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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Black Power in Hemispheric Perspective: A Book Review Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-10-30 Marcelo Paixão
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Defending the Commons from Dispossession in the Mountains of Guerrero: Contributions from and for Anthropology Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-10-30 Giovanna Gasparello
This paper addresses the experience of Indigenous peoples in the highlands of Guerrero, Mexico, as they organize to defend their territory against mining exploitation. This struggle evinces the different dimensions of territoriality that are mobilized in the process of anti-mining resistance, with particular emphasis on the collective structures of organization and government. My ethnographic findings
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Open Space and Ocean Grabbing: The Sea in the Geographic Opening of the Galápagos Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-10-26 Christophe Grenier
The sea has long been a barrier guaranteeing the ecological isolation of the Galápagos. When Ecuador annexed the archipelago, the sea became an obstacle, because neither the state nor the island residents had ships to maintain regular relations with the mainland. On the contrary, the Galápagos Islands are an open space for foreign actors who, having adequate transport, freely use its natural resources
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Maritimacies and Nature-Culture Collectives as Inputs for a Sustainable Blue Economy on the East Coast of Uruguay Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-10-22 Leticia D’Ambrosio Camarero
The research for this article examines the characteristics of the marine-coastal environment from the perspectives of a range of social actors. Knowledge of maritimacies can serve as an input for management of marine-coastal environments that takes into account the diverse types of humanity found there, by emphasizing that these processes are not just physical and ecological, but also social, economic
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Conceptions and Practices of Autonomy among Indigenous and Peasant Movements in Latin America Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-10-22 Lia Pinheiro Barbosa, Peter Michael Rosset
This paper seeks to categorize the forms of autonomy developed by Indigenous and peasant movements in Latin America into three types: a) de jure autonomies versus de facto autonomies; b) explicit autonomies versus implicit autonomies; and c) (mono)ethnic autonomies versus popular or class autonomies. We argue that the debate between these conceptions takes on a possible strategic importance when it
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Indigenous Politics of Emancipatory Education in Bolivia: The Role of the Escuela-Ayllu of Warisata Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-10-20 Young Hyun Kim
This article analyzes how the Escuela-Ayllu of Warisata in Bolivia challenged the feudal system known as gamonalismo in the 1930s-1940s within the broader context of Indigenous struggle. It demonstrates that distinct currents of Indigenous education, including indigenismo, Caciques-Apoderados’ Centro Educativo de Aborígenes “Bartolomé de las Casas,” and Alcaldes Mayores Particulares’ escuelas particulares
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Resistance Strategies of Traditional Fishers in Their Struggle for Territory on Paraná’s Coastline in Brazil: A Categorization of the Conflict Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-10-19 Tiago Vernize Mafra, Natália Tavares de Azevedo
This article categorizes the resistance strategies used by traditional fishers on the coast of Paraná, Brazil, against local authorities that seek to deterritorialize their territories. Documentary sources and interviews with informants were used as part of this research. The local traditional fishing sector is not immune to external pressure. The resistance strategies of this group can be classified
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Indigenous Autonomies in Latin America in the Face of Contemporary Capitalism: Overview, Perspectives, and Dilemmas: Part 2 Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-10-11 Edgars Martínez Navarrete, Richard Stahler-Sholk
This is the second part of a two-part series, beginning with the July 2024 issue of this journal, exploring the diversity of Indigenous autonomies confronting neoliberal capitalism and their dilemmas and strategic choices.Esta es la segunda parte de una serie de dos, comenzando con el número correspondiente a julio de 2024 de la presente revista, que exploran la diversidad de autonomías indígenas frente
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“They Are Taking the Sea from us” - Maritime Extractivism, Dispossession and Resistance in Rural and Ethnic Communities of the Colombian Caribbean Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-10-11 Ana Isabel Márquez Pérez
This article provides an overview of the impacts of the current Colombian extractivist development model on peasant, Afro-descendant, and Indigenous communities’ territorial seas ( maritorium) in the Colombian Caribbean. We reflect on the implications of a gradual penetration of concepts such as the blue economy in national public policy. The impacts of activities such as port infrastructure, oil drilling
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Sowing Indigenous Autonomy: Building a Common Political-Ethical Territory of Struggle with Zapatista Seed Pedagogics Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-10-10 Charlotte María Sáenz
This article inquires into the workings of Zapatista Seed Pedagogics’ (ZSP) building of a political-ethical commons outside the movement’s autonomous territories. Parting from a previous theorization of ZSP as a decolonizing educational process, this writing draws on interviews with external activists of neozapatista networks who have encountered and/or accompanied the movement in the last three decades
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Self-government, Social Change, and Conflict in Oxchuc, Chiapas: The Long Road of Internal War in an Indigenous Mexican Municipality Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-10-08 Jesús Solís Cruz, Manuel Cosh Pale
During the 2015 post-electoral conflict in the municipality of Oxchuc, Chiapas, came the demand for the election of municipal authorities through its own internal regulatory system. After going through several phases, proponents of change in electoral proceedings obtained legal recognition for Indigenous self-government. This achievement led to an interlude in the long history of political conflict
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Reconversion or Exclusion? The Effects of Blue Economy Policies on Semi-industrial and Artisanal Fishing in Puntarenas, Costa Rica Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-10-08 Alexa Obando Campos, Sara Latorre
Although trawling stopped definitively in 2019 in Costa Rica, there is an ongoing debate regarding the broader policies derived from the Blue Economy. These have focused on the productive conversion of the fleet (salaried fishers) toward more profitable activities related to tuna fishing, aquaculture, and tourism. This paper takes a political economy approach to oceans and livelihoods, analyzing how
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Indigenous Autonomies in Latin America in the Face of Contemporary Capitalism: Overview, Perspectives and Dilemmas, Part 1 Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-10-08 Edgars Martínez Navarrete, Richard Stahler-Sholk
The contemporary phase of capitalism has led to an intensification of the process of “accumulation by dispossession,” which entails a growing conflict between territorial displacement and indigenous resistances. These conflicts manifest in projects for autonomy that take on diverse forms. Here, we address the origins of these various concepts of autonomy while focusing on their corresponding dilemmas
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Routine Losses, Continuous Improvement, and Warming Oceans: Risk and Uncertainty on Chile’s Aquaculture Frontier Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-30 Eric H. Thomas
For several decades, proponents of aquaculture have framed the industry as a critical element of the emerging blue economy. In Aysén, Chile, however, environmental crises have undermined the industry’s claims to sustainability. Invoking “continuous improvement,” aquaculture operators manage ecological, economic, and political risks. This requires shared understandings of risk and uncertainty in which
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Blue Economies and Ocean Grabbing in Latin America Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-28 Nemer E. Narchi, Gustavo G. M. Moura, George Leddy
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Book Review: Liberation Theology and Theology of Entitlement in a Cross-Political Cultural Context Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-09 Jiji Chen
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Book Review Commemorating 50 Years of Chile’s Unidad Popular: A Dream Denied, An Enduring Wound, An Unfinished Struggle Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Rosalind Bresnahan
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The Faces of the Capitalist Modernization of Fishing in the Far South of Brazil from a Perspective of Socioenvironmental Oceanography (1940s to 1990s) Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Gustavo Goulart Moreira Moura, Antonio Carlos Sant’Ana Diegues
The goal of this article is to analyze the effects of capitalist modernization on the fishing industry located in Brazil’s far south from a perspective of socioenvironmental oceanography. Socioenvironmental oceanography builds on the contributions of historical materialism that prioritizes the study of the material foundations that support the process of capitalist accumulation. Within this perspective
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For the 50th Anniversary of Latin American Perspective Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Michael Lowy
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“Life Is Losing its Meaning”: The Experiences of Fishing Communities During the Oil Disaster and COVID-19 Pandemic in Pernambuco, Brazil Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Cristiano Wellington Noberto Ramalho, Andreia Patrícia dos Santos
The goal of this article is to examine how the confluence of the oil disaster and the new coronavirus pandemic had a negative impact on the work and livelihood of artisanal fishing communities in Pernambuco within a short span of time. Eighty people were interviewed (60 of them fishers) along the entire coastline of Pernambuco from October 2019 to February 2020, and through remote surveys from March
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The Joy of Work in an Editorial Collective Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-08
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Our Mission as a Journal Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-08 Ronald H. Chilcote