Resisting barbarism and sociological making: Actor-Network Theory and Southern Theories

Abstract

Davi Kopenawa warns us of the fall of the sky and Isabelle Stengers of the intrusion of Gaia. So how can we do sociology while resisting barbarism? The dialog between Actor-Network Theory and the Theories of the South is a prosperous way to build a sociology that tracks social connections in all possible directions and produces debatable truths, beyond the sociology of the social. The aim of this article is therefore to reflect on the approximations between Actor-Network Theory and Theories of the South and the possibilities for rethinking our scientific work, based on the works of Latour (2012), Stengers (2015; 2018), Kopenawa and Albert (2015) and Rosa (2016). So, by adding the problems of the Theories of the South to the methodological proposals of Actor-Network Theory, the path of Euro-American sociology is bypassed, since it is in the multiplicity of perspectives, in the clashes and in the construction of commitment in this endeavor that the possibility of producing something new arises.