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Memory Scripts and Life History in the Shadow of Brazil's Dictatorship Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Jacob Blanc
This article proposes the concept of ‘memory script’ to analyse how, in the aftermath of political violence, memory activists narrate their lives in a way that is practised, repetitive and performative. Through a self-reflective life history of Aluízio Palmar, a Brazilian human rights activist and former political prisoner who suffered intense torture under military rule, this approach seeks to elucidates
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Glitter and Graffiti: Labour, Expertise and the Feminist Remaking of Mexican National Heritage Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Tania Islas Weinstein
In 2019, thousands of women took to the streets in Mexico City to protest gender-based violence. The demonstrations were characterised by the defacement of iconic monuments, which was widely condemned. But the protests also ignited widespread political mobilisation, including by a group of women restorers who, despite being designated to clean the monuments, refused to perform their work and publicly
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Chilean-Style Populism: Carlos Ibáñez's Electoral Support Base Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Nicolás Mimica, Patricio Navia
Based on his record as president, Carlos Ibáñez is usually considered a populist caudillo in Chilean historiography. However, there are few studies of whether his electoral base permits this classification or of the type of populism he represented. In his four presidential bids between 1927 and 1952, Ibáñez ran with the support of both left- and right-wing parties. Using municipal-level data, we assess
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When Does Lethal Repression Fail? Unarmed Militancy and Backfire in Bolivia, 1982–2021 Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Carwil Bjork-James
Repressive state violence, intended to tamp down collective mobilisation, sometimes inspires greater participation by protesters. When popular and/or elite reactions cause the repressing party to concede, civil resistance scholars define the failure of state repression as ‘backfire’. Some have proposed that movements’ nonviolent discipline is essential to backfire. This article demonstrates that movements
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Mestizo Urbanism: Enduring Racial Intersections in Latin American Cities Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Giulia Torino
Across Latin America, there continues to be strong resistance to the claim that racism plays a role in the production of urban space. Deemed antipatriotic, this issue remains widely unaddressed in urban planning and geography. Based on qualitative research in Bogotá and secondary literature on other Latin American cities, this article explores the afterlife of mestizaje (racial mixture) as a racial–colonial
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The Resort to Emergency Policing to Control Gang Violence in Jamaica: Making the Exception the Rule Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Yonique Campbell, Anthony Harriott
This article critically examines reasons for the persistent use of states of emergency (SOEs) as a tool of crime control in Jamaica and risks associated with normalising these measures in small, low-capacity, competitive democracies in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). We attend to the question of permanent SOEs as an issue of law and certain policing methods becoming normalised. This differs
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The Promise and Peril of the Popular: Interpretations of Nineteenth-Century Popular Liberalism in Mexico Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Ariadna Acevedo-Rodrigo
This article examines the literature on popular liberalism in nineteenth-century Mexico and the shortcomings of two interpretations: popular liberalism as an alternative to elite liberalism, and popular liberalism as a strategy to ultimately pursue non-liberal ends. It argues that both interpretations tend to overstate the distance between the liberal elite and its popular supporters because of an
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Housing and Patrimonial (Property) Violence against Women: The Reproduction of Gender Asset Inequalities in Brazil Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Raquel Ludermir
Accessing and retaining adequate housing can be a major challenge for low-income city residents, particularly women trying to escape domestic abuse. Focusing on housing struggles amidst urban poverty, this article explores a specific kind of gender-based violence – violation of women's property rights – recognised by Latin American legal systems as ‘patrimonial violence against women’. Drawing on qualitative
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The Devil and Democracy in the Global South: Hugo Chávez's Transnational Populism Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Joshua Simon, Gina Parody
In this article, we argue that the speeches and policy documents from the later period of Hugo Chávez's presidency exemplify ‘transnational populism’, a form of populist discourse that defies the close association between populism and nationalism that frames the scholarly literatures on both populism and Chávez. We explain why Chávez's populism took this distinctive form by reference to the history
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Narratives of Authoritarianism in Times of Crisis: Democracy and Limitations of Progressive Politics in Plurinational Bolivia Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Eija Ranta
In Bolivia, expectations for a decolonised society turned into a political crisis in the autumn of 2019. Discussing the limitations of progressive politics in cultivating democracy, this article identifies three narratives of authoritarianism – liberal democratic, developmentalist and colonial – which the opponents of Evo Morales use to frame their disillusionment with his rule. It argues that these
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Political Polarisation in Uruguay in the Early 1960s: The Role of Luis Batlle Berres and Lista 15 Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Felipe Monestier
The historiography on Uruguay during the Cold War has identified the period 1959–62 as a key juncture in the process of political polarisation that culminated in the fall of democracy in 1973. Based on the analysis of press articles and other documentary sources, I describe the role played by the main fraction of the Partido Colorado (Red Party) led by Luis Batlle Berres in promoting polarisation of
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After the Gang: Desistance, Violence and Occupational Options in Nicaragua Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Dennis Rodgers
Gangs are widely considered major contributors to the high levels of violence afflicting Latin America, including in particular Central America. At the same time, however, the vast majority of individuals who join a gang will also leave it and, it is assumed, become less violent. Having said this, the mechanisms underlying this ‘desistance’ process are not well understood, and nor are the determinants
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Foreign Trade Policy in the Argentine Automotive Industry: An Analysis of the Business Power of its Actors and their Influence over the State (2002–15) Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Bruno Perez Almansi
The article aims to analyse how the business power of actors in the Argentine automotive industry influenced the foreign trade policies relevant to the sector between 2002 and 2015. The research methods employed combine documentary sources, interviews with key informants and descriptive statistics. The overall findings show how automakers achieved considerable power in the first stage of the period
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The Nexus between Protest and Electoral Participation: Explaining Chile's Exceptionalism Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Rodrigo M. Medel, Nicolás M. Somma, Sofía Donoso
The literature on political participation has consistently found that protest positively and significantly correlates with voting. However, Chile can be considered a deviant case to this pattern. During the last decade, Chileans who participated in street demonstrations were unlikely to participate in elections. What explains this anomaly? We argue that this rupture between participation in protest
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Debunking the Myth of Nicaraguan Exceptionalism: Crime, Drugs and the Political Economy of Violence in a ‘Narco-state’ Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 José Luis Rocha, Dennis Rodgers, Julienne Weegels
Nicaragua is often held up as an exception within the Central American panorama of criminal violence, widely presented as the safest country in the region due to its particular revolutionary legacies, the (supposed) absence of transnational gangs and drug-trafficking organisations, and the National Police's representation as an efficient and professional force. This commentary proposes an alternative
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Identity, Conflict and Discourse: Understanding Military Contestation in Brazil Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Ned Littlefield, Douglas Block
The Brazilian military has recently executed an unexpected return to politics by engaging more actively in domestic policymaking and implementation both before and during the Bolsonaro government, thus jeopardising democratic consolidation. To help understand this development, we examine why the military openly challenges civilian authority over some issues, while remaining silent on others. Whereas
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‘Now I Have Found Myself, and I Am Happy’: Marta Olmos, Sex Reassignment, the Media and Mexico on a Global Stage, 1952–7 Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Ryan M. Jones
In May 1954, the story broke internationally of Marta Olmos, recipient of the first widely known, male-to-female sex reassignment conducted in Mexico. Her doctor, Rafael Sandoval Camacho, claimed that homosexuality could be cured and that, through transitions, queer Mexicans could be made into ‘socially useful’ citizens. While initially celebrated as a scientific triumph placing Mexico among elite
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Democrats’ Mistakes and the Birth of Authoritarian Rule: Ramón S. Castillo and the Fall of Conservative Democracy in Argentina Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Nicolás Taccone, Ignacio A. López
On 4 June 1943, a military coup crushed Argentina's democracy, marking the end of the oligarchic era and ‘planting the seeds’ of Peronism. This case sheds light on how rulers’ mistakes can operate as a key independent variable in producing regime changes. We argue that the former conservative president, Ramón S. Castillo, provoked an otherwise avoidable democratic breakdown. Specifically, Castillo's
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Harnessing ‘Wasted’ Waters: Conservation, Hydropower and the Origins of Chile's National Electrification Plan Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Peter B. de Montmollin
This article examines the origins of national electrification in Chile, situating its technocratic promoters within a broad trend – unfolding across Latin America – toward the ‘rational’ management and conservation of natural resources by the state. It surveys the early history of Chilean electrification (1890s–1940s) to show how conservationist thinking flowed through discussions and debates among
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The Living Legacies of Slavery: Racism and Racial Acrobatics in North-East Brazilian Puppet Play, 1940–80 Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Gray F. Kidd
This article probes the racially conflictual plotlines of mamulengo, a form of improvised popular puppetry in North-East Brazil. Drawing on a corpus of transcribed shows performed between the 1940s and 1970s, it shows how audacious Black protagonists – often named Baltazar or Benedito – took part in a game of racial ‘acrobatics’. By playing the roles of fools (bobos) and aggressors (desordeiros), these
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Circulating Political Information in Colombia: Written and Oral Communication Practices in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Luis Gabriel Galán-Guerrero
This article examines how people gathered and transmitted political information in Colombia during the second half of the nineteenth century. Existing scholarship has predominantly focused on the study of the press in Colombia and Latin America. However, few historians have explored other forms of information, such as telegrams, rumours and letters, or how Colombians combined these. By focusing on
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The Transition to Free Labour in Puerto Rico: Class, Race and Politics in a Nineteenth-Century Colony Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Diego C. Ayala
This article analyses the abolition of slavery and the transition to free labour in late nineteenth-century Puerto Rico, seeking to understand the terms and timing of Puerto Rican abolition and the nature of society in its wake. Especially important in Puerto Rico, it argues, was the intertwined nature of slavery and other forms of forced labour as well as the predominance of foreign merchants and
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The Conservative Wave and Corporate Practices in Brazil: The Controversy over LGBTQ in Marketing Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Simone da Silva Ribeiro Gomes, Rodrigo Cantu
This article explores the impact conservative criticism has had on companies’ behaviour in Brazil. We investigate whether Natura and Boticário − the two largest Brazilian cosmetics companies − have maintained or reversed LGBTQ-oriented marketing and advertising when confronted with criticism from conservative groups. We draw on interviews with stakeholders, company investors and LGBTQ activists, in
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The Criminal Governance of Tourism: Extortion and Intimacy in Medellín Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Patrick Naef
This article provides a picture of the political economy of tourism and violence in Medellín. It analyses the way criminal actors and tourism entrepreneurs share a territory, by shedding light on the extortion of tour guides, street performers and business owners in some of its barrios populares (poor neighbourhoods). The main objective is to demonstrate how intimate relationships – between and among
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Everyday Politics of Mobility: Translocal Livelihoods and Illegalisation in the Global South Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Nanneke Winters
This article contributes to migration and livelihood scholarship by reflecting on global and political dimensions of livelihoods and experiences of illegalisation in Central America. Based on multi-sited ethnographic research with Nicaraguan families and their migrant family members in Costa Rica, the article adopts a translocal livelihood perspective and uses the notion of everyday politics to explore
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Unlikely Expropriators: Why Right-Wing Parties Implemented Agrarian Reform in Democratic Brazil Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Matias López
What motivated right-wing and conservative parties to endorse a policy of land expropriation and redistribution in Brazil? I argue that urban-dominated right-wing parties endorsed agrarian reform in order to: (i) reduce crime in wealthier metropolises by reversing rural–urban migration; and (ii) gain competitive advantage against left-wing challengers. To test this argument I conduct process tracing
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The Cultural Battle for the Chilean Model: Intellectual Elites in Times of Politicisation (2010–17) Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-02-03 Tomás Undurraga, Manuel Gárate Chateau, Alfredo Joignant, Mario Fergnani, Felipe Márquez
The Chilean economic model has been widely studied both as a pioneering experiment in neoliberal policies and in regard to the growing social mobilisation against inequalities it has provoked. Insufficient attention has been paid, however, to the role of intellectuals in justifying and criticising the model. This article examines cultural battles over the economic model among the country's main columnists
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Childhood, Love and Politics: The Montonero ‘Nursery’ in Cuba during the Cold War Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-11-08 Isabella Cosse
This article examines the conditions that led the Argentine armed group Montoneros to establish a nursery in Cuba, in 1979, to care for the children of exiled members who had decided to return to the country to fight against a dictatorial regime characterised by the crime of enforced disappearance and supported by continental and global alliances. The analysis focuses on the dilemmas children posed
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Making Sense of Electoral Violence: The Narrative Frame of Organised Crime in Mexico Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Andreas Schedler
Since the inauguration of Mexican democracy in 2000, organised criminal violence had been leaking into the political arena. Yet, it escalated in the 2018 elections, when dozens of local candidates were killed. In most of these cases, the concrete perpetrators and motives remained in the dark. How did Mexican society make sense of this opaque, unprecedented wave of electoral violence? On the basis of
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Mechanised Pits and Artisanal Tunnels: The Incongruences and Complementarities of Mining Investment in the Peruvian Andes Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Kieran Gilfoy
Conflict has become a central concept to understanding the recent expansion of mining across the Andes. Yet, while contestation can emerge and has done so, the continued extraction of minerals requires scholars to attend to how mining projects maintain viability. This article moves beyond analyses of conflict to elucidate the role of compromise in achieving temporary states of homeostasis. Using ethnographic
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No Taxation without Efficiency? Elite Perceptions of Redistribution and Progressivity in Chile Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-10-21 Jorge Atria
Even though a vast literature has addressed perceptions and beliefs on taxes, progressivity and redistribution, few studies have specifically studied the perceptions of economic elites in this regard. This group is relevant for its affluence and influence, and therefore elites’ ideas and preferences have a major impact on tax-policy configuration. This study analyses the perceptions of the economic
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Charisma's Birth from the Bottom Up: Lula, ABC's Metalworkers’ Strikes and the Social History of Brazilian Politics Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-10-19 John D. French
If David Bell in his book Men on Horseback (2020) focuses on what is political charisma, how it functions, and what it means ‘to write its history’, this article examines how Brazil's ex-President Luís Inácio Lula da Silva (‘Lula’) acquired charisma during the dramatic 1978–80 metalworkers’ strikes in the industrial ABC region of São Paulo, Brazil. While generating a vast literature, scholars of the
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The Social Dynamics of Violence and Respect: State, Crime and Church in a Brazilian Favela Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Ana Beraldo
Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork carried out in a large favela of Belo Horizonte, this study argues that there are three logics at play when it comes to regulating violence in poor Brazilian urban areas: that of crime, that of the state, and that of religion. These three logics act as normative regimes which, connected by the shared notion of ‘respect’, form symbolical relationships among
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Participatory Democracy, Democratic Education, and Women Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-09-05 Pascal Lupien
Participatory democrats argue that citizen engagement at the local level serves an important educational function. Through involvement in participatory mechanisms, citizens develop various skills, become better informed, and cultivate a greater sense of political efficacy. There has been considerable debate in the academic literature over the extent to which participation can produce these benefits
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Guests of the Guerrilla: Integrated Spectacle and Disintegrating Peace, an Ethnographic Analysis of the FARC's Tenth (and Final?) Guerrilla Conference Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-08-11 Alexander L. Fattal
During a week in September of 2016, the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC) held its tenth guerrilla conference, the Décima, in the plains of Yarí in southern Colombia. The guerrilla group blew the event open to the media, orchestrating a festival cum eco-conflict-tourism extravaganza to mark its transition to legal politics. This photo/ethnographic
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Spatial Projects of Forgetting: Razing the Remedies Church and Museum to the Enslaved in São Paulo's ‘Black Zone’, 1930s–1940s Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-08-11 Andrew G. Britt
In the shadows of a Shinto torii (gateway) in São Paulo's ‘Japanese’ neighbourhood rests the city's first burial ground for enslaved Africans. Recently unearthed, the gravesite is one of the few visible remains of the Liberdade neighbourhood's significance in São Paulo's ‘Black zone’. This article excavates the history of the nearby Remedies church, the headquarters of Brazil's Underground Railroad
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The Collaboration of the Argentine Military Dictatorship with the Governments of Guatemala and Honduras in their ‘Fight against Subversion’ (1980–3) Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-06-30 Julieta Carla Rostica
This article addresses one of the instances of the transnationalisation of state terrorism that took place at the end of the Cold War in Latin America. It examines the collaboration of the Argentine military dictatorship with the governments of Guatemala and Honduras in their ‘fight against subversion’ (1980–3) through previously unexplored archives. It presents the different degrees and forms of inter-governmental
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Evangelical Christianity as Infrastructure in Brazil's Penal System Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-06-13 David C. Thompson
This article contends that Brazil's evangelical Christian networks increasingly function as penal infrastructure. Since the 1990s, the scale and scope of evangelical involvement in the criminal justice system have grown significantly. One clear result is that the capillary relationships that constitute Christian community now mobilise resources to support or even substitute the basic functions of punishment
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‘Males are Undeserving; Females are Ideal Victims’: Gender Bias Hides Demand in Human-Smuggling Networks Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-05-13 Simón Pedro Izcara Palacios
The objective of this paper, based on interviews with 95 human smugglers (coyotes) involved in agriculture and 51 in prostitution, is to provide a comparative analysis of the networks transporting (mostly) male migrants intending to work in US agriculture and those recruiting women/girls for the US sex industry. Networks carrying females for sex work are bigger and use more fraudulent recruitment strategies
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Communication between the Militants of the ‘8 October’ Revolutionary Movement and the Peasants of Brotas de Macaúbas, Bahia, Brazil (1969–71) Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-05-05 Fabricio Teló
During the Brazilian military dictatorship (1964–85), the Movimento Revolucionário 8 de Outubro (‘8 October’ Revolutionary Movement, MR-8) attempted to mobilise peasants for its revolutionary project. This article analyses communication between MR-8 militants and peasants in Brotas de Macaúbas, Bahia. Based on interviews and document analysis, it documents the central role of José Campos Barreto (Zequinha)
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Dictatorships, Coffee and Bananas: The Political Economy of Sovereign Debt in Costa Rica and Nicaragua, 1871−1911 Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-05-02 Leonardo Weller
Costa Rica suspended payments on its London debt in 1901, at the beginning of a democratisation process and during a crisis in the world coffee market. Meanwhile, autocratic Nicaragua, also a coffee exporter, continued paying its foreign creditors. This article assesses the causes of these distinct outcomes, which are at odds with the influential hypothesis that democracy makes for better borrowers
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Funding Policy Research under ‘Distasteful Regimes’: The Ford Foundation and the Social Sciences in Brazil, 1964–71 Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-05-02 Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak, Ramón García Fernández
The Ford Foundation's involvement with the social sciences in Brazil coincided with the early years of the military regime that ruled the country between 1964 and 1985. The paper studies how changed political circumstances in the United States and abroad induced the Foundation to gradually abandon the technocratic approach that had governed its overseas programme since the 1950s, thus introducing a
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Mining Boom and Contentious Politics across Central America: Elites, Movements and Party Systems Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-28 Nathan Edenhofer
The metal-mining boom Latin America experienced in recent decades precipitated highly contentious anti-mining social movements in Central America. In this context, El Salvador became the first country in the world to ban all metal mining by law. In contrast, policy in nearby Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua remained pro-mining. These cases are compared using a most similar systems design. Comparison
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Tenuous Pacts and Multiparty Coalitions: The Politics of Presidential Impeachment in Latin America Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-09 David De Micheli, Jose T. Sanchez-Gomez, Kenneth M. Roberts
When and why do legislatures impeach presidents? We analyse six cases of attempted impeachment in Paraguay, Brazil and Peru to argue that intra-coalitional politics is central to impeachment outcomes. Presidents in Latin America often govern with multiparty, ideologically heterogeneous coalitions sustained by tenuous pacts. Coalitions are tested when crises, scandals or mass protests emerge, but presidents
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Layers of Indigenous Citizenship: Colonial, Republican and Plurinational Rights in Bolivia Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-07 Sue A. S. Iamamoto
This article explores the complexity of Indigenous citizenship in contemporary Bolivia through the analysis of a land dispute involving the Indigenous people of Coroma and a neighbouring Indigenous group. The Coromeños understand their rights as stemming from the colonial, republican and plurinational periods: their citizenship is thus described as ‘time-layered’. This study highlights the importance
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Growing Up Indio during the Mexican Miracle: Childhood, Race and the Politics of Memory Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-02-23 Timo Schaefer
This article explores the childhood of a Mexican Indigenous activist, Raúl Javier Gatica Bautista, who was born in 1963 in the Oaxacan market town of Tlaxiaco. Growing up in poor circumstances, Gatica would become a leader in the social movements that between the 1980s and early 2000s pushed Mexico toward gradual democratic reform. The article seeks to describe what it was like to grow up poor and
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Necrotaboos and Political Afterlives in Social Justice Activism during Mexico's Day of the Dead Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Olof Ohlson
This article shows how vulnerable communities use Mexico's Day of the Dead for social justice activism. Activists sustain what I call the ‘political afterlives’ of their victims through street altars and dark humour. I analyse this as a ‘necrosocial repertoire of contention’. The Day of the Dead can play an important role in human rights advocacy by insisting that the marginalised dead be honoured
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The Counter-Revolution's Patron: Rafael Trujillo versus Venezuela's Acción Democrática Governments, 1945–8 Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-02-16 Aaron Coy Moulton
This article uncovers the myriad ways Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo destabilised Venezuelan politics between 1945 and 1948, the period known as the Trienio Adeco. In contrast to works focused on Trujillo's personal animosity towards Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt, this article argues that Trujillo sought to sabotage Venezuela's governments under Acción Democrática as part of his regional
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Noemi Levy-Orlik, Jorge Alonso Bustamante-Torres and Louis-Philippe Rochon (eds.), Capital Movements and Corporate Dominance in Latin America: Reduced Growth and Increased Instability (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2021), pp. 264, £90.00 hb Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-02-01 Daniela Tavasci
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The Pluri-Extractivist State: Regional Autonomy and the Limits of Indigenous Representation in Bolivia's Gran Chaco Province Journal of Latin American Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-01-17 Penelope Anthias
On 20 November 2016, residents of Gran Chaco Province in south-east Bolivia voted by popular referendum to approve a statute that established Gran Chaco as Bolivia's first autonomous region. This article examines regional autonomy in the Chaco as an example of how identities, territory and political power are being remapped at the intersection of an extractivist development model and competing visions