Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios sobre Cuerpos, Emociones y Sociedad

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Equipo Editorial — 2025-08-01

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From Home to Freak Show: Sensibilities and Experiences from a Sociological Perspective

Francisco Falconier — 2025-08-01

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Monster Bodies of the Digital Freakshow: Between the Moral Monster and the War-Machines

Hector Bujanda — 2025-08-01

This article elaborates a theoretical-critical itinerary to account for contemporary representations of the monstrous body, considering it as a device that challenges norms and blurs traditional categories such as identity and subjectivity. A technography and a digital ethnography of identity representations in TikTok was carried out, including archiving and classification of publications and contents of subjectivities-corporalities that correspond to two ways of being a machine and to the notion of machinic agency according to Deleuze. From this field, critical categories that emerged from that register are proposed: the incomplete, the non-binary, the disposable and the posthuman. The study suggests that TikTok can be seen as a cartography of monstrous bodies circulating online, challenging traditional notions of normality and pathology. This representation of the monstrous body is a reaction to the transformation of social norms in semiocapitalism, where the body is depathologized and the meaning of the monster acquires a double significance: that of the moral monster, trapped in normopathic logic; and that of the war machine, as a nomadic, subaltern body, which is being constructed as an artist of itself.

Bodies and emotions in the university classroom: analysis of emotional dynamics in teaching and/or learning processes at the undergraduate level (Colombia)

Franci Camila Amezquita Torres — 2025-08-01

This article is derived from doctoral research conducted at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana on the circulation
of emotions within teaching and/or learning relationships in Colombian universities. The study explores an
often-overlooked dimension in education: the emotional fabric that shapes pedagogical bonds in today’s
university context. It analyzes how emotions and affective atmospheres are produced, circulate, and are
reproduced in educational settings, drawing from an epistemological perspective that combines interpretive
and socio-critical approaches, while considering the influence of market logics. Methodologically, the
research employed a hybrid approach that integrates autoethnography and educational ethnography,
supported by participant observation and semi-structured interviews. The findings reveal patterns in
interactions, characterized by movements of emotional closeness and distance, mediated by identity
and intersectional factors. The article proposes a theoretical model that engages with the Marxist theory
of commodity circulation, enabling an analysis of the use and exchange values assigned to emotions in
pedagogical relationships. In doing so, it offers a new perspective for understanding affective dynamics in
higher education, highlighting their significance in the configuration of educational bonds.

Home, Pandemic and Beyond. Senses and Emotions about Home in Buenos Aires City

Ana Lucía Cervio — 2025-08-01

Considered as the epicentre of private life, home is a particular form of social organization. Inside it, various productive and reproductive tasks are planned and executed, as well as daily practices associated with conflict, care and enjoyment. In the face of the decline of the public sphere as an arena for collective expression and mobilization that accompanies the current development of capitalism, the irruption of the COVID-19 pandemic has had an undeniable impact on the home, re-centering it even more in the social dynamics as a central spatial-affective place for the production of bodies, experiences and sensibilities. The aim of this paper is to describe and analyze, from a sociology of sensibilities, the senses and emotions about the home identified in Buenos Aires City in a pandemic and post-pandemic scenario, taking as empirical reference data from two online surveys conducted in 2021 and 2023. After analyzing some ruptures-continuities identified in the senses and emotions of 'porteños' during and after the isolation, we present some readings related to the home as a space in which, in addition to producing “the domestic”, a set of senses associated with care, comfort and conflict are at play.

“Put yourself in someone else's shoes”. Reflections on awareness and training policies for disability

Mariana Gandolfo — 2025-08-01

During the month of October 2023, the Chamber of Deputies unanimously approved the “Inclusive Argentina” bill, which aims to train state officials on disability issues. In this context, our goal is to contribute to the public debate with some critical reflections on the matter. To do this, we first detail the legislation related to disability training in Argentina and its main guidelines. Secondly, we conduct a case analysis of the “experiential circuit”, a policy developed by the Undersecretary of Disability, Rehabilitation and Inclusion of the province of Córdoba. The selection of this policy is based on the fact that it represents a commonly used awareness tool: “putting oneself in another's person's shoes”, meaning that people without disabilities simulate having them. Finally we set out to present some reflections by integrating contributions from Critical Disability Studies, some contributions from Feminist and Decolonial Epistemologies and Sociology of the Bodies and Emotions. To achieve this objective, we conducted an analysis of public domain texts using current legislation and official documentation related to the “experiential circuit” as sources.

A proposal for the empirical study of social sensibilities in the world of work, from the Sociology of Bodies/ Emotions

Andreina Colombo — 2025-08-01

This article presents an analytical framework for the empirical study of social sensibilities in the world of work, from the Sociology of Bodies/Emotions. It is argued that sensibilities, understood as feeling practices, are crucial to comprehending the articulation between social structures and agents' experiences, within the framework of capitalist relations of production/reproduction. The main objective is to systematize an analytical scheme (theoretical and empirical) that allows for understanding sensibilities as an articulating node of energy extraction, the regulation of sensations, and the installation of social supportability mechanisms. For this purpose, it was operationalized in two dimensions: socio-structural and cognitive-affective.

The suicide of a schoolmate. Collective processes of trauma processing

Darío Hernán Arevalos — 2025-08-01

This article aims to understand the processing of young students in the face of the suicide of a schoolmate. The traumatic effects of the death of a generational pair on student groups need to be interpreted from the changes in sensibilities, bonds, values and conceptions about existence. The results of a qualitative study carried out in two secondary schools in peripheral urban areas of the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, are presented. The analysis of the testimonies allows us to characterize the impact of suicide on the social dynamics and relationships within the school community, where survivors develop a series of strategies for the collective elaboration of grief: they create spaces for dialogue and conversation to share their feelings and experiences, strengthen bonds of mutual support, establish networks of solidarity with significant adults, carry out tributes and ceremonies to honor the memory of their classmate, develop narratives and collective meanings about the lived experience and commit to taking care of each other to prevent this event from happening again in the peer group.

El sentido del fin: Revisitando el legado de Ernesto De Martino en la navegación de las eco-emociones

Giacomo Lampredi — 2025-08-01

En los últimos años, la emergencia climática ha alimentado una sensación generalizada de fin, generando
emociones colectivas que reflejan una experiencia de precariedad existencial y desorientación histórica. Las
llamadas eco-emociones —como la eco-ansiedad, la solastalgia y la ecoangst— no son meras respuestas
individuales a la crisis ecológica, sino síntomas de una ruptura histórica y existencial. Este artículo propone
interpretar estas emociones a través del concepto de crisis de presencia de Ernesto De Martino, que
describe cómo el riesgo de disolución del mundo se traduce en una experiencia afectiva de desplazamiento
y desorientación. Desde esta perspectiva, las eco-emociones aparecen como manifestaciones de una crisis
en la orientación temporal y la continuidad entre pasado, presente y futuro, amplificando la percepción
apocalíptica del colapso climático. Sin embargo, el pensamiento de De Martino ofrece una clave para
reconocer estas emociones no solo como signos de crisis, sino también como potenciales instrumentos
de redención y transformación. A través de la movilización social, la construcción de nuevas formas de
pertenencia ecológica y la creación de narrativas alternativas, las eco-emociones pueden transformarse en
prácticas de resistencia, permitiendo una redefinición de la relación entre la humanidad y el mundo, incluso
ante la inminente sensación de fin.

De la casa al freakshow: sensibilidades y experiencias en clave sociológica

Francisco Falconier — 2025-08-01

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Sexual facilitation from a decolonial perspective

María Noel Míguez Passada — 2025-08-01

Sentipensar la facilitación sexual desde un proceso decolonizador situado nos ha permitido reflexionar singular y colectivamente en torno a una temática compleja, como lo es la relación discapacidad - sexualidad con especificidad en la facilitación sexual en Uruguay. En la presente reseña, les invito a transitar por una síntesis y estado del arte de algunos aspectos surgidos de la investigación realizada en co-labor (ocho participantes), titulada “"Discapacidad" y "sexualidad" desde un proceso decolonizador situado. Sentipensando la facilitación sexual para “personas en situación de discapacidad”. Para el despliegue de la misma, nos posicionamos en lo teórico-metodológico, ético-político y epistemológico-ontológico desde la perspectiva decolonial, dando cuenta de formas otras de ser/estar, saber y poder. A través de diálogos de saberes, tertulias, entrevistas y encuestas online, en una procesualidad y devenir constantes, fuimos tomando contacto con la temática desde nuestras esencias y existencias, ampliando nuestros campos de los posibles como seres plurales en estas sociedades modernas coloniales, cargadas de prenociones, capacitismos y patriarcalismos. Las líneas que siguen a continuación están escritas en primera persona, cómo reflexiones singularizadas, sin desconocer la riqueza de la pluralidad de y en este entramado.

Mapeo de las corrientes emocionales en la Turquía moderna: una revisión crítica interdisciplinaria

Muhammad Yusoph Ramos — 2025-08-01

Esta reseña ofrece una evaluación integral del libro Antropología y Sociología de las Emociones – Perspectivas Teóricas y Etnográficas desde Turquía y Más Allá (editado por el Prof. Dr. Ramazan Aras), al enfatizar su innovador marco interdisciplinario, pluralismo metodológico y ricos aportes teóricos. El volumen se destaca por integrar perspectivas históricas, culturales y políticas sobre la emoción en la sociedad turca, al tiempo que amplía el discurso convencional centrado en Occidente mediante la incorporación de tradiciones intelectuales islámicas y locales. Organizado en cuatro partes temáticas, el libro emplea de manera impresionante diversos métodos cualitativos y datos primarios para revelar la compleja interacción de las emociones con el poder, la identidad y la transformación social.

Aunque existen oportunidades para refinar aún más el trabajo, como desarrollar una reflexión final más unificada y profundizar en la exploración de las dinámicas de género y clase, estas sugerencias ofrecen vías constructivas para futuras investigaciones sin restar valor a su impacto general. En última instancia, el volumen se erige como una contribución fundamental a los estudios de las emociones y a las ciencias sociales turcas, preparado para estimular el diálogo académico continuo e inspirar metodologías de investigación innovadoras.