Alberto Flores Galindo

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Alberto Flores Galindo (Bellavista,

social scientist, and essay
writer. He was the founder of the socialist Centro de Investigacion Casa SUR.

Biography

Alberto Flores Galindo was born in Lima to a middle-class family. He spent his school years studying in the Lima private religious school Colegio La Salle. Later, he studied History at the

Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru.[1] At age 22 he had already concluded his thesis on miners from Cerro de Pasco
, which was graded as "outstanding." This thesis was later published by the university in the form of a book.

As a result of his studies, he obtained a scholarship from the

École des hautes études en sciences sociales of Paris. Upon returning to Peru
he dedicated his time to university research at the Universidad Católica, and also spent time as a reporter for newspapers and magazines. During the 1980s he founded SUR, the Casa de Estudios del Socialismo (House of Socialist Studies), and made it both an editorial house and a center of intellectual discussions. Moreover, he also founded the magazine Margenes and published it through SUR.

He was a prolific historian and one of the most influent Peruvian leftist intellectuals of the 1980s. Flores Galindo constantly promoted various debates about

Jose Maria Arguedas, and Jorge Basadre
.

The collection of essays entitled Buscando un Inca: Indentidad y Utopia en los Andes (Searching for an Inca: Identity and Utopia in the Andes), originally published in 1986, obtained the Premio Ensayo de Casa de las Americas in Cuba. With the book, Flores Galindo sought to formulate a link between socialist thought and Andean traditions. He was the first historian to write about racism in Peru through the 1988 version of Buscando un Inca in the chapter entitled República sin Ciudadanos (Republic without Citizens).[2]

Works

  • Los Mineros de la Cerro de Pasco (1974) (The Miners from Cerro de Pasco)
  • La Agonia de Mariategui. La polemica con la Komintern (1980) (Mariategui's Agony: Problems with the
    Comintern
    )
  • Apogeo y Crisis de la República Aristocrática (with Manuel Burga)
  • Aristocracia y Plebe. Lima, 1760-1830. Estructura de Clases y Sociedad Colonial (1984)
  • Buscando un Inca: Identidad y utopía en los Andes (1986, 1988); Searching for an Inca: Identity and Utopia in the Andes
  • La Tradición Autoritaria (posthumously published) (The Authoritarian Tradition)

References

  1. ^ Ricardo Portocarrero, "Alberto Flores Galindo: la historia, la política y el socialismo"
  2. ISBN 978-0-521-59134-8
    .

External links
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