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17165 results in Latin American government, politics and policy

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  • The Living Legacies of Slavery: Racism and Racial Acrobatics in North-East Brazilian Puppet Play, 1940–80

  • Gray F. Kidd
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    Journal of Latin American Studies / Volume 55 / Issue 3 / August 2023
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    02 May 2023, pp. 403-427
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    August 2023
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  • This article probes the racially conflictual plotlines of mamulengo, a form of improvised popular puppetry in North-East Brazil. Drawing on a corpus of transcribed shows performed between the 1940s and 1970s, it shows how audacious Black protagonists – often named Baltazar or Benedito – took part in a game of racial ‘acrobatics’. By playing the roles of fools (bobos) and aggressors (desordeiros), these heroes simultaneously reproduced a racist status quo and offered a spirited and violent resistance to its abuses. While mamulengo has never been brought to bear on discussions of race in Brazil, this oft-overlooked form of cultural expression forces us to confront the uncomfortable aspects of race-making and belonging as they are elaborated ‘from below’.

  • LAP volume 65 issue 2 Cover and Back matter

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    Latin American Politics and Society / Volume 65 / Issue 2 / May 2023
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    02 May 2023, pp. b1-b5
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  • Harnessing ‘Wasted’ Waters: Conservation, Hydropower and the Origins of Chile's National Electrification Plan

  • Peter B. de Montmollin
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    Journal of Latin American Studies / Volume 55 / Issue 2 / May 2023
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    04 May 2023, pp. 215-239
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  • This article examines the origins of national electrification in Chile, situating its technocratic promoters within a broad trend – unfolding across Latin America – toward the ‘rational’ management and conservation of natural resources by the state. It surveys the early history of Chilean electrification (1890s–1940s) to show how conservationist thinking flowed through discussions and debates among engineers about the proper uses of the country's waters. These ideas eventually shaped the 1943 national electrification plan, which focused on hydropower. The article sheds new light on the history of Chile's technocracy, the relationship between perceptions of the environment and development planning, and the political and economic debates over national electrification. It also shows how the conservationist dilemma of using versus preserving natural resources operated within a utilitarian and highly technical framework for thinking about nature's bounty. The article thus contributes to recent historical scholarship on conservation and environmental technocrats in Latin America.

  • LAS volume 55 issue 2 Cover and Back matter

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    Journal of Latin American Studies / Volume 55 / Issue 2 / May 2023
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    19 June 2023, pp. b1-b2
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    May 2023
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  • To Celia, on her retirement

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    Journal of Latin American Studies / Volume 55 / Issue 2 / May 2023
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    19 June 2023, p. v
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  • LAS volume 55 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

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    Journal of Latin American Studies / Volume 55 / Issue 2 / May 2023
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    19 June 2023, pp. f1-f5
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  • Staying Power: Strategies for Weathering Criminal Violence in Marginal Neighborhoods of Medellín and Monterrey

  • Rebecca Bell-Martin, Jerome F. Marston, Jr.
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    Latin American Research Review / Volume 58 / Issue 4 / December 2023
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    28 April 2023, pp. 817-836
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  • Criminal violence in Latin American cities is increasing. Meanwhile, with urbanization, greater numbers of people are moving to cities and into the crossfire. What self-protection strategies do residents adopt to keep safe in violent cities? Drawing on qualitative data from Medellín, Colombia, and Monterrey, Mexico, we document the strategies residents use to stay safe. We synthesize insights from studies of civil war, criminal governance, and urban violence to construct an analytical framework to systematically catalog and name these strategies. We posit that the type of violence residents face—indiscriminate or targeted—influences the strategies they pursue. Responding to either the indiscriminate or targeted form, residents employ survival strategies to avoid, withstand, or confront violence. Our research underscores the centrality of agency for residents’ “staying power” amid urban violence.

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