“A researcher cannot be detached from their public sphere.” A dialogue with Gerardo Caetano
This interview is also available in written format in Tramas y Redes magazine no. 5.
Gerardo Caetano is a historian, political scientist, and holds a PhD in History from the National University of La Plata. He works as a researcher and professor at the University of the Republic (Uruguay). He was director of the Institute of Political Science at that university from 2000 to 2005. He is a Level III Researcher in Uruguay's National System of Researchers. He served as president of the Higher Council of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) and as a member of the Steering Committee of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO). His current research focuses on the contemporary political history of Uruguay and Latin America, as well as the political dimensions of integration and regionalism processes, with an emphasis on Latin America and Mercosur. In 2022, he received the Latin American and Caribbean Social Sciences Award, CLACSO's highest distinction.
Salvador Neves is a journalist and editor at the weekly newspaper Brecha. In 1993, he published Pólvora y tinta. Andanzas de bandoleros anarquistas (Gunpowder and Ink: Adventures of Anarchist Bandits) with Alejandro Pérez Couture, and in 2010, with María Esther Giglio, Pepe Mujica. De tupamaro a presidente (Pepe Mujica: From Tupamaro to President). In 2011, he conducted the historical research that supported the documentary En busca de Artigas (In Search of Artigas), directed by Aldo Garay for Televisión Nacional Uruguay (TVN). In 2016, with Gerardo Caetano, he published Seregni. Un artiguista del siglo XX (Seregni: A 20th-Century Artiguista). In 2017, for his journalistic work, he received the National Urban Planning Award in the “social communication” category. He is the co-author of Bancarios, a history of the Uruguayan financial system workers' union, also edited by Caetano and published in 2019. With Gerardo Caetano and Mauricio Rodríguez, he published La causa armenia entre el Ararat y Uruguay (The Armenian Cause Between Ararat and Uruguay) in 2020.
