Fernando Coronil
Fernando Coronil (November 30, 1944 Caracas – August 16, 2011, New York City) was a
Biography
Fernando Coronil was born in Caracas, Venezuela, on November 30, 1944, to public health professionals
From 1958 to 1962, Coronil attended the public high school Liceo Andrés Bello. During this time, Coronil was elected president of the Liceo Andrés Bello student association. In this position, Coronil took an active role in politics, which at one point led him to distribute material criticizing the policies of then-president Rómulo Betancourt.[2]: 14 This political activity attracted the attention of local law enforcement. The local authorities’ interest in Coronil’s political activity contributed to his parents’ later decision that his university education should take place abroad.[1][2]: 14
In 1963, Following his early engagement with Venezuelan politics, Coronil traveled to the United States, where he attended Stanford University as an undergraduate student. He initially pursued a pre-medical course of study, but eventually decided to adopt a liberal arts education instead. At Stanford, Coronil met his future wife and frequent coauthor Julie Skurski.
Coronil graduated
As a part of their Ph.D. fieldwork, Skurski and Coronil had originally planned to conduct research in
In 1988, Coronil became a member of the society of fellows at the University of Michigan, after which the university hired him into a position as a professor of anthropology and history in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.[7] At the University of Michigan, Coronil was actively involved in the department of History, the department of Anthropology, the Program in the Comparative Study of Social Transformations, the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History, and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program.[8]
Coronil retired from his active position at the University of Michigan on December 31, 2008. Starting February 1, 2009, he took on a position as a Professor of Anthropology for the City University of New York.[9]
On August 16, 2011, Fernando Coronil died of
Influences
Coronil’s academic work is influenced by
Major works
Coronil's doctoral
In 1997, Coronil published his best known work, The Magical State, in which he explores the relationship between the Venezuelan state and the country's petroleum-reliant economy.[13][14] The Magical State also discusses how the Venezuelan state is transformed not only by oil, but by the relationship between the state, society, and nature.[15] Coronil's work in The Magical State has influenced academics such as Andrew Apter and Suzana Sawyer, whose own work also mapped the role of oil wealth in influencing cultural practices among nation states.[16]
In 2000, Coronil published an essay entitled Beyond Occidentalism, which refers to the writing of post-colonial Marxist scholar and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon to introduce a geohistorical critique of Western self-conception, as part of a larger deconstruction of the poetics behind imperial geographic ideas.[11] In the same year, Coronil also published Towards a Critique of Globalcentrism, an article that draws on concepts introduced in Beyond Occidentalism to critique the role of discourse surrounding globalization in perpetuating certain imperial modes of thought.[12] Together, these articles contribute to an argument “for the recognition of the neoliberal global order as an imperial formation,”[2]: 310 and contribute to Coronil’s view of capitalist globalization discourse as a mode of West-privileging occidentalist thought.[12]
Coronil also co-edited a volume entitled States of Violence in 2006.[17]
At the time of his death, Coronil was working on a book entitled Crude Matters, regarding the former Venezuelan president
References
- ^ ISSN 1548-1433.
- ^ OCLC 1126096124.
- ^ "Fernando Rubén Coronil Ravelo". geni_family_tree. Retrieved 2021-05-24.
- ^ .
- ^ "Memoir | Faculty History Project". faculty-history.dc.umich.edu. Retrieved 2021-05-03.
- ^ "In Memoriam: Fernando Coronil". Committee on Globalization and Social Change. 2011-08-24. Retrieved 2021-05-03.
- ^ "Memoir | Faculty History Project". faculty-history.dc.umich.edu. Retrieved 2021-05-24.
- ^ Keane, Webb (Winter 2012). "In Memory... Fernando Coronil". Michigan Anthropology Newsletter: 5.
- ^ "Fernando Coronil appointed to the Graduate Center". www.gc.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2021-05-24.
- ^ a b "In Memoriam: Fernando Coronil". Committee on Globalization and Social Change. 2011-08-24. Retrieved 2021-05-24.
- ^ ISSN 0886-7356.
- ^ S2CID 51783778.
- ISBN 978-0-19-939447-0.
- OCLC 492707999.
- ISBN 978-3-319-59506-1.
- ISBN 978-0-253-01569-3.
- ISBN 978-0-472-09893-4.