Modernidad, identidad y utopía en América Latina (Colección 4 suyus)

by Aníbal Quijano

Spanish

70 pages, Unknown Binding

Published January 1, 1990

About the author

Sociologist. Director of the Centro de Investigaciones Sociales (CIE) in Lima, directs the 'Anuario Mariateguiano "and is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University Binghmanton. He also taught at Columbia University, at UCLA in Berkeley, at Hanover and at the Universidad Autónoma de México.

Specialist in the work of Jose Carlos Mariategui, has mostly studied theories on dependence, imperialism and has developed original research on Latin American culture and identity. Author of numerous essays on the transformation of agriculture, the peasant movements, and the process of urbanization in Latin America, has recently proposed the category of "coloniality of power" as key to understanding the modern world and system.