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 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. Cover Endorsement Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Contributors Series Editor’s Preface A Book on Aníbal Quijano. Fresh and Essential Air Acknowledgments Introduction: Aníbal Quijano—The Dissident Trajectory of a Nomadic Intellectual Notes References Part I Crossroads of a Dissident Trajectory 1 Aníbal/Alonso Quijano: The Quixotes and Their Windmills 1.1 Aníbal/Alonso Quijano 1.2 Exploring Inheritance 1.3 Of Sonorities and Frontiers 1.4 Horizons... 1.5 Colophon Notes References 2 Sociology of Suspicion and Epistemological Decolonization in the “First Quijano” 2.1 North America-Centrism 2.2 Sociology of Suspicion 2.3 Wright Mills and the American Critical Sociological Tradition 2.4 The Notion of Social Totality and the Tasks of the Sociologist in the Third World 2.5 Final Considerations References 3 The Shape of a Magazine: On Quijano’s Sociedad Y Política Experience Notes References 4 Itinerary of Sociology in Aníbal Quijano: Theory and Reality of Latin America 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Modernity 4.3 Inequality and Social Classification 4.4 The Cholificación Process (1940–1970) 4.5 Popular Economy 4.6 Culture of Individualism 4.7 Fujimorism and the Age of Globalization 4.8 A New Horizon of Historical Sense 4.9 Conclusions References Part II Sociological Imagination and Critical Creativity 5 Marxism and Criticism of Eurocentrism in Latin America: Aníbal Quijano Meets Mariátegui 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Mariátegui, for What Purpose? 5.3 Literature and “Mythical” Time in Latin America 5.3 “Agonizing” for Epistemological Decolonization 5.4 Mariátegui and Marxism as “Alternative Rationality” 5.5 Peripheral Adventures: Between Decolonization and Marxism Notes References 6 Aníbal Quijano: Sociological Imagination and New Horizon of Universal Civilizations Historical Sense of Life 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Critique of Sociological and Economic Functionalism 6.3 The Experience of CEPAL 6.4 Dependency Approaches 6.5 Critique of Dogmatic Marxism 6.6 The Systemic Approach 6.7 Critique of Neo-Institutionalism 6.8 Theoretical Prospective Bibliography 7 Aníbal Quijano: Power and Identity in Latin America 7.1 The Question of Identity 7.2 History-Time Tension in the Latin American Specificity 7.3 The Labyrinth of “Identity” 7.4 Identities and Utopia Notes References 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 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Power and Society 8.3 Coloniality of Power, Capitalism and Modern World-System 8.4 Coloniality of Power and Latin America Notes References 9 Three Moments of Masculinizing Politics in the Colonial/Capitalist Pattern of Power 9.1 The Longest Time 9.2 The Masculine and Men 9.3 The Politics of (Hyper)masculinization in Colonial/Capitalist Expansion 9.3.1 European Masculinization in the Consolidation of the Colonial/Capitalist Pattern of Power: The Patriarchy of the Wage 9.3.2 Black Hypermasculinization in the United States 9.3.3 Mayan Hypermasculinization in Guatemala: Genocides and Their Mimesis 9.4 Final Thoughts: Historical-Structural Heterogeneity and Masculinization Notes References 10 Among the Textures of Raciality: Comparisons Between the Coloniality of Power and Structural Racism 10.1 Latin America: Circulation of Ideas, Intellectuals and Concepts 10.2 The Critical Sociology of Aníbal Quijano and the Coloniality of Power 10.3 Structural Theory of Racism and Societies of Unequal Development 10.4 Beyond a Functionalist Reading of Racism: The Contributions of the Brazilian Black Activism 10.5 Brief Conclusions: The Organic Relationship Between Capitalism and Racism Notes References 11 Colonial Power: A Reading By Santiago Castro-Gómez On Aníbal Quijano 11.1 I 11.2 II 11.3 III 11.4 IV Note References Index