Kalman Silvert Award 2022:
Ronald H. Chilcote
Video recording of Ronald Chilcote’s talk about “The Challenges of Being a Latin Americanist” and receipt of the 2022 Kalman Silvert Award for lifetime achievement and distinguished contribution to the study of Latin America.
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The populist current of Trumpism (Steve Bannon) versus the neo-con current (Marco Rubio) are hardly diametrically opposed. At the end of the day they share the same objectives. The differences are over priorities, not goals.
La política inconsistente de Trump hacia América Latina – Rebelion
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La política inconsistente de ...The article “Commemorating 50 Years of Latin American Perspectives” by Kemy Oyarzun Vaccaro, published in the March 2024 issue of Latin American Perspectives, is now Open Access. Oyarzun recalls how the collective of Latin American Perspectives at the time of the journal’s founding “became enriched in the wake of significant polemics within the feminist and Latino movement in the 1970’s.” The article goes on to discuss the intellectual context in which Latin American Perspectives published several thematic issues on women in Latin America and the Caribbean during its first decade of existence.
Commemorating 50 Years of Latin American Perspectives - Kemy Oyarzun Vaccaro, 2024
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Free accessResearch articleFir...The article “Latin American Perspectives on the Urban Century: Planning Challenges and Opportunities” by Clara Irazábal, published in the March 2024 issue of Latin American Perspectives, is now Open Access. In it, Irazábal discusses the challenges faced by urban planners in Latin American cities, including its indigenous heritage, colonial and imperial histories, as well as neoliberalism, the rapid pace of urbanization, inequality, relations of dependency, corruption and instability. She ends by noting that Latin American Perspectives “has critically examined… urban initiatives” designed to face these challenges, and points to the “progressive recommendations for improvements” made by the journal.
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Some on the left assume that Trump’s fixation on far-fetched schemes like the annexation of the Panama Canal and his transactional pragmatism will lead him to cut deals with Venezuela in return for lifting the sanctions. This article argues just the opposite.
Trump’s Latin America Policy: Inconsistencies and Vacillations
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The Trump administration’s v...The article “Marxism and Feminism in LAP’s First Decade: Finding Theory Through Lived Experience” by Norma Chinchilla, published in the March 2024 issue of Latin American Perspectives, is now open access. The article discusses the author’s own grappling with issues related to feminism beginning in the 1960s when liberal feminists failed “to recognize or underestimated the importance of class or race in shaping women’s lives, and campaigned for changes that took for granted the persistence of the capitalist system.” Chinchilla goes on to ask a number of demanding questions: “Couldn’t there be a Marxist as well as a bourgeois feminism?” The question is followed by: “Why couldn’t ‘the vanguard party’ study the emerging social movements by and for women and support them with strategies and ideas without having to confront or control them? Why did working class women have to wait until socialism to experience empowerment?”
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LATIN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES
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.
NEW ISSUE
The Agrarian Question as an Ecological Question in Latin America
Issue Editors:
Daniela García Grandon
Andrew Smolski
Jan. 2024
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.
