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‘Fascism on trial’: Rodolfo Graziani and the manipulation of historical consciousness in postwar Italy Modern Italy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2025-02-03 Victoria Witkowski
This article uses the postwar trial of Fascist Italy’s most prominent general, Rodolfo Graziani, to examine issues of transitional justice and the formation of popular memory of Italian Fascism and colonialism after 1945. During the Fascist ventennio, the regime constructed Graziani as the nation’s colonial ‘hero’ despite his leading role in genocidal measures during Fascist Italy’s colonial wars in
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Platens from the Past: Yugonostalgia and the UNIS-tbm Typewriter East European Politics and Societies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2025-01-29 Kristen R. Ghodsee
This article explores the lost history of the Olympia Traveller and Traveller de Luxe typewriters. Designed in Germany but manufactured in a once multiethnic town called Bugojno in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina as part of a thriving Yugoslav typewriter industry, these machines were once exported to all corners of the globe with more than ninety different keyboards. Sold throughout Yugoslavia
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Italian vermouth on the international market (1890–1960): a success story Modern Italy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2025-01-23 Omar Mazzotti, Luciano Maffi, Stefano Magagnoli
This article examines the causes and geographical trajectories of the globalisation of vermouth, one of the most famous Made in Italy products in the world. Of all the fortified wines, vermouth stands out for its unique history. Originally a product of Piedmont consumed mainly by the aristocracy and the emerging bourgeoisie, vermouth became the subject of a growing export trade between the nineteenth
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The Forgotten Resistance of the Sinti and Roma Modern Italy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2025-01-22 Chiara Nencioni
The role that Roma communities played in the Resistance during the Second World War is a little-known part of history, especially in Italy. Through consideration of their involvement, we can highlight the complexity of the Resistance, and recognise Roma communities as an integral part of Italian society. Roma involvement in the Resistance had distinctive characteristics compared to that of the gagi
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Old woods, new rule: the annexation of Veneto to the Kingdom of Italy from a forest history perspective Modern Italy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2025-01-22 Giacomo Bonan
This paper analyses the period following the annexation of Veneto to the Kingdom of Italy in 1866 from the standpoint of forest history. Recent historiography has demonstrated that the development of scientific forestry was a crucial factor in the state-building process. Post-unification Veneto provides an opportunity to explore these dynamics from a decentralised perspective, focusing on two critical
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The political drivers of antipoverty policy in Italy: persistence, change and reversals Modern Italy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2025-01-22 Rosa Mulè, Stefano Toso
This article analyses the political determinants of antipoverty policy in Italy between 1948 and 2022, providing a long-term analysis of the Italian minimum income scheme. We look for an explanation of that evolution drawing on three theoretical perspectives: veto players, gradual institutional change, and party competition. Our methodology is process tracing which involves the examination of ‘diagnostic’
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Shaped by censoring attitudes: pornography in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Italy Modern Italy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2025-01-22 Claudio Monopoli
Through an analysis of the Italian context, this article illustrates how censoring attitudes shaped the modern meaning of pornography between the last two decades of the nineteenth century and the years of the Great War. The difference between the ideas of pornography and obscenity is pointed out through a concise examination of censorship archive documents from the Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom, the State
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‘Brigantaggio’ revisited: historiographical experiences and prospects for research Modern Italy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2025-01-20 Carmine Pinto, Gian Luca Fruci
This article describes the results of the Progetto di ricerca di interesse nazionale (Research Project of National Interest [PRIN]) ‘Il brigantaggio rivisitato’ (‘“Brigantaggio” Revisited’), which investigated the practices and imagery of brigandage (and the fight against it) in modern and contemporary Italy from a Euro-Atlantic perspective. A large community of scholars, both within Italy and further
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Migrations, citizenship and administrative borders: the Italian case Modern Italy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2025-01-20 Lucie Bargel, Carlo Caprioglio, Enrico Gargiulo, Daniela Trucco
This contribution summarises the scientific discussions that developed during a one-year cycle of international and interdisciplinary seminars focusing on the relationship between migration and citizenship in Italy. We considered human mobilities in their relation to the politico-administrative institutions of the state and observed the latter's attempt to define and govern them. The relative marginality
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Aerolíneas Argentinas Cabin Crew Experiences and Meanings of Work in the Pandemic Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-13 Agustina Miguel, Sara Cufré
This article analyzes the experience and construction of meaning by the all-women cabin crews of Aerolíneas Argentinas working through the pandemic during the suspension of commercial operations in 2020. Our study is centered around three themes: the (re)organization of schedules, job uncertainty, and changes in duties. These transformations in the work process generated an increase in the physical
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Rethinking ‘farmer–herder’ conflicts in the Ivorian internal frontier African Affairs (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-11 Jeremy Allouche, Cyprien Yao Yao, Kando Soumahoro Amédée
There is a heightened concern among the media, United Nations (UN) agencies, and security experts about the rising number of localized conflicts in West Africa. While many of these conflicts are labelled as farmer–herder conflicts, they are, in fact, more complex and multidimensional. This article demonstrates as much for the Ivorian case by building on the concept of the internal frontier in West
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Introduction COVID-19 Coronavirus: Pandemic Politics in Latin America and Precarity and Health: Health as Asset, Health as Right Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-11 Tomás Crowder-Taraborrelli, Alexander Scott, Kristi M. Wilson, Marina Gold
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Autonomous Strategies of Migrant Resistance to the Pandemic’s Repercussions Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-10 Nanette Liberona Concha, Marioly Corona Ramírez, Cristián Doña-Reveco
This article addresses the economic and political repercussions of the pandemic on the migrant populations in Iquique, Chile, comparing the experiences of Bolivian and Venezuelan migrants. We assess the forms of resistance they developed to survive the economic, social, and health crises associated with the COVID-19 Pandemic, which each group confronted in a different manner. We approached this from
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Colombia, COVID-19, and the Colonial Trap Reflections on the Politics of Knowledge Production Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-10 Bill Rolston, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Claire Wright
The COVID-19 pandemic has made historical and contemporary colonial relationships between and within states more fraught. This complexity is apparent within the research process itself, adding a new dimension to debates on positionality and the politics of knowledge production. Drawing on critical approaches to International Relations, and in dialogue with an emerging literature on the implications
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Public Manifestos: Brazilian Civil Society Alliances and Resistances in the Face of the Covid-19 Crisis Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-10 Adriana Cattai Pismel, Ana Claudia Chaves Teixeira
This article analyzes the public manifestos made among civil society during the first wave of Covid-19 in Brazil. Data collection took place between April and August 2020, and gathered a sample made up of documents in various formats, which were drawn up by a wide range of actors who voice very different ideas and themes. The data analysis allowed us to identify three important shifts: these actors
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Gore Capitalism and Necropolitics in Brazil’s Malgovernance of the COVID-19 Pandemic Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-09 Mairon G. Bastos Lima, Katerina Hatzikidi, Karen da Costa
The COVID-19 pandemic caused massive human suffering just as much as it heightened pre-existing socio-economic and political issues. Brazil, where over 700,000 people perished, offers one of the starkest cases as Black and Indigenous lives were particularly neglected through a hands-off approach. While commonly characterized as mismanagement, we argue that the Bolsonaro administration’s strategy instead
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International Teleworking in Latin America Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-09 Marina Kabat
Desde la pandemia, América Latina experimentó un drástico crecimiento del número de trabajadores que se emplean en forma remota para empresas extranjeras. No obstante, los mismos cambios que facilitaron esta expansión del teletrabajo internacional aceleran la competencia global entre trabajadores, lo que junto con la crisis que atraviesa la industria del software, genera despidos y caída salarial.
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Gone with the Rebels: Reshaping Local Orders in Post-Peace Agreement Colombia Latin American Politics and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2025-01-07 José A. Gutiérrez, Clara Voyvodic
The 2016 peace agreement between the Colombian government and the FARC-EP, and the demobilization of the latter, dismantled the governance structures in regions formerly under rebel control. Drawing from a relational security framework, this article explores how, across three case-studies, communities use their former experience of rebel governance as a framework through which they could express expectations
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Spiraling Up: Agency and Resilience among Indigenous Communities during the COVID-19 Pandemic Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-06 Michelle Watts, Kristin Drexler, Bridget Kimsey, Anthony Caole
Based on 140 interviews with respondents in six Indigenous communities in Alaska, New Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala, this phenomenological study focuses on Indigenous communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using Flora and Flora’s Community Capitals Framework, as well as Emery and Flora’s concept of the spiral of Community Capitals assets, this article explores both the challenges and coping mechanisms
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Waiting to be Processed: Bodies and Resistance in Pandemic Space-Time: The Facility: A Film by Seth Wessler (2020) and Grupo Performático Sur’s Trilogía pandémica (2021) Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-03 Kristi M. Wilson
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Income Protection for Vulnerable Groups During the Pandemic in Brazil and Chile: The Relevance of Policy Trajectories and Governance Arrangements Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-03 Maria Clara Oliveira, Sergio Simoni Junior
How can we understand the variation in countries’ responses to the Covid-19 pandemic crisis in the context of income protection policies for vulnerable families? This article provides a comparative presentation and discussion of the measures put in place in Brazil and Chile in 2020. We argue that the similarities and differences in the strategies adopted are largely due to the trajectories both in
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Impact of Structural Barriers on Undocumented Migrants at Risk of Chagas Disease in Switzerland: A Double Burden of Neglect Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-03 Elise Rapp
Chagas disease, a major public health concern in Latin America, has become a global public health challenge. Switzerland is considered an example in providing healthcare access to migrants, however, Chagas disease remains largely underdiagnosed in the estimated three to four thousand Latin American migrants infected. This paper discusses the sociopolitical and economic factors that contribute to the
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Public space at stake: competing forms of territorialisation and the construction of a democratic public space in the first years of the Italian Republic Modern Italy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-12-27 Virgile Cirefice
The end of the civil war, the fall of the Italian Social Republic, the allied occupation and the gradual transition to the new Italian Republic not only set Italy on the path to democracy, but also gradually gave Italians access to a new public space. This article proposes to revisit the classic question of the legacy of Fascism by looking at the question of space and the difficult construction of
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Signposting the Meschita: Palermo's medieval Jewish quarter as a site of memory Modern Italy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-12-27 Sean Christian Wyer
Street signs in Italian, Hebrew and Arabic, installed in the twenty-first century, mark Palermo's former Jewish quarter, over half a millennium since Sicily last had a substantial Jewish population. They recall a medieval Jewish minority, but also symbolise what some consider to be Palermo's essentially pluralistic character. What motivates this inchoate revival of ‘Jewish space’, and what does it
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Un Niño, Una Radio: Local Responses to Covid-19 in the Peruvian Amazon Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-12-26 Diana Tung
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Neo-Feudalism and Neo-Traditionalism as Responses to Liberalism East European Politics and Societies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-12-18 Jan Kubik
The rise of right-wing populism as a challenge to liberalism has two major explanations: cultural and economic. Cultural explanations must strike a balance between general mechanisms and specific conditions of concrete regions or countries. There is an argument that a large segment of the population in east central Europe has rejected liberalism because it sees liberalism as an alien implant from “the
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Feminist Politics, Coalition Building, and Movement Legacies: Abortion Rights Activism in Argentina since the 2001 Crisis Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-12-11 Elizabeth Borland, Barbara Sutton
Around two decades after Argentina’s 2001 crisis, the abortion rights movement flourished, becoming a powerful force against obstacles to reproductive justice in the country and mobilizing massive numbers of people from all walks of life to successfully demand the legalization of abortion. The National Campaign for the Right to Legal, Safe, and Free Abortion was launched in 2005, but the seeds for
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On the Health of Bolivian Women Migrant Domestic Workers The Chagas Political Economy in Catalonia Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-12-11 María Offenhenden, Laia Ventura-Garcia
Based on an ethnographic study conducted in Catalonia, this paper analyzes the links between migration, precarity, and health among Bolivian women affected by Chagas disease. In a context characterized by precarious migratory conditions tied to the growing internationalization of reproductive labor and these women workers’ insertion into the domestic sphere, an analysis of the political economy of
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Affective polarization in Latin America: A research note Latin American Politics and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-12-10 Marcelo Bergman, Pablo Fernández
Affective polarization (AP), a concept that summarizes intense partisans’ animosity towards opposing parties and positive feelings towards their own, has recently received increasing attention. Despite a growing interest in Latin American polarization, there are very few empirical studies on the range and depth of dislike and distrust towards political adversaries in the region, and how this impacts
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Looking Beyond Vector Control to Address Mosquito-Borne Diseases: Critical Approaches to Public Health in Honduras Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-12-10 José Enrique Hasemann-Lara
Global systems of capitalist production shape local experiences with health and disease, as well as approaches to infectious disease control. Through participants’ descriptions of health-disease experiences, I explore an alternate route for the prevention and control of mosquito-borne diseases in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, beyond a strict focus on vector control. I identify three local enunciations of
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Performance, Democracy, and the Commune in the Black Sheep Revolution Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-12-10 Angela Marino
This article analyzes cultural production in theaters across three pivotal historical moments from the 1980s to the present, including the theater as ruins, refuge, and resistance. It begins with the theater in ruins as depicted in the 1986 film, The Black Sheep, by the legendary playwright, director, and filmmaker, Román Chalbaud, in which a commune of artists, outcasts, and misfits squat in the theater
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Populist Rhetoric and Political Polarization: Insights from Venezuela Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-12-10 Judith Teichman
While much of the literature on populism has focused on the role of the populist leader in creating political polarization, this work asks what role context, particularly anti-populism, plays in exacerbating the often vitriolic nature of populist rhetoric. This work explores this question by examining the speeches of Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela, from 1998 to 2012. It argues that Chavez’s populist
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Emancipatory Rural Politics in Latin America 2010-2020: Alliance-Building, Right-Wing Populisms and Political Transitions Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-12-10 Sergio Coronado
The 2010s could be defined for Latin America as a period of multiple and interrelated transitions. The decay of the “Pink Tide” and the reemergence of different strands of right-wing, authoritarian, and populist political projects was shaped by the impacts of convergent social and ecological crises in the region, particularly in the disputes over extractivism and environmental affairs. This paper examines
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Building Food Markets as a Method for Confronting the Rise of Authoritarian Populism: How the New Political Regime Has Forced Rural Movements to Create New Action Repertoires in Southern Brazil Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-12-09 Estevan Felipe Pizarro Muñoz, Camila Penna de Castro, Paulo André Niederle
This article examines how the political construction of food markets acts as a strategy for collective action with regards to three rural movements in Brazil: CONTAG, the MST, and Rede Ecovida. Each used food markets to confront the effects of a regime change that occurred with the rise of a populist authoritarian government. The research for this article was conducted between October 2017 and December
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Changing Urban Movements Repertoires Following the Erosion of Porto Alegre’s Participatory Budgeting: From Institutionalized Participation to Deinstitutionalization Latin American Politics and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-12-02 Jonas Lefebvre
In Brazil, numerous participatory institutions have been suspended over the past decades, including many participatory budgeting (PB) programs at the municipal level. Since the introduction of PB in Porto Alegre in 1989, extensive literature has discussed its effects on the way urban social movements make demands. However, the suspension of many PBs across Brazil raises a new question: how do these
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From Disappearance to Hope: The Construction of the Brazilian Indigenous Movement’s Imaginary (1974-1977) Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-12-02 Carlos Benitez Trinidad, Poliene Soares dos Santos Bicalho
This article analyzes the construction of the imaginary created by the Brazilian Indigenous Movement against the historical representations imposed by the non-indigenous, of disappearance, and backwardness. It is based on the study of the speeches of the assemblies of Indigenous chiefs between 1974 and 1977. The crisis of institutional Indigenism, military authoritarianism, and developmentalism announced
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‘We Are Learning How To Organize Ourselves’: Feminist Intra-Movement Dynamics Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-11-29 Lucía Miranda Leibe, Micol Pizzolati
The paper explores activists’ political organization strategies and obstacles they faced in achieving consensus during the feminist protests that exploded in Chilean universities between April and May 2018. Drawing on the intra-movement dynamics literature and analyzing qualitative data about the mobilization in one of the oldest universities of the country, the research sheds light on the movement's
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Imported Consumer Goods and Hegemony: External Constraints and Hegemonic Capacities of the Argentinian State Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-11-29 Tobias Boos
Debates about the link between the economic conjuncture and the fall of the so-called Pink Tide in Latin America often focus on the role played by raw material exports. However, this article shows that import dependency also played a significant role in the decline of the Argentinian iteration of the Pink Tide, also known as Kirchnerism. First, it analyses how imported consumer goods contributed to
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Unpacking Bribery: Petty Corruption and Favor Exchanges Latin American Politics and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-11-27 Diego Romero
The incidence of petty corruption in public service delivery varies greatly across citizens and geography. This paper proposes a novel explanation for citizen engagement in collusive forms of petty corruption. It is rooted in the social context in which citizen-public official interactions take place. I argue that social proximity and network centrality provide the two key enforcement mechanisms that
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The Recovery of the Communal Lands: Territorial Struggle and Political Subjectivation in San Miguel Chimalapa, Mexico Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-11-26 María Fernanda Pérez Ochoa
This article addresses the struggle for the recovery of communal lands by groups inhabiting the Chimalapas region in the municipality of San Miguel Chimalapa, Oaxaca, between the 1970s and 1990s. I focus on the process of political subjectivation (or political subject formation), understood here as the sphere of politicization under which these sectors articulated discourses and practices of insubordination
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Women candidates and mayors in Italy (1993–2021) Modern Italy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-11-21 Anna Carola Freschi, Vittorio Mete
This article uses an original dataset to sketch a portrait of women mayoral candidates and women elected as mayors in Italy in the period 1993–2021. The analysis highlights several significant findings. Women must compensate for their political marginality by deploying other resources, such as higher levels of education. Nevertheless, women are penalised not only by the reluctance of parties to put
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Change in Governance Modes in Marine Protected Areas that Overlap with Fishing Territories: A Study of Cuba and Brazil Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-11-20 Manuela Dreyer da Silva, Cristina Frutuoso Teixeira, Raimundo Vento Tielves, Christian Luiz da Silva, Ania Bustio Ramos, Décio Estevão do Nascimento, Heather Heyes
This article discusses governance in Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), particularly the possibility of formulating arrangements capable of confronting the effects of the ocean grabbing process in fishing territories. Through the articulation of experiences in MPAs in Cuba and Brazil and the content analysis of technical-scientific documents produced on the daily governance of these areas, legal frameworks
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Introduction: Authoritarian Populism and the Rural World: Insights from Latin America and the Caribbean Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-11-20 Daniela Andrade, Sergio Coronado
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Education, Racism, and the Pandemic: A Pedagogical-Critical Analysis for Latin America Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-11-20 Maikel Pons-Giralt, Oscar Ulloa-Guerra, Ricel Martínez-Sierra, Mirtha del Prado Morales, Mariana Ortega-Breña
The pandemic deepened social and educational inequality for Afro-descendants and indigenous people in Latin America and the Caribbean. A regional analytical overview with a focus on Brazil and on the social and educational challenges faced by these people and the epistemological, ontological, and pedagogical alternatives for the inclusion of racialized persons during the pandemic. The analysis points
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Autonomies and the Construction of Communal Economies in Zapotec Villages in Oaxaca, Mexico Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-11-20 Salvador Aquino Centeno, Maríana Ortega-Breña
San José, a Zapotec community in the Sierra Sur of Oaxaca, Mexico, has built certain autonomies over time while challenging the territorial policies designed by the Mexican state. This article goes beyond the focus on autonomies as jurisdictional rights recognized by the state and analyzes the de facto instances elaborated by communities to build economies as a support for self-determination. By strengthening
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Independence and Emancipation: Latin American Theorizations on the Concept of Autonomy Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-11-14 Gustavo Moura de Oliveira, Massimo Modonesi
From the 1990’s to the present, Latin America has been, as no other region in the world, a laboratory of autonomies —explicit or implicitly framed as such— situated in the cycle of anti-neoliberal struggles. Faced with this historical-political context, in this text we re-examine the conceptualization and theorizations around the idea of autonomy. Based on a review of the major Latin American conceptual
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A disaffected, right-wing, conflicted Italy: the general elections of 25 September 2022 Modern Italy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-11-14 Dario Tuorto, Vittorio Mete
You can never really get tired of Italian politics. Over the last 30 years, we have seen many turning points, the most memorable of which was undoubtedly Silvio Berlusconi's unexpected ‘descent into the field’ in 1994. Nor have we been deprived of colourful characters, such as Matteo Renzi or Matteo Salvini, who, as their careers took off, ended up burning their wings. And after many unsuccessful attempts
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Corporate Power vs. Popular Power in the Politics of Food in Venezuela Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-11-12 Ana Felicien, Christina M. Schiavoni, Liccia Romero
This article is an inquiry into the politics of food in Venezuela, addressing the question: What do food politics tell us about broader forms, organizations, and relations of power in Venezuela today? By digging into the past, it sheds light on the challenges and opportunities at present, examining: a) The ways in which food, through its material and symbolic power, has served as a vehicle for processes
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Fairweather Cosmopolitans: Immigration Attitudes in Latin America During the Migrant Crisis Latin American Politics and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-11-11 Brett R. Bessen, Brendan J. Connell, Ken Stallman
What explains voter attitudes toward immigration in Latin America? This article argues that increased refugee arrivals moderate the impact of social identities on immigration attitudes. We propose that informational cues associated with increased immigration make cosmopolitan identities less important—and exclusionary national identities more important—determinants of immigration preferences. Analyzing
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When Resisting Is Not Enough: The killing of Latin American Feminist Activists (2015–23) Latin American Politics and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-11-11 Simone da Silva Ribeiro Gomes
The article analyses an original database of 177 Latin American women activists killed that had some connection with feminist social movements from 2015 to 2023. A growing body of literature has focused on the killings of socio-environmental activists in Latin America and where they occurred. However, their activisms are under-researched, precisely because feminist social movements and activists have
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Environmental Devastation Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-11-11 Tamar Diana Wilson
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Development and Indigenous Ecopolitics in Post-Peace Guatemala Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-11-09 Nicholas Copeland
How do Indigenous and peasant political paradigms interact? This essay examines the relationship between Indigenous-ontopolitical critiques of development and peasant-oriented demands for alternative development in the Guatemalan defense of territory (DT), an Indigenous-led alliance against extractive development. Drawing on politically-engaged ethnographic and historical fieldwork, I argue that theories
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Pluriversal Autonomies Beyond Development: Towards an Intercultural, Decolonial and Ecological Buen Vivir as an Alternative to the 2030 Agenda in Abya Yala/Latin America Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-11-08 Jorge Garcia-Arias, Javier Cuestas-Caza
This article employs Critical Development Studies to analyze the international political economy of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and address how the main elements that sustain and characterize it turn it into “another brick in the wall” of the hegemonic development paradigm (neoliberal, neo-developmentalist, neocolonial, privatized, inequitable, and environmentally predatory). It further
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Infrastructure Megaprojects as World Erasers: Cultural Survival in the Context of the Tehuantepec Isthmus Interoceanic Corridor Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-11-08 Susanne Hofmann
This article explores the meanings of infrastructural changes resulting from the Corredor Interoceánico del Istmo de Tehuantepec (CIIT) infrastructure project for the cultural survival of Indigenous peoples resident in the Tehuantepec Isthmus region through the lens of ontological justice. Based on interviews with affected residents in the states of Oaxaca and Veracruz, this research finds a strong
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Subverting oppressive structures: on kelinhood, solidarity and feminist research in the bazaars Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-11-06 Binazirbonu Yusupova
Feminist principles in research emphasize acknowledging differences to address power imbalances. Taken at face value, discussions on positionality tend to prioritize differences, often turning into...
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Helping a f(r)iend in need? Rethinking the role of linkages in authoritarian covert repression Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-11-06 Ildar Daminov
Covert repression techniques, such as the use of digital technologies in surveillance, censorship and disinformation, have become a pervasive tool of autocracies worldwide. This research note discu...
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‘The Book of My Mother’ as national allegory: subaltern nationalism and political unconscious in early twentieth century Azerbaijani fiction Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-11-06 Nail Aliyev, Ferit Murat Ozkaleli
This paper analyses Jalil Mammadquluzadeh’s drama, The Book of My Mother (Anamın Kitabı), to understand Azerbaijani nationalism in the early twentieth century. Under the repression of industrializa...
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A Unified Canon? Latin American Graduate Training in Comparative Politics Latin American Politics and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-11-06 Nicolás Taccone, Inés Fynn, Ignacio Borba
In Latin American comparative politics, a tension exists between North Americanization and parochialism. While certain academic scholarship is published in Scopus-indexed journals that engage with “mainstream” Global North literature, other works are found in non-indexed outlets, focusing solely on their home countries and fostering parochial scientific communities. To assess this tension in graduate
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A decolonial approach to ecological distribution conflicts and the Maya Train in Mexico Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-11-06 Mauricio Feliciano López-Barreto, Casandra Reyes-García, Celene Espadas-Manrique, Manuel Jesús Cach-Pérez, José Adán Caballero-Vázquez, Cecilia Hernández-Zepeda, Lilian Juárez, Ligia Guadalupe Esparza-Olguín
A neoliberal development model, frequently at odds with the values of the local Mayan biocultural heritage, has historically prompted the conversion of forests and small-scale agricultural land, mainly in the Yucatan Peninsula. This study analyzes ethnographic data collected in two localities in the peninsula that will be impacted by the Maya Train. Preliminary results based mainly on conducted interviews
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The urbanization of conflict? Patterns of armed conflict and protest in Africa African Affairs (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-11-05 Nick Dorward
Is the geography of armed conflict in Africa becoming more urban? To answer this question, I link georeferenced data on the timing and location of armed conflict and protest events to continent-wide geospatial data on human settlement patterns. Comparing rates of conflict and contention in rural versus urban areas over time, I argue that, contrary to conventional wisdom, claims surrounding the ‘urbanization