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Edgardo Lander is a Venezuelan sociologist, he is a professor at the Central University of Venezuela and associate researcher of the Transnational Institute.

Career
Edgardo Lander is a professor-researcher at the Department of Latin American Studies at the School of Sociology, professor at the PhD. He is a consultant to the Venezuelan commission negotiating the Free Trade Area of the Americas. He works in the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences, and member of the Editorial Board of the Venezuelan Journal of Economics and Social Sciences, Central University of Venezuela.

Lander was one of the organizers of the 2006 World Social Forum, which took place in Caracas.

Politics
Lander was critically supportive of Hugo Chavez. He has criticised the Venezuela's economic dependence on oil exports.

Selected Publications

 * Modernidad y Universalismo. Pensamiento crítico: un diálogo interregional (editor, 1991) ISBN 9789803170028
 *  Neoliberalismo, sociedad civil y democracia. Ensayos sobre América Latina y Venezuela (1995)
 *  La democracia en las ciencias sociales latinoamericanas contemporánea (1997)
 * La colonialidad del saber: Eurocentrismo y ciencias sociales. Perspectivas latinoamericanas (compiler, 2000) ISBN 9509231517

Spanish

 * Transnational Institute. Includes selection of publications.
 * [Http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/sociedad/3-33418-2004-03-29.html "The middle class live a permanent overexcitation."] Edgardo Lander, Venezuelan sociologist explains the polarization in his country.  Page 12 , March 29, 2004.

Category: Transnational Institute Category: Sociologists of Venezuela