Sociology of Suspicion and Epistemological Decolonization in the “First Quijano”

Huamaní S.M. · Aníbal Quijano: Dissidences and Crossroads of Latin American Critical Theory (2024) · DOI: 10.4324/9781032617749-4

Resumen

The article is intended to show that the “first Quijano” of the 1960s adopted an attitude of suspicion towards the ideological bias of the North American social sciences, which were implemented in the universities of the “Third World” countries, in the context of the institutionalization of sociology, as a scientific discipline carrying the promise of social change. This attitude of suspicion translated into the use of the Marxian notion of “ideology” as a tool of critique of the colonial/imperialist orientation of the social sciences. This suggests and evidences a certain “thematic unity” linked to a type of sociology that we call “sociology of suspicion”. This sociology has a preparatory nature and is developed between 1962 and 1965. Nevertheless, it is prolonged and reappears in other contexts, as it is inscribed in a broader theoretical project of “epistemological decolonization”, proposed by the “last Quijano” in the 1990s.

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos