European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
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description: ERLACS – European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies is an Open Access, scientific journal. It publishes peer-reviewed articles in English and Spanish. Contributions reflect substantial empirical research and/or are theoretically innovative concerning major debates within social science research (understood in the broadest sense, including history and economics) on Latin America and the Caribbean. In addition to research articles, ERLACS includes Special Collections, 'Explorations' (a section in which new themes are presented and new debates are stimulated), review essays, book reviews, and film reviews. Articles are published online soon after they have been accepted. Please see our Guidelines for Authors Sign up for our newsletter! Special Collections: Carceral citizenship in Latin America and the Caribbean, guest edited by Caroline Mary Parker, Julienne Weegels Heritage, protests and coloniality in contemporary Latin America, guest edited by Manuela Badilla, J. Renée Clark, Robert Mason Violent configurations of power in Mexico, guest edited by Adéle Blazquez, Romain Le Cour Grandmaison Venezuela's crisis from global perspectives, guest edited by Benedicte Bull, Antulio Rosales Elite and popular responses to a left in crisis, guest edited by Thomas Chiasson-LeBel, Manuel Larrabure Mega-projects, contentious action, and policy change in Latin America, guest edited by Eduardo Silva, Maria Akchurin, Anthony J. Bebbington ERLACS – Revista Europea de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe es una revista científica de Acceso Abierto. Difunde artículos bajo la revisión de pares en inglés y español. Las contribuciones reflejan la investigación empírica sustancial y/o son teóricamente innovadoras con respecto a los grandes debates dentro de la investigación social (en el sentido más amplio, incluyendo la historia y la economía) en América Latina y el Caribe. Además de los artículos de investigación, ERLACS incluye Números Especiales, 'Exploraciones' (una secci…
publisher: Cedla – Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation |
language: en
publication name: European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
issn: 0924-0608
copyright: Copyright Notice | Nota de derechos ERLACS - The European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies applies the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License (CC BY 4.0) to all articles, published in or after April 2013. ERLACS - La Revista Europea de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe aplica la licencia Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported (CC BY 4.0) a todos los artículos publicados en abril de 2013 o posteriores.
items: Posverdad y democracia en América Latina
items: Artery: Racial ecologies on Colombia’s Magdalena River
items: Incompatível com a vida
items: Indigenous and Afro-descendant territorial justice claims and sociolegal mobilization in Latin America: Future agendas
items: Urban Indigenous territoriality and the politics of climate urbanism in Latin America
items: The changing face of oligarchy in Latin America: Implications for democracy and development
items: Populism and the persistence of Latin America’s underperformance
items: Animals, beaches, stars and spirits: A more-than-human approach to Caribbean ecologies
items: More than adding a “C” to the acronym: Where is the Caribbean in Latin American Studies?
items: Identidad étnica, modernidad y desarrollo en América Latina: Nuevas miradas sobre viejos temas
items: Mapeando los estudios de área sobre América Latina: Características críticas y desafíos
items: Land recovery, territorial autonomy and care under pressure: Disputes in the indigenous territory of Paletara, Colombia
items: Between fear, impunity, agency, and the (new) state, or how to think the Mexican predicament?
items: Sex and Love in Porfirian Mexico City: A Social History of Working-Class Courtship
items: Creating partisans. The organizational roots of new parties in Latin America
items: Brazil after Bolsonaro: The comeback of Lula da Silva
items: Exploring ontologies of the precontact Americas: from individual bodies to bodies of social theory
items: La diáspora de Capdeville: Flujos epistolares y de objetos precolombinos
items: The two faces of fear: Violence and fear in the Mexican metropolis
items: The lost children
items: Bila Burba
items: Spirals of the Caribbean. Representing violence and connection in Haiti and the Dominican Republic
items: Legitimising lithium mining: Global energy transition and green developmentalism in Jujuy, Argentina
items: Pensadores rebeldes
items: Indigenous Plots in Twenty-First Century Latin American Cinema

Posverdad y democracia en América Latina
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description: Abstract: Post-truth and democracy in Latin America Palabras clave: Posverdad, democracia, verdad, academia, América Latina. Post-truth has been linked to growing levels of polarisation and the erosion of democratic practice, including in Latin America. This exploration proposes reflecting on and studying the phenomenon of post-truth and its effects, addressing the risks to democratic life and to coexistence itself. In doing so, we ask specifically what role academia plays as a generator of knowledge and bearer of truth in a context where truth is losing importance. Based on a brief reflection on this issue, we postulate that academia can reclaim its role by undertaking the effort to seek truth hand in hand with the need to create understanding, as conceptualised by Hannah Arendt. Finally, we present some examples of innovative practices and concepts that are emerging as relevant for resisting, disrupting, and overcoming the post-truth political culture. Resumen La posverdad ha sido vinculada a los crecientes niveles de polarización y la erosión de la práctica democrática, así también en América Latina. Esta exploración plantea la necesidad de reflexionar y estudiar el fenómeno de la posverdad y sus efectos, atendiendo a los riesgos para la vida democrática y la convivencia. En ello preguntamos concretamente cuál es el rol de la academia, como generadora de conocimiento y portadora de la verdad, en un contexto en el que la verdad pierde importancia. Con base en una breve reflexión al respecto, se postula que la academia puede reivindicarse asumiendo el esfuerzo por buscar la verdad de la mano de la necesidad de crear comprensión, tal como conceptualizada por Hannah Arendt. Por último, se presentan algunos ejemplos de prácticas innovadoras y conceptos que emergen relevantes para resistir, trastornar y solventar la cultura política de posverdad.
subject: Special Collection | Colección Especial
  topic: section
subject: post-truth
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subject: truth
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subject: academia
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subject: Latin America
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subject: posverdad
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subject: democracia
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subject: verdad
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subject: Latinoamérica
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subject: democracy
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creator: Soledad Valdivia Rivera
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-15
publication date: 2025-12-15
starting page: 87
ending page: 98
doi: 10.32992/erlacs.11447

Artery: Racial ecologies on Colombia’s Magdalena River
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description: Artery: Racial ecologies on Colombia’s Magdalena River, by Austin Zeiderman, Duke University Press, 2025
subject: Book Reviews | Reseñas
  topic: section
subject: Colombia
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subject: river
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subject: río
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creator: Lotte de Jong
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-08
publication date: 2025-12-08
doi: 10.32992/erlacs.11474

Incompatível com a vida
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description: Incompatível com a vida [Incompatible with Life], directed by Eliza Capai, Brazil, 2023
subject: Film reviews | Críticas de cine
  topic: section
subject: Brazil
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subject: life
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subject: vida
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subject: Brasil
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creator: Marina Cheffe
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-11-17
publication date: 2025-11-17
starting page: 1
ending page: 1
doi: 10.32992/erlacs.11442

Indigenous and Afro-descendant territorial justice claims and sociolegal mobilization in Latin America: Future agendas
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description: The multicultural and plurinational constitutional turn of the late twentieth century in Latin America recognised the rights of Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities to land. In the face of deepening neoliberal extractivism, defence of their ancestral territories has involved attempts to enforce legal rights through recourse to the courts alongside advocacy, direct action, and strategies to strengthen place-based forms of autonomy. This essay reviews the balance of scholarship on Indigenous and Afro-descendant mobilisation for collective rights to land through the courts in Latin America and outlines areas for future research. These include the implementation gap; climate justice litigation; rights of nature; transitional justice; cuerpo-territorio; courts and the authoritarian turn; and criminalisation of protest and extrajudicial violence. Resumen: Reclamaciones de justicia territorial y movilización sociojurídica de los pueblos indígenas y afrodescendientes en América Latina: Agendas futuras El giro constitucional multicultural y plurinacional de finales del siglo XX en América Latina reconoció derechos territoriales de las comunidades indígenas y afrodescendientes. Ante la profundización del extractivismo neoliberal, la defensa de sus territorios ancestrales ha implicado intentos de hacer valer sus derechos legales mediante el recurso a las cortes, así como la incidencia política, la acción directa y estrategias para fortalecer sus distintas formas de autonomía territorial. Este ensayo analiza las investigaciones recientes sobre la movilización indígena y afrodescendiente por los derechos colectivos a la tierra a través de las cortes en América Latina y describe áreas para posibles debates de investigación futuros. Estas incluyen la brecha de implementación; el litigio por la justicia climática; los derechos de la naturaleza; la justicia transicional; el cuerpo-territorio; las cortes y el giro autoritario; y la criminalización de la protesta y la violencia …
subject: Special Collection | Colección Especial
  topic: section
subject: Indigenous
  topic: keywords
subject: Afro-descendant
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subject: sociolegal mobilization
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subject: territory
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subject: climate justice
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subject: indígena
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subject: afrodescendiente
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subject: mobilización sociolegal
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subject: territorio
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subject: justicia climática
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creator: Rachel H. Sieder
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-15
publication date: 2025-12-15
starting page: 59
ending page: 73
doi: 10.32992/erlacs.11460

Urban Indigenous territoriality and the politics of climate urbanism in Latin America
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description: Indigenous peoples in Latin America are increasingly urban, yet state imaginaries and scholarly frameworks continue to locate indigeneity in rural spaces. This rural/urban binary is sustained by a model of neoliberal multiculturalism that celebrates cultural difference while denying Indigenous territorial agency in the city. This article challenges these assumptions by arguing that Latin American cities are emerging as key arenas in which Indigenous territoriality is being reconfigured, governed, and defended. Drawing on urban socio-political ecology, it conceptualises Indigenous urbanisation as a reconfiguration of ancestral territorial life rather than its erosion. Through an analysis of Ma-puche organisations in Santiago de Chile, among other cases, the article examines how Indigenous collectives enact territorial claims through environmental stewardship, spiritual practice, and political mobilisation. It situates these practices within uneven urban geographies of climate change, showing how Indigenous ontologies of care and reciprocity underpin resilient socio-ecological governance. The exploration proposes Indigenous climate urbanism as a praxis that contests colonial spatial orders while advancing alternative urban futures grounded in ecological collective authority. Recognising Indigenous urban territoriality as legitimate, structural, and transformative is essential for building climate-just and decolonial cities in Latin America. Resumen: Territorialidad urbana indígena y la política de urbanismo climático en Latinoamérica Los pueblos indígenas en América Latina son cada vez más urbanos, pero los imaginarios estatales y los marcos académicos siguen situando la indigeneidad en los espacios rurales. Esta dicotomía rural/urbana está sustentada por un modelo de multiculturalismo neoliberal que celebra la diferencia cultural al tiempo que niega la agencia territorial indígena en la ciudad. Este artículo cuestiona estas suposiciones al argumentar que las ciudades…
subject: Special Collection | Colección Especial
  topic: section
subject: decolonial urbanism
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subject: Indigenous climate urbanism
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subject: territoriality
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subject: urban governance
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creator: Dana Brablec
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-15
publication date: 2025-12-15
starting page: 75
ending page: 86
doi: 10.32992/erlacs.11459

The changing face of oligarchy in Latin America: Implications for democracy and development
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description: This exploration analyses the evolving nature of oligarchy in Latin America amid technological change and global wealth concentration. While traditional family-based elites rooted in land, commodities, and protected industries continue to dominate, a new tech-based elite has emerged through fintech, e-commerce, and digital platforms. These actors differ from old oligarchs in origin, global mobility, and dependence on digital infrastructure, yet increasingly intersect with established elites through investment alliances and shared economic interests. The exploration argues that their power lies less in direct political intervention and more in infrastructural control over data and digital services, reinforcing new forms of dependency and state capture. Although the tech elite introduces innovation and entrepreneurial dynamism, its limited commitment to taxation, redistribution, and democratic accountability suggests continuity in wealth defence strategies. Rather than transforming power structures, Latin America faces a reconfigured oligarchy with uncertain implications for democracy and development. Resumen: El rostro cambiante de la oligarquía en América Latina: Implicaciones para la democracia y el desarrollo Esta exploración analiza la evolución de la oligarquía en América Latina en un contexto de cambio tecnológico y de creciente concentración global de la riqueza. Aunque las élites tradicionales, basadas en la tierra, los recursos naturales y sectores industriales protegidos, siguen dominando, ha surgido una nueva élite tecnológica vinculada al fintech, al comercio electrónico y a las plataformas digitales. Estos actores difieren de los antiguos oligárquicos en su origen, movilidad global y dependencia de infraestructuras digitales, pero convergen con ellos mediante alianzas de inversión e intereses económicos compartidos. La exploración sostiene que su poder se ejerce menos mediante la intervención política directa y más mediante el control infraestructural de…
subject: Special Collection | Colección Especial
  topic: section
subject: Latin America
  topic: keywords
subject: oligarchy
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subject: technology
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subject: development
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subject: democracy
  topic: keywords
subject: oligarquía
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subject: tecnología
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subject: democracia
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subject: desarrollo
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subject: América Latina
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creator: Benedicte Bull
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-10-29
publication date: 2025-10-29
starting page: 15
ending page: 25
doi: 10.32992/erlacs.11451

Populism and the persistence of Latin America’s underperformance
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description: Populism helps explain democratic and economic underperformance in the region. Far from weakening, populism may be getting stronger. It is currently being boosted by the rise of far-right populism in the United States (and Europe), which was unusual until now. I draw on theories of International Relations to discuss how the Trump administration is boosting populism in the region. Next, I review how a reinvigorated populism will likely continue hurting democracy – it radicalises the state, renders actors less tolerant of pluralism, and opens new avenues of polarisation by reinforcing cultural wars. I then discuss populism and economic development. Although it is conventional to explain populism by invoking economic underperformance, I suggest that, in the region, the causal arrow also goes the other way. Populism yields economic underperformance, which in turn fuels populism. In short, the region seems to be caught in a “populism trap”. Resumen: El populismo y la persistencia del bajo rendimiento de América Latina El populismo ayuda a explicar el bajo rendimiento democrático y económico de la región. Lejos de debilitarse, el populismo puede estar fortaleciéndose. Actualmente se ve impulsado por el auge del populismo de extrema derecha en Estados Unidos (y Europa), algo inusual hasta ahora. Me baso en teorías de Relaciones Internacionales para analizar cómo la administración Trump está impulsando el populismo en la región. Seguidamente analizo cómo es probable que un populismo revitalizado siga perjudicando la democracia: radicaliza al Estado, hace que los actores sean menos tolerantes con el pluralismo y abre nuevas vías de polarización al reforzar las guerras culturales. Luego analizo el populismo y el desarrollo económico. Aunque lo habitual es explicar el populismo invocando los malos resultados económicos, sugiero que en la región la relación causal también funciona en sentido contrario. El populismo genera malos resultados económicos, lo que a su vez alimenta el…
subject: Special Collection | Colección Especial
  topic: section
subject: populism trap
  topic: keywords
subject: emulation
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subject: polarisation
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subject: bandwagoning
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subject: human capital
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subject: tax structures
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creator: Javier Corrales
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-10-15
publication date: 2025-10-15
starting page: 1
ending page: 13
doi: 10.32992/erlacs.11449

Animals, beaches, stars and spirits: A more-than-human approach to Caribbean ecologies
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description: This Exploration highlights recent and emergent themes in the study of Caribbean ecologies across the social sciences and humanities. It draws particular attention to the field of black ecologies, which extends a longstanding engagement with the socio-ecological legacies of colonialism and plantation slavery, foregrounding the racialized nature of environmental harm while also underlining the various forms of worldmaking and free-dom afforded by Caribbean ecologies. After sketching the main concerns in existing analyses of Caribbean ecologies, it explores how such approaches might be connected to new avenues for research, through four subsections that focus respectively on animals, beaches, stars and spirits. In so doing, it outlines the possibility of new conversations between Caribbean, black and more-than-human theory, demonstrating how Caribbean ecological thought and practice involve explicitly political post-humanist approaches. Resumen: Animales, playas, estrellas y espíritus: un enfoque más que humano a la ecología caribeña Esta exploración resalta temas recientes y emergentes en el estudio de las ecologías caribeñas en las ciencias sociales y las humanidades. Presta especial atención al campo de las ecologías negras, que amplía un compromiso de larga data con el legado socioecológico del colonialismo y la esclavitud en las plantaciones, poniendo de relieve la naturaleza racializada del daño medioambiental y, al mismo tiempo, subrayando las diversas formas de construcción del mundo y de la libertad que ofrecen las ecologías caribeñas. Tras esbozar las principales preocupaciones de los análisis existentes sobre las ecologías caribeñas, explora cómo estos enfoques podrían conectarse con nuevas vías de investigación a través de cuatro subsecciones centradas, respectivamente, en los animales, las playas, las estrellas y los espíritus. Al hacerlo, esboza la posibilidad de nuevas conversaciones entre la teoría caribeña, negra y más que humana, demostrando cómo el …
subject: Special Collection | Colección Especial
  topic: section
subject: Caribbean
  topic: keywords
subject: ecology
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subject: Caribe
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subject: ecología
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creator: Alana Osbourne
creator: Rivke Jaffe
creator: Olivia Gomes da Cunha
creator: Wigbertson Julian Isenia
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-08
publication date: 2025-12-08
starting page: 35
ending page: 47
doi: 10.32992/erlacs.11446

More than adding a “C” to the acronym: Where is the Caribbean in Latin American Studies?
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description: In principle, Latin American studies tend to include the Caribbean. In practice, however, the non-Spanish-speaking Caribbean remains off the radar. It is time to rethink this marginalisation of the closest of neighbours. If Latin American studies have – at times implicitly, at times formally – added an “and the Caribbean” into their name, they need to do more to live up to that claim. They need to do so not for the sake of fairness towards smaller countries, but because the Caribbean is central to understanding how the world, Europe and Latin America have evolved over the past 500-plus years, and continue to evolve today. Resumen Más que una “C”en el acrónimo: ¿Dónde está el Caribe en los estudios latinoamericanos? En principio, los estudios latinoamericanos suelen incluir el Caribe. Sin embargo, en la práctica, el Caribe no hispanohablante sigue sin estar presente. Es hora de replantearse esta marginación de los vecinos más cercanos. Si los estudios latinoamericanos han añadido, a veces de forma implícita, otras veces de forma explícita, “el Caribe” a su nombre, deben esforzarse más para estar a la altura de esa afirmación. Deben hacerlo no por una cuestión de justicia hacia los países más pequeños, sino porque el Caribe es fundamental para comprender cómo han evolucionado el mundo, Europa y América Latina durante los últimos 500 años, y cómo siguen evolucionando en la actualidad.
subject: Special Collection | Colección Especial
  topic: section
subject: Caribbean
  topic: keywords
subject: Latin American studies
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subject: Europe
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subject: US Virgin Islands
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subject: identities
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subject: politics
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subject: history
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subject: Caribe
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subject: estudios latinoamericanos
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subject: Europa
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subject: Islas Vírgenes estadounidenses
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subject: identidades
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subject: política
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subject: historia
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creator: Bert Hoffmann
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-11-17
publication date: 2025-11-17
starting page: 27
ending page: 33
doi: 10.32992/erlacs.11445

Identidad étnica, modernidad y desarrollo en América Latina: Nuevas miradas sobre viejos temas
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description: Abstract: Ethnic identity, modernity and development in Latin America: New perspectives on old issues The study of the relations of domination exercised over Indigenous peoples, as well as their responses to these strategies, has been a classic theme of Latin American studies. In this article, I want to explore the possibilities this theme offers by tracing the historical interweaving of two vectors that have helped shape the meanings and signifiers of Indigenous collective identities. These are the modernity-development tandem (modernity understood as a trans-secular process and development as its contemporary derivative), and ethnicity as a political platform that forms a significant component of the strategies of the subaltern sectors. Resumen El estudio de las relaciones de dominación ejercidas sobre los pueblos indígenas, así como el de las respuestas de estos desplegadas frente a ellas, ha sido un ámbito temático clásico de los estudios latinoamericanos. En esta exploración, se quieren sondear las posibilidades que brinda su abordaje desde el prisma del entrecruzamiento histórico de dos vectores que han coadyuvado a moldear los significados y significantes de sus identidades colectivas: el tándem modernidad-desarrollo (la modernidad entendida como proceso transecular y el desarrollo como su derivada contemporánea), y la etnicidad como cons-tructo articulador de buena parte de las estrategias de los sectores subalternos.
subject: Special Collection | Colección Especial
  topic: section
subject: modernity
  topic: keywords
subject: development
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subject: ethnic identity
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subject: indigenous
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subject: Latin America
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subject: modernidad
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subject: desarrollo
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subject: identidad étnica
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subject: indígena
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subject: Latinoamérica
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creator: Víctor Bretón Solo de Zaldívar
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-08
publication date: 2025-12-08
doi: 10.32992/erlacs.11441

Mapeando los estudios de área sobre América Latina: Características críticas y desafíos
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description: Abstract: Mapping Latin America area studies: Critical characteristics and challenges Area studies on Latin America have been criticised for their allegedly descriptive nature, limited theoretical contribution, and lack of methodological rigour. After highlighting the main contributions of area studies, this paper analyses the extent to which these criticisms reflect reality. Based on a review of 801 articles from 10 specialised journals in the region, our work identifies the primary approaches, research topics and most prevalent debates. It reports on trends, gaps and opportunities for the current research agenda. In particular, it examines the extent to which the literature addresses the significant challenges facing Latin America, including climate change, migration, democratic erosion, and organised crime. The article concludes by arguing that the study of complex phenomena requires an interdisciplinary, comparative, and eclectic perspective, both theoretically and methodologically, as well as greater dialogue with other regions and subregions of the world. Resumen Los estudios de área sobre América Latina han sido objeto de críticas por su presunto carácter descriptivo, su escaso aporte teórico y su limitada rigurosidad metodológica. Luego de destacar los principales aportes de los estudios de área, este trabajo analiza en qué medida dichas críticas reflejan la realidad. A partir de una revisión de 801 artículos provenientes de 10 revistas especializadas en la región, nuestro trabajo identifica los principales enfoques, temas de investigación y debates más predominantes, y da cuenta de las tendencias, vacíos y oportunidades para la agenda investigativa actual. En particular, se examina hasta qué punto la literatura aborda los grandes desafíos que enfrenta América Latina, como el cambio climático, los procesos migratorios, la erosión democrática y el crimen organizado. El artículo concluye argumentando que el estudio de fenómenos complejos requiere una perspecti…
subject: Explorations | Exploraciones
  topic: section
subject: estudios de área
  topic: keywords
subject: temas de análisis
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subject: enfoques teóricos
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subject: métodos de investigación
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subject: América Latina
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creator: Rossana Castiglioni
creator: Guzmán Ibarra González
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-15
publication date: 2025-12-15
starting page: 99
ending page: 110
doi: 10.32992/erlacs.11438

Land recovery, territorial autonomy and care under pressure: Disputes in the indigenous territory of Paletara, Colombia
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description: In the headwaters of the River Cauca, in the Paletara reserve, inhabited by the Yanacona and Kokonuko people, as well as several peasant families, the community defends its proposals for territorial autonomy and care. Both are rooted in the process of recovering their communal lands amid territorial and relational disputes with Irish multinational Smurfit Westrock, which receives funding through a CO2 offset program. In Paletara these carbon credit markets are presented as strategies that aim to mitigate the impacts of the climate crisis, but in practice are another form of extractivism that demands large quantities of water and land, pushing for the transformation of existing relationships in Paletara in the logic of market economics and the creation of dependency relationships that seek to undermine the territorial autonomy of the community. Resumen: Recuperación de tierras, autonomía territorial y cuidado bajo presión: Disputas y transformación en el territorio indígena de Cauca, Colombia En el nacimiento del río Cauca, en el resguardo de Paletara, habitado por indígenas del pueblo Kokonuko y Yanacona como también por familias campesinas, la comunidad defiende sus propuestas de autonomía y de cuidado del territorio. Ambas están enraizadas en el proceso de recuperación de sus tierras comunales en medio de disputas territoriales y relacionales con la multinacional irlandesa Smurfit Westrock, que recibe financiamiento a través de un programa de compensación de CO2. En Paletara este mercado de captura de CO2 se presenta como una estrategia que apunta a mitigar los impactos de la crisis climática, pero en la práctica es otra forma de extractivismo que demanda grandes cantidades de agua y tierra e impulsan la transformación de las relaciones existentes en Paletara en una lógica de economía de mercado, creando relaciones de dependencia que buscan socavar la autonomía territorial de la comunidad.
subject: Articles | Artículos
  topic: section
subject: Territorial Autonomy; Care; Payment for Environmental Services; Green Colonialism
  topic: keywords
creator: Moritz Tenthoff
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-09-11
publication date: 2025-09-11
starting page: 47
ending page: 68
doi: 10.32992/erlacs.11228

Between fear, impunity, agency, and the (new) state, or how to think the Mexican predicament?
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description: Book Review Essay by Wil G. Pansters – Bootstrap Justice. The Search for Mexico’s Disappeared, by Janice K. Gallagher, Oxford University Press, 2023. – Sovereignty and Extortion. A New State Form in Mexico, by Claudio Lomnitz, Duke University Press, 2024. – The Two Faces of Fear. Violence and Inequality in the Mexican Metropolis, by Ana Villareal, Oxford University Press, 2024.
subject: Review Essays | Ensayos de reseña
  topic: section
subject: violence
  topic: keywords
subject: violencia
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subject: Mexico
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subject: México
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creator: Wil G. Pansters
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-09-11
publication date: 2025-09-11
starting page: 81
ending page: 88
doi: 10.32992/erlacs.11436

Sex and Love in Porfirian Mexico City: A Social History of Working-Class Courtship
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description: Sex and Love in Porfirian Mexico City: A Social History of Working-Class Courtship, by Michael Matthews, University of Florida Press, 2025
subject: Book Reviews | Reseñas
  topic: section
subject: Love
  topic: keywords
subject: Mexico
  topic: keywords
subject: Porfiriato
  topic: keywords
subject: History
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creator: Kevin Anzzolin
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-10-09
publication date: 2025-10-09
starting page: 2.
ending page: 2.
doi: 10.32992/erlacs.11415

Creating partisans. The organizational roots of new parties in Latin America
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description: Creating Partisans. The Organizational Roots of New Parties in Latin America. By Mathias Poertner, Cambridge University Press, 2024.
subject: Book Reviews | Reseñas
  topic: section
subject: Organizational
  topic: keywords
subject: Partisan
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subject: Parties
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creator: Pablo Velasco-Oña
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-09-25
publication date: 2025-09-25
starting page: 1
ending page: 1
doi: 10.32992/erlacs.11403

Brazil after Bolsonaro: The comeback of Lula da Silva
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description: Brazil after Bolsonaro: The comeback of Lula da Silva, edited by Richard Bourne, Routledge, 2024
subject: Book Reviews | Reseñas
  topic: section
subject: Brazil
  topic: keywords
creator: Sven da Silva
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-05-07
publication date: 2025-05-07
starting page: 5
ending page: 5
doi: 10.32992/erlacs.11383

Exploring ontologies of the precontact Americas: from individual bodies to bodies of social theory
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description: Exploring ontologies of the precontact Americas: from individual bodies to bodies of social theory, by Gordon F. M. Rakita and María Cecilia Lozada (eds.), University of Florida Press, 2024
subject: Book Reviews | Reseñas
  topic: section
subject: onthologies
  topic: keywords
subject: America
  topic: keywords
subject: body
  topic: keywords
creator: Jorge Olaechea Catter
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-05-07
publication date: 2025-05-07
starting page: 4
ending page: 4
doi: 10.32992/erlacs.11382

La diáspora de Capdeville: Flujos epistolares y de objetos precolombinos
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description: La diáspora de Capdeville: Flujos epistolares y de objetos precolombinos, by Benjamín Ballester, Pampa Negra Ediciones, 2024
subject: Book Reviews | Reseñas
  topic: section
subject: Chile
  topic: keywords
creator: Joaquín Molina
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-04-24
publication date: 2025-04-24
starting page: 3
ending page: 3
doi: 10.32992/erlacs.11374

The two faces of fear: Violence and fear in the Mexican metropolis
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description: The two faces of fear: Violence and fear in the Mexican metropolis, by Ana Villarreal. Oxford University Press, 2024
subject: Book Reviews | Reseñas
  topic: section
subject: violence
  topic: keywords
subject: violencia
  topic: keywords
subject: México
  topic: keywords
subject: Mexico
  topic: keywords
creator: Francis Adams
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-04-24
publication date: 2025-04-24
starting page: 2
ending page: 2
doi: 10.32992/erlacs.11373

The lost children
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description: The Lost Children, directed by Orlando von Einsiedel, Jorge Duran, and Lali Houghton. Colombia, 2024
subject: Film reviews | Críticas de cine
  topic: section
subject: Colombia
  topic: keywords
subject: children
  topic: keywords
creator: Linda Koncz
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-04-24
publication date: 2025-04-24
starting page: 2
ending page: 2
doi: 10.32992/erlacs.11370

Bila Burba
type: item
description: Bila Burba, directed by Duiren Wagua, Panama, 2023
subject: Film reviews | Críticas de cine
  topic: section
subject: Panama
  topic: keywords
creator: Jasper Vanhaelemeesch
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-04-24
publication date: 2025-04-24
starting page: 1
ending page: 1
doi: 10.32992/erlacs.11364

Spirals of the Caribbean. Representing violence and connection in Haiti and the Dominican Republic
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description: Spirals of the Caribbean. Representing violence and connection in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, by Sophie Maríñez. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024
subject: Book Reviews | Reseñas
  topic: section
subject: Haiti
  topic: keywords
subject: Dominican Republic
  topic: keywords
subject: República Dominicana
  topic: keywords
subject: violencia
  topic: keywords
subject: violence
  topic: keywords
creator: Michiel Baud
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-02-05
publication date: 2025-02-05
starting page: 1
ending page: 1
doi: 10.32992/erlacs.11344

Legitimising lithium mining: Global energy transition and green developmentalism in Jujuy, Argentina
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description: The global green energy transition towards a low-carbon economy via decarbonisation is in-creasing the demand for and exploitation of so-called critical resources, including lithium. The growing demand for lithium, which, as a raw material, is primarily found in countries of the global South, has sparked a new debate on the global interdependencies, unequal ecological and economic exchange and unevenness of the energy transition between the global North and South. In this context, concepts such as green extractivism, green colonialism and green sacrifice zones have emerged. In this article, we build on this strand of literature, assuming that decarbonisation – as the overarching goal of the energy transition – influences the decisions taken over lithium mining and the narratives used for its legitimisation. It remains an open question, however, how the legitimisation of lithium mining is being shaped by decarbonisation and energy transition goals. What narratives are being used, by whom, how and with what socio-political and socio-economic effects? In Argentina, there are numerous lithium mining projects, and conflicts only arise in a fraction of them. We focus on two lithium mining projects at the Salar de Olaroz-Cauchari, Jujuy, where protests against the mines have been largely absent. We analyse the narratives applied by governmental and corporate actors. The theoretical underpinning of the analysis is based on a dialectical understanding of narratives, whereby narratives are seen as contingent products of social and global-local (multiscalar) interactions. We argue that, in order to become powerful and to legitimise lithium mining, two core narratives are applied by its proponents: a green development and industrialisation narrative and a climate protection narrative. Both narratives are increasingly linked to global discourses of green energy transition and are part of an emerging green developmentalist dispositive that manifests in new institutions, laws and …
subject: Articles | Artículos
  topic: section
subject: energy transition
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subject: lithium mining
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subject: Argentina
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subject: Green developmentalism
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subject: narratives
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subject: transición energética
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subject: minería del litio
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subject: desarrollismo verde
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creator: Felix Malte Dorn
creator: Kristina Dietz
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-17
publication date: 2024-12-17
starting page: 43
ending page: 66
doi: 10.32992/erlacs.11121

Pensadores rebeldes
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description: Pensadores rebeldes, by Cristóbal Kay, Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales, 2023
subject: Book Reviews | Reseñas
  topic: section
subject: pensadores
  topic: keywords
creator: Ton Salman
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-17
publication date: 2024-12-17
starting page: 8
ending page: 8
doi: 10.32992/erlacs.11320

Indigenous Plots in Twenty-First Century Latin American Cinema
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description: Indigenous Plots in Twenty-First Century Latin American Cinema, by Maria Chiara D’Argenio, Springer, 2022
subject: Book Reviews | Reseñas
  topic: section
subject: cinema
  topic: keywords
subject: indigenous
  topic: keywords
creator: Milton Fernando González Rodríguez
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-17
publication date: 2024-12-17
starting page: 7
ending page: 7
doi: 10.32992/erlacs.11319