INFANCIA EN EMERGENCIA DE SENTIDO:  LO JUSTO COMO HORIZONTE PENDIENTE HACIA LA COMPLEJIDAD Y LA JUSTICIA

Katia Ivonne Riveros Zepeda

doi:10.48168/ricce.v3n3p85

CHILDHOOD IN THE EMERGENCY OF MEANING: JUSTICE AS A HORIZON PENDING TOWARDS COMPLEXITY AND JUSTICE

Katia Ivonne Riveros Zepeda Universidad Católica del Norte: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-4881-7535

DOI: 10.48168/ricce.v3n3p85

Keywords: Children, Gaza, epistemic justice, human rights, complex thinking, ethics of care, child genocide

Abstract

This article addresses the sustained genocide against Palestinian childhoods in Gaza from an ethical, legal, pedagogical, and complex perspective. Through an interdisciplinary hermeneutic analysis, it reveals the structural exclusion experienced by certain children from the realms of justice, suffering, and recognition. It offers a critique of the legal blindness that legitimizes impunity and a challenge to the educational field for its silence in the face of horror. Engaging with authors such as Lévinas, Benjamin, Maldonado, hooks, López de Maturana, Angulo, López Melero, and Gómez, the article develops a proposal for epistemic and affective justice that reclaims ethical shock as the foundation for a committed pedagogy. Ultimately, it invites us to conceive education as an act of political and ethical responsibility toward the children who resist under siege.

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Received: 2025-10-01

Published: 2025-10-01

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Riveros Zepeda, K. I. (2025). CHILDHOOD IN THE EMERGENCY OF MEANING: JUSTICE AS A HORIZON PENDING TOWARDS COMPLEXITY AND JUSTICE. Iberoamerican Journal of Complexity and Economics Sciences, 3(3), 85-102. https://doi.org/10.48168/ricce.v3n3p85

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