In Memoriam: Aníbal Quijano (1928–2018)

• Published date: 01 September 2018
• Date: 01 September 2018
• DOI: 10.1177/0094582X18788560
• Subject Matter: In Memoriam

LATIN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES, Issue 222, Vol. 45 No. 5, September 2018, 232

DOI: 10.1177/0094582X18788560

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In Memoriam

Aníbal Quijano (1928–2018)

Latin American Perspectives is nurtured and sustained by dozens of participating edi-

tors around the world, and Aníbal Quijano was among those who joined us at the

founding of the journal. He passed away in 2018 at age 90, leaving a large void in Latin

American scholarship. Enrique Dussel described him as a “Peruvian Marxist as original

as José Carlos Mariátegui,” one who insisted on recognizing indigenous peoples as

subjects of modern history.

LAP was honored to translate into English and publish some of his seminal analyses

during the academic and political debates of the 1970s and 1980s, helping bring his work to

a wider international audience. Quijano was at the center of discussion of the relationship

between dependency theory and Marxism, and he was generous in offering guidance to a

number of LAP editors developing special issues of the journal, including managing editor

Ron Chilcote, who led our efforts to illuminate the dependency/Marxism debates.

Shortly after he cofounded the Peruvian journal Sociedad y Política, Quijano was tempo-

rarily exiled from Peru for his political views about the reformist Velasco military regime.

We published a version of the article for which he was deported, “De la ‘conciliación al

enfrentamiento,’” in volume 2, number 1 (1975), with an English summary printed in the

margins. Beginning with a teaching position in Mexico during exile, Quijano became an

international scholar/citizen, interacting with important intellectual collectives in several

U.S. and Latin American universities and helping to build journals and institutions associ-

ated with the Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO).

Helen Lane translated his book Nationalism and Capitalism in Peru: A Study in Neo-

Imperialism for Monthly Review Press (1971). His subsequent work has been antholo-

gized worldwide. His essays in Latin American Perspectives provide a window on the

breathtaking scope of his scholarship: “Imperialism and the Working Class in Latin

America” (volume 3, number 1 [1976]), “Imperialism and the Peasantry: The Current

Situation in Peru” (volume 9, number 3 [1982]), and “Imperialism and Marginality in

Latin America” (volume 10, numbers 2/3 [1983]).

CLACSO’s publication in 2000 of Quijano’s “Colonialidad del poder, eurocentrismo y

América Latina” was followed in 2014 by an anthology of his work edited by Danilo de

Assis Climaco, Cuestiones y horizontes de la dependencia histórico-estructural a la colonialidad/

descolonialidad del poder. In a statement saluting his accomplishments, CLACSO’s execu-

tive secretary, Pablo Gentili, wrote, “Nos despedimos de Aníbal, un intelectual inmenso,

un ser humano generoso y bueno. Sentiremos su ausencia, seguiremos su ejemplo.”

—William Bollinger

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Aníbal Quijano, August 25, 2015 (photo CC

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Ciencias Sociales [cropped].jpg).