1st Edition

Orlando Fals Borda A Master of Feeling-Thinking

248 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores Orlando Fals Borda’s trajectory as a pioneering Latin American sociologist, highlighting how his life, political commitments and methodological inventions helped to re‑found social science from the standpoint of peasants, popular sectors and the Colombian Caribbean. It foregrounds key themes such as feeling‑thinking (sentipensar), participatory action research (PAR), and the... Read more

1. Biography and Bio-Biography: “Orlando Fals Borda: A Modest Sketch” 2. The Peasantry in the Thought of Orlando Fals Borda 3. Cooperativism and Social Intervention: An Anarchist Reading of Community Order in Fals-Borda 4. The Embers Continue to Burn: Rethinking the Phenomenon of Violence From the Perspective of Orlando Fals Borda 5. Subversion in Colombia: A Methodological Wager 6. Participatory Action Research as a Bridge Between Academia and the People 7. Sentipensando: The Knowledge Revolution From the Heart of the People 8. Education and Transformation in the Thought of Orlando Fals Borda: Reflections on Social Sciences and Popular Education

Biography

Adrian Scribano is an Argentine sociologist and researcher affiliated with the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) and the Gino Germani Research Institute at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). His research interests centre on the sociology of emotions, participatory action research, social theory in Latin America, and creative-expressive methodologies for social intervention. Scribano has made significant contributions through works such as Sociología de las emociones (2015), Investigación social basada en la creatividad-expresividad (2016), and recent publications including Las emociones cotidianas y la política planetaria (2021), Sentipensar la investigación militante (2023), and Sociología de la esperanza (2025). His scholarship bridges emotional dynamics, social movements, and transformative praxis, influencing debates in critical sociology and decolonial studies across Latin America.

Franci Camila Amezquita Torres is a Colombian Social Worker, graduated from the Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca, Master in Educational and Social Development from the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional and PhD in Social and Human Sciences at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Her research has focused on the perceptions of informal and formal caregivers and the circulation of emotions in teaching-learning relationships in higher education. She has work experience in teaching and academic coordination.

Andres Mauricio Romero Cruz is a Colombian lawyer, graduate of Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca, public administrator from ESAP, Master of Law from Universidad Nacional de Colombia and PhD candidate in Legal Sciences at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. His career is centred on academia, with expertise in Law, Political Science, Public Administration, Organisational Theory, and Philosophy. As a researcher, he has contributed to projects on popular education, open government territorial development, and legislative knowledge management, and has authored academic publications, including a book chapter on legislative transparency for the Senate of the Republic of Colombia.