Rethinking Intellectuals in Latin America

Rethinking Intellectuals in Latin America

  • Autor: Moraña, Mabel Gustafson, Bret (eds.)
  • Editor: Iberoamericana Vervuert
  • Colección: South by Midwest
  • ISBN: 9788484894933
  • eISBN Pdf: 9783954871698
  • Lugar de publicación:  Madrid , España
  • Año de publicación: 2010
  • Páginas: 310

An interdisciplinary tour de force that examines past and present to consider how new forms of knowledge production, epistemic plurality, and intellectual and political movements are bringing sweeping change today.

  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • Introduction
    • Rethinking intellectuals in Latin America: questions and problems. Mabel Moraña
  • I. Intellectual roots in Latin America
    • Intellectuals and mestizaje: Inca Garcilaso, Blas Valera, and the organic function of colonial letrados. José Antonio Mazzotti
    • Black, famous, and out of place: an alternative intellectual in early nineteenth-century Montevideo. William G. Acree, Jr.
    • Triumph of the will: the annihilation of Ariel in Manuel Gálvez’s Calibán. Gonzalo Aguiar
  • II. National Cultures and the Challenges of Intellectual Work
    • The professor and the worker: using Brazil to better understand Latin America’s plural left. John D. French
    • Cosmopolitan theory and anthropological practice in Brazil. Jan Hoffman French
    • Poststructuralism in the periphery: Nelly Richard’s intellectual transpositions. Ana del Sarto
    • Plata Quemada: banditry, neoliberalism and the dilemma of literature at the end of the twentieth century. Juan Pablo Dabove
    • Intellectuals in Cuba: facing a future that is already present. Arturo Arango
  • III. Alternative Epistemologies and Political Agendas
    • Political- epistemic insurgency, social movements and the refounding of the State. Catherine Walsh
    • Maya daykeepers and the politics of sacred space. Ixq’anil, Judith M. Maxwell
    • Maya Knowledges. Ajpub’ Pablo García Ixmatá
    • The communal and the decolonial. Walter Mignolo
  • IV. Global Networks and Transnational Flows
    • Social sciences and the English language. Renato Ortiz
    • Activist intellectuals in a wired world. George Yúdice
    • Global realignments and the geopolitics of hispanism. Abril Trigo
  • Postscript
    • Pluralism, articulation, containment: knowledge politics across the Americas. Bret Gustafson
  • About the contributors
  • Index

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