Ramón Grosfoguel

Ramón Grosfoguel (born May 20, 1956, San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican sociologist who belongs to the Modernity / Coloniality Group (Grupo M/C) who is a professor emeritus^[1] of Chicano/Latino Studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies at University of California, Berkeley.^[2]

Ramón Grosfoguel
Born	(1956-05-20) 20 May 1956 (age 68) San Juan, Puerto Rico
Occupation	sociologist and professor
Nationality
Citizenship
Literary movement	Modernity / Coloniality Group (Grupo M/C)

Biography

Education

Ramon Grosfoguel was born in 1956 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He obtained his bachelor's degree in Sociology at the University of Puerto Rico in 1979. He then received his master's degree in Urban Studies at Temple University in 1986, his M.A. paper being on Puerto Rico's urbanization process from 1898-1980. He also obtained a doctorate in Sociology at Temple University in 1992. The title of his doctoral dissertation was "Puerto Rico's Exceptionalism: Industrialization, Migration and Housing Development (1950 - 1970)." After receiving his doctorate, he attained two post-doctoral degrees, one of which was from the Fernand Braudel Center/Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, France (1993–94).

Career

His teaching career began in fall 1990 at Temple University as an instructor. He began teaching courses such as Race/Ethnic Relations in America, Urban Sociology, and Introduction to Sociology. Later (1992-1993), he began teaching at Johns Hopkins University as a visiting professor and was awarded the Oraculum Award for Excellence in teaching. He also taught at State University of New York Binghamton (1995 - 1998), Boston College (1998 - 2000), and the University of California Berkeley from 2001 to 2024.^[3][4]

Works

• Colonial Subjects. Puerto Ricans in a Global Perspective. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2003.^[5][6][7]
• El giro decolonial: reflexiones para una diversidad epistémica más allá del capitalismo global (comp, 2007)
• Unsetling postcoloniality: coloniality, transmodernity and border thinking, Duke University Press, 2007
• "Izquierdas e Izquierdas Otras: entre el proyecto de la izquierda eurocéntrica y el proyecto transmoderno de las nuevas izquierdas descoloniales", Tabula Rasa 11 (julio-diciembre): 9-29, 2009
• "Interculturalidad ¿diálogo o monólogo?: la subalternidad desde la colonialidad del poder en los procesos fronterizos y transculturales latinoamericanos" en Mario Campaña (ed.) América Latina: los próximos 200 años (Barcelona: CECAL-Guaraguao y Ministerio de Cultura de España), 2010.
• "La descolonización del conocimiento: diálogo crítico entre la visión descolonial de Frantz Fanon y la sociología descolonial de Boaventura de Sousa Santos" en Formas-Otras: Saber, nombrar, narrar, hacer (IV Training Seminar de jóvenes investigadores en Dinámicas Interculturales, Fundación CIDOB, Barcelona): 97-108, 2011
• "Racismo Epistémico" Revista Tabula Rasa No. 14 (julio-diciembre), 2011
• "Introduction: From University to Pluriversity: A Decolonial Approach to the Present Crisis of Western Universities" (with Capucine Boidin and James Cohen), Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, Vol. IX, Special Issue: 1-6, 2011.
• "Decolonizing Post-Colonial Studies and Paradigms of PoliticalEconomy: Transmodernity, Decolonial Thinking and Global Coloniality", Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World Vol. 1, No. 1., 2011
• "Unsettling Eurocentrism in the Westernized University" (with Julie Cupples) Routledge, 2018

See also

• Colonialism
• Epistemology
• Global capitalism
• Human migration
• Latin American Studies Association
• Neocolonialism
• Postcolonialism

References

1. https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/faculty/ramon-grosfoguel
2. "Ramón Grosfoguel | Research UC Berkeley".
3. "Grosfoguel, Ramón : CV" (PDF). Arquitecturadelastransferencias.net. Retrieved 12 May 2019.
4. https://ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu/people/ramon-grosfoguel-1/
5. Santana, Déborah Berman (2004). "Review of Colonial Subjects: Puerto Ricans in a Global Perspective". Journal of American Ethnic History. 24 (1): 131–132. ISSN 0278-5927. JSTOR 27501541.
6. Briggs, Laura (2005). "Review of Colonial Subjects: Puerto Ricans in a Global Perspective". The Journal of American History. 91 (4): 1536–1537. doi:10.2307/3660313. ISSN 0021-8723. JSTOR 3660313.
7. Duany, Jorge (2005). Grosfoguel, Ramón; Haslip-Viera, Gabriel; Falcón, Angelo; Rodríguez, Félix Matos (eds.). "Colonial Migrants: Recent Work on Puerto Ricans on and off the Island". NWIG: New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids. 79 (3/4): 273–279. doi:10.1163/13822373-90002509. ISSN 1382-2373. JSTOR 41850395.

Sources

• Santiago Castro-Gómez y Ramón Grosfoguel (comp.) (2007). El giro decolonial: reflexiones para una diversidad epistémica más allá del capitalismo global. Bogotá: Siglo del Hombre; Universidad Central, Instituto de Estudios Sociales Contemporáneos y Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Instituto Pensar. ISBN 978-958-665-096-0.
• Grosfoguel, Ramón (16 December 2010). "La crisis terminal de la modernidad". YouTube. Granada: Centro de Documentación Mapuche Ñuke Mapu. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
• Grosfoguel, Ramón (2011). "Curriculum" (PDF). University of California at Berkeley. Berkeley. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
• Grosfoguel, Ramón (December 10, 2010). «The terminal crisis of modernity» . YouTube . Granada: Mapuche Documentation Center Ñuke Mapu . Retrieved on February 28, 2015 .