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Frontiers in Sociology

ISSN 2297-7775

3 papers in the library · 22 citations · publishing 2023-2025

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Decolonial knowledge in Practice: a mestiza reflection on sentipensar in indigenous Nasa epistemologies

Frontiers in Sociology September 25, 2025 Paola Chaves Pérez 1 citation

This paper presents the concept of sentipensar in the Nasa Indigenous practices. Through the concept of sentipensar this article shows that Nasa knowledge can emerge from being within relationships through the body, through affect, through intuition, and through deliberation processes that listen the body and the spirits. It affirms that knowledge is not only produced in the mind, but also in...

Women's intuition as attunement: a biological and social perspective.

Frontiers in Sociology 2025 Shalini Verma, Lucy Raiya Kind 3 citations

This paper proposes that women, due to both evolutionary pressures and sociocultural reinforcement, have developed heightened intuitive capacities, more specifically, attunement capabilities. We define attunement as the ability to somatically, emotionally, and cognitively resonate with the internal states of oneself or another. It is especially important in contexts involving caregiving, safety...

Historicizing psychedelics: counterculture, renaissance, and the neoliberal matrix

Frontiers in Sociology September 21, 2023 Mateo Sánchez Petrement 18 citations

In this essay, I would like to suggest that the historical transition of psychedelics from an association with counter culture to becoming part of the mains tream is related to the rise of what late cultural theorist Mark Fisher termed “capitalist realism”—the notion that there is no alternative form of social organization and, as such, capitalism simply is reality. For Fisher, the economic and...