Editor's Choice Ep. 6: Generation Exile w/ Rodrigo Dorfman
Release Date: 02/29/2024
Editor's Choice Ep. 12: Emergent Quilombos: Black Life and Hip-Hop in Brazil w/ Bryce Henson
Latin American Perspectives
Bryce Henson joins the pod to discuss his book Emergent Quilombos: Black Life and Hip Hop in Brazil (University of Texas Press, 2023). Drawing on ethnographic research in Salvador da Bahia, Henson explores Brazilian hip hop as a diasporic cultural and political movement rooted in Black radical traditions, anti-racist struggle, and collective community formation. Throughout the conversation, the group discusses the historical significance of quilombos in Brazil, the relationship between Blackness and political struggle, the role of hip hop as a form of “quilombismo,” and the...
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U.S. Imperialism Enters a New Stage w/ Steve Ellner
Latin American Perspectives
In this episode of the Latin American Perspectives Podcast, 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. 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. Topics discussed include: Sanctions as a form of warfare Economic coercion and financial blockades U.S. policy toward Venezuela María Corina Machado and the...
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Political Ecology, Gender, and the Environment in Latin America con Mayarí Castillo
Latin American Perspectives
En este episodio del podcast de Latin American Perspectives, conversamos con Mayarí Castillo, socióloga de la Universidad Mayor y coeditora del número de enero de 2026, sobre los principales ejes que estructuran este nuevo dossier. A lo largo de la conversación, abordamos la ecología política como un marco para comprender la relación entre sociedad, naturaleza y poder en América Latina, y exploramos las raíces históricas de los conflictos socioambientales contemporáneos—desde el colonialismo y la formación de los Estados hasta el extractivismo y las crisis climáticas actuales....
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Amazon Rainforest and Socio-Ecological Alternatives in Latin America w/ Claudia Horn
Latin American Perspectives
LAP coordinating editor Claudia Horn (King’s College London) joins the pod to discuss the September 2025 issue: Amazon Rainforest and Socio-Ecological Alternatives in Latin America. What is the Amazon—and how should we understand it beyond dominant environmental, state-centered, or extractivist narratives? Our conversation explores the concept of multiplicity as a way of rethinking the Amazon as a space of diverse social worlds, political struggles, and ways of life. We also examine the forces threatening these worlds, while highlighting the forms of resistance, collective...
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Editor's Choice Ep. 11 (Part 2): Dependency and Crisis in Brazil and Argentina w/ Felipe Antunes de Oliveira
Latin American Perspectives
Part 2 of our interview with Felipe Antunes de Oliveira on his recent book Dependency and Crisis in Brazil and Argentina: A Critique of Market and State Utopias (2024). In this timely and theoretically rigorous work, Antunes de Oliveira examines why the two largest countries in South America fail to materialize the development they continually promise to achieve. Instead of approaching the topic from a policy-failure perspective, he focuses on what public debates reveal about “development” itself. Building on this, Antunes de Oliveira offers a theoretical and empirical critique...
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Editor's Choice Ep. 11: Dependency and Crisis in Brazil and Argentina w/ Felipe Antunes de Oliveira (Part 1)
Latin American Perspectives
In this special two-part edition of Editors’ Choice, Felipe Antunes de Oliveira, joins us to discuss his recent book Dependency and Crisis in Brazil and Argentina: A Critique of Market and State Utopias (2024). In this timely and theoretically rigorous work, Antunes de Oliveira examines why the two largest countries in South America fail to materialize the development they continually promise to achieve. Instead of approaching the topic from a policy-failure perspective, he focuses on what public debates reveal about “development” itself. Building on this, Antunes de Oliveira...
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Editor's Choice Ep. 10: Una historia del cine documental argentino con Javier Campo
Latin American Perspectives
En este episodio, conversamos con Javier Campo, editor de Una historia del cine documental argentino: Tomo 1 (1896–1989) y Tomo 2 (1990-2024), publicados por Prometeo Editorial. La charla recorre la evolución del cine documental argentino desde la era del cine mudo hasta los años de la dictadura y la transición democrática, mostrando cómo distintos realizadores han utilizado el documental para abordar temas de memoria, resistencia y activismo. Javier Campo reflexiona sobre el proceso de investigación y edición detrás de este ambicioso proyecto histórico, y sobre el papel fundamental...
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Immigration, Asylum, and Resistance w/ Sarah England & Alfonso Gonzales Toribio
Latin American Perspectives
Anthropologist Sarah England and Political Scientist Alfonso Gonzales Toribio join the pod to discuss their new issue of LAP “Latin Americans Seeking Asylum in North America,” as well as the history of US immigration policy and the current crisis of immigration enforcement and deportations in the United States. Sarah England is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Soka University of America and the author of Afro-Central Americans in New York City: Garifuna Tales of Transnational Movement through Racialized Space (2006) and Writing Terror on the Bodies of Women: Media Coverage of...
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Cuba, Culture, and Politics w/ Sandra Levinson
Latin American Perspectives
An excerpt from a political education session among LAP editors, featuring remarks by Sandra Levinson, executive director and co-founder of the nonprofit Center for Cuban Studies, and the founder and curator of the Cuban Art Space gallery in Brooklyn, New York. In her talk, Sandra offers her reflections on the contemporary state of Cuban art, culture and politics—drawing on decades of experience engaging with artists, intellectuals, and activists on the island.
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Editor's Choice Ep. 9: Hip-Hop vs. Argentina con Juan Data
Latin American Perspectives
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,...
info_outlineFilmmaker 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
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