Indigenous peoples, thoughts and debates today: social sciences and the paradox of subaltern speech

Abstract

Indigenous subaltern speech is full of complexities, largely due to the relationship that "indigenous intellectual" subjects have with the social sciences and the conceptual corpus they use. This article sets out to analyze these complexities, emphasizing how the conceptualizations of the social sciences generate conditions to open the field of culturalist essentialisms, in a framework of continuous indigenous emergency not without paradoxes.