Latin American Perspectives
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 podcasts: Latin American Perspectives & Editors' Choice: Latin American Perspectives' Book Conversations. Latin American Perspectives 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.
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Political Ecology, Gender, and the Environment in Latin America (Parte 2): conversación con las autoras del número
08/03/2026
Political Ecology, Gender, and the Environment in Latin America (Parte 2): conversación con las autoras del número
En esta segunda parte de nuestra conversación sobre el número de enero de 2026 de Latin American Perspectives, "Political Ecology, Gender and the Environment in Latin America", vamos directamente a la investigación junto a cuatro de las autoras del dossier. La discusión, facilitada por la coeditora del número Mayarí Castillo (socióloga de la Universidad Mayor), reúne a Evelyn Arriagada, Paula Contreras, Beatriz Cid y Paula Acuña para explorar cómo el género funciona como categoría crítica en la ecología política y los estudios ambientales en América Latina. A lo largo del episodio, las autoras conversan sobre el agua, el cuidado, la agroecología, la recolección de algas y la defensa de los territorios; sobre el diálogo del género con la interseccionalidad, los saberes locales e indígenas y la relación con la naturaleza; y sobre el protagonismo de las mujeres en las luchas socioambientales, desde el norte de Chile hasta la costa mapuche del Biobío. Si aún no la has escuchado, te recomendamos comenzar por la primera parte, nuestra conversación con Mayarí Castillo sobre los grandes ejes que estructuran el número. 🎧 Escucha la primera parte: 📖 Explora el número de enero de 2026 aquí: Invitadas y sus artículos Evelyn Arriagada — "A Feminist Political Ecology on Women's Environmental Activism from Latin America/Abya Yala" (acceso abierto). Propone una ecología política feminista situada para leer el activismo ambiental de las mujeres más allá del maternalismo y de una cercanía "esencial" con la naturaleza. Paula Contreras (con Mayarí Castillo, Camila Cuevas y Pablo González) — "Water Scarcity, Gender, and Community Organization in Coquimbo, Chile". Sobre la organización comunitaria frente a la escasez hídrica en la provincia del Limarí y el papel del género en esos procesos. Beatriz Cid (con Magaly Mella Abalos y otros/as) — "Mapuche Lafkenche Women: Pursuing the Economic Revitalization of Kolloy and Caring for the Commons on the Tirúa Coast". Sobre las mujeres lafkenche, la recolección de kolloy y el cuidado de los bienes comunes en la costa de Tirúa. Paula Acuña — "The Ethic of Care in the Practices of Chilean Campesinas: Agroecological Responses in the Face of Climate Uncertainty". Sobre la ética del cuidado en las prácticas agroecológicas de campesinas en Paine frente a la incertidumbre climática. Introducción al dossier: Mayarí Castillo y Katy Jenkins, "Political Ecology, Gender, and the Environment in Latin America: An Introduction to the Field". Sigue a Latin American Perspectives Síguenos en Facebook, Instagram y Twitter/X, y suscríbete y califica el podcast en Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube o la aplicación de tu preferencia. Las suscripciones anuales impresas a la revista parten en US$ 74,00, con tarifas rebajadas para estudiantes y miembros de la Latin American Studies Association.
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Editor's Choice Ep. 13: P FKN R: Bad Bunny and Puerto Rican Resistance w/ Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau
07/09/2026
Editor's Choice Ep. 13: P FKN R: Bad Bunny and Puerto Rican Resistance w/ Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau
Hosts Alexander Scott and Tomás Crowder-Taraborrelli speak with Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau about their new book P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance (Duke University Press, 2026). Díaz and Rivera-Rideau — creators of the "Bad Bunny Syllabus" — situate Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio within more than a century of Puerto Rican history and a much longer tradition of music as resistance. The conversation traces the political and economic conditions that shaped Bad Bunny's formative years: the end of Section 936, the debt crisis and the imposition of the fiscal oversight board Puerto Ricans call La Junta, the gentrification and displacement accelerated by Acts 20/22, and the devastation and abandonment of Hurricane María. Vanessa shares her family's own experience of the storm and its aftermath, and both authors discuss the summer 2019 uprising that forced Governor Ricardo Rosselló's resignation — with particular attention to the Black feminist organizing of Colectiva Feminista en Construcción and the deep genealogy connecting bomba and plena to reggaetón and perreo as forms of communal protest. They close with Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime performance, the politics of a Spanish-language anti-colonial statement on one of the most-watched stages in the world, and why, in Puerto Rico, the party is the protest. Vanessa Díaz is associate professor of Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies at Loyola Marymount University and author of Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood (Duke University Press, 2020). Petra R. Rivera-Rideau is associate professor of American Studies at Wellesley College and author of Remixing Reggaetón: The Cultural Politics of Race in Puerto Rico (Duke University Press, 2015) and Fitness Fiesta!: Selling Latinx Culture through Zumba (Duke University Press, 2024). Get the book: P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance is available now from Duke University Press: (also available in Spanish) Explore the Bad Bunny Syllabus: Support Latin American Perspectives: Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, TikTok, and Bluesky to stay up to date on new issues, articles, and episodes. Subscribe and rate the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, or your preferred listening app. Annual print subscriptions to the journal start at $74, with discounted rates for students and LASA members. Your subscription helps sustain a critical space for internationalist, anti-capitalist, and decolonial scholarship.
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US Imperialism and Cuban Development w/ Andrew Smolski
07/03/2026
US Imperialism and Cuban Development w/ Andrew Smolski
Alexander Scott speaks with rural sociologist Andrew Smolski about U.S. imperialism and the long history of empire in Cuban development. Drawing on Smolski's archival research and his work on Cuban agriculture, the conversation traces how imperialism has shaped Cuba's capacity to develop across five centuries — from Spanish colonialism, the Haitian Revolution, and the rise of the sugar-slavery complex, through U.S. occupation and the Platt Amendment era, to a blockade now in its seventh decade — and asks what it would mean for development research to treat imperialism as a condition of development rather than mere background. Andrew Smolski is an assistant professor of rural sociology in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education at The Pennsylvania State University, and a member of the Latin American Perspectives editorial collective. Further reading from our guest: "Interrogating Structural Conditions for Agricultural Production: A Comparative-Historical Study of Cuban Incorporation, Delinking, and Exile," Journal of World-Systems Research 28(2), 2022 (open access): The Agrarian Question as an Ecological Question in Latin America, special issue of Latin American Perspectives (January 2024), co-edited with Daniela García Grandón and Joana Salém Vasconcelos: Violence, Capital Accumulation, and Resistance in Contemporary Latin America, special issue of Latin American Perspectives (January 2021), co-edited with Matthew Lorenzen: "Class Struggle and Violence in Latin American Cities," Latin American Perspectives 48(1): For more information about Latin American Perspectives, our podcasts, and guests, please contact . Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, or your preferred listening platform.
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Editor's Choice Ep. 12: Emergent Quilombos: Black Life and Hip-Hop in Brazil w/ Bryce Henson
05/13/2026
Editor's Choice Ep. 12: Emergent Quilombos: Black Life and Hip-Hop in Brazil w/ Bryce Henson
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 intersections of race, class, gender, and diaspora in contemporary Brazil. Bryce Henson is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at Texas A&M University, with affiliations in Africana Studies and the Race and Ethnic Studies Institute. He is also an affiliated researcher with the Pós-Afro Program at the Universidade Federal da Bahia and serves as Associate Editor for Transforming Anthropology. Emergent Quilombos: Black Life and Hip Hop in Brazil can be purchased here: Spotify Playlist Curated by Bryce Henson: Subscribe to Latin American Perspectives A journal for discussion and debate on the political economy of capitalism, imperialism, and socialism in the Americas.
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U.S. Imperialism Enters a New Stage w/ Steve Ellner
05/08/2026
U.S. Imperialism Enters a New Stage w/ Steve Ellner
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 Venezuelan far right Debates on the left surrounding anti-imperialism and democracy The global implications of a new phase of U.S. power Steve Ellner is a historian and political scientist who taught for over two decades at the Universidad de Oriente in Venezuela. He is Associate Managing Editor of Latin American Perspectives and the author of numerous books and articles on Venezuelan politics, the Latin American left, and the Chávez era. Further Reading from Steve Ellner CounterPunch — “U.S. Imperialism Enters a New Stage” Jacobin — “Trump, Latin America, and the Left Opposition” Venezuelanalysis Author Page Venezuela Solidarity Network — María Corina Machado & Venezuela
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Political Ecology, Gender, and the Environment in Latin America con Mayarí Castillo
04/30/2026
Political Ecology, Gender, and the Environment in Latin America con Mayarí Castillo
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. También discutimos el papel central del género y de la ecología política feminista para repensar cómo estas luchas se viven, se disputan y se transforman. Este episodio ofrece una puerta de entrada accesible al número, al tiempo que destaca su relevancia para entender las dinámicas actuales de desigualdad, territorio y conflicto ambiental en la región. 🎧 Escucha el episodio 📖 Explora el número de enero de 2026 aquí:
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Amazon Rainforest and Socio-Ecological Alternatives in Latin America w/ Claudia Horn
04/23/2026
Amazon Rainforest and Socio-Ecological Alternatives in Latin America w/ Claudia Horn
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 action, and alternative socio-ecological futures emerging across the region. Drawing on contributions from across the issue, this episode situates the Amazon within broader debates on global capitalism, environmental crisis, and the possibilities for more just and sustainable futures. Access the issue here: . For additional information about contacting the journal, podcast host, or guests, please contact latampodcasts@gmail.com
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Editor's Choice Ep. 11 (Part 2): Dependency and Crisis in Brazil and Argentina w/ Felipe Antunes de Oliveira
02/22/2026
Editor's Choice Ep. 11 (Part 2): Dependency and Crisis in Brazil and Argentina w/ Felipe Antunes de Oliveira
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 of neoliberal and neodevelopmentalist ideas surrounding cycles of structural reform in Brazil and Argentina, drawing on dependency theory to propose an alternative political economic framework for analyzing development challenges. 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. Outside the academy, he has served as a diplomat for the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as General Coordinator of International Financial Affairs at the Brazilian Ministry of Finance in 2024, and, since December 2024, as an Alternate Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund. Dependency and Crisis in Brazil and Argentina is available for purchase through the University of Pittsburgh Press: For more information about Latin American Perspectives, our podcasts, and guests, please contact latampodcasts@gmail.com
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Editor's Choice Ep. 11: Dependency and Crisis in Brazil and Argentina w/ Felipe Antunes de Oliveira (Part 1)
12/19/2025
Editor's Choice Ep. 11: Dependency and Crisis in Brazil and Argentina w/ Felipe Antunes de Oliveira (Part 1)
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 offers a theoretical and empirical critique of neoliberal and neodevelopmentalist ideas surrounding cycles of structural reform in Brazil and Argentina, drawing on dependency theory to propose an alternative political economic framework for analyzing development challenges. 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. Outside the academy, he has served as a diplomat for the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as General Coordinator of International Financial Affairs at the Brazilian Ministry of Finance in 2024, and, since December 2024, as an Alternate Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund. Dependency and Crisis in Brazil and Argentina is available for purchase through the University of Pittsburgh Press: For more information about Latin American Perspectives, our podcasts, and guests, please contact latampodcasts@gmail.com
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Editor's Choice Ep. 10: Una historia del cine documental argentino con Javier Campo
11/03/2025
Editor's Choice Ep. 10: Una historia del cine documental argentino con Javier Campo
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 que el cine documental ha desempeñado en la vida política y cultural de la Argentina. También analizamos la relevancia de este género para comprender las luchas más amplias en América Latina en torno a la historia, la representación y la política de la imagen. Javier Campo es investigador del CONICET especializado en el cine documental argentino. Es autor de Revolución y Democracia: El cine documental argentino del exilio y Jorge Prelorán: Cineasta de las culturas populares argentinas, y editor de A Trail of Fire for Political Cinema: The Hour of the Furnaces Fifty Years Later. Actualmente es presidente de la Asociación Argentina de Estudios de Cine y Audiovisual (AsAECA). Encuentra Una historia del cine documental argentino: Tomo 1 (1896–1989) y Tomo 2 (1990-2024) en .
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Immigration, Asylum, and Resistance w/ Sarah England & Alfonso Gonzales Toribio
08/26/2025
Immigration, Asylum, and Resistance w/ Sarah England & Alfonso Gonzales Toribio
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 Violence against Women in Guatemala (2018). She has served as an expert witness in asylum cases since 2012. Alfonso Gonzales Toribio is Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He is the Director and Founder of the Latino and American Studies Research Center, Ronald H. Chilcote Endowed Chair in Latino and Latin American Studies, and has been long serving community organizer, immigrant rights advocate, and expert witness in asylum cases. Access their issue here: For additional information about contacting the journal, podcast host, or guests, please contact latampodcasts@gmail.com
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Cuba, Culture, and Politics w/ Sandra Levinson
08/15/2025
Cuba, Culture, and Politics w/ Sandra Levinson
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
04/14/2025
Editor's Choice Ep. 9: Hip-Hop vs. Argentina con Juan Data
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
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Autonomías Indígenas con Edgars Martínez Navarette y Richard Stahler-Sholk
03/31/2025
Autonomías Indígenas con Edgars Martínez Navarette y Richard Stahler-Sholk
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: Para más información sobre cómo contactar a la revista, al anfitrión del podcast o a los invitados, por favor escribe a:
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Blue Economies and Ocean Grabbing in Latin America
12/22/2024
Blue Economies and Ocean Grabbing in Latin America
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: For additional information about contacting the journal, podcast host, or guests, please contact latampodcasts@gmail.com
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The Agrarian Question as an Ecological Question
11/25/2024
The Agrarian Question as an Ecological Question
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: For additional information about contacting the journal, podcast host, or guests, please contact latampodcasts@gmail.com
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Editor's Choice Ep. 8: Agrarian History of the Cuban Revolution w/ Joana Salém Vasconcelos
11/15/2024
Editor's Choice Ep. 8: Agrarian History of the Cuban Revolution w/ Joana Salém Vasconcelos
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: For more information about Latin American Perspectives, our podcasts and guests, please contact
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Editor's Choice Ep. 7: Reform and Political Crisis in Brazil w/ Armando Boito
09/13/2024
Editor's Choice Ep. 7: Reform and Political Crisis in Brazil w/ Armando Boito
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: 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: ou Esse episódio foi co-produzido pelos estagiários do LAP, Lara Paredes e Mateus Quesada.
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The Labor of Extraction in Latin America w/ Kristin Ciupa & Jeffery Webber
05/03/2024
The Labor of Extraction in Latin America w/ Kristin Ciupa & Jeffery Webber
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 For more information about Latin American Perspectives, our podcasts, and guests, please contact or
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Editor's Choice Ep. 6: Generation Exile w/ Rodrigo Dorfman
02/29/2024
Editor's Choice Ep. 6: Generation Exile w/ Rodrigo Dorfman
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: Additional reading from LAP on Chile and political exile: For more information about Latin American Perspectives, our podcasts, and guests, please contact
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Music, Politics, and Social Movements in Latin America
12/22/2023
Music, Politics, and Social Movements in Latin America
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: "El derecho de vivir en Paz" en las calles de Santiago (2019): "Dina Asesina" canción himno de las protestas con la voz de mujeres Andinas: "Tukuy Llaqtakuna Hatarisunchik" - Liberato Kani: For additional information about contacting the journal, podcast host, or guest please contact latampodcasts@gmail.com
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Editor's Choice Ep. 5: 'Cannibal Capitalism' w/ Nancy Fraser
11/23/2023
Editor's Choice Ep. 5: 'Cannibal Capitalism' w/ Nancy Fraser
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 For more information about Latin American Perspectives, our podcasts and guests, please contact
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Editor's Choice Ep. 4: 'The Condor Trials' w/ Francesca Lessa
09/27/2023
Editor's Choice Ep. 4: 'The Condor Trials' w/ Francesca Lessa
International relations scholar Francesca Lessa joins us to discuss her book , (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, , was the winner of the and received an honourable mention for the of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). For more information about Latin American Perspectives, our podcasts, and guests, please contact
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Editor's Choice Ep. 3: 'La Violencia en El Espacio' con Carlos Salamanca Villamizar y Pamela Colombo
08/31/2023
Editor's Choice Ep. 3: 'La Violencia en El Espacio' con Carlos Salamanca Villamizar y Pamela Colombo
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 Instagram: @violenciaenelespacio EXPOSICION LA VIOLENCIA EN EL ESPACIO
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El Estado y la Acumulación de Capital en México con Verónica Silva
05/25/2023
El Estado y la Acumulación de Capital en México con Verónica Silva
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 Foto de portada proporcionada por David Bacon.
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Editor's Choice Ep. 2: 'Pandemia' con Daniel Feierstein
03/30/2023
Editor's Choice Ep. 2: 'Pandemia' con Daniel Feierstein
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: La traducción de Inglés está disponible para su compra a través del Routledge: Para más información sobre nuestra revista, por favor póngase en contacto con
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Brazil Under Bolsonaro w/ James N. Green & Tulio Ferreira
03/08/2023
Brazil Under Bolsonaro w/ James N. Green & Tulio Ferreira
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' :
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Editor's Choice Ep. 1: Coup, A Story of Violence and Resistance in Bolivia
01/26/2023
Editor's Choice Ep. 1: Coup, A Story of Violence and Resistance in Bolivia
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: For additional information about contacting the journal, hosts, and guests please contact
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Social Struggle in Neoliberal Central America w/ Adrienne Pine
01/26/2023
Social Struggle in Neoliberal Central America w/ Adrienne Pine
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 The November 2022 issue of LAP can be accessed through Sage publishing: For additional information about contacting the journal, host, and guests please contact
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Marxism, Critical Thinking, and Andean Futures w/ Ronaldo Munck
01/20/2023
Marxism, Critical Thinking, and Andean Futures w/ Ronaldo Munck
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: For additional information about contacting the journal, host, and guests please contact
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