Latin American Perspectives
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LATIN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES
is a theoretical and scholarly journal for discussion and debate on the political economy of capitalism, imperialism, and socialism in the Americas. For more than forty years, it has published timely, progressive analyses of the social forces shaping contemporary Latin America.
Latin American Perspectives
3y ago
July 2021
Issue Editors: Janet M. Conway and Nathalie Lebon
This thematic double issue focuses on popular feminisms, that is, the diverse forms of gendered agency appearing among Latin America’s poor, working-class and racialized communities, and their relation to the politics of feminism and to the broader left in the region. The collection addresses the question of subaltern subjectivities and the building of collective agency in relation to the broader politics of social transformation. It also examines popular feminism as concept with a particular genealogy in relation to histories of the ..read more
Latin American Perspectives
4y ago
Sept 2020
Issue Editors: Ronaldo Munck and Kyla Sankey
This second instalment of a social movements in Latin America dedicated issue develops some of the key themes from Issue 1. The progressive governments have faded and right wing regimes prevail but social movements continue. It takes up the complex interplay between the movements and the changing political domain. It examines the rural movements, the Workers’ Party of Brazil, feminism, the piqueteros of Argentina and the 2019 indigenous revolt in Ecuador.
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Latin American Perspectives
4y ago
March 2020
Issue Editors: Alfredo Saad-Filho, Juan Grigera, and Ana Paula Colombi
Part II of this issue discusses the nature, strengths, achievements, contradictions, and limitations of the administrations led by the PT in federal government, questioning whether they can be characterized as a variety of neoliberalism. Besides macroeconomic policies and political alliances, this volume directs its attention to specific aspects of the PT policies. This includes foreign policy, Brazil’s external economic constraint, and the government’s regional, distributive, social and ..read more
Latin American Perspectives
4y ago
June 2020
Issue Editor: Roberta Villalón
In this episode of the Latin American Perspectives podcast, Alexander Scott, Outreach Coordinator for Latin American Perspectives, Inc., discusses the May 2015, September 2016, and November 2016 issues, “The Resurgence of Collective Memory, Truth, and Justice Mobilizations” Part I, Part II: Artistic and Cultural Resistance, and Part III: Culture, Politics, and Social Mobilizations with Guest Editor Roberta Villalón.
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Latin American Perspectives
4y ago
Title: Brazil’s Crisis Of Memory: Embracing Myths And Forgetting History Issue #: 227 | Volume #: 46 | Number #: 4 Date: July 2019 Interviewer: Alexander Scott Interviewees: Paulo Simões Short Description: This issue is devoted to Brazil and examines how the last few years have brought significant transformations to the government and society, which defy earlier expectations, both positive and negative. Articles focus on political and economic subjects ranging from public demonstrations and labor unionization, the results of the PT administrations’ policies of land reform and healthcare ..read more
Latin American Perspectives
4y ago
Title: The Cold War and Latin American Studies Issue #: 221 | Volume #: 45 | Number #: 4 Date: July 2018 Interviewer: Alexander Scott Interviewees: Ronald Chilcote Short Description: The Cold War shaped and deeply impacted Latin American Studies after World War II. This special issue includes incisive essays on the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, Soviet Union, and China. Initially LAS evolved alongside U.S. foreign policy and a series of coups to contain progressive movements and support conservative authoritarianism, beginning in Guatemala (1954), but progress ..read more
Latin American Perspectives
4y ago
Title: Pink-Tide Governments: Pragmatic and Populist Responses to Challenges from the Right Issue #: 224 | Volume #: 46 | Number #: 1 Date: January 2019 Interviewer: Alexander Scott Interviewees: Steve Ellner Short Description: This issue sheds light on positive and negatives sides of progressive or “Pink Tide” governments which it places in political and economic contexts, specifically destabilizing efforts by a “disloyal opposition” and disinvestment by the private sector. The issue looks at the ways the government reacted to these challenges by making concessions and carrying out policies t ..read more
Latin American Perspectives
4y ago
Deconstructing the Post-Neoliberal State: Intimate Perspectives on Contemporary Brazil
Issue #: 207 | Volume #: 43 | Number #: 2
Date: March 2016
Interviewer: Tomas Ocampo
Interviewees: Wendy Wolford and John French
Short Description: This issue brings together critical contributions to help appreciate some dimensions of the profound impact of the deep socio-economic and political transformations that the Citizen Revolution led by Rafael Correa has been pushing for since its inception in 2007. The main purpose of the issue is to arrive at a global picture of the evolution and the vicissitudes ..read more
Latin American Perspectives
4y ago
Climate Change in Latin America
Issue #: 209 | Volume #: 43 | Number #: 4
Date: July 2016
Interviewer: Tomas Ocampo
Interviewees: Jorge Rojas Hernandez
Short Description: This issue provides a counterpoint to the global and diplomatic drama of the Paris climate negotiations by offering a territorialized, bottom-up approach that breaks with the asymmetrical “North-South” logic of (developed) winners and (less developed) losers. The articles describe local governance strategies, based on effective responses rather than victimhood, that suggest a paradigm shift in how to conceptualize ..read more
Latin American Perspectives
4y ago
The Legacy of Hugo Chávez
Issue #: 212 | Volume #: 44 | Number #: 1
Date: January 2017
Interviewer: Tomas Ocampo
Interviewees: Daniel Hellinger and Anthony Petros Spanakos
Short Description: The purpose of this special issue is contribute to a better understanding of the possibilities and limits of the Bolivarian project, ranging from democratic innovations to economic experimentation, from alternative economic integration to the role of charisma in revolutionary politics. Contributions include analysis of what it means to be a citizen in a post-neoliberal democracy in ..read more