Submissions:

Latin American Perspectives regularly accepts submissions of manuscripts for upcoming issues. Please look below at our prospectuses for issues we are currently accepting manuscripts for. We also welcome submissions which might not necessarily coincide with our current calls for papers. All submissions should be directed to the managing editor at the LAP Office. -Contact Us-

SUBMITTING MANUSCRIPTS

Manuscripts should be no longer than 25 pages (approximately 7,000-7,500 words) of double-spaced 12 point text with 1 inch margins, including notes and references, and paginated.  Please follow the LAP style guidelines included in the Manuscript Preparation Form, located below.

Click Here for the Manuscript Preparation Guidelines

Manuscripts may be submitted in English, Spanish, or Portuguese.  If submitting in Spanish or Portuguese, please indicate if you will have difficulty reading correspondence from the LAP office in English. Please feel free to contact the Issue Editor with questions pertaining to the issue but be sure that manuscripts are sent to the LAP office by e-mail to: laps@ucr.edu with the subject line – “Your name – MS for [short issue name] issue”

In addition to electronic submission (CD-R if unable to send by e-mail) if possible submit two print copies including a cover sheet and basic biographical and contact information to:

Managing Editor, Latin American Perspectives¸ P.O. Box 5703, Riverside, California 92517-5703. 
Editor contact information:  Editor’s name  - Editor’s e-mail

MANUSCRIPT REVIEW PROCESS

The editorial board comprises Participating Editors, Honorary Editors, Associate Editors, and Coordinating Editors, who read and evaluate manuscripts. Any one or more of these editors may be responsible for organizing a special issue. Manuscripts are normally evaluated by two Participating Editors (at least one Latin American) and two members of the Editorial Collective. The Editorial Collective consists of the Coordinating Editors, who make decisions and who are assisted by the Associate Editors and by Interns. The Collective decides if the manuscript is to be accepted in its present form, returned to the author for revision, deferred for resubmission, or rejected. In all decisions, the reviewers' comments will be sent to the author. Either a Coordinating Editor or an Issue Editor will serve as liaison between the author and other editors. For authors who so wish, the liaison will provide editorial assistance or settle any substantial disagreement among reviewers. An author who feels that important views have been rejected may appeal; this will be reviewed by all Coordinating Editors. Submission of a manuscript implies commitment to publish in the journal. Authors submitting manuscripts to the journal should not simultaneously submit them to another journal.

The journal handles many submissions in various stages of the review process. A manuscript decision will typically be made within 3-4 months of the submission date. However, due to the professional obligations of our editors, as well as submission volume, occassional delays may occur in the review proces. The LAP office does everything it can to expedite the review and decision process.


Current Prospectuses (Spanish prospectuses are available HERE)

Tourism, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality

Violence Against Women in Latin America

The Myth of the“GOOD” and “BAD” Latin American Left: Leftist Governments and Social Movements

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

Re-inventing the Lefts in Latin America: Critical Perspectives from Below

Rethinking Indigenismo on the American Continent

Political Documentary Film and Video in the Southern Cone: Argentina, Chile and Uruguay (1950s-2000s)

Art, Culture, and Politics: Representations of and by Latinos in the Americas

Chile's Bachelet: Testing the Limits of Limited Democracy

China's South-South Relationships with Latin America in the Current Era

Colombia’s Left: Its Power, Influence and Challenges

Afro-American/Latin Americans and their Struggle for Environmental Justice, Community, and Identity

Latin American Urbanization, Inequality, and Social Struggles in the 21st Century


 

LAP Book Reviews

Except in special cases, all reviews should take the form of review essays that critically discuss the major themes dealt with in two or more books that focus on the same or related subject(s).

In general, reviews should focus on significant works that make an important contribution to the existing literature.

Please write concisely. Do not waste valuable text space describing each of the various essays in a collection of essays. The review should focus on the more important themes raised in the collection and discuss both the main contributions and the main shortcomings of the collection.

It is vital to emphasize theoretical content of the books under review and to draw out the theoretical significance and contribution of the books.

Please mention in the text and cite the most relevant works in the literature to which the books under review belong. This helps to put the books under review in context and provides the reader with some bibliographic points of reference. Between 5 and 15 references should be cited in each review essay.

Book reviews are currently being coordinated by LAP Coordinating Editor, Sheryl Lutjens. Prospective contributors should feel free to communicate with Sheryl at the following email address: slutjens@csusm.edu

You may also submit your proposal to the LAP office: laps@ucr.edu

Manuscripts should be between 5 and 15 pages of double-spaced text in English, Spanish, or Portuguese. Submit two copies along with a cover sheet and basic biographical information. With these items, we also require that the manuscript be sent on a CD-R or by e-mail. The LAP style guide is available on request or online.

Please send any book review submissions to:
Book Review Editor, Latin American Perspectives¸ P.O. Box 5703, Riverside, California 92517-5703
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Call for Photos

We Want Your Photographs!

Latin American Perspectives is seeking photography for future covers and interior photo essays. The response to our new four-color covers is very positive, and we look forward to increasing our publication archive. Photographs for possible covers must be esthetically and technically of the highest quality, in color, and should complement the theme for proposed future issues. Interior photo essays will be published in black and white (they can be converted from color) and fit a theme. All photographs must have a specific and clear copyright release from the photographer or copyright holder, or be demonstrably in the public domain (by law we cannot use photographs without a formal copyright release).

- James Lerager, LAP photography editor

LAP Image Specifications (PDF)

Mail your submissions, as email attachments, to: LAP_Photography@yahoo.com.