Latest Issue:

LAP has a new issue "Memory and Popular Culture" which includes articles touching on various topics such as...

Memory and Popular Culture (Arias and del Campo)

Brazil: Concentration Camps and Drought (Kenny)

Disjunctive Memory in a
Bolivian Workers’ Union (Albro)

Chile: Popular Power, Oral History,
and Collective Memory (Gaudichaud)

Fear and Memory in a Chilean Shantytown (Barbera)

The Brazilian Military Dictatorship
according to Military Men (Martins Filho

Oppressed Memories Unearthed (Wirshing)

Chilean Cinema and the Abject (Pino-Ojeda)

Argentine Documentary Films (Lazzara)

State Formation and Social
Memory in Sandinista Politics (Tatar)


Violence and Silence in Chile (Waldman M.)


The new issue is based on Latin American cultural studies which originated from the social sciences. This new system sought to understand and explain the period in Latin America as a struggle between imperialism and regionalism and between capitalism and socialism.