Andamiaje de la agencia: del antropocentrismo a la acción relacional. Una reseña crítica
Resumen
Los valores están en coconstrucción dialéctica. Los valores son relacionales, es decir, emergen cuando dos o más fuerzas interactúan entre sí para generar realidades plurales. De manera similar, como una propiedad emergente del encuentro entre fuerzas, la agencia social, o la capacidad de actuar, no es un dominio exclusivo del ser humano. Este artículo de revisión ofrece una aproximación crítica a la Teoría de la Agencia (TA) en las ciencias sociales contemporáneas. (1) Revisamos la TA en varios campos académicos; luego (2) discutimos enfoques críticos en torno a la raza y la teoría del actorred; después, (3) investigamos la TA en la economía ecológica con un enfoque en la acción colectiva; y (4) proponemos un concepto relacional de agencia con base en esta revisión crítica. (5) Para ilustrar un cambio de paradigma en la agencia social —de lo antropocéntrico a lo relacional— cerramos con un llamado a “una pedagogía del cuidado y la defensa de la vida” más allá de enfoques exclusivamente humanos sobre la agencia social.
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