Professor of Spanish
sanjines@umich.eduOffice Information:
phone: 734.764.4396
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; LACS Faculty
Education/Degree:
B.A., Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, 1971; M.A., Université de Paris, 1974; LLD, Superior District Court of La Paz, 1979; ; Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1988
Highlighted Work and Publications
Embers of the Past: Essays in Time of Decolonization
Javier C. Sanjines
Embers of the Past is a powerful critique of historicism and modernity. Javier Sanjinés C. analyzes the conflict between the cultures and movements of indigenous peoples and attention to the modern nation-state in its contemporary Latin American manifestations. He contends that indigenous movements have introduced doubt into the linear course of modernity, reopening the gap between the symbolic and the real. Addressing this rupture, Sanjines argues that scholars must rethink their temporal categories. Toward that end, he engages with recent events in Latin America, particularly in Bolivia...
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