Enzo Faletto

{{Short description|Chilean sociologist and historian}}

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Enzo Doménico Faletto Verné (July 14, 1935 – June 22, 2003) was a Chilean sociologist and historian.{{Citation |last=Contreras-Vejar |first=Yuri |title=Faletto, Enzo |date=2017 |encyclopedia=The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory |pages=1–2 |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781118430873.est0119 |access-date=2024-12-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180604210547/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781118430873.est0119 |archive-date=June 4, 2018 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons, Ltd |language=en |doi=10.1002/9781118430873.est0119 |isbn=978-1-118-43087-3|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite web |title=Homenaje a Enzo Faletto |url=https://facso.uchile.cl/noticias/2006/libro_faletto2.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071207045825/https://facso.uchile.cl/noticias/2006/libro_faletto2.html |archive-date=December 7, 2007 |access-date=December 7, 2007 |website=Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Chile}} Together with former Brazilian president and sociologist Fernando Henrique Cardoso, he wrote the book Dependency and Development in Latin America, an important contribution to the development of Dependency Theory.{{Cite web |last=Franco |first=Célia |date=July 14, 1998 |title=Intelectuais revêem obra teórica de FHC |url=https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/brasil/fc14069805.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241225222422/https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/brasil/fc14069805.htm |archive-date=December 25, 2024 |access-date=December 25, 2024 |website=Folha de S.Paulo}}{{Cite web |date=June 7, 2010 |title=2012 Kluge Prize Ceremony: Fernando Henrique Cardoso |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688919/ |access-date=December 25, 2024 |website=Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA}}

Biography

= Early years and education =

Born in the Chilean capital, Santiago, Faletto wanted to join the Foreign Legion.{{Cite journal |last=Rego |first=José Marcio |date=2007 |title=Entrevista com Enzo Faletto |url=https://www.scielo.br/j/ts/a/3xgPJywwBqqjVxbKRbhZVdy/?lang=pt |url-status=live |journal=Tempo Social |language=pt |volume=19 |pages=189–213 |doi=10.1590/S0103-20702007000100010 |issn=0103-2070 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240512102440/https://www.scielo.br/j/ts/a/3xgPJywwBqqjVxbKRbhZVdy/?lang=pt |archive-date=May 12, 2024}} Frustrated about his chances of joining, at the age of 14 he entered the {{Interlanguage link|Arturo Prat Naval School|es|Escuela Naval Arturo Prat}}, a branch of the Chilean Navy, located in Valparaíso. He was expelled from the corps for bad behavior and returned to Santiago to work in his father's armory.

He entered the History course at the University of Chile at the age of 20, where he graduated in 1957. After graduating in History, he moved to the Sociology department at Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) to do her master's degree.{{Cite web |date=June 26, 2003 |title=Personalidade: Morre no Chile o sociólogo Faletto |url=https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/brasil/fc2606200330.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241226165321/https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/brasil/fc2606200330.htm |archive-date=December 26, 2024 |access-date=December 27, 2024 |website=Folha de S.Paulo}}

= Career =

In 1961, he joined the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).{{Cite journal |last=Ligiério |first=Luiz |date=August 12, 2020 |title=O que se pensava na CEPAL |url=https://memoria.bn.gov.br/DocReader/DocReader.aspx?bib=030015_12&pesq=%22Enzo%20Faletto%22&pasta=ano%20200&hf=memoria.bn.gov.br&pagfis=18520 |journal=Jornal do Brasil |volume=110 |issue=126 |pages=3}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TGazAAAAIAAJ |title=Cincuenta años de pensamiento en la CEPAL: textos seleccionados |date=1998 |publisher=Fondo de Cultura Económica |isbn=978-956-7083-99-2 |language=es}} With the establishment of the Brazilian military dictatorship in 1964, intellectuals such as Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Francisco Weffort and Vilmar Faria went into exile in Chile, where they met Faletto.{{Cite web |date=July 8, 2021 |title=A arte da política democrática e os desafios da globalização |url=https://fundacaofhc.org.br/debate/a-arte-da-politica-democratica-e-os-desafios-da-globalizacao-2/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240908153059/https://fundacaofhc.org.br/debate/a-arte-da-politica-democratica-e-os-desafios-da-globalizacao-2/ |archive-date=September 8, 2024 |access-date=December 27, 2024 |website=Fundação FHC |language=pt-br}}{{Cite journal |last=Cardoso |first=Fernando Henrique |author-link=Fernando Henrique Cardoso |date=2007 |title=Análise e memória (recordações de Enzo Faletto) |url=https://www.scielo.br/j/ts/a/XnrztvmpWNdhNKDBHp5rLmw/?lang=pt |url-status=live |journal=Tempo Social |language=pt |volume=19 |pages=215–221 |doi=10.1590/S0103-20702007000100011 |issn=0103-2070 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230526015320/https://www.scielo.br/j/ts/a/XnrztvmpWNdhNKDBHp5rLmw/?lang=pt |archive-date=May 26, 2023}}

Cardoso and Faletto wrote the book Dependencia y desarrollo en América Latina, initially published by the Mexican publishing house Siglo XXI in 1969. The book was first published in Brazil by {{Interlanguage link|Zahar (publisher)|lt=Zahar|pt|Zahar (editora)}} in Rio de Janeiro in 1970 under the title Dependência e Desenvolvimento na América Latina.{{Cite journal |last=Smaniotto |first=Edgar |date=June 1, 2006 |title=Dependência e desenvolvimento na américa latina: uma obra e dois presidentes |url=https://www.fe.unicamp.br/pf-fe/publicacao/4906/res1_22.pdf |url-status=live |journal=Revista HISTEDBR On-Line |location=Campinas |publisher=State University of Campinas |issue=22 |pages=205–208 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241227130706/https://www.fe.unicamp.br/pf-fe/publicacao/4906/res1_22.pdf |archive-date=December 27, 2024}}{{Cite journal |last=Avellar |first=Antonio |date=March 12, 2000 |title=FHC é um fingidor compulsivo |url=https://memoria.bn.gov.br/DocReader/DocReader.aspx?bib=154083_06&pesq=%22Enzo%20Faletto%22&pasta=ano%20200&hf=memoria.bn.gov.br&pagfis=1118 |journal=Tribuna da Imprensa |volume=51 |issue=15 307 |pages=4}}{{Cite journal |title=Livros: Dependência e desenvolvimento na América Latina - Ensaio de interpretação sociológica |url=https://acervo.folha.com.br/digital/leitor.do?numero=6125&keyword=%22Enzo+Faletto%22&anchor=4228424&origem=busca&originURL=&maxTouch=0&pd=aaac9ecd4b6e3b9793f383cdbe0bc74c |journal=Folha de S. Paulo |volume=56 |issue=17 482 |pages=38}} A decade after its release in Mexico, the book was published in the United States by the University of California Press under the title Dependency and development in Latin America.{{Cite web |title=Dependency and development in Latin America |url=https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=LCCN&searchArg=75046033&searchType=1&permalink=y |access-date=December 27, 2024 |website=Library of Congress}}

Between 1967 and 1972 Faletto taught sociology and journalism at the University of Chile. After the military coup in Chile in 1973, he was relieved of his duties as a university professor.{{Cite journal |date=June 26, 2003 |title=Obituário: Enzo Faletto Verne, professor |url=https://memoria.bn.gov.br/DocReader/DocReader.aspx?bib=364568_19&Pesq=%22Enzo%20Faletto%22&pagfis=52018 |journal=Jornal do Commercio |volume=176 |issue=2020 |pages=A-15}} During the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, he worked as a researcher at FLACSO. It wasn't until the country's re-democratization in 1991 that he was reinstated as a professor at the University of Chile, he worked there until the end of his life, particularly in the sociology department. With a left-wing orientation, he was affiliated until the end of his life to the Socialist Party of Chile.

For his academic achievements, he received the title of honorary professor at the University of Chile, as well as the Valentin Letelier medal, also awarded by the university.{{Cite web |date=2002 |title=Por primera vez se entrega medalla "Valentín Letelier" |url=https://web.uchile.cl/archivos/uchile/www/noviembre/letelier.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241227133900/https://web.uchile.cl/archivos/uchile/www/noviembre/letelier.htm |archive-date=December 27, 2024 |access-date=December 27, 2024 |website=University of Chile}} In Argentina, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the National University of Rosario.{{Cite web |last=Silva |first=Lessandro |date=July 19, 2023 |title=Pressupostos pedagógicos da filosofia da libertação no pensamento de Freire e Dussel |url=http://repositorio.ufla.br/bitstream/1/58152/1/DISSERTA%c3%87%c3%83O_Pressupostos%20pedag%c3%b3gicos%20da%20filosofia%20da%20liberta%c3%a7%c3%a3o%20no%20pensamento%20de%20Freire%20e%20Dussel.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241227134325/http://repositorio.ufla.br/bitstream/1/58152/1/DISSERTA%C3%87%C3%83O_Pressupostos%20pedag%C3%B3gicos%20da%20filosofia%20da%20liberta%C3%A7%C3%A3o%20no%20pensamento%20de%20Freire%20e%20Dussel.pdf |archive-date=December 27, 2024 |access-date=December 27, 2024 |website=Federal University of Lavras}}

= Death =

He died in Santiago on June 22, 2003 at the age of 67 from lung cancer.{{Cite web |last= |date=June 14, 2017 |title=Enzo Faletto, un auténtico clásico |url=https://www.revistadeeducacion.cl/enzo-faletto-autentico-clasico/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221016213721/https://www.revistadeeducacion.cl/enzo-faletto-autentico-clasico/ |archive-date=October 16, 2022 |access-date=December 27, 2024 |website=Revista de Educación |language=es-CL}}{{Cite web |last=Valderrama |first=Lorena |date=May 10, 2006 |title=Presentan Libro en Homenaje a Prof. Enzo Faletto |url=https://uchile.cl/noticias/18185/presentan-libro-en-homenaje-a-prof-enzo-faletto |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241227142736/https://uchile.cl/noticias/18185/presentan-libro-en-homenaje-a-prof-enzo-faletto |archive-date=December 27, 2024 |access-date=December 27, 2024 |website=University of Chile}}

Publications (selection)

  • Dimensiones Sociales, Políticas y Culturales del Desarrollo: Antologia. (Social, political and cultural dimensions of development: Anthology), Santiago: FLACSO-Chile, 2007.{{Cite web |title=LC Catalog - No Connections Available |url=https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=LCCN&searchArg=2008367567&searchType=1&permalink=y |access-date=December 27, 2024 |website=Library of Congress}}
  • Como enfrentar la pobreza?: estrategias y experiencias organizacionales innovadoras. (How to confront poverty? Innovative organizational strategies and experiences), Buenos Aires: Grupo Editor Latinoamericano, 1989.{{Cite book |last1=Faletto |first1=Enzo |url=https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=LCCN&searchArg=89220321&searchType=1&permalink=y |title=Como enfrentar la pobreza? estrategias y experiencias organizacionales innovadoras |last2=Bernardo |first2=Kliksberg |date=1989 |publisher=Grupo Editor Latinoamericano |isbn=978-950-694-065-2 |editor-first= |series=Colección Estudios políticos y sociales |location=Buenos Aires, Argentina }}
  • Clases sociales y opciones políticas en Chile. (Social classes and political options in Chile), Santiago: FLACSO-Chile, 1981.{{Cite web |title=Clases sociales y opciones políticas en Chile |url=https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=LCCN&searchArg=85188947&searchType=1&permalink=y |access-date=December 27, 2024 |website=Library of Congress}}
  • Movimientos populares y alternativa de poder en Latinoamérica (People´s movements and power alternatives in Latin America) Mexico: Editorial Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, 1980.{{Cite book |url=https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=LCCN&searchArg=81159463&searchType=1&permalink=y |title=Movimientos populares y alternativa de poder en Latinoamérica |date=1980 |publisher=ICUAP : Editorial Universidad Autónoma de Puebla |editor-last=Faletto |editor-first=Enzo |edition= |series= |location=Puebla, Pue., México }}
  • Dependency and development in Latin America (with Fernando Henrique Cardoso). Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979.{{Cite web |last1=Cardoso |first1=Fernando Henrique |author-link1=Fernando Henrique Cardoso |last2=Faletto |first2=Enzo |title=Cardoso, Fernando Henrique Dependency and development in Latin America (Work) - LC Linked Data Service {{!}} Library of Congress, from LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress) |url=https://id.loc.gov/resources/works/4109215.html |access-date=December 27, 2024 |website=Library of Congress}}
  • Sociedad burguesa y liberalismo romántico. (Society of the middle class and romantic liberalism) Caracas: El Cid Editor, 1977.{{Cite book |last1=Faletto |first1=Enzo |url=https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=LCCN&searchArg=84672955&searchType=1&permalink=y |title=Sociedad burguesa y liberalismo romántico |last2=Kirkwood |first2=Julieta |date=1977 |publisher=El Cid Editor |series=Colección Estudios interdisciplinarios |location=Caracas}}

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