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Aníbal Quijano

Foundational Essays on the Coloniality of Power
  • Aníbal Quijano
  • Edited by: Walter D. Mignolo , Rita Segato and Catherine E. Walsh
  • Translated by: David Frye
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2024
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The essays in this volume encompass nearly thirty years of influential Peruvian sociologist Aníbal Quijano’s work on coloniality, coloniality of power, and colonial matrix of power, bringing it to an English reading audience for the first time.

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Aníbal Quijano (1928–2018) was a renowned Peruvian sociologist and theorist and the author of numerous books.

Walter D. Mignolo is William H. Wannamaker Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Romance Studies and Professor of Literature at Duke University.

Rita Segato is Professor Emerita in Bioethics and Human Rights at the University of Brasilia.

Catherine E. Walsh is Professor Emerita at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar.

Reviews

“As the author who coined the widely used concept of ‘coloniality,’ there is an urgent need for the works of Aníbal Quijano to be available in English. His work is essential for the study of colonial cultures and societies and also for the analysis of contemporary times, which are marked by the perpetuation of colonial systems of domination. This book will enrich and advance not only Latin American studies but sociology, political science, anthropology, race and ethnic studies, and the humanities more broadly.”

-- Mabel Moraña, author of Philosophy and Criticism in Latin America: From Mariátegui to Sloterdijk

“Aníbal Quijano reviews the absences caused by Eurocentrism in the understanding of Latin America and the Caribbean and shows how the coloniality of power fragilized our nation-states by imposing race from the outset to classify, dominate, and exploit us. Hence, strengthening our national identities becomes indispensable to hindering the erosion of our states and to warding off the threats of the imperial bloc, led by the United States, against life on planet Earth.”

-- Jean Casimir, author of The Haitians: A Decolonial History

"Quijano’s oeuvre is both relentlessly historical—often tracing important developments over centuries—and insistently relational, positing that modern Latin America is not intelligible independent of its relationship to Europe (and the U.S.). Many of his essays are stunningly penetrating and dazzlingly synthetic. . . . If Foundational Essays on the Coloniality of Power is consumed in conjunction with his earlier work already available in English, it is sure to satisfy intellectually hungry Anglophones."
-- Simeon J. Newman Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

"I hope that the translation of so much of Quijano’s work and the incisive introduction provided by the editors will induce his inclusion in graduate sociology curricula. But more importantly, I hope that this volume will remind graduate students that decoloniality, in the ways elaborated and exemplified by Quijano, is a project worth dreaming about and defending.
-- Nabila N. Islam Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

"Aníbal Quijano is one of the classics. . . . The introduction ... introduces four main ideas by Quijano that the volume makes accessible to a wider, non-Spanish speaking readership. It does this well, in a condensed, but readable manner. . . . A worthwhile read."
-- Alke Jenss Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

"Quijano gave us much, and I would argue that many of the ideas that he develops or takes from different places and connects with each other in Foundational Essays are indispensable for decolonial thought in this century. . . ."
-- Nelson Maldonado-Torres Theory, Culture & Society

"There are many gems in this collection for those who are familiar with Quijano’s political thinking as much as for those who are new to it. . . . [Quijano is] a neglected thinker whose essays still exude a dynamism and originality, not often seen in academia."
-- Ronaldo Munck Bulletin of Latin American Research


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INTERVIEW BY NORA VELARDE
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