Repensar la praxis sociojurídica a propósito de la emergencia sanitaria, social y económica por COVID-19

Abstract

This document attempts to reflect critically on the function of alternative legal education as a pillar of the clinical method, from a broad contextual hindsight of the global phenomenon of COVID-19 and its nationwide impacts, and how it demonstrates the real disability of the rule of law to extend social justice around the whole popular corpus This argument affirms the need to decolonize the law as a reproducer of coloniality of being, of knowledge and power The working method is as follows First, it is proposed as a prelude to an invitation to overcome the legal-centric or traditionalist views of law that have not questioned the reproductive function of crisis on behalf of the modern/colonial/capitalist state The backbone category of hidden people allows to understand that the discrimination and social exclusion aggravated by COVID-19 are crossed by racism, as a result of coloniality These backbone categories (racism and coloniality) are built as explanatory pillars of the double exception state phenomena, that emerges in peripheral areas of the country In this scenario, our goal is trying to clarify the importance of the socio-legal, clinical method and the fundamental objects of its implementation from an integral, social and solidary point of view The objective is proposing as a horizon the necessity of rethinking the clinic method with the integration of other knowledge that enrich the juridic education in context and that allows the use of traditional tools of public interest law as inputs for a counter-hegemonic fight, capable of fracturing the structural matrix of coloniality