Aníbal Quijano

This book aims to contribute with analyses of Aníbal Quijano's voluminous productions of contemporary dilemmas since his main theoretical and political concerns have always been linked to the mutations of world capitalism and its reverse paths. The book maps over sixty years of his intellectual trajectory.

One of the prominent thinkers in the Social Sciences, Aníbal Quijano (1930-2018), has a fundamental work for the compression of contemporary dilemmas since his main theoretical and political concerns have always been linked to the mutations of world capitalism and its reverse paths. This book aims to contribute with analyses of his voluminous and diversified production distributed practically over 60 years of intellectual trajectory.

In the first decades, the Peruvian author produced essential works on peasant movements, the urbanization process, and the class structure in Peru and Latin America by mobilizing sociological categories such as marginality, dependency and structural heterogeneity. He devoted himself to investigating imperialist domination in Peru and its implications for social classes and created the journal Sociedad y Política. In the 1990s and 2000s, the Peruvian sociologist published a set of texts on the coloniality and decoloniality of power, which represents a theoretical construction inseparable from the processes and experiences that were occurring in Peru, Latin America and the world, from the "globalization" of "neoliberalism" to global and local resistances.

Thus, this book is addressed to all those, with or without specialized training in social sciences, interested in knowing not only the history of social sciences in Latin America but mainly in understanding the historical roots and the political dilemmas of peripheral capitalist societies.

Autorentext

Deni Alfaro Rubbo is Professor at the State University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UEMS) and at the Graduate Program in Sociology at the Federal University of Grande Dourados (UFGD), Brazil, and PhD from the Graduate Program in Sociology at the University of São Paulo (USP). He works in the field of sociology, with an emphasis on the sociology of intellectuals and culture, history and Brazilian and Latin American political-social thought. He is the author of Párias da terra: o MST e a mundialização da luta camponesa (2016), O labirinto periférico: aventuras de Mariátegui na América Latina (2021) and José Carlos Mariátegui: Marxism and Critique of Eurocentrism (2024).

Klappentext

This book aims to contribute with analyses of Aníbal Quijano's voluminous productions of contemporary dilemmas since his main theoretical and political concerns have always been linked to the mutations of world capitalism and its reverse paths. The book maps over sixty years of his intellectual trajectory.

Inhalt

Preface: A book on Anibal Quijano. Fresh and essential air.

Introduction. Aníbal Quijano: Dissident Trajectory of a Nomadic Intellectual

1. Aníbal / Alonso Quijano. Quixote and his Windmills

2. Sociology of Suspicion and Epistemological Decolonization in the "First Quijano"

4. Itinerary of the Sociology in Aníbal Quijano

Part II. Sociological Imagination and Critical Creativity

5. Marxism and Criticism of Eurocentrism in Latin America: Quijano meets Mariátegui

6. Aníbal Quijano: Latin-Caribbean Sociological Imagination and Critical Thinking in the Light of the Civilization Modernity-Coloniality

7. Aníbal Quijano: Identity and Power in Latin America

Part III. Coloniality of Power: Construction and Circulation of a Theory

8. An Introduction on Power and Coloniality of Power in Aníbal Quijano's Work

9. Three Moments of Masculinizing Politics in the Colonial/Capitalist Pattern of Power

10. In the Tissures of Raciality: Connections Between the Coloniality of Power and Structural Racism

11. Colonial Power: a Reading by Santiago Castro-Gómez on the Contribution of Aníbal Quijano