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Popular Feminism(s): Past, Present, and Futures, Part I

July 2021 Issue Editors: Janet M. Conway and Nathalie Lebon This thematic double issue focuses on popular feminisms, that is, the diverse forms of gendered agency appearing among Latin America’s poor, working-class and racialized communities, and their relation to the politics of feminism and to the broader left in the region. The collection addresses the question of subaltern subjectivities and the building of collective agency in relation to the broader politics of social transformation. It also examines popular feminism as concept with a particular genealogy in relation to histories of the left and to socialist feminism, and inquires into its contemporary relevance, as well as its persistent elision of race and coloniality. The twelve contributions include contextualized studies of grassroots feminist praxis drawn from Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, Venezuela, and Peru, as well as of national and transnational-scale organizing, and address gendered agency in relation to issues ranging from access to water, opposition to extractivism, the politicization of care work, survival in the face of systemic violence, and Indigenous autonomy. The collection includes a substantive theoretical introduction to popular, racialized and decolonial subjectivities in contention in consideration of contemporary popular feminisms.   TABLE OF CONTENTS | PURCHASE THIS ISSUE [...]

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Vivir bien/Buen vivir and Post-Neoliberal Development Paths in Latin America: Scope, Strategies, and the Realities of Implementation

May 2021 Issue Editors: Kepa Artaraz, Melania Calestani, and Mei L. Trueba This special issue engages with the concept of buen vivir/vivir bien and how it has become a central driver in policy processes. However, the multiple variants of buen vivir/vivir bien and the struggle for hegemonic control of its meaning may also be the source of conflict between different groups. Contributors in this issue explore the contested meaning from a variety of different perspectives (indigenous, governmental and non-governmental) and the varying ways in which this concept feeds into alternative post-neoliberal ways of living. The essays address the realities of implementation in policy contexts, critically exploring strengths, limitations and barriers.   TABLE OF CONTENTS | PURCHASE THIS ISSUE [/fusion_text][/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]

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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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Neoliberalism and the Challenges Facing Popular Sectors

Nov. 2019 Issue editor: Steve Ellner The articles in this issue explore specific negative aspects of the policies and strategies followed by the champions of globalization and neoliberalism as well as proposals and actions associated with their critics. Topics include the proposal to assign matters of internal security to the armed forces in Argentina; the labor policy of four pro-and anti-neoliberal governments; how racial and class discriminatory policies of U.S. immigration officials have mold the attitudes of their Mexican counterparts; the potential of constituent assemblies for far-reaching change; the relationship between mental health and income inequality; and the anti-neoliberalism of the hemispheric labor movement.   TABLE OF CONTENTS | PURCHASE THIS ISSUE

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Issue #224 Jan 1 2019 Volume 46-1

  This issue sheds light on positive and negatives sides of progressive or “Pink Tide” governments which it places in political and economic contexts, specifically destabilizing efforts by a “disloyal opposition” and disinvestment by the private sector.     TABLE OF CONTENTS | PURCHASE THIS ISSUE

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Issue #221 July 1 2018 Volume 45-4

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

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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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