Pablo González Casanova y la universidad necesaria en el siglo XXI. Legados y contrastes con la Universidad Nueva de Darcy Ribeiro

Jaime A. Preciado-Coronado; Jaime Torres-Guillén

doi:10.22201/fesa.26832917e.2026.7.3.510

Authors

Jaime A. Preciado-Coronado University of Guadalajara (MX) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3324-8569
Jaime Torres-Guillén University of Guadalajara (MX) https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8846-9951

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22201/fesa.26832917e.2026.7.3.510

Keywords:

New University, University Needed, Darcy Ribeiro, Pablo González Casanova, neoliberalization of the university, intellectual legacy, critique of higher education

Abstract

This article briefly examines Darcy Ribeiro’s legacy regarding the New University and Pablo González Casanova’s conception of the Necessary University, developed during the 1990s. Its purpose is to contrast these two intellectual proposals and, through an exploration of their differences, to encourage contemporary debate on the university. The discussion is framed within a critical perspective that seeks to move beyond prevailing diagnoses of the neoliberalization of higher education and to broaden reflection on the role of the university in the twenty-first century.

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Author Biographies

Jaime A. Preciado-Coronado, University of Guadalajara

He is a Research Professor at the Department of Iberian and Latin American Studies at the Universidad de Guadalajara. His scholarly work contributes to critical geopolitical theory, Latin American and Caribbean studies, regional integration, and interdisciplinary thought in Latin America. His research focuses on contemporary debates surrounding democracy, inequality, autonomy, socio-environmental justice, and social transformation.

He is a Level III member of Mexico’s National System of Researchers (SNII) and currently serves as President of the Latin American Sociological Association (ALAS). Since 2024, he has been Director of the Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS).

His publications include twelve authored books, twenty-one edited volumes, approximately forty articles in indexed journals, and more than one hundred book chapters published by prestigious academic presses. He actively promotes international academic cooperation through networks linking scholars in France, Spain, Germany, Canada, the United States, and various countries across Latin America and the Caribbean.

He is co-founder and co-editor of Espiral. Estudios sobre Estado y Sociedad. He also serves on the editorial board of Geopolítica(s). Estudios sobre Espacio y Poder, based at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Committed to the public dissemination and social appropriation of knowledge, he fosters connections between academic inquiry, social movements, civil society organizations, and public debates.
Jaime Torres-Guillén, University of Guadalajara

Doctor of Social Anthropology and Full-Time Professor at the University of Guadalajara. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Vínculos: Sociología, análisis y opinión, a journal based at the University Center for Social Sciences and Humanities (CUCSH) of the University of Guadalajara. He is a Level II member of the National System of Researchers (SNI). Among his notable published works are Dialéctica de la imaginación: Pablo González Casanova, una biografía intelectual (2014) and Gramáticas del reconocimiento en México: Contribución a una teoría de la justicia como análisis social (2020); he also co-authored, with Jaime Preciado Coronado, An Introduction to Pablo González Casanova: Intellectual of the Dignified Rebelliousness (2023). His recent editorial work includes the edited volumes Conquistar el Mar del Sur: El control estatal del espacio en la península de Baja California (2023) and Lecturas sobre la obra de Pablo González Casanova: Homenaje a 100 años de su nacimiento (2024). Additionally, he co-authored with Jaime Preciado Coronado the book Pablo González Casanova (1922-2023): Una introducción a su obra (2024).

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