1st Edition
Darcy Ribeiro, Civilisation and Nation Social Theory from Latin America
Introduction
Part I - Darcy Ribeiro's Pathways
1. Darcy Ribeiro, the Brazilian
2. Darcy Ribeiro, the Latin American citizen
3. “Our destiny”
Part II - The Civilizational Process
4. Civilizations, totality, and heterogeneity
5. Darcy Ribeiro’s theory of history
Part III - The Americas, Latin America and the Brazilian People
6. Rewriting the Americas’ history
7. Does Latin America exist?
8. The Brazilian People: Integration and heterogeneity
Part IV - Promising dialogues and epistemological turns
9. Darcy Ribeiro: Interfaces with Black intellectuals
10. Post(de)colonial conversations
Conclusion
Biography
Adelia Miglievich-Ribeiro is Associate Professor at the Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (Ufes), Brazil, working in the Postgraduate Programme in Social Sciences (PGCS). Researcher in social theories and the history of the Social Sciences, as well as in Latin American thought, with an emphasis on Darcy Ribeiro, she held the Darcy Ribeiro Chair (IPEA-CAPES). Currently, she is CNPq Productivity Researcher and composes the board of directors of the Brazilian Society of Sociology/SBS (2023–2025), as well as being a member of the founding board of the Darcy Ribeiro Foundation (FUNDAR).
