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LATIN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES

founded in 1974, is a theoretical and scholarly journal for discussion and debate on the political economy of capitalism, imperialism, and socialism in the Americas. For more than forty years, it has published timely, progressive analyses of the social forces shaping contemporary Latin America. Most issues focus on a single problem, nation, or region, providing an in-depth look from participants and scholars throughout the Americas.

MISSION: To encourage class analysis of sociocultural realities and political strategies to transform Latin American sociopolitical structures. We make a conscious effort to publish a diversity of political viewpoints.

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NEW ISSUE

The Agrarian Question as an Ecological Question in Latin America

Issue Editors:

Daniela GarcĂ­a Grandon

Joana Salém Vasconcelos

Andrew Smolski

Jan. 2024

CONTENTS

Historically, the agrarian question in Latin America was primarily concerned with addressing the unequal distribution of land and rural poverty through redistribution. Different types of agrarian reform policies in the twentieth century, frequently with different goals, tried to dismantle large estates owned by a few wealthy elites and allocate the land among landless peasants, small-scale farmers, or Indigenous communities.

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January 2024

The Agrarian Question as an Ecological Question

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May 2024

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Blue Economies and Ocean Grabbing in Latin America


 

November 2024

PODCAST

Historian Joana SalĂ©m Vasconcelos joins us to discuss…

Listen to past podcasts HERE.

Current LAP issues contain thirty-three (4) open access articles.

1. Chilcote – “Our Mission as a Journal” 2024 VIEW ISSUE

2. Munck – “Marxism, Capitalism and Socialism” 2024 VIEW ISSUE

3. Ellner – “Downplaying U.S. Imperialism” 2024 VIEW ISSUE

4. Harris – “The Transition to Socialism” 2024 VIEW ISSUE

5. Narchi – “From Bananas to the Beyond” 2024 VIEW ISSUE

6. Oyarzun – “Commemorating 50 Years of LAP” 2024 VIEW ISSUE

7. Chinchilla – “Marxism and Feminism” 2024 VIEW ISSUE

8. Irrazabal – “LAP on the Urban Century” 2024 VIEW ISSUE

9. Wilson, Scott and Crowder-Taraborrelli – “Film, Media and 50 Years…” 2024 VIEW ISSUE

10. Felipe Antunes de Oliveira, “Lost and Found: Bourgeois Dependency Theory and the Forgotten Roots of Neodevelopmentalism.” January 2022 VIEW ISSUE

11. Parisa Nourani Rinaldi, “The Age of Transition: Postdevelopment and North-Sough Synergies. January 2022 issue. VIEW ISSUE

12. Sandy Smith-Nonini “The Debt/Energy Nexus behind Puerto Rico’s Long Blackout: From Fossil Colonialism to New Energy Poverty. May 2020 VIEW ISSUE

13. Hannes Warnecke-Berger, “Remittances, the Rescaling of Social Conflicts, and the Stasis of Elite Rule in El Salvador.” VIEW ISSUE

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A Journal on Capitalism and Socialism

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