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“Our podcasts feature interviews with LAP issue editors, academics, and activists where participants discuss current research, political-economic issues, and social movements in Latin America. These conversations usually last 30 to 60 minutes and provide listeners with insight into many topics and phenomena discussed in LAP issues and articles, as well as important information on ongoing political and economic issues in Latin America. “

The Agrarian Question as an Ecological Question – Jan 2024

Interviewer: Alexander Scott | Interviewees/Book Editor: Steve Ellner

LAP contributing editors Daniela García Grandón, Joana Salém Vasconcelos, and Andrew R. Smolski join the pod to discuss the January 2024 issue of LAP, “The Agrarian Question as an Ecological Question.” The themes covered include the classic debate over agrarianism and development, the history of land reform in Latin America during the twentieth century, and the significance of centering ecology in the agrarian debate.

Daniela García Grandón is a part-time professor in the School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies at the University of Ottawa. Joana Salém Vasconcelos is a full-time Visiting Professor at the Federal University of ABC (UFABC), Brazil, and has a PhD in Economic History from the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil. Andrew R. Smolski is an Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education at the Pennsylvania State University.

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Agrarian History of the Cuban Revolution w/ Joana Salém Vasconcelos – Nov 15 2024

Interviewer: Alexander Scott

Historian Joana Salém Vasconcelos joins us to discuss her book Agrarian History of the Cuban Revolution: Dilemmas of Peripheral Socialism (Brill 2023; Haymarket 2023).

Translated from Portuguese and originally published in Brazil in 2016, this meticulously researched study unpacks the complicated political and economic challenges Cuba has faced since its 1959 revolution, demonstrating why the sugar plantation economic structure in Cuba has persisted. Drawing on diverse historical sources, Salém Vasconcelos narrates in detail the three dimensions of Cuban agrarian transformation during the decisive 1960s – the land tenure system, the crop regime, and the labor regime – and its social and political actors. She explains the paths and detours of Cuban agrarian policies contextualized in a labor-intensive economy that desperately needs to increase productivity and, simultaneously, promised widely to emancipate workers from labor exploitation.

Joana Salém Vasconcelos is a full-time Visiting Professor at Federal University of ABC (UFABC), Brazil, and has a PhD in Economic History from the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil.

Agrarian History of the Cuban Revolution: Dilemmas of Peripheral Socialism is available for purchase through Haymarket books and Brill:

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2420-agrarian-history-of-the-cuban-revolution

https://brill.com/display/title/64107?language=en

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Reassessing Development: Past and Present Marxist Theories of Dependency and Periphery Debates Part I and Part II

Podcast | Issue 242 & 243 | Volume 49 | Number 1 & 2 | January and March 2022
Edited by Ronald H. Chilcote and Joana Salém Vasconcelos

Latin American Perspectives was launched nearly a half century ago in the midst of a paradigmatic shift in thinking about development. Concerned with backwardness, underdevelopment, and dependency, the new thinking was led by Rodolfo Stavenhagen in Mexico, Agustín Cueva in Ecuador, Aníbal Quijano in Peru, and Vania Bambirra, Theotônio dos Santos, and Ruy Mauro Marini in Brazil—all founding editors of LAP. Four early LAP issues carried debate around essential questions and new theoretical direction. The January 2022 (Part 1) issue returns to this early historical thought and to contemporary Marxist debates of past and present theories of dependency and peripheral debates. The March 2022 issue (Part 2) looks at the relevance of this theory to contemporary Latin American case studies.

Latin America’s Pink Tide: Breakthroughs and Shortcomings

Interviewer: Alexander Scott | Interviewees/Book Editor: Steve Ellner

Steve Ellner is associate managing editor of Latin American Perspectives. He taught economic history and political science at the Universidad de Oriente in Venezuela from 1977 to 2003. Among his books are Venezuela’s Movimiento al Socialismo: From Guerrilla Defeat to Electoral Politics (1988), Organized Labor in Venezuela, 1958–1991: Behavior and Concerns in a Democratic Setting (1993), and Rethinking Venezuelan Politics: Class, Polarization, and the Chávez Phenomenon (2008).

Violence, Capital Accumulation, and Resistance in Contemporary Latin America

Podcast | Issue 236 | Volume 48 | Number 1 | January 2021
Interviewer: Andrew R. Smolski and Matthew Lorenzent

This issue examines how contemporary capital accumulation in Latin America is driven by legal and illegal actors. That violence both derives from and kindles direct, structural, and cultural violence. Those forms of violence in turn spark various forms of resistance. Articles deal with a wide range of topics, including the dispossession of ranchers and Mapuches in Argentina caused by natural gas and oil extraction; the expansion of criminal organizations dedicated to extortion rackets and other criminal activities in Medellín; popular uprisings against criminal organizations dedicated to kidnappings, extortions, and illegal logging in the states of Guerrero and Michoacán; the overlap between legal and illegal energy markets in northeastern Mexico and their functioning under violent hybrid governance schemes; the existence of a form of “mafia capitalism” in the tri-border area of Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil; the differences between disappearances during the Cold War era and the neoliberal era in Mexico; the creation of the Fuerza Civil, a semi-private, highly militarized police force operating in the state of Nuevo León; the disappearance of the 43 students from the Ayotzinapa rural teachers college and the social movement it sparked; the links between violence, capitalism, and the US opioids crisis; the creation of the Las Abejas de Acteal indigenous social movement in Chiapas in response to paramilitary violence; and violence in northeastern Guatemala linked to US banana companies, large landowners, and regional elites.

Popular Feminism(s): Pasts, Presents, and Futures Part 1 and Part 2

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.

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

Podcast | Issue 238 | Volume 48 | Number 3 | May 2021
Interviewer: Alexander Scott
Interviewees: Kepa Artaraz, Melania Calestani, and Mei L. Trueba

Social Movements in Latin America: The progressive governments and beyond provides an overview of the sometimes tense relationships between social movements and the left-of-centre governments since 2000. It covers a range of analytical issues such as the theoretical paradigms we use to explain social movements and a range of key national experiences. This double issue of Latin American Perspectives will provide a benchmark for the study of social movements.

Violence, Capital Accumulation, and Resistance in Contemporary Latin America

Podcast | Issue 236 | Volume 48 | Number 1 | Jan. 2021

Interviewer: Alexander Scott | Interviewees: Steve Elner

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

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.

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

The Resurgence of Collective Memory, Truth, and Justice Mobilizations in Latin America

Podcast | June 2020
Interviewer: Alexander Scott | Interviewees: Roberta Villalón

In this episode of the Latin American Perspectives podcast, Alexander Scott, Outreach Coordinator for Latin American Perspectives, Inc., discusses the May 2015, September 2016, and November 2016 issues, “The Resurgence of Collective Memory, Truth, and Justice Mobilizations” Part I, Part II: Artistic and Cultural Resistance, and Part III: Culture, Politics, and Social Mobilizations with Guest Editor Roberta Villalón.

Calles de la Resistencia: Pathways to Empowerment in Puerto Rico

Calles de Resistencia: Pathways to Empowerment in Puerto Rico reveals a level of consciousness, experience, and resoluteness that is the result of an historic and protracted struggle to attain a liberated nation. This outstanding collection of well-developed economic analyses, policy proposals, political, perspectives and analyses of last summer’s remarkable mobilization, plus photo documentation, provides valuable insights about the historical and contemporary conditions that define the Puerto Rican experience. >>> English Stream MP3

The Nature of the PT Governments: A Variety of Neoliberalism? Part 2

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. >>> English Stream MP3

The Nature of the PT Governments: A Variety of Neoliberalism? Part 1

Neoliberalism and the Challenges Facing Popular Sectors

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. >>> English Stream MP3

Politics, Society, and Culture in Postconflict Peru

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.>>> English Stream MP3

Brazil’s Crisis Of Memory: Embracing Myths And Forgetting History

Short Description: 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. >>> English Stream MP3

Israel, Palestine, and Latin America: Conflictual Relationships

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. >>> English Stream MP3

Pink-Tide Governments: Pragmatic and Populist Responses to Challenges from the Right

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. The issue looks at the ways the government reacted to these challenges by making concessions and carrying out policies that in the long run undermined economic and political stability and the achievement of stated goals. Along these lines, Pink Tide governments implemented pragmatic strategies to win over or neutralize the business class and populist initiatives to meet the short-term needs of the popular sectors. >>> English Stream MP3

Immigrants, Indigenous People, and Workers Pursuing Justice

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. >>> English Stream MP3

Open Veins Revisited: The New Extractivism in Latin America

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. >>> English Stream MP3

The Cold War and Latin American Studies

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).

Media, Politics, and Democratization in Latin America

This special issue of Latin American Perspectives investigates a matter that has undergone critical transformations in recent years. From the period of progressive governments to the current neoliberal restoration, the media went from being thought of as a public service to a private business. This issue features articles on Ecuador, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Mexico and Argentina and covers a broad disciplinary spectrum of studies: from the laws of communication put into practice or projected, to the deregulation of the most advanced legislations of Latin America, to communication rights, audiovisual analysis, memory studies and historiographies of the Latin American left. The editors were committed to organizing a special issue about the favorable democratization of the media, but in the process, the media landscape was transformed into a reactionary onslaught of the monopolies of information and communication; a process that ended in the electoral victories of right-wing corporatists. >>> English Stream MP3 >>> Spanish Stream MP3

Freeing Latin America from Erroneous Theses

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. The debate at the colloquium opened a new opportunity to rethink and place Stavenhagen’s theories in today’s context. In this latest issue of LAP, we are glad to bring together some of the essays written by participants in this vibrant debate. The essays analyze the relevance of Stavenhagen’s critique as well as the changes the continent has gone through and the new challenges it faces in today’s rapidly changing global order. In this manner, we hope to honor and celebrate Stavenhagen’s legacy as one of the great Latin American scholars of the long twentieth century, and to provoke further debate that shines light on the continent of the open veins. >>> English Stream MP3 >>> Spanish Stream MP3

The Urban Informal Economy Revisited

The distinction between “formal” and “informal” jobs and enterprises was first introduced in the 1970s and has been very widely used ever since. The underlying assumption was that the formal economy would gradually expand and dominate, and the informal economy would gradually disappear. The reality, however, associated with neoliberal economic development and growing socio-economic inequality, is that the informal economy has persisted and sometimes grown, and that job security and benefits in the formal economy have often diminished. This theme issue focuses on the informal economy under neoliberalism, with case studies of some of the most significant and persistent occupations. Several of the articles focus on the process of the “formalization” of informal workers, a goal expressed by the International Labour Organization, but often fraught with difficulties. >>> English Stream MP3 >>> Spanish Stream MP3

Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking in Latin America

Modern slavery and human trafficking affect an estimated 1.8 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean today yet remain significantly understudied given their devastating human consequences. This issue addresses this gap in the slavery and trafficking scholarship by taking a critical look at it across the region and situating it within the transnational capitalist economy. Articles include theoretical analyses of the phenomenon as well as recruitment practices, populations susceptible to being enslaved/trafficking, and the role of violence. Additionally, it seeks to provide regional balance in the literature on slavery and trafficking in Latin America, which has disproportionately centered on Brazil; it highlights three under-researched areas—slavery outside Brazil, nonsexual slavery, and smugglers/traffickers rather than victims exclusively. >>> English Stream MP3 >>> Spanish Stream MP3

Democracy, Repression, and the Defense of Human Rights

In the 1990s Barry Gills, Joel Rocamora, and Richard Wilson directly challenged the democratic-transitions literature by introducing the model of “low-intensity democracy” a largely procedural democracy that allows political opposition, greater individual freedoms, a reduced institutional role for the armed forces, and a more permeable environment for the investments of transnational capital. >>> English Stream MP3 >>> Spanish Stream MP3

The Chilean Earthquake of 2010: Challenging the Capabilities of the Neoliberal State

Short Description: On February 27th 2010, southern Chile was hit by an 8.8 magnitude earthquake followed by several devastating tsunamis. The disaster cost 575 lives and economic losses equivalent to 18% of Chile’s GDP. Although Chile’s earthquake resistant construction prevented far greater damage and its institutions proved to be relatively well equipped for disaster relief, all the weaknesses of an atrophied neoliberal state became evident during a reconstruction process based on decentralized public-private partnerships formed to implement over 100 local “master plans.” This special issues analyses the responses from politicians, policy makers, corporations, and civil society and situates them in their institutional and constitutional context. >>> English Stream MP3 >>> Spanish Stream MP3

Urban Latin America: Part 3: Planning Latin American Cities: Housing and Citizenship

Short Description: Urban social movements have contested the conditions under which people live and work in Latin America’s cities. The movements arose in response to the urban and housing policies of the neoliberal state, reflect deep contradictions of class, gender, poverty and informality, and signal the emergence of new forms of citizenship. >>> English Stream MP3 >>> Spanish Stream MP3

Urban Latin America: Part 2: Planning Latin American Cities: Dependencies and “Best Practices”

Short Description: Urban planning in Latin America reflects the historic dependencies and inequalities of peripheral capitalism. These were amplified by recent neoliberal reforms in housing, transportation and social policy. This issue looks critically at urban reforms in these areas, the role of social movements and the emergence of “best practices” including social urbanism, bus rapid transit, bicycle infrastructure, and participatory budgeting, with more to come in the next LAP issue. >>> English Stream MP3 >>> Spanish Stream MP3

The Legacy of Hugo Chávez

The purpose of this special issue is contribute to a better understanding of the possibilities and limits of the Bolivarian project, ranging from democratic innovations to economic experimentation, from alternative economic integration to the role of charisma in revolutionary politics. Contributions include analysis of what it means to be a citizen in a post-neoliberal democracy in Venezuela; the extent to which Chavismo achieved a real redistribution of socio-economic and political power in Venezuela; lessons for other countries dependent upon extraction; what sort of domestic political and economic institutional structures have been developed under Chávez’s government, and how these affect the question of succession and future governability; the sustainability of the Bolivarian project since the decline in oil prices; and the relationship of Venezuela with the United States and other Latin American countries. >>> English Stream MP3 >>> Spanish Stream MP3

The Resurgence of Collective Memory, Truth, and Justice Mobilizations Part 3: Culture, Politics, and Social Mobilizations

A second wave of memory, truth and justice mobilizations has been spreading in Latin America since the turn of the century. The push to address unresolved human rights violations perpetrated in the seventies and eighties has grown strong resulting in the (re)opening of trials to perpetrators and a more complex understanding of past and present violence and inequalities. This issue – the last of a three-part series on this matter- complements the previous two. One half of the articles explores how artistic and cultural expressions help collective memory making and justice seeking in El Salvador, Peru and Chile. The other half looks into the convoluted textures of truth, reconciliation and justice processes in the countries of Chile, Uruguay and Mexico. Theoretically, the scholarship of this issue distinctly contributes to the body of literature on the field by uncovering the politics of framing collective memory from a critical epistemological perspective from the bottom-up. >>> English Stream MP3 >>> Spanish Stream MP3

The Resurgence Of Collective Memory, Truth, And Justice Mobilizations Part 2: Art, Culture, And Violence

Short Description: Since the turn of the century, various Latin American countries have witnessed a second wave of memory, truth, and justice mobilizations to address unresolved human rights abuses of past military regimes and civil conflicts. This issue—the second of a three-part series on the politics of collective memory—illustrate how artistic and cultural expressions have been created and used to tackle these dilemmas and informed memorialization, justice seeking, and reconciliation in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, and Uruguay. These studies point to how the limitations of democratization, peace, and reconciliation processes have shaken communities into collective mobilization including the use of artistic and cultural means to keep memory alive and push for justice. >>> English Stream MP3 >>> Spanish Stream MP3

Climate Change in Latin America

This issue provides a counterpoint to the global and diplomatic drama of the Paris climate negotiations by offering a territorialized, bottom-up approach that breaks with the asymmetrical “North-South” logic of (developed) winners and (less developed) losers. The articles describe local governance strategies, based on effective responses rather than victim-hood, that suggest a paradigm shift in how to conceptualize citizen participation, especially in relation to water use and rights.
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Spirits, Bodies, and Structures: Religion, Politics, and Social Inequality in Latin America

This special issue of Latin American Perspectives returns to consider the theme of religion and social inequality and the social movements that seek to address religions’ ambivalent legacy across the continent. The articles take up a materialist approach to the subject of religion—they are concerned with the poor and disenfranchised, and not just with their beliefs and religious practices but also with their bodies and earthly fates. Liberation theology continues to shape the political landscape of Latin America, and numerous religious transformations are taking place which may be understood as the afterlives of liberation theology. Evangelical Christian movements, now no longer identified with particular ideologies, insert themselves into the public sphere. The state is now compelled to account for religions other than Christianity and to respond to the rapid pluralization of religious identities and constituencies across the continent. >>> English Stream MP3 >>> Spanish Stream MP3

Deconstructing the Post-Neoliberal State: Intimate Perspectives on Contemporary Brazil

This issue brings together critical contributions to help appreciate some dimensions of the profound impact of the deep socio-economic and political transformations that the Citizen Revolution led by Rafael Correa has been pushing for since its inception in 2007. The main purpose of the issue is to arrive at a global picture of the evolution and the vicissitudes of the processes of political change in contemporary Ecuador, assess its limits and contradictions from the standpoint of various analytical approaches. It covers such diverse topics as the struggle for power, the reform of state institutions towards a more centralized model, economic and trade policy, change in Ecuador’s approach to international relations, the question of constitutional change, tensions between the government and social movements, socio-environmental conflicts, the new migration agenda, and the question of the post-neoliberalism. >>> English Stream MP3

The Return of the State, New Social Actors, and Post-Neoliberalism in Ecuador

China and Latin America: Processes and Paradoxes

China and Latin America: Processes and Paradoxes – How has the increasing economic influence of China, especially since 2000, affected Latin American countries? Has China’s recent impact led to a structural shift in the underlying political economy of the region? Has this effect been, on balance, positive, negative, or too complex to be reducible to a normative analysis? Is it the case that, because of ongoing dynamics and the generation of ever newer accords, reached annually if not biannually between China and various Latin American countries, such an assessment lies only in the future? >>> English Stream MP3

Environmental Violence in Mexico

September 2015 – This issue analyzes the outcomes of the neoliberal restructuring of Mexico in socio-environmental terms. In doing so, the featured articles rely on the critical lenses of political ecology and political economy to show how individual capitals and policy makers use the political, economic and constabulary forces to create asymmetries that will allow for capital accumulation while creating social injustice and environmental degradation. The issue also features the application of natural selection to the issue of sustainability; highlights the consequences of transforming nature into property; criticizes the legitimacy of human rights policies; questions the violence of representing nature; and deals with environmental violence not only as structural but as a direct and brutal kind of violence used for legitimizing neoliberal restructuring while imposing one particular definition of nature and natural resources.

Dualties of Latin America

July 1, 2015 – Tomas Ocampo, Outreach Coordinator for Latin American Perspectives, interviews Claudio Katz | This issue engages in a discussion of the political economy of the Latin American region by means of a wide ranging and trenchant analysis by Argentine scholar Claudio Katz focused on the dualities represented by post-neoliberal and commodities consensus policies and solicited responses from other Latin American experts.

The Resurgence of Collective Memory, Truth, and Justice Mobilizations in Latin America

This issue analyzes the Resurgence of Collective Memory, Truth and Justice Mobilizations in Latin America that has occurred with the turn of the century – when truth, reconciliation and justice efforts began to be revisited.

Argentina a Decade after the Collapse Part 1: The Causes of the Crisis and Structural Changes

Podcast | Issue 200 | Volume 42 | Number 1 | Jan 2015

Jan 1, 2015 – Edited by: Pablo Pozzi | Interview about the January 2015 issue with issue co-editor Pablo Pozzi, Professor of History, Universidad de Buenos Aires and LAP Participating Editor.

Indigenous Migration in Mexico and Central America: In the Footsteps of Michael Kearney

Sociologist and professor-researcher at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte. Mexico.

Imagined Narcoscapes: Narcoculture and the Politics of Representation

Associate Professor of Latin American, global, and Chicano/Latino studies, Michigan State University.

Violence Against Women in Latin America:

Violence Against Women in Latin America | Interview about the January 2014 issue with issue editor Tamar Diana Wilson, research affiliate of the Department of Anthropology of the University of Missouri, St. Louis, who has lived in Mexico since 1994. She is an LAP Participating Editor.

Latin American Perspectives
A Progressive Collective Intellectual and Its
Social Knowledge

Celebrating 40 Years of Latin american Perspectives
Podcast | Issue 193 | Volume 40 | Number 6 | Nov 2013

Reinventing the Lefts in Latin America:

Critical Perspectives from Below
Podcast | Issue 191 | Volume 40 | Number 4 | July 2013

July 1, 2013 – Edited by: Sara C. Motta and authors Bruce Gilbert and Marcela Olivera | Motta is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia and an LAP Participating Editor. Gilbert is a Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. Olivera is Latin American coordinator of the Water for All Campaign, Food and Water Watch, and helps coordinate VIDA, the inter-American network of water movements.

Latin America’s Radical Left in Power:

Complexities and Challenges in the Twenty-First Century
Podcast | Issue 190 | Volume 40 | Number 3 | May 2013

March 1, 2013 – Edited by: Steve Ellner | The democratic, peaceful road to socialism, which has been pursued by the governments of Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador and serves as an inspiration for much of the Latin American left, hardly represents a new approach. Social democratic movements worldwide grouped in the Socialist International were the foremost advocates of socialism by pacific means from the organization’s founding in 1951.

Urban Latin America: Violence, Enclaves, and Struggles for Land

Interview about the March 2013 issue with issue editor Tom Angotti and author Alfonso Valenzuela Aguilera. Angotti is Professor of Department of Urban Affairs and Planning at Hunter College and an LAP Participating Editor. Valenzuela is Professor of Urban Planning at the State University of Morelos, Mexico. >>> Stream MP3

Political Documentary Film and Video in the Southern Cone (1950s–2000s)

Interview about the January 2013 issue with issue editors Antonio Traverso, Tomás Crowder-Taraborrelli and authors Pablo Piedras, and Javier Campo. Traverso is a Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies at Curtin University, Perth, Australia. Crowder-Taraborelli is Visiting Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies at Soka University of America and an LAP Coordinating Editor. Piedras is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. Campo is a researcher on Argentine and Latin American film and the editor of the peer-reviewed magazine Cine Documental. >>> Stream MP3

Tourism, Gender, and Ethnicity

Interview about the November 2012 issue withTamar Diana Wilson and Annelou Ypeij. Wilson is a research affiliate of the Department of Anthropology of the University of Missouri, St. Louis, who has lived in Mexico since 1994. She is an LAP Participating Editor. Ypeij is an Assistant Professor at the Center for Latin American Research and Documentation, Amsterdam. >>> Stream MP3

Podcasts

VIDEO AND AUDIO PODCASTS

Violence, Capital Accumulation, and Resistance in Contemporary Latin America

Popular Feminism(s): Pasts, Presents, and Futures Part 1 and Part 2

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

Violence, Capital Accumulation, and Resistance in Contemporary Latin America

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

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

The Resurgence of Collective Memory, Truth, and Justice Mobilizations in Latin America

Calles de la Resistencia: Pathways to Empowerment in Puerto Rico

The Nature of the PT Governments: A Variety of Neoliberalism? Part 2

The Nature of the PT Governments: A Variety of Neoliberalism? Part 1

Neoliberalism and the Challenges Facing Popular Sectors

Politics, Society, and Culture in Postconflict Peru

Brazil’s Crisis Of Memory: Embracing Myths And Forgetting History

Israel, Palestine, and Latin America: Conflictual Relationships

Pink-Tide Governments: Pragmatic and Populist Responses to Challenges from the Right

Immigrants, Indigenous People, and Workers Pursuing Justice

Open Veins Revisited: The New Extractivism in Latin America

The Cold War and Latin American Studies

Media, Politics, and Democratization in Latin America

Freeing Latin America from Erroneous Theses

The Urban Informal Economy Revisited

Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking in Latin America

Democracy, Repression, and the Defense of Human Rights

The Chilean Earthquake of 2010: Challenging the Capabilities of the Neoliberal State

Urban Latin America: Part 3: Planning Latin American Cities: Housing and Citizenship

Urban Latin America: Part 2: Planning Latin American Cities: Dependencies and “Best Practices”

The Legacy of Hugo Chávez

The Resurgence of Collective Memory, Truth, and Justice Mobilizations Part 3: Culture, Politics, and Social Mobilizations

The Resurgence Of Collective Memory, Truth, And Justice Mobilizations Part 2: Art, Culture, And Violence

Climate Change in Latin America

Spirits, Bodies, and Structures: Religion, Politics, and Social Inequality in Latin America

Deconstructing the Post-Neoliberal State: Intimate Perspectives on Contemporary Brazil

The Return of the State, New Social Actors, and Post-Neoliberalism in Ecuador

China and Latin America: Processes and Paradoxes

Environmental Violence in Mexico

Dualties of Latin America

The Resurgence of Collective Memory, Truth, and Justice Mobilizations in Latin America

Argentina a Decade after the Collapse Part 1: The Causes of the Crisis and Structural Changes

Indigenous Migration in Mexico and Central America: In the Footsteps of Michael Kearney

Imagined Narcoscapes: Narcoculture and the Politics of Representation

Violence Against Women in Latin America:

Latin American Perspectives A Progressive Collective Intellectual and Its Social Knowledge

Reinventing the Lefts in Latin America:

Latin America’s Radical Left in Power:

Urban Latin America: Violence, Enclaves, and Struggles for Land

Political Documentary Film and Video in the Southern Cone (1950s–2000s)

Tourism, Gender, and Ethnicity

Latin American Perspectives
A Progressive Collective Intellectual and Its
Social Knowledge