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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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📢 New from LAP podcast host and editorial collective member Alex Scott in Progress in Political Economy: “Dependent Fascism in Latin America Revisited.” Building on Theotônio dos Santos’s concept, Scott reads Bolsonarismo and Mileísmo as peripheral counterrevolution and Mexico as the case that shows the outcome is never inevitable.📢 Nuevo texto de Alexander Scott, co-conductor del podcast de LAP, en Progress in Political Economy: «Fascismo dependiente en América Latina, revisitado». Retomando a Theotônio dos Santos, analiza el bolsonarismo y el mileísmo como contrarrevolución periférica, y a México como el caso que muestra que el desenlace nunca es inevitable.Link in bio / Enlace en la bio. #LatinAmericanPerspectives #AméricaLatina #FascismoDependiente #PoliticalEconomy #brasil ... See MoreSee Less

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New episode: Lula’s Historic Comeback 🇧🇷 On October 25, Brazilians voted in the runoff of their presidential election, and President Lula da Silva came from behind to defeat far-right senator Flávio Bolsonaro, son of imprisoned former president Jair Bolsonaro, 51.8 percent to 48.2. Bolsonaro had led after the first round, making Lula the first candidate in Brazil’s modern democracy to win after finishing second. The result gives Lula a record fourth term and a ray of hope for the Latin American left.In the second of our two episodes on the election, Felipe Antunes de Oliveira Diagonal returns to walk us through the three weeks that turned the race around, what the results tell us, what Lula’s fourth term can achieve facing a hostile Congress, and what it all means for Latin America and the world.Felipe Antunes de Oliveira is a senior lecturer in International Relations at Queen Mary University of London and a coordinating editor at Latin American Perspectives.Full episode: link in bio. Missed part one? It’s on our page too.#LatinAmericanPerspectives #Brazil #Lula #Bolsonaro #Eleições2026 ... See MoreSee Less

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New podcast episode: Brazil’s presidential election, round one.On October 4, Brazilians voted in the first round of their presidential election. Far-right senator Flávio Bolsonaro, eldest son of imprisoned former president Jair Bolsonaro, finished ahead of President Lula da Silva, 47 percent to 45. It was the first time since 1998 that Lula has finished second in a first round. Bolsonaro’s party also became the largest force in both houses of Congress. The two candidates now face each other in a runoff on October 25.Two days after the vote, Felipe Antunes de Oliveira joins us to walk through the results, why the left did so badly, and what a Flávio Bolsonaro presidency would mean for Brazil and the region.Felipe Antunes de Oliveira is a senior lecturer in International Relations at Queen Mary University of London and a coordinating editor at Latin American Perspectives.Full episode: sites.libsyn.com/456621/latinamericanperspectives/bolsonarismo-returns-brazils-first-round-electi...#LatinAmericanPerspectives #Brazil #Lula #Bolsonaro #Eleições2026 ... See MoreSee Less

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New Editor’s Choice, Ep. 14. Fascism didn’t die in 1945. It put on a suit and tie.Historian Daniel Kressel joins Alexander Scott and Tomás Crowder-Taraborrelli to talk about Hispanic Technocracy (Cambridge University Press, 2025), his history of how Franco’s Spain, Onganía’s Argentina, and Pinochet’s Chile built a post-fascist state out of Catholic mission, authoritarian rule, and early neoliberal economics, run by men who insisted they had no ideology at all.“When you say that you represent the truth and not ideology, then this is a pure ideological moment.”We get into Opus Dei and the Spanish “economic miracle,” the networks that brought Chilean and Argentine rightists to Franco’s Madrid, the roots of Pinochet’s terror, and why today’s authoritarian nostalgia, from Vox to Kast to Milei, rests on the dictatorships’ own propaganda.Link in bio. On Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and wherever you listen. #LatinAmericanPerspectives #HispanicTechnocracy #Fascism #OpusDei #Pinochet ... See MoreSee Less

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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. For more than forty years, it has published timely, progressive analyses of the social forces shaping contemporary Latin America. 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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1. The Multiple Amazon 
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2. Topographies of Global-Local Connections in the Amazon: Stakeholder Participation in International Environmental Projects  September 2025  VIEW ISSUE

3. The Amazon Besieged: Tracing the Sources of Brazilian Authoritarian Ideals September 2025 VIEW ISSUE

4. Participation Artifacts: Conservation and Climate Governance with Indigenous Amazonian Communities September 2025 VIEW ISSUE

5. Saving Indigenous Children? The Government of Childhood and the Coloniality of Development in Amazonia September 2025 VIEW ISSUE

6. Between Dependence and the Coloniality of Power: The Defeat and Crisis of Marxism in Aníbal Quijano September 2025 VIEW ISSUE

7. Transmodern Geographies and Coloniality: On Enrique Dussel’s Pluriversal Modernity November 2025 VIEW ISSUE

8. Dictatorship and Repressed Sexuality in Lemebel and Rivas’ “Blokes” November 2025 VIEW ISSUE

9. A Shift in Mexican Coffee Policies: An Analysis of Rural Programs and the Elimination of Intermediaries November 2025 VIEW ISSUE

10. Book Review: Mobilizing the Peasantry Around the World November 2025 VIEW ISSUE

11. Visualizing Food Practices as Resistance in Women’s Anti-Extractive Activism in the Peruvian Andes January 2026 VIEW ISSUE

12. A Feminist Political Ecology on Women’s Environmental Activism from Latin America/Abya Yala January 2026 VIEW ISSUE

13. Neoliberalism Filtered: The Experience of CCTs in South America January 2026 VIEW ISSUE

14. Book Review: A Nuanced Perspective of the Latin American Left January 2026 VIEW ISSUE

 

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1. Felipe Antunes de Oliveira, “Lost and Found: Bourgeois Dependency Theory and the Forgotten Roots of Neodevelopmentalism.” January 2022 VIEW ISSUE

2. Parisa Nourani Rinaldi, “The Age of Transition: Postdevelopment and North-Sough Synergies. January 2022 issue. VIEW ISSUE

3. Sandy Smith-Nonini “The Debt/Energy Nexus behind Puerto Rico’s Long Blackout: From Fossil Colonialism to New Energy Poverty. May 2020 VIEW ISSUE

4. Hannes Warnecke-Berger, “Remittances, the Rescaling of Social Conflicts, and the Stasis of Elite Rule in El Salvador.” VIEW 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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