Interview with Nelson Maldonado-Torres. The Humanities and the Decolonial Turn in the 21st Century

Abstract

Nelson Maldonado-Torres is Associate Professor in the Department of “Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies” and is a member of the Comparative Literature Program at Rutgers University in New Jersey (USA). He also serves as an adjunct researcher in the Department of Political Science at the University of South Africa and is a member of the international board of the Frantz Fanon Foundation in Paris, France. He has been President of the Caribbean Philosophy Association (2008-2013), Director of the Center for "Latino Policy Research" at the University of California at Berkeley (2009-2010), and Head of the Department of "Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies" at Rutgers (2012-2015). His main research interests include decolonial thought, ethical and political theory, theory of religion, Caribbean philosophy, African diaspora thought, and comparative ethnic studies.