Rethinking Intellectuals in Latin America

Latin America's political and cultural upheavals in recent years are in large measure attributable to a flourishing renaissance of knowledge production and innovation – intellectual, cultural, literary, grassroots, and artistic projects that have exploded from a multiplicity of social settings and in new media, new movements, and new political expressions.

Rethinking Intellectuals in Latin America captures unfolding processes and cultural politics through a comparative lens examining both historical precursors and contemporary dynamics. This work offers an interdisciplinary tour de force, combining perspectives from history, literature, anthropology, linguistics, politics, and law, and will be an indispensable source for those who want to capture – in all of its plural complexity – the past and the future of cultural and intellectual shifts transforming the Americas.



Mabel Moraña is William H. Gass Professor of Arts and Sciences and Director of Latin American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Her latest books include Crítica impure (2004), and the co-editions Coloniality at Large: Latin America and the Post-colonial Debate (2008), Colonialidad y crítica en América Latina (2008) and Revisiting the Colonial Question in Latin America (2008).



Bret Gustafson is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author, most recently, of New Languages of the State: Indigenous Resurgence and the Politics of Knowledge in Bolivia (2009).