A indignação política e a indignação epistêmica: convergências e diferenças

Abstract

This article seeks to understand the emotion of indignation of political protests in various parts of the world between 2011-2013, in its analytical and political basis, with its characteristics, objectives, and its relation to critical theory and law, and how it approaches or distances itself from the indignation found in academy researchers who investigate related issues. In a broader purpose, it seeks to reflect on the influence or role that indignation exerts in the process of building knowledge about the rights of minority groups and / or people with weakened citizenship. For this, the socio-legal theoretical framework of Boaventura de Sousa Santos on the indignation is used, as well as the epistemologies of the South, in order to understand the theoretical and methodological differences to the epistemic indignation. Are the differences substantial? Do environments in which political and epistemic indignation manifest influence on political demonstrators and researchers? And how do they channel their indignation to institutions and to law? Is the difference in differentiated concepts that each group may have of indignation, or in the way it is expressed in political manifestations and academy? For the current science model, would epistemic indignation be present in the whole construction of knowledge, or would it be present only as a pre-knowledge recognized by Southern Epistemologies? Without pretension to exhaust the answers in these preliminary reflections, the work is divided in three parts: in the first one, where one tries to identify the characteristics of the political indignation in the protests and its repercussion in the epistemic indignation; in the second, there is a brief reflection on the relation of the revolts of indignation and of the epistemic indignation with the critical theory and the right. And, in the third part, one seeks an approach of epistemic indignation to a convergence of meanings with the Epistemologies of the South.Among the conclusions, it is understood that when the indignation reaches the academy, it seems to be related to both the political and legal-institutional processes and practices involving minority groups, and to the apparent inability of the researcher to translate these processes into valid knowledge, and with transformative potential of the reality of the investigated subjects.