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By 1990 the art world was looking for new fields of interest. Feminism and postroodernism were tired, and postcolonialism was the rising star. So New York's New Museum of Contemporary Art published an anthology called Out. There, which sought to throw light on margmallsed artists who were somewhere out there beyond the horizon of Manhattan. 'Recognising that the very title of the anthology conveniently reinstated New York as the fountainhead of not just (post)modernism but also all who were marginalised by and resisted It, Mosquera and Fisher have titled their recent anthology Over Here Here's the rub. Not only does Over There, like a call for attention, reinscribe a centre for elsewhere, bit it is also published by the same New York New Museum of Contemporary Art. I guess that once the searchlight is pointed out there, calls of 'over there' will inevidently be heard. The publication in the past half-dozen years of readers and general introductions to postcolonialism suggests that, having also run its course, postcolonialism now can be inscribed into the grand tradition of Western critical theory and safely taught in our tertiary institutions. However, this may premature. Three recent anthologies, Third Text Reader, Complex Entanglements and Over Here, attempt to take postcolonial criticism forward rather than assess its achievements. Despite several attempts by the old Atlantic centres of modernity to reassert themselves towards the end of the millennium (London being the most notable), Over Here and Complex Entanglements (which concern this review) suggest that not much is on the horizon to challenge postcolonialism. The new mantra of globalisation that dominates these two anthologies is an outcome and continuation of postcolonial debate.

El libro editado por el Centro Andino de Acción Popular (CAAP) viene a sumarse a la relativamente gran bibliografía sobre el populismo latinoamericano y en menor medida ecuatoriano. Pero la pregunta que surge de inmediato es qué puede aportar esta compilación al debate sobre un fenómeno que acaparado buena parte de la atención de las ciencias sociales y, más aún, cuál es su aporte frente a un concepto polisémico y hasta evanescente. Si la idea era que los textos recopilados den cuenta de la “ambigüedad” del concepto de populismo y por fin propongan una nueva caracterización que termine con el caos conceptual que es propio de dicho fenómeno, podemos afirmar que no se ha cumplido con el objetivo. Sin embargo, cabe pensar que, con excepción del artículo de Kurt Weyland, los autores no pretenden terminar con la “anarquía” y el desorden conceptual del populismo, y su aporte radica más bien en los análisis concretos de las denominadas experiencias populistas y en una serie de interrogantes que esos casos generan, las mismas que en un futuro pueden dar pie a nuevas investigaciones.