Can 'theory' teach us anything about Peru? Can 'Peru' teach us anything about theory? The chapters in this volume explore these questions by establishing a productive dialogue between Peru and theory. Focusing on institutional weakness and economic, social, gendered, racialized, and other forms of exclusion key issues in recent social scientific inquiry in Peru - the contributors to this volume assess the extent to which the analytical frameworks of a number of social and cultural theorists can inform, and, at the same time, be informed by, Peru as a case study.
Omar Awapara Franco, University of Texas at Austin, USA Maria Balarin, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Valeria Biffi, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Jelke Boesten, King's College London, UK Eduardo Dargent, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Paulo Drinot, Institute of the Americas, University College London, UK Daniella Gandolfo, Columbia University, USA Paul Gootenberg, Stony Brook University, the State University of New York, USA Cecilia Perla, Brown University, USA José Carlos Orihuela, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Alberto Vergara, University of Montreal, Canada Matthias vom Hau, Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI), Spain