Sebastián Carassai

Sebastián Carassai is a historian, a professor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, a member of the Center for Intellectual History at the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, and a researcher at CONICET. He is the author of the books The Argentine Silent Majority: Middle Classes, Politics, Violence, and Memory in the Seventies (Duke University Press); Lo que no sabemos de Malvinas: Las islas, su gente y nosotros antes de la guerra (Siglo XXI); and, together with Kevin Coleman, Coups d’État in Cold War Latin America, 1964–1982 (Cambridge University Press).

Sebastián's project explores the intellectual history of the concept of populism in Latin America, tracing how its meanings have evolved from the 1940s to the present. It examines how the idea of populism has been redefined in relation to authoritarianism, democracy, development, and social change. Understanding the history of the relationship between populism and Latin America offers a unique perspective for addressing contemporary global challenges, both within and beyond South America