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 article “Our Mission as a Journal” by Ronaldo Chilcote published in the March 2024 issue of Latin American Perspectives is now Open Access. Chilcote begins his review of Latin American Perspectives’ fifty-year history by pointing out that the journal “emerged from the intellectual ferment that revitalized U.S. social sciences and humanities in the era of the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement, and landmark events in Latin America.” He adds that the journal was “inspired by the paradigmatic shift in thinking that points to the negative outcomes of capitalism in Latin America.” Chilcote recalls the very first discussions in the journal beginning in early 1973 over issues related to dependency theory. He goes on to discuss the broadness of the scope of the journal’s activities including its online presence involving social media and its blog as well as the collective nature of decision making; the journal’s editorial collective consists of approximately 25 people but its more than one hundred editors participate in the publication process. Chilcote demonstrates that Latin American Perspectives, far from being a North American journal about Latin America, links the two continents in numerous ways. The last section of the article is titled “Thematic Directions” and points to the journal’s “pioneering initiative” related to feminism, its interest in exploring the relationship between imperialism and Marxist dependency theory, as well as revolutionary movements, political ecology, and urban and labor issues.
New Issues of Latin American Perspectives Now Available!
We are pleased to present the January and March 2025 issues of Latin American Perspectives, featuring critical scholarly analyses of contemporary challenges in the region.
January 2025 (Volume 52, Issue 1)
Theme: COVID-19 Coronavirus: Pandemic Politics in Latin America and Precarity and Health: Health as Asset, Health as Right
March 2025 (Volume 52, Issue 2)
Theme: Documenting the Crisis: Researchers and Expert Witnesses
Available now via Sage Journals - Latin American Perspectives! (Link in bio)
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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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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.
