This issue covers a number of topics that are very much in the forefront of political discussion, among them immigration, indigenous rights, workers’ struggles, and governance. TABLE OF CONTENTS | PURCHASE THIS ISSUE
Ever since the elusive search for El Dorado began in the 16th century, the history of Latin America has been a tale of resource extraction. This issue focuses on the interconnections and impacts of global resource-based economies on topics as wide-ranging as local people and their environments, national policies and international financial capital. Rather than finding neat and tidy conclusions, it suggests that nuanced social, political economic analyses better enable us to understand and analyze how contemporary extractivism is reshaping Latin America. TABLE OF CONTENTS | PURCHASE THIS ISSUE
The Cold War shaped and deeply impacted Latin American Studies after World War II. This special issue includes incisive essays on the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, Soviet Union, and China. Initially LAS evolved alongside U.S. foreign policy and a series of coups to contain progressive movements and support conservative authoritarianism, beginning in Guatemala (1954), but progressive movements emerged after the Cuban Revolution (1959). A younger generation of radical intellectuals and Latin American exiles helped to transform the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) from its conservative beginning into an active organization of academics focused on issues within Latin America. TABLE OF CONTENTS | PURCHASE THIS ISSUE
More than a half century after the publication of Rodolfo Stavenhagen’s landmark essay “7 Erroneous Thesis about Latin America”, its critique of dominant development thinking remains sharp, as was shown at a colloquium hosted by El Colegio de México 50 years to the day after the publication of the original text. TABLE OF CONTENTS | PURCHASE THIS ISSUE
More than a half century after the publication of Rodolfo Stavenhagen’s landmark essay “7 Erroneous Thesis about Latin America”, its critique of dominant development thinking remains sharp, as was shown at a colloquium hosted by El Colegio de México 50 years to the day after the publication of the original text. TABLE OF CONTENTS | PURCHASE THIS ISSUE
The distinction between “formal” and “informal” jobs and enterprises was first introduced in the 1970s and has been very widely used ever since. TABLE OF CONTENTS | PURCHASE THIS ISSUE
