A podcast for discussion and debate on the political economy of capitalism, imperialism, and socialism in the Americas. For more than forty years Latin American Perspectives has served as the leading academic journal in Latin American Studies, publishing timely, progressive analyses of the social forces shaping contemporary Latin America. We currently produce two podcast: The Latin American Perspectives Podcast & Editors' Choice: Latin American Perspectives' Book Conversations. The Latin American Perspectives Podcast features interviews with LAP issue editors, academics, and activists where participants discuss current research, political-economic issues, and social movements in Latin America. The podcast is hosted by sociologist and LAP coordinating editor Alexander Scott. Editors' Choice features interviews with authors of exciting new books in the fields of Latin American and Latino studies. The series is intended to share critical educational resources and information on a variety of topics and issues in Latin America and provide detailed and in-depth political and theoretical analysis of the texts covered. Editors Choice is hosted by LAP coordinating editors Alexander Scott and Tomas Crowder-Taraborrelli.
Journalist and music historian Juan Data joins us to discuss his 2023 book, Hip-Hop vs. Argentina (Felipe Ibánez Editor)—an in-depth exploration of the evolution of hip-hop culture in Argentina. Drawing on his experiences as an early participant in the scene and his expertise as a music industry journalist, Data traces how hip-hop, once viewed with skepticism, grew into a powerful cultural force among Argentine youth. The book offers a compelling analysis of the social, political, and industry dynamics that fueled this transformation, spotlighting the rise of freestyle battles, trap, and urban music. Widely regarded as Argentina's first dedicated hip-hop journalist, Data launched the fanzine Moshpit Posse in 1996, produced the documentary El Juego (1999), and served as Latin American correspondent for Hip-Hop Nation (Spain). His work has been featured in numerous publications across the U.S. and Europe. In 2020, he released La Evolución del Flow (Walden Editora), a memoir chronicling his early years covering Argentina's hip-hop scene. Hip-Hop vs. Argentina is available for purchase through Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Hip-Hop-Vs-Argentina-Freestyle-identitaria/dp/B0CMMQLTHV
Los editores colaboradores de LAP, Edgars Martínez Navarrete y Richard Stahler-Sholk, acompañan el podcast para conversar sobre su número doble de LAP: Autonomías indígenas frente al capitalismo contemporáneo, publicado en junio y septiembre de 2024. Edgars Martínez Navarrete es Doctor en Antropología Social por el Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social. Actualmente es Investigador de la Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales de la UNAM, y profesor de Antropología Económica en la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana - Iztapalapa y en el CIESAS-CDMX. Investiga temas de antropología política y antropología económica en ámbitos indígenas. Richard Stahler-Sholk es profesor emérito de Eastern Michigan University. Accede a los números aquí: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/lapa/51/4 https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/lapa/51/5 Para más información sobre cómo contactar a la revista, al anfitrión del podcast o a los invitados, por favor escribe a: latampodcasts@gmail.com
LAP contributing editors Nemer Narchi, Gustavo Goulart Moreira Moura, and George Leddy join the pod to discuss the May 2024 issue of LAP, "Blue Economies and Ocean Grabbing in Latin America." Themes covered include the intersections of political economy and marine ecology, environmental justice, and different political-economic and policy paths for the well-being of coastal communities. Nemer E. Narchi is an environmental anthropologist who teaches at the Colegio de Michoacán in México. He has been researching coastal and marine communities since 2000 and currently leads the CoLaboratories of Social Oceanography, a multi-institutional network of coastal scientists bringing social research to the center of coastal science. Gustavo Goulart Moreira Moura is an oceanologist with a doctorate degree in environmental science. He is a professor in the Department of Oceanography at Federal University of Pará in Brazil. He coordinates the research group of decolonial coastal management and is co-coordinator of the Amazonian Maretorios project. George Leddy is currently a professor of environmental science, environmental studies, and geography in the Los Angeles Community College District, where he co-directs the Sustainable Environment Institute. He is also Associate Managing Editor of Latin American Perspectives. Access the May 2024 issue of LAP here: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/lapa/51/3 For additional information about contacting the journal, podcast host, or guests, please contact latampodcasts@gmail.com
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. Access the January 2024 issue of LAP here: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/lapa/51/1 For additional information about contacting the journal, podcast host, or guests, please contact latampodcasts@gmail.com
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 For more information about Latin American Perspectives, our podcasts and guests, please contact latampodcasts@gmail.com
Dando início à Segunda temporada do LAP Editor's Choice, nos juntamos ao renomado cientista político marxista e teórico Armando Boito para discutir seu recém-lançado livro "Reform and Political Crisis in Brazil: Class Conflicts in Workers' Party Governments and the Rise of Bolsonaro Neo-fascism" (disponível em inglês). O livro examina o processo político brasileiro entre os anos de 2003 e 2020, focando nos governos do Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT), suas políticas reformistas, a crise política que levou ao impeachment da presidente Dilma Rousseff, e a ascensão do neofascismo com Bolsonaro. Com base em uma estrutura teórica marxista, Boito argumenta que conflitos ideológicos e partidários estão intimamente ligados aos conflitos distributivos baseados em classe social dentro da sociedade brasileira em geral. Portanto, após a quarta derrota consecutiva nas eleições presidenciais, partidos políticos representando o capital internacional, segmentos da burguesia e a classe média abandonaram normas democráticas com o objetivo de acabar com o ciclo de governança do PT, pavimentando o caminho para a ascensão do neofascismo. Armando Boito é professor de Ciências Políticas na Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brasil, e editor do jornal Crítica Marxista. "Reform and Political Crisis in Brazil" pode ser comprado online através do site Haymarket Books: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2019-reform-and-political-crisis-in-brazil Outras leituras do LAP e Armando Boito: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0094582X221140419 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0094582X19887910 Para mais informações sobre Latin American Perspectives, nossos podcasts e convidados, por favor, entre em contato com: latampodcasts@gmail.com ou lap@ucr.edu Esse episódio foi co-produzido pelos estagiários do LAP, Lara Paredes e Mateus Quesada.
Professor's Kristin Ciupa and Jeffery Webber join the podcast to discuss their new co-edited volume The Labor of Extraction in Latin America that was recently published by Rowman & Littlefield as part of the "Latin American Perspectives in the Classroom" series. This edited volume traces the power of labor in extractive sectors in Latin America starting in the 1980s and shows how labor shapes national export sectors, economies, politics, and societies more broadly. Bringing together a team of international experts who look at labor in several extractive sectors—including oil and gas, mining and agriculture, and migrant labor, the volume presents a variety of viewpoints and case studies, exploring themes of the strategic organizing potential of extractive workers, the rise of informal labor and its impact on organizing and worker solidarity, and migrant labor-power as extraction. Kristin Ciupa is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Regina and the author of the forthcoming book The Political Economy of Oil in Venezuela: Class Conflict, the State, and the World Market. Jeffery R. Webber is a professor of politics at York University, Toronto. He is the author or co-author of five books, and co-editor of two books. Most recently, he co-authored The Impasse of the Latin American Left (Duke 2022) with scholars Franck Gaudichaud and Massimo Modonesi. The Labor of Extraction in Latin America is available for purchase through Rowman & Littlefield at https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538187548/The-Labor-of-Extraction-in-Latin-America For more information about Latin American Perspectives, our podcasts, and guests, please contact latampodcasts@gmail.com or lap@ucr.edu
Filmmaker and author Rodrigo Dorfman joins the podcast to discuss his 2023 memoir Generation Exile: The Lives I Leave Behind. Spanning four continents and a hundred years of personal history, Generation Exile Provides an insightful meditation on one man's experience as a political exile and migrant and his life-long quest to establish family, roots, and a sense of belonging by bearing witness to what he calls the “Nuevo South.” Rodrigo Dorfman is a Chilean-born Latino writer, visual storyteller, performance artist, and the son of famed Chilean writer Ariel Dorfman. His Docu-Memoir, Generation Exile was recently published by Arte Publico Press and is available for purchase online: https://artepublicopress.com/product/generation-exile-the-lives-i-leave-behind/ Additional reading from LAP on Chile and political exile: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0094582X07302902 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0094582X16683374 For more information about Latin American Perspectives, our podcasts, and guests, please contact latampodcasts@gmail.com
LAP contributing editor and ethnomusicologist Jonathan Ritter joins the podcast to discuss the May 2023 issue of LAP Music, Politics, and Social Movements in Latin America. Topics covered include the legacy of influential musical and political movements in Latin America alongside research on more contemporary mobilizations. Jonathan Ritter is the department chair and associate professor of music at the University of California Riverside. His research focuses on the indigenous and Afro-Hispanic musical cultures of Andean South America. Featured music: "El derecho de vivir en paz" - Victor Jara: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkXise2bHE0 "El derecho de vivir en Paz" en las calles de Santiago (2019): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_xRSfjCyrg&t=40s "Dina Asesina" canción himno de las protestas con la voz de mujeres Andinas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKABdgKRHRo "Tukuy Llaqtakuna Hatarisunchik" - Liberato Kani: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhhfe9PXvqg For additional information about contacting the journal, podcast host, or guest please contact latampodcasts@gmail.com
Renowned marxist feminist scholar Nancy Fraser joins us to discuss her recent book Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet – and What We Can Do About It (Verso 2022). In this tightly argued and urgent volume, Fraser charts the voracious appetite of capital, tracking it from crisis point to crisis point, from ecological devastation to the collapse of democracy, from racial violence to the devaluing of care work. These crisis points all come to a head in Covid-19, which Fraser argues can help us envision the resistance we need to end the feeding frenzy. What we need, she argues, is a wide-ranging socialist movement that can recognize the rapaciousness of capital - and starve it to death. Nancy Fraser is Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics at the New School for Social Research, Einstein Fellow of the city of Berlin, and holder of the “Global Justice” Chair at the Collège d'études mondiales in Paris. Her books include Redistribution or Recognition; Adding Insult to Injury; Scales of Justice; Justice Interruptus; and Unruly Practices. Cannibal Capitalism is available for purchase through Verso at https://www.versobooks.com/products/2685-cannibal-capitalism For more information about Latin American Perspectives, our podcasts and guests, please contact latampodcasts@gmail.com
International relations scholar Francesca Lessa joins us to discuss her book The Condor Trials: Transnational Repression and Human Rights in South America, (Yale University Press 2022). Through the voices of survivors and witnesses, human rights activists, judicial actors, journalists, and historians, The Condor Trials unravels the secrets of transnational repression masterminded by South American dictators between 1969 and 1981. Under Operation Condor, their violent and oppressive regimes kidnapped, tortured, and murdered hundreds of exiles, or forcibly returned them to the countries from which they had fled. South America became a zone of terror for those who were targeted, and of impunity for those who perpetuated the violence. Based on extensive fieldwork, archival research, trial ethnography, and over one hundred interviews, The Condor Trials explores South America's past and present and sheds light on ongoing struggles for justice as its societies come to terms with the unparalleled atrocities of their not-so-distant pasts. Dr Francesca Lessa is an Associate Professor in International Relations of the Americas in the Institute of the Americas at University of College London, and holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Prior to joining the faculty at University of College of London, between 2011 and 2023, Dr. Lessa held various roles at the University of Oxford, including Departmental Lecturer in Latin American Studies and Development (2020-2023). Her latest book, The Condor Trials: Transnational Repression and Human Rights in South America, was the winner of the 2023 Juan Méndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America and received an honourable mention for the 2023 Bryce Wood Book Award of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). For more information about Latin American Perspectives, our podcasts, and guests, please contact latampodcasts@gmail.com
El arquitecto y antropólogo Carlos Salamanca Villamizar y socióloga Pamela Colombo conversan con nosotros sobre su libro La Violencia en El Espacio: Políticas urbanas y territoriales durante la dictadura cívico-militar en Argentina (1976-1983) (Universidad Nacional de Rosario Editora 2019). PAMELA COLOMBO, es profesora en el Departamento de Sociología de la Université Laval (Québec, Canada). Es doctora en Sociología por la Universidad del País Vasco (UPV) y fue investigadora Marie Curie en l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris). Sus trabajos se centran en analizar el vínculo entre el espacio, la violencia y el Estado. Ha trabajado sobre el vínculo entre el espacio y la desaparición forzada en Argentina ; sobre la centralidad del espacio en las políticas de contra-insurgencia de la guerra fría en América latina y actualmente trabaja sobre la búsqueda de niños de pueblos originarios desaparecidos en los pensionados en Canadá. Fue investigadora visitante en la City University of New York (USA), Goldsmiths College (UK), Freie Universität Berlin, Ibero-Amerikanische Institut Berlin, Konstanz Universität, Universität Freiburg (Alemania), Centro de Investigaciones Sociales (Argentina) y la Université de Quebec à Montréal. Entre sus publicaciones, se destaca el libro “Espacios de desparición. Vivir e imaginar los lugares de la violencia estatal (Tucumán, 1975-1983)” (Miño y Dávila, 2017), la coedición del libro “Space and the Memories of Violence: Landscapes of Erasure, Disappearance and Exception” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), y la coordinación de varios números especiales. Junto con Carlos Salamanca ha curado la exposición “La violencia en el espacio” que ha sido presentada en diferentes museos en Argentina (2018-2020). CARLOS SALAMANCA VILLAMIZAR es un arquitecto colombiano y argentino. Doctor en Antropología por la École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) de París. Tiene más de 15 años de experiencia trabajando como antropólogo con pueblos indígenas en Argentina, Colombia y Guatemala. Desde 2009 ha sido Investigador Independiente del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas. CONICET-Argentina. Desde 2014 dirije el Programa Interdisciplinario Espacios, Políticas, Sociedades en el Centro de Estudios Interdisciplinarios de la Universidad Nacional de Rosario (UNR) y la colección editorial homónima en la Editorial de la misma Universidad. Se especializa en el trabajo interdisciplinario en torno al espacio como problema epistemológico y político. Sus trabajos en esta línea de investigación han sido publicados en revistas especializadas, recopilaciones y libros, algunos de los cuales son trabajos colaborativos. Ha estado liderando y gestionando proyectos editoriales, museográficos y académicos en torno a los derechos humanos de los pueblos indígenas, la cartografía social, la dimensión social del agua, la justicia espacial, el espacio y los entramados de territorio, violencia y memoria. PLATAFORMA LA VIOLENCIA EN EL ESPACIO: Políticas urbanas y territoriales en contextos autoritarios lve.plataforma@gmail.com Instagram: @violenciaenelespacio https://www.instagram.com/violenciaenelespacio/?hl=en EXPOSICION LA VIOLENCIA EN EL ESPACIO https://violenciaesp.hypotheses.org
Editora contribuyente del LAP Verónica Silva acompaña el podcast para conversar sobre su nuevo número para Marzo 2023: "El Estado y la Acumulación de Capital en México." Los temas discutido incluyen el proceso histórico del neoliberalismo y sus efectos en las políticas, la sociedad, y la económia de México. Además, conversamos sobre la presidencia de Andrés Manuel López Obrador, y los fracasos y succesos de las políticas progresistas en el país. Para más información sobre nuestro publicación, el podcast, o nuestros invitados escribanse a latampodcasts@gmail.com Foto de portada proporcionada por David Bacon.
El sociólogo argentino Daniel Feierstein conversa con nosotros sobre su libro Pandemia: Una balance social y político de la crisis del COVID-19 ( Fondo de Cultura Económica 2021). Durante la pandemia, Feierstein participó en consejos nacionales y provinciales, y grupos interdisciplinarios para enfrentar la crisis de COVID-19. Su libro analiza esta experiencia y las consecuencias diferentes de la pandemia en los vínculos y representaciones sociales. Daniel Feierstein se desempeña como profesor titular de la cátedra Análisis de las Prácticas Sociales Genocidas en la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de Buenos Aires y como director del Centro de Estudios sobre Genocidio y de la Maestría en Diversidad Cultural, ambos en la Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero. Es experto independiente por las Naciones Unidas para la elaboración de las Bases de un Plan Nacional de Derechos Humanos argentino y anteriormente se desempeño como Presidente del Asociación Internacional de Estudiosos del Genocidio. Pandemia: Una balance social y político de la crisis del COVID-19 está disponible para su compra a través del Fondo de Cultura Económica: https://fce.com.ar/tienda/sociologia/pandemia/ La traducción de Inglés está disponible para su compra a través del Routledge: https://www.routledge.com/Social-and-Political-Representations-of-the-COVID-19-Crisis/Feierstein/p/book/9781032212807 Para más información sobre nuestra revista, por favor póngase en contacto con latampodcasts@gmail.com
LAP contributing editors James N. Green and Tulio Ferreira join the podcast to discuss the January 2023 LAP issue "Brazil Under Bolsonaro: Social, Political, and Economic Impacts in the Country and in Latin America." Topics covered include the causes, consequences, and tragedies of Jair Bolsonaro's presidency, the political history of the far-right and fascist movements in Brazil, and the fascist tendencies of Brazil's contemporary far-right. For additional information about contacting the journal, podcast host, or guest please contact latampodcasts@gmail.com. Be sure to check out James N. Green's podcast 'Brazil Unfiltered' : https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/brazil-unfiltered/id1455527001 https://open.spotify.com/show/0nBMVB7KwcEsobBzl4zjYN?si=231042c24e3b4fec
Authors Linda Farthing and Thomas Becker join us on our inaugural episode of "Editor's Choice" to discuss their book Coup: A Story of Violence and Resistance in Bolivia (Haymarket Books 2021). Coup tells the story of the 2019 Bolivian political crisis, providing a critical analysis of the 14 years of the MAS government that preceded it as well as the MAS return to power in 2020. It includes personal stories and commentary from women and men on the streets, leaders in social movements, members of the MAS party and government, survivors of the Áñez government's abuses, and intellectuals. Linda Farthing is a journalist and indepent scholar who reported and commented from Bolivia during the 2019-2020 coup for the Guardian, The Economist, Al Jazeera, Latino USA, NPR, and the BBC. She is the author of four books on Bolivia and a coordinating editor for Latin American Perspectives. Thomas Becker is an activist, attorney, and acadmeic who has worked on human rights issues in Bolivia for over fifteen years. He spent much of 2019-2020 in Bolivia investigating abuses for Harvard Law School. Coup: A Story of Violence and Resistance in Bolivia is available for purchase through Haymarket Books: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1745-coup For additional information about contacting the journal, hosts, and guests please contact latampodcasts@gmail.com
Anthropologist and LAP contributing editor Adrienne Pine discusses the November 2022 issue of LAP "Social Struggle in Neoliberal Central America." Topics covered include neoliberalism and the political-economic roots of violence and conflict in Central America, criticism of prominent (mis)representations of the issues confronting the region, and a case study examining psychiatric hospitals and social movement resistance in Honduras. For additional information about contacting the journal, podcast host, or guest please contact lap.outreach@gmail.com The November 2022 issue of LAP can be accessed through Sage publishing: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/lapa/49/1 For additional information about contacting the journal, host, and guests please contact latampodcasts@gmail.com
Renowned intellectual and LAP contributing editor Professor Ronaldo Munck joins us to discuss the July 2022 issue of LAP "Marxism, Critical Thinking, and Andean Futures." Topics covered include the ideas and life of twentieth-century Marxist intellectual José Carlos Mariátegui, the critical thinking of some contemporary South American intellectuals, and the relevance of theorizing Andean futures and utopias. The July 2022 issue of LAP can be accessed through Sage publishing: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/lapa/49/1 For additional information about contacting the journal, host, and guests please contact latampodcasts@gmail.com
Alexander Scott speaks with LAP founding editor Ronald Chilcote and coordinating editor Joana Salem Vasconcelos to discuss their double issue of LAP "Reassessing Development: Past and Present Marxist Theories of Dependency and Periphery Debates," published in January and March of 2022. Topics covered include the founding and origins of the journal Latin American Perspectives, the history of dependency theory, the importance of marxist political-economic analysis, and how scholars have begun to return to marxist theories of dependency. The January and March 2022 issue(s) of LAP can be accessed through Sage publishing: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/lapa/49/1 For additional information about contacting the journal, host, and guests please contact latampodcasts@gmail.com
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