The Fernando Coronil Reader
The Struggle for Life Is the Matter
Published on 31. May 2019
Book
Hardback
472 pages
978-1-4780-0367-0 (ISBN)
Description
In The Fernando Coronil Reader Venezuelan anthropologist Fernando Coronil challenges us to rethink our approaches to key contemporary epistemological, political, and ethical questions. Consisting of work written between 1991 and 2011, this posthumously published collection includes Coronil's landmark essays "Beyond Occidentalism" and "The Future in Question" as well as two chapters from his unfinished book manuscript, "Crude Matters." Taken together, the essays highlight his deep concern with the Global South, Latin American state formation, theories of nature, empire, and postcolonialism, and anthrohistory as an intellectual and ethical approach. Presenting a cross section of Coronil's oeuvre, this volume cements his legacy as one of the most innovative critical social thinkers of his generation.
Reviews / Votes
"I highly recommend this Reader, and hope that it can contribute to make the work of Fernando Coronil even better known and appreciated among scholars, hopefully beyond the circles of metropolitan academia too. And I am sure that a translation into Spanish would be very well received among readers in Latin American and Caribbean countries."- Luis Angosto-Ferrandez (Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research) "The Fernando Coronil Reader is an invaluable addition to the field of Latin American Studies from a myriad of perspectives-e.g. anthropology, history, cultural studies. Coronil's work challenges us to rethink our approaches to key contemporary epistemological, political, and ethical questions." - Gianfranco Selgas (European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies)
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Language
English
Place of publication
North Carolina
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
15 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
771 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4780-0367-0 (9781478003670)
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Fernando Coronil | Julie Skurski | Gary Wilder
The Fernando Coronil Reader
The Struggle for Life Is the Matter
E-Book
04/2019
1st Edition
De Gruyter
€228.99
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Persons
Fernando Coronil (1944-2011) was Professor of Anthropology at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, author of The Magical State: Nature, Money, and Modernity in Venezuela, and coeditor of States of Violence and Anthrohistory: Unsettling Knowledge, Questioning Discipline.
Content
Introduction: Transcultural Paths and Utopian Imaginings / Mariana Coronil, Laurent DuBois, Julie Skurski, and Gary Wilder 1
Part I. Labyrinths of Critique: The Promise of Anthrohistory
Introduction / David Pedersen 47
1. Pieces for Anthrohistory: A Puzzle to be Assembled Together 53
2. Transculturation and the Politics of Theory: Countering the Center, Cuban Counterpoint 69
3. Foreword to Close Encounters of Empire 118
4. Perspectives on Tierney's Darkness in El Dorado 123
5. The Future in Question: History and Utopia in Latin America (1989-2010) 128
Part II. Geohistorical States: Latin American Counterpoint
Introduction / Edward Murphy 165
6. Dismembering and Remembering the Nation: The Semantics of Political Violence in Venezuela 171
7. Transitions to Transitions: Democracy and Nation in Latin America 231
8. Venezuela's Wounded Bodies: Nation and Imagination during the 2002 Coup 250
9. Oilpacity: Secrets of History in the Coup against Hugo ChAvez 262
10. Crude Matters: Seizing the Venezuelan Petro-state in Times of ChAvez 266
Part III. Beyond Occidentalism, Beyond Empire
Introduction / Paul Eiss 309
11. Occidentalism 315
12. Beyond Occidentalism: Toward Nonimperial Geohistorical Categories 323
13. Listening to the Subaltern: The Poetics of Neocolonial States 368
14. Smelling Like a Market 385
15. Latin American Postcolonial Studies and Global Decolonization 399
16. After Empire: Reflections on Imperialism from the AmEricas 425
Credits 457
Index 459
Part I. Labyrinths of Critique: The Promise of Anthrohistory
Introduction / David Pedersen 47
1. Pieces for Anthrohistory: A Puzzle to be Assembled Together 53
2. Transculturation and the Politics of Theory: Countering the Center, Cuban Counterpoint 69
3. Foreword to Close Encounters of Empire 118
4. Perspectives on Tierney's Darkness in El Dorado 123
5. The Future in Question: History and Utopia in Latin America (1989-2010) 128
Part II. Geohistorical States: Latin American Counterpoint
Introduction / Edward Murphy 165
6. Dismembering and Remembering the Nation: The Semantics of Political Violence in Venezuela 171
7. Transitions to Transitions: Democracy and Nation in Latin America 231
8. Venezuela's Wounded Bodies: Nation and Imagination during the 2002 Coup 250
9. Oilpacity: Secrets of History in the Coup against Hugo ChAvez 262
10. Crude Matters: Seizing the Venezuelan Petro-state in Times of ChAvez 266
Part III. Beyond Occidentalism, Beyond Empire
Introduction / Paul Eiss 309
11. Occidentalism 315
12. Beyond Occidentalism: Toward Nonimperial Geohistorical Categories 323
13. Listening to the Subaltern: The Poetics of Neocolonial States 368
14. Smelling Like a Market 385
15. Latin American Postcolonial Studies and Global Decolonization 399
16. After Empire: Reflections on Imperialism from the AmEricas 425
Credits 457
Index 459