and contradictions of research in contexts of precarity and violence
El lugar de la investigadora aguafiestas: etnografiar contextos precarizados en Medellín, Colombia · 2026 · DOIThere is a lack of research on the experiences of researchers in contexts of precarity and violence - There is a need for more self-reflexive and disca research practices
El lugar de la investigadora aguafiestas: etnografiar contextos precarizados en Medellín, Colombia · 2026 · DOIThe paper identifies a gap in the understanding of the journey of ideas in Brazilian regionalism. The study highlights the need for further research on the impact of literary theory on Brazilian regionalism.
The need to analyze the crises and transformations of the family in the context of neoliberalism. The lack of understanding of the family's role in the management of the crisis of social reproduction.
Presentación monográfico: Crisis y transformaciones de la familia en el contexto neoliberal · 2026 · DOIFuture research should consider the long-term effects of the government's chronotope of containment on immobility among government supporters. Future research should examine the impact of alternative forms of mobility, such as 'survival migration', on the outmigration crisis in Venezuela.
Chronotopic mechanisms of sedentary subjectification: Territorializing Venezuela’s communes · 2026 · DOIThe study identifies a gap in the literature on the moral and political implications of mobility decisions in the context of Venezuela's outmigration crisis. The study highlights the need for a nuanced understanding of the complex and politicized nature of staying put in Venezuela.
Chronotopic mechanisms of sedentary subjectification: Territorializing Venezuela’s communes · 2026 · DOIThe study identifies a gap in the understanding of the role of academics as activists in defending human rights and the rights of nature, - It highlights the importance of defending health and territory
Activistas: Construyendo puentes y defendiendo los derechos de los seres humanos y la naturaleza · 2026 · DOIThe need to understand the communicative practices of Shuar Arutam youth in the context of the expansion of the digital regime, coloniality of development, and ongoing territorial disputes. The lack of consideration of the symbolic, affective, and political dimensions of technology in the development of communication strategies.
La grieta del espectáculo: Juventud shuar, comunicación e insurgencia tecnológica territorial · 2026 · DOIThe paper identifies a gap in the consideration of affect in the analysis of digitalization. The paper also identifies a gap in the analysis of anti-racist community communication centered on affect.
Comunicación comunitaria antirracista y afectos: Una crítica corporizada a la digitalización de la vida · 2026 · DOIThe paper suggests that future research should engage with the path of conocimiento to deepen our understanding of the experiences of queer Latinx/a/o individuals. The study highlights the need for further research on the application of the Muxerista Activist Consciousness Development Framework. The paper suggests that future research should consider the socialization and training of researchers in shaping their engagement with research.
Heridas y Sanación Colectiva: The Path of Conocimiento as a Muxerista-Jotería Framework for Queer Latinx/a/o Research in Higher Education · 2026 · DOIThe paper identifies a gap in understanding the experiences of queer Latinx/a/o individuals in higher education. The study highlights the need for a relational and reflexive approach to guiding research design and practice. The paper suggests that engaging the path of conocimiento can address this gap.
Heridas y Sanación Colectiva: The Path of Conocimiento as a Muxerista-Jotería Framework for Queer Latinx/a/o Research in Higher Education · 2026 · DOIFuture research should continue to develop the Muxerista-Jotería framework and its applications. Future research should prioritize the inclusion and visibility of Jotería projects from the subaltern. Future research should explore the potential of reciprocal exchange and solidarity in Jotería Studies.
Transnacionalizando y Transfronterizando: Arte, Expresiones e Iniciativas de la Jotería desde abajo del Globo Sur en México · 2026 · DOIThe paper identifies a gap in Jotería Studies, which has been institutionalized in the Global North and has reproduced hemispheric hierarchies. The paper seeks to address this gap by prioritizing the inclusion and visibility of Jotería projects from the subaltern.
Transnacionalizando y Transfronterizando: Arte, Expresiones e Iniciativas de la Jotería desde abajo del Globo Sur en México · 2026 · DOIFuture research should continue to develop the framework of ecofeminismo decolonial and its application to the crisis socioambiental in Colombia. Further studies should explore the implementation of the Pedagogía de la Tierra in different contexts and its impact on generating conciencia crítica about environmental destruction and the subordination of women.
ECOFEMINISMO DECOLONIAL: EL ROL PEDAGÓGICO DE LA MUJER RURAL EN LA DEFENSA DEL TERRITORIO EN COLOMBIA · 2026 · DOIThe paper identifies a gap in the recognition of rural women's knowledge and practices in defending the territory and constructing a lasting peace in Colombia. The paper highlights the need for a framework that recognizes the vínculo estructural between the opresión de género and the explotación depredadora de la naturaleza.
ECOFEMINISMO DECOLONIAL: EL ROL PEDAGÓGICO DE LA MUJER RURAL EN LA DEFENSA DEL TERRITORIO EN COLOMBIA · 2026 · DOIThe field of psychological care has been enmeshed within the pillars of Modern medical scientific discourses, limiting our understanding of mental health and wellbeing. The efforts in Global Mental Health have been limited by their reliance on colonial paradigms and metrics.
Discontent and Collectivity: Free Psychoanalytic Clinics as Spaces of Sanitary Emancipation · 2026 · DOIThe need for universities to transcend strictly academic training and consolidate themselves as institutions committed to human development, citizenship, and social transformation. The importance of culture as a strategic tool for building more inclusive and sustainable societies.
El Centro Cultural de la UPCH como espacio de diálogo, ciudadanía y transformación social · 2026 · DOIThe lack of incorporation of feminist perspectives in environmental education. The dominant environmental education reproduces a subtext of gender that imposes separation and dominance over what is considered 'Nature'.
Hacia una Educación Ambiental De(s)colonial y Feminista: fundamentos desde la coteorización con mujeres · 2026 · DOIThe lack of understanding of the mechanisms of colonial domination in modern society, - The need to study the role of social media and technology in these mechanisms
Most-cited papers in Latin American Cultural Politics
- Decolonial and Ontological Challenges in Social and Anthropological Theory · Theory Culture & Society · 2022 · 52 citations
- The coloniality of infrastructure: Engineering, landscape and modernity in Recife · Environment and Planning D Society and Space · 2021 · 51 citations
- Thinking against empire: Anticolonial thought as social theory · British Journal of Sociology · 2023 · 48 citations
- Inventing critical development: A Brazilian geographer and his Northern networks · Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers · 2018 · 48 citations
- Hemispheric, Relational, and Intersectional Political Ecologies of Race: Centring Land‐Body Entanglements in the Americas · Antipode · 2020 · 47 citations
- Decolonizing International Relations: Confronting Erasures through Indigenous Knowledge Systems · International Studies · 2021 · 43 citations
- Sociology’s encounter with the decolonial: The problematique of indigenous vs that of coloniality, extraversion and colonial modernity · Current Sociology · 2020 · 36 citations
- Gender and Coloniality: From Low-Intensity Communal Patriarchy to High-Intensity Colonial-Modern Patriarchy · Hypatia · 2021 · 34 citations
- Ethnographic views of Brazil’s (new) authoritarian turn · Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory · 2020 · 34 citations
- Decolonial Discourses and Practices: Geopolitical Contexts, Intellectual Genealogies, and Situated Pedagogies · Educational Studies · 2022 · 33 citations
Most recent work
- The layers of coloniality in educational foundations: the coloniality of being and power in Mexican philosophy · The SoJo Journal Educational Foundations and Social Justice Education · 2026
- Interculturalidad crítica y descolonización educativa en la formación docente: una experiencia en la ESFM Rafael Chávez Ortiz · Emergentes - Revista Científica · 2026
- Descolonialidad del poder. Una propuesta epistemológica y teórico-metodológica para el análisis de los problemas sociales y ecológico-ambientales. · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026
- Da modernidade eurocêntrica aos estudos decoloniais · Ambivalências · 2026
- Formación de lo político: una mirada patočkiana · Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Costa Rica · 2026
- Conocimiento, instituciones educativas y saberes en diálogo · Revista de Ciencias Sociales · 2026
- Impactos psicosociales del activismo por la justicia ambiental: una revisión sistemática de la evidencia global · Revista de ciencias sociales. · 2026
- Estrategias de reconversión en la revista Kuntur (1928) · Kipus Revista Andina de Letras y Estudios Culturales · 2026
- La utopía de la identidad nacional en Le dedico mi silencio (2023): música, literatura y el fracaso del mestizaje cultural · Kipus Revista Andina de Letras y Estudios Culturales · 2026
- Introduction: ‘Mapping the Frontiers and Wastelands of US Identity across Cultural Productions’ · European Journal of American Culture · 2026
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