Antonio Vazquez-Arroyo

Narrative

Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science. His areas of teaching and research interest are interdisciplinary and mostly engage with contemporary political questions, albeit always drawing the history of political thought broadly understood. His recent work has been located at the intersections of the tradition of critical theory and the dialectical legacy of the twentieth and twentieth-first centuries. While heavily indebted to this tradition, his work also engages with an array of thinkers outside of the dialectical legacy and across the political spectrum. His research and teaching also deals with contemporary currents of critical and postcolonial theory in the non-Western world, especially traditions stemming from Latin America and the Caribbean.

Currently, he is finishing on a book titled Scenes of Responsibility: Power and Suffering in a Post-Political Age and is currently working on a book-length manuscript tentatively titled Shadows of Catastrophe. Additionally, he continues to work on two long-term projects on the idea of universal history and the critical import of dialectical thinking. Prof. Vázquez-Arroyo is also affiliated with the interdisciplinary research network Antropolítica, which is based at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. http://antropolitica.uniandes.edu.co/