Aníbal Quijano: Foundational Essays on the Coloniality of Power

by Aníbal Quijano, Walter D. Mignolo (Editor), Rita Segato (Editor)

The Peruvian sociologist Aníbal Quijano is widely considered to be a foundational figure of the decolonial perspective grounded on three basic coloniality, coloniality of power, and colonial matrix of power. His decolonial theorizations of these three concepts have transformed the principles and assumptions of the very idea of knowledge, impacted the social sciences and humanities, and questioned the myth of rationality in natural sciences. The essays in this volume encompass nearly thirty years of Quijano’s work, bringing them to an English reading audience for the first time. This volume is not simply an introduction to Quijano’s work; it achieves one of his unfulfilled to write a book that contains his main hypotheses, concepts, and arguments. In this regard, the collection encourages a fuller understanding and broader implementation of the analyses and concepts that he developed over the course of his long career. Moreover, it demonstrates that the tools for reading and dismantling coloniality originated outside the academy in Latin America and the former Third World.

Genres: Nonfiction, Sociology

496 pages, Paperback

Published April 5, 2024

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.

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