Orlando Fals Borda

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Orlando Fals Borda


Born
in Barranquillla, Colombia
July 11, 1925

Died
August 12, 2008

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Orlando Fals Borda was a Colombian researcher and sociologist, one of the most important Latin American thinkers, and one of the founders of participatory action research. Together with Father Camilo Torres Restrepo, in 1959 he set up the first sociology faculty in Latin America at the National University of Colombia. His perspective built a singular bond between science and politics that changed dramatically the relations between society and knowledge. He also played a key role of the foundation of CLACSO (Latin American Social Science Council) at the end of the sixties. An essential part of his effort was centered on the construction of a perspective from the border and the periphery, focused on the subordination conditions of the Latin A ...more

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Historia doble de la costa ...

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Historia de la cuestión agr...

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El Socialismo Raizal Y La G...

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La insurgencia de las provi...

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Historia doble de la costa ...

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Resistencia en el San Jorge...

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Ciencia propia y colonialis...

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Subversion and Social Chang...

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