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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
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Comment on LAP Anniversary Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-08 Joel Edelstein
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Reflections on Latin American Perspectives Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Emir Sader
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Comment on Norma Chinchilla’s Essay Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-28 Verónica Silva
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Capitalism as Religion as a Tribute to Latin American Perspectives’ 50-year Anniversary: Walter Benjamin and Liberation Theology Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-27 Daniela Issa
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The Agrarian Question in Contemporary Latin America and the Pink Tide’s Limits: A Critical Approach Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Joana Salém Vasconcelos
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Latin American Perspectives at 50! Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Alex Dupuy
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Comment on Clara Irazabal’s Article Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Thomas Angotti
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Comments on Kemy Oyarzun’s article Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Daniela Issa
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De la Protesta a la Propuesta Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Tamar Diana Wilson
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Latin American Perspectives: A Personal Reflection Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Jean Hostetler-Diaz
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The struggle for water as a source for territorial re-existence in Chile: Rethinking the agrarian question in Latin America Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Alexander Panez, Pablo Mansilla-Quiñones, Jorge Olea Peńaloza
Water is a key challenge when it comes to the Latin American agrarian issue, and its lack threatens rural living. The Chilean case is emblematic of this issue, given the implications of neoliberalism and its consequences on environmental injustice. Social movements are now adding the issue of water to their historical demands for land and territory. This paper addresses what features the water struggle
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How Latin American Immigrants Are Transforming and Transnationalizing the Americas Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Susan Eckstein
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50TH-43: Dependency, the Pink Tide and Latin American Perspectives Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Tom Angotti
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Latin American Perspectives: The Early Years Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Nora Hamilton
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Indigenous Movements in Ecuador Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Marc Becker
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Magnifying the Intersectional Lens in Urban Latin America Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Paul Dosh
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Book Review: Seeds of Power: Environmental Injustice and Genetically Modified Soybeans in Argentina Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Thomas Patriota
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Re-reading LAP’s Genealogy with Feminist Eyes Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Sara C. Motta
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Comment on Nemer Narchi’s Paper on Environmental Destruction Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Tamar Diana Wilson
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Radical Politics, Radical Procedures Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 James N. Green
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LAP: Half a Century Ahead of its Time Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Felipe Antunes de Oliveira
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A Political and Intellectual Memoir of Early Encounters with LAP Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Jeffery R. Webber
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50TH: Curating Critical Progressive History for Latin American Studies Scholars: A Distinctive Journal and Archive Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-22 Rhonda L. Neugebauer
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LAP 50th Anniversary Reflection Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Jonathan Ritter
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La Via Campesina: A Digital Toolkit for Peasants’ Rights and Global Climate Justice Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-27 Kristi M. Wilson, Tomás Crowder-Taraborrelli
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Food Security, Food Sovereignty, and Urban Agriculture in Cuba Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-18 Hugo Goeury
In the last thirty years, Cuba and its capital Havana have become homes to one of the most vibrant urban agricultural movements in the world. This article argues that urban agriculture (UA) became the epitome of a broader movement of “agricultural revolution” that followed the collapse of the previous, capital intensive, monocultural agro-export model. It contends that this transformation revolved
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The Agrarian Question as an Ecological Question: An Introduction Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Daniela García Grandón, Joana Salém Vasconcelos, Andrew R. Smolski
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Na’guara!! We peasants do practice agroecology:” Territorial Symphonies in La Alianza, Venezuela Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Olga Domené-Painenao, Mateo Mier y Terán, Fernando Limón, Peter Rosset, Miguel Contreras
In the face of the devastating implementation of corporative agri-food systems, processes of re-territorialization driven by agroecology, such as peasant resistance, become particularly relevant. In this article, we examine the history of the organization La Alianza (The Alliance) in Lara, Venezuela from 1975 to 2020, as narrated by its members, and using the methodology of the systematization of experiences
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“The Last Agricultural Frontier” – Piauí, Brazil: Agrarian Issues, Agribusiness, and the Gamela Indigenous Territory Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Maria do Socorro da Silva Arantes, Lucineide Barros Medeiros
This research paper investigates the confrontation faced by the Gamela indigenous community, located in the Cerrado biome, in the southern region Piauí State in Norteastern Brazil, between agrarian issues and agribusiness. The territory in this area is considered to be the country’s last agricultural frontier. Self-recognition and self-organization of the Gamela people in their struggle for the demarcation
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Agricultural adaptation strategies under Morales’s administration: The Case of a Guarni Community in the Bolivian Chaco Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-20 Vanesa Martín Galán
In Bolivia, the Morales administration promoted agricultural projects in Guarani communities with the purpose of enhancing climate resilience and strengthening the communities’ production capacities and systems. Though aligned with the government’s broader goal of decolonizing Indigenous realities, this objective proved questionable in the light of the government’s neoextractivist development model
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Productive Modernization and Challenges for Chilean Peasant Agriculture during the Phase of Post-Agrarian Reform Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-20 Octavio Avendaño, Constanza Gutiérrez
The article addresses the trajectory and adaptative process of Chilean peasant agriculture from the mid-1970s to 2020. Our hypothesis is that peasant agricultural production has been forced into a process of permanent reconversion, which takes place every time a new agrarian policy is defined. Based on a review of secondary data, interviews, documents and other studies on agrarian transformation, we
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Agroecology and Political Economy: The Peasant World and the Contradictions of Capital Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Raúl Gustavo Paz
This article examines agroecology from a political economy perspective and opens a line for an interdisciplinary approach between economics and ecology. To this end, the logic of capital in capitalist production and in peasant agriculture is analyzed along with its relationship to nature and the land. In this vein, based on the concept of the thing-process duality in capital, an attempt is made to
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Transforming Peasant Politics into Ecological Politics: The CSUTCB in Bolivia, 1979-1990 Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Olivia Arigho-Stiles
The emergence in Bolivia in 1979 of the major peasant union confederation, the Confederación Sindical Única de Trabajadores Campesinos de Bolivia (CSUTCB) was integral to the development of an Indigenous politics of the environment in late twentieth-century Bolivia. While the existing literature widely documents the CSUTCB’s focus on class and ethnicity, this paper addresses the organization’s ecological
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Mining Extractivism, Commodification of Nature and Indigenous Peasantry in the Atacama Desert: The Political Economy of Yareta (Azorella Compacta) in Historical Perspective (1915-1960) Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Matías Calderón-Seguel, Manuel Prieto
Studies on the agrarian question in Latin America have dealt with the role of capital in the area of agriculture and forestry while paying scant attention to its role in other areas, such as mining. Research on mining extractivism, for its part, has privileged recent socio-environmental conflicts without delving into the configurations of social classes and labor relations as it relates to agriculture
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Mariculture Policies and Ocean Grabbing in Brazil Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Hugo Juliano Hermógenes da Silva, Naína Pierri
Aquaculture (the breeding of freshwater and marine organisms) is commonly cited as a solution to the crisis that has plagued global fisheries in recent years. Since the 2000s, the Brazilian government has encouraged aquaculture production through government funding, sectoral planning, and environmental regulations. This government-driven mariculture has been responsible for the appearance of ocean
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A Political Ecology of Resistance: Actions and Reactions of Agrarian Socio-territorial Movements in Latin America Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Joana Tereza Vaz de Moura, Leandro Vieira Cavalcante, Cristian Emanuel Jara, Julieta Saettone, Bernardo Mancano Fernandes, Ana Eliza Villalba, Silmara Olveira Moreira Bitencourt, Claurdia Yesica Fonzo Bolañez
Territorial disputes have intensified in Latin America due to the advance of neo-extractivism, while agrarian socio-territorial movements have created strategies of resistance and reinvention of their territorialities. In dialogue with political ecology perspectives, we seek to understand the dynamics of these movements in Argentina and Brazil. We analyzed the information systematized in the DataLuta
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The Cropland Expansionary Dynamics of Agricultural Production in Latin America: A Panel Study of Fourteen Countries, 1970-2016 Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Andrew R. Smolski, Timothy P. Clark
In this study, we employ a critical political economy framework for an empirical analysis of environmental withdrawals from agricultural production in Latin America. Namely, we focus on the role of export-orientation and trade direction of food as drivers of cropland footprint expansion in (semi-)periphery countries. Following the literature on the treadmill of production, ecological unequal exchange
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Agroecology and Institutional Framework in Eastern Antioquia, Colombia: A Case Study Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Andrés Felipe Mesa Valencia, Mary K. Hendrickson
Agroecology promotes the formation of networks based on principles of closeness, trust, and collective action among participating actors and with external institutions and agencies. This institutionalized vertical power is based on hierarchical relationships, which impact access to resources, policy influence, and the ability to navigate bureaucratic systems. This qualitative case study aims to investigate
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Metabolic Rift and Structural Crisis of Capital: The Productive Specialization Pattern Based on Commodities and the Progressive Elimination of Ecological and Natural Resources in Brazil Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Frederico Daia Firmiano, Paula Maria Rattis Teixeira
In recent decades, Brazil has experienced a pattern of commodity-based productive specialization as part of the nation’s subordinate entry into the global structure of capital. As a result, the accumulation process has been based primarily on the intensive and extensive exploitation of available natural and ecological resources. From a historical perspective, we apply the theory of the metabolic rift
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Revolts Against Neoliberalism in the Southern Cone: The Argentine Crisis of 2001 and the 2019 Chilean Social Explosion in Comparison Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Julián Rebón, Carlos Ruiz Encina
In the current century, mobilization and revolt have represented key events in Latin American politics.The 2001 Argentine crisis and the 2019Chilean social explosion represent revolts that emerged from social discontent generated by neoliberal models of accumulationand the operations of existing political systems. The form and temporality of their developments depended on the transformations of and
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The Rising Financialization of Açaí in the Amazon: Evidence of an Ongoing Process Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Rafael Neves Fonseca, Thiago Lima
The expansion and intensification seen in the production of açaí, a fruit that typically grows in the Amazon, can have undesirable and serious socio-environmental consequences. Based on the premise that financialization in the agrifood sector accelerates processes that destroy the environment, an investigation is carried out into the claim that the supply chain regarding açaí is in the process of being
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The Antibusiness Basis of Leftist “Breakthrough” Presidencies in Neoliberal Latin America Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Leslie C. Gates, Alena Gericke, Diana Branduse, Jennifer K. Emery
Why did so many of Latin America’s leftist presidential hopefuls win at the turn of the twenty-first century? Why were they successful at breaking with their neoliberal political establishments when other leaders were not? For five of these leftists, antibusiness sentiment—not just frustration with political failures—boosted support. It catalyzed a backlash against the economic conditions and U.S.
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Territorial Peace Five Years After the Peace Agreement in Colombia: An Analysis of the Discourse of the Former FARC-EP Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Jerónimo Ríos
The following paper examines the notion of territorial peace associated with the Peace Agreement signed in 2016 between the Colombian government and the FARC-EP. More specifically, the political discourse of the FARC-EP is analyzed through nine in-depth interviews with prominent members of the organization, who, in addition, have held or hold positions of political relevance in the formation heir to
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Understanding Brazil’s New Right and Its Impact on Social Policy Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Lara Lisboa Farias
The new right is central to an understanding of Brazilian political and cultural reality with direct impacts on the development of social policy. A qualitative analysis based on a review of the literature with a focus on critical theory shows that the context of the rise of the new right in the country corroborates implementation of social policy focused on the moralization and criminalization of the
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The Independent Electronic Music Party Scene/Circuit in São Paulo: A Panorama of the 2010s Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Simone Luci Pereira, Oziel Gheirart
The independent electronic music scene/circuit in São Paulo—techno, house, and their subgenres—migrated from clubs to street parties or locations in central areas of the city in the 2010s. This sce...
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Rap and Brazilian Popular Music as Movements of Social Protest in Brazil Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Hellen Oliveira
A social and historical reconstruction based on music observes the contemporary arrangement of Brazilian rap, its role in current social movements, and how its productions inform social and politic...
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Son jarocho urbano: A Sonic Shield in an Ambience of Dread Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-04-15 Anthony W. Rasmussen
In Mexico City, son jarocho is a traditional music and dance form widely associated with nonviolent political activism. During the massive protests in response to the abduction of 43 students in 20...
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The U.S.-Mexican Border and Music as a “Border Crosser” Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Judith Adler Hellman
The ever-changing, always porous Mexican-U.S. border region has long been the site of intense and productive cultural and political exchange of every kind, particularly with respect to music. Today...