The Fernando Coronil Reader: The Struggle for Life Is the Matter

Fernando Coronil

Published by Duke University Press 2019

The Fernando Coronil Reader

The Struggle for Life Is the Matter

Fernando Coronil
Edited by: Julie Skurski , Gary Wilder , Laurent Dubois , Paul Eiss , Edward Murphy , Mariana Coronil and David Pedersen

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478004592

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About this book

This posthumously published collection of Fernando Coronil's most important work highlights 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.

Author / Editor information

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.

Reviews

“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-Ferrández 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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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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Introduction: Transcultural Paths and Utopian Imaginings Mariana Coronil, Laurent Dubois, Julie Skurski and Gary Wilder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Labyrinths of Critique: The Promise of Anthrohistory
Introduction David Pedersen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
1 Pieces for Anthrohistory: A Puzzle to Be Assembled Together Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
2 Transculturation and the Politics of Theory: Countering the Center, Cuban Counterpoint Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
3 Foreword to Close Encounters of Empire Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
4 Perspectives on Tierney’s Darkness in El Dorado Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
5 The Future in Question: History and Utopia in Latin America (1989–2010) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	128
Part II. Geohistorical States: Latin American Counterpoint
Introduction Edward Murphy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
6 Dismembering and Remembering the Nation: The Semantics of Political Violence in Venezuela Julie Skurski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
7 Transitions to Transitions: Democracy and Nation in Latin America Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
8 Venezuela’s Wounded Bodies: Nation and Imagination during the 2002 Coup Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	250
9 Oilpacity: Secrets of History in the Coup against Hugo Chávez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	262
10 Crude Matters: Seizing the Venezuelan Petro-state in Times of Chávez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	266
Part III. Beyond Occidentalism, Beyond Empire
Introduction Paul Eiss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
11 Occidentalism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
12 Beyond Occidentalism: Toward Nonimperial Geohistorical Categories Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323
13 Listening to the Subaltern: The Poetics of Neocolonial States Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	368
14 Smelling Like a Market Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	385
15 Latin American Postcolonial Studies and Global Decolonization Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	399
16 After Empire: Reflections on Imperialism from the Américas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	425
Credits Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	457
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	459

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 472
Illustrations
- Other: 15 illustrations

eBook

Published: April 15, 2019
ISBN: 9781478004592