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Edgardo Lander is author of 'The Decolonisation of Global Democracy'.
He was born in Caracas, Venezuela. He holds a gegree in Sociology from the Universidad Central de Venezuela (Caracas) and a MA and Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University. Edgardo currently teaches at the School of Sociology and Doctoral Programme in Social Sciences at the Venezuelan Central University.
Edgardo has been involved in labour unions and social movements, and also formed part of the Organizing Committee of the World Social Forum in Caracas (2006). He is a member of the Secretariat of the Hemispheric Council of the Social Forum of the Americas and a member of the editorial board of the Revista Venezolana de Economía y Ciencias Sociales. Edgardo is also a fellow of the Transnational Institute (Amsterdam).
Edgardo’s main interests include: critique of Eurocentric colonial knowledge; democracy in Latin America, political transformations in Venezuela; science, technology and democracy; limits of the planet and the crisis of a civilization based on unlimited growth; survival and cultural indigenous and peasant struggles in Latin America.
He has published many publications, including: Contribución a la crítica del marxismo realmente existente: Verdad, ciencia y tecnología. Consejo de Desarrollo Científico y Humanístico. (Universidad Central de Venezuela. Caracas 1990); La ciencia y la tecnología como asuntos políticos. Límites de la democracia en la sociedad tecnológica, Editorial Nueva Sociedad, (Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, 1994); La democracia en las ciencias sociales latinoamericanas contemporáneas, Colección Bibliográfica FOBAL-CS, Instituto Autónomo Biblioteca Nacional. (Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, 1997); and Neoliberalismo, sociedad civil y democracia. Ensayos sobre América Latina y Venezuela, Consejo de Desarrollo Científico y Humanístico, (Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, 1995). Edgardo is also the editor of “Ciencias sociales: saberes eurocéntricos y coloniales”, en Edgardo Lander, (compilador), La colonialidad del saber: Eurocentrismo y ciencias sociales. Perspectivas latinoamericanas, UNESCO/CLACSO, Buenos Aires, 2000.
