Anticolonial thought, the sociological imagination, and social science: A reply to critics.

This essay responds to commentaries (this issue) on Go's "Thinking Against Empire: Anticolonial Thought as Social Theory" (this issue). The essay addressed shared concerns and underlying themes of the commentaries, most of which pivot around the problem of the anticolonial and the status of disciplinary sociology as a knowledge project. Is there a need for sociology to incorporate anticolonial thought? How does anticolonial thought as social theory differ from other epistemic projects? Is the distinction between sociology's imperial episteme and anticolonial thought fruitful or obfuscating? And what are the possibilities and limits of a social science informed by anticolonial thought? Ultimately, the essay maintains that anticolonial thought offers a powerful sociological imagination that can be fruitfully tethered to a project of realist social science. It also maintains that realist social science can be emancipatory; provided that it is reoriented by anticolonial thought.

Response to Commentaries on "From the War on Terror to the Moral Crusade Against Female Genital Mutilation: Anti-Muslim Racism and Femonationalism in the United States".

The author responds to three commentaries on her essay "From the War on Terror to the Moral Crusade Against Female Genital Mutilation: Anti-Muslim Racism and Femonationalism in the United States," published in this symposium. The response addresses three main arguments, namely, the need for a specific ban on female genital mutilation (FGM), the multiplicity of actors involved in the anti-FGM movement, and the problematic way in which words and numbers are used in the public sphere to depict FGM. The author concludes with a call to decolonize the anti-FGM debate and to reflect critically on the political context in which anti-FGM legislation takes place.

PesquisarCOM jovens: pistas metodológicas para narrativas ético-políticas / PesquisarCON jóvenes: pistas metodológicas para narrativas ético-políticas / ResearchWITH youngs: methodological clues to ethical policy narratives

Este artigo tem como proposta discutir pistas metodológicas para construções coletivas de pesquisas com jovens, afirmando as juventudes como coautoras e pesquisadoras desse processo. A partir de uma experiência de PesquisarCOM Jovens no Trabalho Educativo (TEd) - uma modalidade do Serviço de Convivência e Fortalecimento de Vínculos (SCFV) destinada a jovens de 14 a 18 anos incompletos -, emergiram as seguintes problematizações: como pesquisar junto com as jovens do Trabalho Educativo? Como expressar as intensidades e modos de experimentar as juventudes no Trabalho Educativo por meio de narrativas? Tendo como premissa sugestões dos jovens, foram confeccionados cadernos nos quais são narrados com ilustrações e textos as experiências coletivas e singulares das juventudes do TEd. Depois da produção dos cadernos e das narrativas, notou-se a importância de escutar e valorizar as experiências e os saberes dos jovens na construção das oficinas do TEd, principalmente o módulo de cidadania, para que o serviço não reproduza lógicas colonizadoras, racistas, epistemicidas e violentas.

This article aims to discuss methodological clues for collective construction of research with young people, affirming the youths as co-authors and researches of this process. From an experience of SearchingCOM young people in Educational Work - a modality of the Service of Living and Bonding (SCFV) aimed at young people from 14 to 18 years old incomplete - the following issues emerged: how to research together with young people in Educational Work? How to express the intensities and ways of experiencing youth in educational work through narratives? From the suggestions of the young, notebooks were made in which narratives with illustrations and texts are narrated the collective and singular experiences of the youth of TEd. After the production of notebooks and narratives, it was noted the importance of listening and valuing the experiences and knowledge of young people in the construction of TEd workshops, especially the citizenship module, so that the service does not reproduce colonizing, racist, epistemicidal logics and violent.

Este artículo tiene como objetivo discutir pistas metodológicas para la construcción colectiva de la investigación con los jóvenes, afirmando las juventudes como coautoras e investigadoras de este proceso. A partir de una experiencia de PesquisarCON jóvenes en el Trabajo Educativo - una modalidad del Servicio de Convivencia y Fortalecimiento de Lazos (SCFV) dirigida a jóvenes de 14 a 18 años - surgieron los siguientes problematizaciones: ¿cómo investigar junto con los jóvenes en el Trabajo Educativo? ¿Cómo expresar las intensidades y formas de experimentar la juventud en el trabajo educativo en narrativas? A partir de las sugerencias de los jóvenes, se hicieron cuadernos en los que se narran con ilustraciones y textos sobre las experiencias colectivas y singulares de los jóvenes de TEd. Después de la producción de cuadernos y narrativas, se señaló la importancia de escuchar y valorar las experiencias y el conocimiento de los jóvenes en la construcción de talleres de TEd, especialmente el módulo de ciudadanía, para que el servicio no reproduzca lógicas colonizadoras, racistas, epistemicidas y violentas.