INTERthesis (Feb 2019)

Anti-systemic movements and humanization of childbirth movement: theoretical approaches

  • Ana Maria Bourguignon,
  • Felipe Simão Pontes

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5007/1807-1384.2019v16n1p108
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 16, no. 1
pp. 108 – 120

Abstract

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It is proposed to discuss the possibility of analyzing the humanization of childbirth movement from the concept of anti-systemic movements developed by Wallerstein (2006) in the book "Unthinking social science: limits of nineteenth-century paradigms". Our intention is to revise this concept in comparison with texts of Santos (1997, 2001), Scherer-Warren (2012) and Grosfoguel (2008). We conclude there can be a preliminary integration of the concept into the characterization of this movement, under the condition of an extension of the concept of capitalist world-economy to other forms of power relations such as patriarchalism, colonialism, ethnocentrism and sexism.

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