Call for Papers | Antípoda Special Issue: “Thinking through Entanglements: Indigenous Knowledges in Science, Academia, and Universities in Latin America”

SUBMISSIONS

1–30 November 2026

LANGUAGES

ES | EN | PT

Antípoda. Revista de Antropología y Arqueología (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia) has opened a call for contributions to a special issue on the epistemologies of entanglement in Latin America – a theme at the heart of the EDGES project.

The issue explores how these epistemologies emerge from encounters between Indigenous and modern knowledges in science, academia and the university, including the dialogues, tensions, misunderstandings and silences these encounters produce. Knowledges are approached not as fixed systems or objects, but as intellectual and political practices rooted in specific histories and ways of relating to the world.

Guest editors

  • Susana Matos Viegas (Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
  • Gilton Mendes dos Santos (Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Brazil)
  • Juan Camilo Niño Vargas (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia)
  • Marta Amoroso (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)

Thematic axes

1. Theoretical reflections on knowledge entanglements. Anthropological approaches to interculturality, translation and equivocation; the role of landscape, territory, legal systems and political struggles; the contribution of Indigenous movements across the Americas; and collaborative methodologies.

2. Indigenous academics and the university. The concrete struggles of Indigenous scholars and students to bring Indigenous knowledges into academic settings; how institutions enable or constrain entanglements; spaces of epistemic conflict; the challenges facing a growing Indigenous university population; and questions of authorship and intellectual rights over Indigenous knowledges.

Submission details

Submission window: 1–30 November 2026

Formats: original articles, visual articles and reviews

Languages: Spanish, English and Portuguese

Articles and visual articles: submit via the Antípoda platform

Reviews: send to antipoda@uniandes.edu.co

Author guidelines: editorial policy

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