Gonzalo Portocarrero

Peruvian sociologist (1949–2019)

Gonzalo Portocarrero
Portocarrero in 2018
Born	Gonzalo Javier Enrique Portocarrero Maisch (1949-12-03)3 December 1949 Lima, Peru
Died	21 March 2019(2019-03-21) (aged 69) Lima, Peru
Nationality	Peruvian
Alma mater	National University of San Marcos Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Occupation	Sociologist

Gonzalo Portocarrero (December 3, 1949 – March 21, 2019) was a Peruvian sociologist, social scientist and essayist.

Biography

He was born in Lima, the third of four children of Félix Portocarrero Olave and Lucrecia Maisch Von Humboldt. He studied at the private school La Recoleta. He studied Sociology at the National University of San Marcos and Letters at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.^[1] He was a Master in Sociology from the Latin American Social Sciences Institute (FLACSO) and doctor in the same specialty from the University of Essex (England).^[1]

He was a visiting professor at universities in the United States, Japan, Germany, Mexico, Venezuela and the United Kingdom.^[1] Until his death, he served as a professor at the Department of Social Sciences of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.^[2]

He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Network for the Development of Social Sciences, dynamic intellectual space for Neo-Marxist discussion of the Peruvian problem. He was Dean of the Association of Sociologists of Peru. In 2008 he created the first program of Cultural Studies in Peru, culminating the research around these topics that began in the late nineties. His work is strongly influenced by the imprint left by the historian Alberto Flores Galindo. Among other distinctions, he was recognized as Doctor Honoris Causa by the National University of the Center of Peru and was awarded the National Culture Award by the Ministry of Culture.^[3]

On March 21, 2019, at the age of 69, he died from lung cancer.^[4]

Works

De Bustamante a Odría. El fracaso del frente democrático nacional. 1945-1950 (1983)
El Perú desde la escuela (1989)
Las clases medias: Entre la pretensión y la incertidumbre (1998)
Razones de sangre. Aproximaciones a la violencia política (1998)
Rostros criollos del mal (2004)
Racismo y mestizaje (2007)
Figuraciones del mundo juvenil en el cine contemporáneo (2010)
Oído en el silencio. Ensayos de crítica cultural (2010)
Profetas del odio (2012)
Utopía del blanqueamiento y la lucha por el mestizaje (2013)
La urgencia por decir "nosotros". Los intelectuales y la idea de nación en el Perú republicano (2015)
Imaginando al Perú. Búsquedas desde lo andino en arte y literatura (2016)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Gonzalo Portocarrero Maisch: Falleció sociólogo, ensayista y profesor universitario" (in Spanish). Expreso. 21 March 2019. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
^ "Gonzalo Javier Enrique Portocarrero Maisch" (in Spanish). Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
^ León Zevallos, Jorge (9 February 2016). "Premios en el mundo cultural" (in Spanish). La Genciana. Retrieved 22 March 2019.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "Falleció Gonzalo Portocarrero, reconocido sociólogo de la PUCP" (in Spanish). La República. 21 March 2019. Retrieved 24 March 2019.