Geopolitical Cartographies. The Contingency of the Future. Latin American Civilizational Project

Abstract

The civilizational question has returned to the academic and political agenda with particular intensity. In the context of the current systemic crisis, the civilizational approach allows us to interrogate contemporary political epistemology, to look to the future beyond national, socio-cultural, and ethnic differences, to consider new alliances and geopolitical reconfigurations, and to deconstruct the antinomic opposition between “us” and “them.” This essay problematizes Latin America’s place in the current civilizational competition and explores the possibility of projects that differ from the dominant liberal capitalist order, and the very possibility of civilizational projects in an increasingly unpredictable world.