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Sarance Journal was founded in 1975 as a scientific dissemination medium created by the Instituto Otavaleñ de Antropología (IOA). Since its inception, Sarance has sought to be a space for critical and interdisciplinary dialogue on both classic and contemporary debates in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities.
Sarance Journal is an open-access publication specializing in works on Anthropology, Archaeology, Musicology —including Ethnomusicology, Sound Studies, and Historical Musicology—, History, Sociology, Philosophy, Art Studies and Art History, Gender Studies, Political Science, Decolonial Studies, and other topics related to the Social Sciences and Humanities.
Currently, Sarance Journal is published twice a year. Since 2019, we have endeavored to ensure that one of the issues published annually in Sarance is a thematic dossier. These specialized issues address high-impact concepts for the Human Sciences and welcome debates, theories, and in-depth reflections on issues that are essential to understanding our contemporary world.
Current IssueNo 54 (2025): Vulnerability: bodies, violence and care from the perspective of Social Sciences and Humanities
Published June 17, 2025
Issue Description
The 54th dossier focuses on vulnerability as a situated, contextual, and intersectional condition, allowing us to approach the multiple layers of life in relation to both the human and the non-human. Vulnerability refers us to an ethics of interdependence, which radically diverges from the false autonomy of liberal individualism. It involves understanding subjectivity not as an isolated entity, but as a relation, because we exist insofar as we are affected, exposed to the other and to the world.
For this reason, vulnerability as a social dimension must be understood from a systemic and interdependent perspective (Malgieri, 2023, pp. 4–57) that forces us to reconsider our position in the world and the ways we relate to one another.
Pages: 268
(June-nov... More
