The Fernando Coronil Reader: The Struggle for Life Is the Matter
by Fernando Coronil edited by Julie Skurski, Gary Wilder, Laurent Dubois, Paul Eiss, Edward Murphy, Mariana Coronil and David Pedersen
Duke University Press, 2019 eISBN: 978-1-4780-0459-2 | Cloth: 978-1-4780-0367-0 | Paper: 978-1-4780-0396-0 Library of Congress Classification GN345.2.C67 2019
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
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
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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 Chávez 262 10. Crude Matters: Seizing the Venezuelan Petro-state in Times of Chávez 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 Américas 425 Credits 457 Index 459
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The Fernando Coronil Reader: The Struggle for Life Is the Matter
by Fernando Coronil edited by Julie Skurski, Gary Wilder, Laurent Dubois, Paul Eiss, Edward Murphy, Mariana Coronil and David Pedersen
Duke University Press, 2019 eISBN: 978-1-4780-0459-2 Cloth: 978-1-4780-0367-0 Paper: 978-1-4780-0396-0
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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
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
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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 Chávez 262 10. Crude Matters: Seizing the Venezuelan Petro-state in Times of Chávez 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 Américas 425 Credits 457 Index 459
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