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Latin American Studies Association - LASA2022

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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🎙️ Editor’s Choice – Episode 11 (Part 2) is live! Dependency, crisis, and political economy in Latin America.In this special two-part episode, we’re joined by Felipe Antunes de Oliveira to discuss his excellent new book from University of Pittsburgh Press. Drawing on critical dependency theory and marxist political economy, Antunes de Oliveira offers a timely and comprehensive critique of the neoliberal and neodevelopmentalist structural reform cycles in Brazil and Argentina, crafting an alternative political economy framework for the analysis of development challenges throughout the region.🎧 Listen now: sites.libsyn.com/456621/latinamericanperspectives/editors-choice-ep-12-dependency-and-crisis-in-b... ... See MoreSee Less

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Don’t miss the latest piece from LAP editor @hilarygoodfriend for @jacobinmag ! “The Trump-Bukele nexus lends a new political dimension of mutual reinforcement and escalation to the traditional dependency relationship. Both leaders style themselves as successful businessmen and view the presidency as a patrimonial project. They share an affinity for social media, cryptocurrency, and criminalizing poor Salvadorans. And while to unequal degrees, each stands to gain from the relationship, which stages Bukele as a zealous counterpart in Trump’s regional war against transnational criminal-cum-terrorist gangs.” (Link in bio) ... See MoreSee Less

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🎙️ Editor’s Choice – Episode 11 (Part I)Dependency, crisis, and political economy in Latin America.In this special two-part episode, we’re joined by Felipe Antunes de Oliveira to discuss his excellent new book from @upittpress. Drawing on critical dependency theory and marxist political economy, Antunes de Oliveira offers a timely and comprehensive critique of the neoliberal and neodevelopmentalist structural reform cycles in Brazil and Argentina, crafting an alternative political economy framework for the analysis of development challenges throughout the region.🎧 Listen now — link in bio. ... See MoreSee Less

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🌿 Amazon Rainforest & Socio-Ecological Alternatives 🌿What is the Amazon? This special issue rejects singular and exoticized visions of the region, foregrounding instead its multiplicity of peoples, territories, struggles, and ways of knowing. Through critical scholarship and literary contributions, the issue examines how extractivism, state power, and “green” capitalism collide with Indigenous and popular alternatives across the Amazon basin. (Link in bio) ... See MoreSee Less

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✊🏽 Four decades after 1979, what remains of the Grenada Revolution? Our July 2025 issue reflects on revolutionary possibility, U.S. intervention, and the revolution’s lasting impact on Caribbean politics and global radical movements.(link in bio) ... See MoreSee Less

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Paraguay is often overlooked in regional political analysis, yet it has become a key site for understanding contemporary authoritarian drift in Latin America. This special issue of LAP examines the historical roots and present-day dynamics of democratic stagnation, elite dominance, corruption, land concentration, and the resurgence of authoritarian practices. (Link in bio) ... See MoreSee Less

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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.

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