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Gender, Sexuality, Film, and Media in Latin America: Challenging Representation and Structures

March 2021 Issue Editors: Kristi M. Wilson and Clara Garavelli This special issue of LAP engages the often under-recognized role of Latin American women and queer film/video-makers, as well as the cultural impact of gender and sexuality norms on film and other media. Contributors in this issue explore what it means to gaze back (cinematically) at Latin American history. The essays address such themes as: increasing inequality, environmental degradation, decoloniality, indigeneity, activism, gender politics and queer narratives.   TABLE OF CONTENTS | PURCHASE THIS ISSUE [/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]

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The Multidimensional Impact of Neoliberalism on Mexico

Nov. 2020 Issue Editors: Steve Ellner This issue examines neoliberal policies that clashed with the Mexican revolution’s legacy of state intervention in the economy and set the stage for the presidential triumph of López Obrador in 2018. Articles deal with human rights violation from the 1970s “dirty wars” to Ayotzinapa; legislative formulations that threaten the rights of indigenous people; urban planning promoting social exclusion in Mexico City; the devastating effect of globalized agricultural production on biological diversity and labor exploitation; corporate-based tourism that strengthens gender, class, and ethnic differences; and climate change and neoliberal policies that stimulate urbanization.   TABLE OF CONTENTS | PURCHASE THIS ISSUE [/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]

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Social Movements in Latin America: The Progressive Governments and Beyond Part 2

Sept 2020 Issue Editors: Ronaldo Munck and Kyla Sankey This second instalment of a social movements in Latin America dedicated issue develops some of the key themes from Issue 1. The progressive governments have faded and right wing regimes prevail but social movements continue. It takes up the complex interplay between the movements and the changing political domain. It examines the rural movements, the Workers’ Party of Brazil, feminism, the piqueteros of Argentina and the 2019 indigenous revolt in Ecuador.   TABLE OF CONTENTS | PURCHASE THIS ISSUE

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Social Movements in Latin America: The Progressive Governments and Beyond Part 1

March 2020 Issue Editors: Alfredo Saad-Filho, Juan Grigera, and Ana Paula Colombi Part II of this issue discusses the nature, strengths, achievements, contradictions, and limitations of the administrations led by the PT in federal government, questioning whether they can be characterized as a variety of neoliberalism. Besides macroeconomic policies and political alliances, this volume directs its attention to specific aspects of the PT policies. This includes foreign policy, Brazil’s external economic constraint, and the government’s regional, distributive, social and labor market policies; this volume also traces the emerging forms of collective action and the new forms of resistance of the working class.   TABLE OF CONTENTS | PURCHASE THIS ISSUE

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Politics, Society, and Culture in Postconflict Peru

Sept 2019 Issue editor: Kristi M. Wilson This issue of Latin American Perspectives focuses on the post-conflict period from Alberto Fujimori’s resignation in 2000 to the present, thus, challenging some of the popular notions of Peru as an exemplar of post-conflict reconstruction. The essays herein addresses important contributing factors to the Peruvian post-conflict landscape such as: questions of democracy and authoritarianism; extractivism, neo-extractivism and inequality among Peruvian indigenous communities; post-conflict development programs and initiatives; post-conflict reparations programs, the legacy of family planning programs in Peru; and the relationship between indigenous communities and the Peruvian state.   TABLE OF CONTENTS | PURCHASE THIS ISSUE

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Issue #227 July 1 2019 Volume 46-4

  This issue is devoted to Brazil and examines how the last few years have brought significant transformations to the government and society, which defy earlier expectations, both positive and negative.  Articles focus on political and economic subjects ranging from public demonstrations and labor unionization, the results of the PT administrations’ policies of land reform and healthcare management, to the difficulties brought on by the international recession, as well as questions of historical formation, cultural construction, self-identity, self-definition and criticism, and the conservative backlashes which have led to the rise of the rightist regime now in power.   TABLE OF CONTENTS | PURCHASE THIS ISSUE

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Issue #225 May 1 2019 Volume 46-3

  This issue of LAP represents a step toward a better understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a Latin American context. The articles cover a range of historical and current topics and show that Arab and Jewish histories are an integral part of Latin American history, that Latin America has been an important actor in the conflict over Palestine, and that the issue is being played out today in ever-changing circumstances.  Historical topics address how specific Latin American countries dealt with the creation of Israel and the Six-Day War while other articles consider more recent topics including the role and treatment of the Palestinian diaspora and Israeli marketing of urban security expertise.     TABLE OF CONTENTS | PURCHASE THIS ISSUE

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Issue #222 Sept 1 2018 Volume 45-5

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

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Issue #220 May 1 2018 Volume 45-3

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

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Issue #219 Mar. 1 2018 Volume 45-2

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

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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. Most issues focus on a single problem, nation, or region, providing an in-depth look from participants and scholars throughout the Americas.

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