1st Edition
Aníbal Quijano Dissidences and Crossroads of Latin American Critical Theory
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 sixty 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.
Preface: A book on Anibal Quijano. Fresh and essential air.
Adrian Scribano
Introduction. Aníbal Quijano: Dissident Trajectory of a Nomadic Intellectual
Deni Alfaro Rubbo
Part I. Crossroads of a Dissident Trajectory
1. Aníbal / Alonso Quijano. Quixote and his Windmills
Zulma Palermo
2. Sociology of Suspicion and Epistemological Decolonization in the “First Quijano”
Segundo Montoya
3. The Milestone: Sociedad y Política and the Quest Against Power
4. Itinerary of the Sociology in Aníbal Quijano
Julio Mejía Navarrete
Part II. Sociological Imagination and Critical Creativity
5. Marxism and Criticism of Eurocentrism in Latin America: Quijano meets Mariátegui
Deni Alfaro Rubbo
6. Aníbal Quijano: Latin-Caribbean Sociological Imagination and Critical Thinking in the Light of the Civilization Modernity-Coloniality
Jaime Ríos Burga
7. Aníbal Quijano: Identity and Power in Latin America
Paz Concha Elizalde
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
Pablo Quintero
9. Three Moments of Masculinizing Politics in the Colonial/Capitalist Pattern of Power
Danilo Clímaco
10. In the Tissures of Raciality: Connections Between the Coloniality of Power and Structural Racism
Danilla Aguiar
11. Colonial Power: a Reading by Santiago Castro-Gómez on the Contribution of Aníbal Quijano
Rebeca Gaytán y Victor Hugo Pacheco Chávez
Biography
Deni Alfaro Rubbo at Professor of State University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UEMS) and at Graduate Program in Sociology at the Federal University of Grande Dourados (UFGD), Brazil. Ph.D. 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 Critic of Eurocentrism (2024).
"This is a highly welcome contribution to the international sociological literature. Readers of the English language can now have access to a set of articles on the work of one of the best and most influential Latin American social scientists of the 20th century. Quijano’s thought is central to the development of the (de)coloniality turn and to a sophisticated understanding of capitalism, power and modernity. Congratulations to the editor, Denis Alfaro Rubbo, and to all the contributors for this crucial and necessary volume."
Gustavo Lins Ribeiro, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico
