Please join us for a book launch and discussion of The Fernando Coronil Reader: The Struggle for Life Is the Matter (Duke University Press, 2019).

The event will feature contributions from Vinay Gidwani (Professor of Geography and Global Studies at the University of Minnesota), Timothy Mitchell (Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University), and Alejandro Velasco (associate professor of modern Latin America at NYU’s Gallatin School and Department of History), followed by a collective discussion.

This event will be livestreamed for those unable to attend (available here).
This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology at the Graduate Center, CUNY.

In The Fernando Coronil Reader (edited by Julie Skurski, Gary Wilder, Laurent Dubois, Paul Eiss, Edward Murphy, Mariana Coronil, David Pedersen) 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.