González Casanova, Pablo (1922–)

Pablo González Casanova (b. 11 February 1922), Mexican social scientist and academic administrator. A rigorous scholar and theorist of internal colonialism, dependency, and other conceptual models of analysis of the Latin American historical and contemporary reality, González Casanova has authored and edited over 200 books and published nearly as many scholarly articles. His most important studies include the classic La Democracía en México (1965) and El estado y los Partidos Políticos en México (1981). He has also held important academic-administrative positions, including director of the Escuela de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales (1957–1965) and president of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) (1970–1972). In 1984, González Casanova was awarded the National Prize in Mexico for Social Sciences and Humanities. UNESCO awarded him the José Martí International Prize in 2003 for his work on indigenous identity in Latin America. He contributes regularly to the Mexican periodical La Jornada. His recent works include La universidad necesaria en el siglo XX (2001) and Las nuevas ciencias y las humanidades: De la Academia a la Política (2004).

See alsoNational Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) .

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Additional Bibliography

Pablo González Casanova, pensar la democracia y la sociedad: Una visión crítica desde Latinoamérica. Barcelona: Anthropos, Editorial del Hombre, 1995.

Soto Rubio, Eduardo. Diversidad y crisis de un proyecto de universidad: La reforma Académica de Pablo González Casanova. Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Coordinación de Humanidades, Centro de Estudios sobre la Universidad, 1994.

                                             David Maciel