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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"Ecología política, género y medio ambiente en América Latina" — la segunda parte de nuestra conversación sobre el número de enero de 2026 de Latin American Perspectives.![]()
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Esta vez vamos directo a la investigación: Mayarí Castillo conversa con cuatro de las autoras del número —Evelyn Arriagada, Paula Contreras, Beatriz Cid y Paula Acuña— sobre el género como categoría crítica en la ecología política. Hablan del agua, el cuidado, la agroecología, la recolección de kolloy, los saberes locales e indígenas y el liderazgo de las mujeres en las luchas socioambientales, desde el norte de Chile hasta la costa mapuche del Biobío.![]()
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In Ep. 12, we speak with sociologist Bryce Henson about his new book Emergent Quilombos: Black Life and Hip-Hop in Brazil — a powerful exploration of Black resistance, diasporic politics, urban inequality, and the radical political possibilities emerging through hip-hop culture in Brazil.![]()
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Drawing on Black radical thought, political economy, and ethnographic research, Henson examines how contemporary “quilombos” continue long traditions of collective struggle against racial capitalism and state violence.![]()
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Twenty years after the historic May 1 immigrant rights mobilizations, the struggle against raids, deportations, militarization, and imperial war continues.![]()
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In this recent op-ed for @calonewsla , Latin American Perspectives editor Alfonso Gonzales Toribio reflects on the political legacy of the 2006 mobilizations and the ongoing fight for immigrant justice and international solidarity.![]()
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A new episode of the Latin American Perspectives Podcast is now available.![]()
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In this episode, Alexander Scott speaks with historian and political scientist Steve Ellner about the changing nature of U.S. imperialism and the escalating political crisis in Venezuela.![]()
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Drawing on Ellner’s recent work, the conversation examines sanctions, economic warfare, “hyper-imperialism,” the Venezuelan opposition, and the broader geopolitical tensions shaping Latin America today.![]()
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The episode also explores: • Sanctions as a form of warfare • The rise of far-right politics in Venezuela • U.S. support for regime change • Debates on the left over anti-imperialism and democracy • The global implications of a new phase of U.S. power![]()
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Steve Ellner is Associate Managing Editor of Latin American Perspectives and a leading scholar of Venezuelan politics and the Latin American left.![]()
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A new piece by our Outreach Coordinator and podcast host, Alexander Scott, examines the recent rise in Latino support for Donald Trump through the lens of political economy, race, and the broader crisis of neoliberalism.![]()
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Published in What’s Going On?, a Substack edited by Daniel Martínez HoSang (Yale University), the article situates contemporary political shifts within longer histories of inequality, restructuring, and right-wing mobilization across the Americas.![]()
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🌿 Open Access Articles — September 2025![]()
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Amazon Rainforest and Socio-Ecological Alternatives in Latin America![]()
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Revisiting this important issue with a selection of open access articles examining environmental governance, Indigenous participation, coloniality, and alternative forms of knowledge in the Amazon.![]()
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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.
MISSION: To encourage class analysis of sociocultural realities and political strategies to transform Latin American sociopolitical structures. We make a conscious effort to publish a diversity of political viewpoints.
NEW ISSUE
The Agrarian Question as an Ecological Question in Latin America
Issue Editors:
Daniela García Grandon
Joana Salém Vasconcelos
Andrew Smolski
Jan. 2024
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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