Atilio Borón Explained
| Atilio Borón |
| Birth Date: | 1 July 1943 |
| Birth Place: | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Occupation: | Sociologist |
Atilio Borón is an Argentine Marxist sociologist.[1]
Biography
Atilio Borón received a PhD from Harvard University.[2]
He worked as a Professor of Political Science at the Latin American Social Sciences Institute and at the University of Buenos Aires.[3] He also served as Secretary General of CLACSO, an academic umbrella body for Latin America.[4] In 2005, he signed the World Social Forum's Porto Alegre Manifesto.
At the Transnational Institute, he serves as Director of the Latin American Programme of Distance Education for Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a collaborator of the New Politics project.[4] He also serves as director of the Center for European and Latin American Research in Buenos Aires.[3] He also writes a column in a national Argentinian newspaper.[2]
He has called the United States a "terrorist threat to world peace".[5] He has also been critical of Israel's systemic racism.[2] He has voiced his disapproval of the American handling of Julian Assange.[5] Borón has also condemned Barack Obama for ordering the murder of Muammar Gaddafi.[6]
In 2009 he received the International José Martí Prize from UNESCO for his contribution to integration of Latin American and Caribbean countries.[7]
Bibliography
- The Right and Democracy in Latin America (co-edited with Douglas A Chalmers and Maria Do Carmo Campello de Souza, 1992)
- State, Capitalism, and Democracy in Latin America (1995)
- Peronismo y Menemismo: Avatares del Populismo En La Argentina (1995)
- Tiempos Violentos: Neoliberalismo, Globalizacion y Desigualdad En America Latina (1999)
- Tras El Buho de Minerva: Mercado Contra Democracia En El Capitalismo de Fin de Siglo (2000)
- The Clasicos En El Debate Latinoamericano (2002)
- Estado, Capitalismo y Democracia En America Latina (2004)
- Nueva Hegemonia Mundial: Alternativas de Cambio y Movimientos Sociales (2004)
- Las Reformas Educativas En Los Paises del Cono Sur (2005)
- Empire and Imperialism: A Critical Reading of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri (2005)
- Que Hacer? (2005)
- La Teoria Marxista Hoy: Problemas y Perspectivas (2006)
- Politica y Movimientos Sociales En Un Mundo Hegemonico (with Gladys Lechini, 2006)
- Reflexiones Sobre El Poder, El Estado y La Revolucion (2007)
- Socialismo Siglo XXI: Hay Vida Despues del Neoliberalismo? (2008)
- América Latina en la Geopolítica del Imperialismo (2012)
- El hechicero de la tribu. Mario Vargas Llosa y el liberalismo en América Latina (Ediciones Akal, S.A., 2019)
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Atilio Boron . . https://web.archive.org/web/20220705001815/https://www.theguardian.com/profile/atilio-boron . 2022-07-05 . live .
- Luis Fleishman, The Gaza Crisis and the Intellectual Left in Latin America: A Dark Picture, The Americas Report: Center for Security Policy, December 6, 2012
- http://www.alibris.co.uk/search/books/author/Boron,%20Atilio/aid/571552?cid=null Alibris
- http://www.tni.org/users/atilio-boron Transnational Institute
- Atilio Boron, How South America sees the Julian Assange case, The Guardian, 20 August 2012
- News: Preparando la agresión militar a Venezuela. Boron. Atilio. 10 March 2015.
- https://en.unesco.org/prizes/Jose-Marti/laureates Laureates of the International UNESCO/José Martí Prize
