GENDER AND ETHNICITY: Urgent knowledge in barbarian times

Abstract

This article discusses the property of the so-called paradigm of complexity in conjunction to the critical thinking for gender-related analyses as well as those that focus on ethnic relations. It advocates that we must combat simplifications, such as   the campaign  that considers gender  an ideology   and ethnicity as  oriented exclusively to tradition and original people. The complexity of gender and ethnical relations asks for emphases  and transits between culture, politics and projects. However it warns that both, interdisciplinarity as complex thought require institutional environments open to dialogue,  and not abandonment of disciplines. In addition it is   discussed the importance to  combine doxas and   the observation of the Foulcaultian principle on the equation knowledge/power. More extends about gender as  an open knowledge that is being questioned by some authors  for its relacion to  performativity and the multiplicity of cases it enrolls. Gender is an open knowledge  if the paradigm of complexity and a critical  thinking are considered. Ethnic relations   is another complex kmowledge that  asks for emphases on webs of social relations and theoretical discussions submitted to  ethnographic studies. Both knowledges are important to these times, against the idea of a single thought  since they involve  debates on diversity, political and cultural dimensions as well as forms of resistance. They are embedded in  experiences and  require  connections between texts and contexts.

Key words: Gender, Ethnical relations, paradigm of complexity, interdisciplinary perspective.