Tomás Moulian

Tomás Moulian Emparanza (born 21 September 1939) is a Chilean political scientist and sociologist. A Guggenheim Fellow[1] and winner of the National Prize for Humanities and Social Sciences,[2] he is known for being a critic of the socio-economic structure of his country after the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.

Tomás Moulian
At FILSA 2015
Born
Tomás Moulian Emparanza

(1939-09-21) 21 September 1939
Santiago, Chile
Alma materUCLouvain
OccupationSociologist, political scientist
TitleRector of University ARCIS
Term2003–2006
PredecessorPedro Domancic
SuccessorJorge Arrate
Political partyDemocratic Revolution (2016–present)
Awards

Biography

The brother of historian Luis Moulian, and uncle of businessman Vasco Moulian, Tomás Moulian studied sociology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (PUC), and did postgraduate studies at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) in Belgium and Paris.[3]

He was director of the sociology schools of his alma mater and of University ARCIS. At the latter he also served as Vice Chancellor for Research, and Rector from 2003 to 2006.[4] He was deputy director of the Latin American Social Sciences Institute (FLACSO) in Chile (1990–1991), where he also taught from 1974 to 1994. He has been director of the Paulo Freire Institute of Social Training.[3]

He was a member of the Christian Democratic Youth, and during the Popular Unity government he was a member of the MAPU Obrero Campesino.[5] After the return of democracy he identified himself as an independent close to the Communist Party of Chile (PCCh).[6] This same party proclaimed him presidential candidate for the 2005 election,[7] where he finally yielded his selection to the humanist Tomás Hirsch.

Thought
Moulian at the 2011 student protests

Moulian's works of historical interpretation of the 20th century have been very influential, despite not having the training of a historian. He has published works on the Popular Front, Popular Unity, and political projects of the right. In the same way, his reflections on the process experienced after the end of the Pinochet dictatorship have become prominent.[8]

His 1997 essay Chile actual: anatomía de un mito – which won the Santiago Municipal Literature Award the following year and which has had several subsequent editions – is well-known.[8] In this he unveiled the "transvestism" of the political sectors that led the transition towards democracy, who would have allowed the fundamental pillars of the fallen regime to remain.[9]

Works
  • Discusiones entre honorables: las candidaturas presidenciales de la derecha entre 1938 y 1946, Santiago: FLACSO, 1987 (together with Isabel Torres Dujisin)
  • La forja de ilusiones: El sistema de partidos, 1932-1973, FLACSO, 1993, ISBN 978-9567370016
  • Crisis de los saberes y espacio universitario, 1995
  • Chile actual: anatomía de un mito, Santiago: LOM Ediciones, 1997, ISBN 978-9562820226
  • Conversación interrumpida con Allende, Universidad ARCIS, 1998, ISBN 978-9562821186
  • El consumo me consume, Santiago: LOM Ediciones, 1999, ISBN 979-9562820805
  • Socialismo del siglo XXI: La quinta via, Santiago: LOM Ediciones, 2000, ISBN 978-9562823265
  • Ein Sozialismus für das 21. Jahrhundert, Zürich: Rotpunktverlag, 2003, ISBN 978-3858692658
  • En la brecha. Derechos humanos, críticas y alternativas, Santiago: LOM Ediciones, 2002, ISBN 9789562825122
  • De la política letrada a la política analfabeta, Santiago: LOM Ediciones, 2004, ISBN 978-9562820806
  • Fracturas: de Pedro Aguirre Cerda a Salvador Allende (1938-1973), Santiago: LOM Ediciones, 2006, ISBN 978-9562828284
  • Contradicciones del desarrollo político chileno, 1920-1990, Santiago de Chile: LOM Ediciones, 2009, ISBN 978-956-00-0075-0

References
  1. "Tomás Moulian Emparanza". Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
  2. González M., Rodrigo (31 August 2015). "Tomás Moulián: el sociólogo ganador del Premio Nacional de Humanidades" [Tomás Moulián: The Sociologist Winner of the National Prize for Humanities]. La Tercera (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 April 2018.
  3. "Tomás Moulián" (in Spanish). FLACSO. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
  4. Figueroa, Juan Pablo (12 August 2014). "Crisis en la Universidad ARCIS: cómo entró y salió el Partido Comunista del negocio de la Educación Superior" [Crisis at University ARCIS: How the Community Party Entered and Left the Business of Higher Education] (in Spanish). CIPER. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
  5. Tironi, Eugenio (6 September 2009). "Los hijos no siempre reconocidos de Tomás Moulian" [The Children Not Always Recognized by Tomás Moulian]. La Nación (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 13 April 2016. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
  6. Carmona López, Alejandra (23 May 2013). "Tomás Moulian: 'El PC debe apoyar a Marcel Claude en primera vuelta'" [Tomás Moulian: 'The PC Should Support Marcel Claude in the First Round']. El Mostrador (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 April 2018.
  7. "Comunistas se alinean con Tomás Moulian" [Communists Align with Tomás Moulian]. La Nación (in Spanish). 16 November 2004. Archived from the original on 11 June 2015. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
  8. Stern, Steve J. (9 April 2010). Reckoning with Pinochet: The Memory Question in Democratic Chile, 1989–2006. Duke University Press. p. 190. ISBN 9780822391777. Retrieved 18 April 2018 – via Google Books.
  9. Lizama, Jaime. "La convivencia fracturada (desafección ciudadana, desigualdad y ethos republicano)" [Fractured Coexistence (Citizen Disaffection, Inequality and Republican Ethos)]. Le Monde diplomatique Chile (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 April 2018.
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