THE LANGUAGE, THAT GIMMICK THAT MAKES US COMMUNITY: READING-WRITING-ORALITY, MEMORY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to expose language as a cultural device that promotes forms of communal organization once knowledge, power, and subjectivity are challenged through political reading languages that respond to democratic values and principles located in the good-life and well-being. In this way, the communal linked to processes of reading education that involve memory with the intention of social justice contribute to the consolidation of democratic societies. The development of this work is located in the action/research program of libraries from Abya-Yala: societies and cultures of the South, and specifically in the line Libraries, readings, writings, and oralities. Methodologically, the article uses a theoretical-documentary analysis that, through critical reading, bases the language on comprehensive frameworks that broaden its gaze on the Human and Social Sciences taking up various contemporary theoretical references such as Zambrano, Bértolo, Therborn, Escobar, Bautler, Fraser, among others. Finally, a series of alternatives are presented that position language concerning reading education as opportunities for events in the world of life.