Nestor Garcia Canclini

Nestor Garcia Canclini studied philosophy at Universidad Nacional de La Plata and at the University of Paris, the Sorbonne. He taught as a professor at the Universities of La Plata, Stanford, Austin, Barcelona, Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo. Since 1990 he is the director of a programme on Urban Cultural Studies at the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana de Mexico.

His most important publications are "Cortizar, una antropologia politica", 1968; "Las culturas populares en el capitalismo", 1982; "Culturas hybridas" and "Consumidores y ciudadanos", 1995.