The Latin Americanist
Datos de la Revista
| Tipo | JOURNAL |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Wiley (GB) |
| ISSN | 1557-2021 / 1557-203X |
| Scopus | 40723 |
| Wikidata | Q15764149 |
| OpenAlex | S44381432 |
| MAG | 44381432 |
| Sitio web | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1557203x |
| Total de publicaciones | 336 |
| Periodo de cobertura | 2007 - 2020 |
| País | US |
| Idioma | EN |
| Indexación | Indexada en Scopus |
| Citada por | 132 |
| Factor de impacto | 0.133 |
| SJR | 0.115 |
| SNIP | 0.333 |
| Índice h | 5 |
| Índice i10 | 1 |
This journal is dedicated to Latin American studies, which is a key area studies field. Area studies with substantive ethnographic, cultural, or social content are considered closely cognate venues that frequently publish work read by social anthropologists
Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Comparative Literary Analysis and Criticism · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Cuban History and Society · Cultural and political discourse analysis · Cultural and Social Studies in Latin America · Development · Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies · Educational Robotics and Engineering
One Fire, Two Songs
This article examines two musical chronicles of the 1984 fire and explosion at the San Juanico Pemex facility outside of Mexico City. The explosion killed between 500 and 700 people, but has been largely overshadowed, in both popular memory and scholarly works, by the Mexico City earthquake of 1985. Folk singer, Óscar Chávez, and rock band, El Tri, used corrido-style songs to revive the memory of the fire and make it part of the collective memory…
Uncertain Flags
This article looks at the shifting Argentine policy towards immigrants, the role of immigrant settlers in the Patagonian frontier, and challenges presented by large immigrant colonies of areas of contested sovereignty. Argentina encouraged tran-Atlantic immigration in the late nineteenth century to populate the country, including the newly incorporated region of Patagonia, which was formerly controlled by independent indigenous groups. Immigrants…
Bandits,” “Revolutionists,” and Other “Insult[s] to the Constitutional Government of My Country”
La Organización del Tiempo y el Cuentapropismo
Un sector que se ha desarrollado en los últimos años en Cuba es el cuentapropista, donde se encuentra un grupo de jóvenes emprendedores con aspiraciones, propósitos y metas. Una dimensión de su experiencia empresaria que influirá en el éxito de su negocio es el poder organizar su tiempo de manera eficaz. Aquí presentamos los resultados de un estudio preliminar realizado con cuatro jóvenes cuentapropistas del Consejo Popular Sao Arriba del municip…
Identidad en Display
La creación de las políticas culturales en Puerto Rico comenzó antes de la creación del Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña (ICP) a través de la agencia populista de Luis Muñoz Marín, el primer gobernador de la isla bajo el mandato estadounidense. Sin embargo, es en el ICP que se logra una diseminación efectiva de las características de lo que será “lo puertorriqueño” y el surgimiento de políticas que consolidarán esta identidad. Una de las herra…
Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo
Just as technological advances have created new spaces in the virtual world so that more people can have adequate representation, they have also aided women and men in the form of human rights. In the years following the end of the last dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983), women learned that they could use technology to locate information regarding family members and other loved ones who are still missing in the wake of the brutal politics of t…
For the Creation of Strong Children, Beautiful and Intelligent”
This article examines the link between eugenics, youth, and the nation in Mexico City from 1920-1940. Eugenicists, far from being a homogenous group, couched their work as a “patriotic duty” and placed proper child development at the forefront of plans for national renovation in the first decades after the revolution. From scientific journals, Pan-American Congresses, and records from the Juvenile Court in Mexico City, the voices of non-elite act…
From the Moment I Made My Wedding Vows My Suffering Began”
Bárbara Aguirre's divorce case in Chihuahua, Mexico during the 1830s provides a case study of how people of this northern frontier state debated ideas about gender, class, race, and honor in the complex social matrix of calidad. Calidad provided a framework in which Aguirre and her estranged spouse, Francisco Velarde, contested each other's claims before authorities and the larger community of Paso del Norte. In a series of testimonies that compr…
La aporía de los Naufragios ”
Los Naufragios de Álvar Núñez alcanzaron gran fama a partir de los milagros sanadores practicados por el grupo de náufragos. Los investigadores reconocen la mistura de prácticas curativas de origen indoamericano con otras de origen español, pero no se ha reconocido la presencia de prácticas curativas de procedencia mora en dichas curaciones. La figura de Estevanico, el único negro del grupo, tiene una mayor importancia de la que se cree. Estevani…
A partir De Un Motivo Textil
Retomando los estudios de Teresa Gisbert sobre la transformación del motivo textil de “la serpiente entre estrellas” en la región de los Andes, exploramos las textualidades alternativas de la cerámica y el textil, y la “práctica textual” de leer el cosmos. A partir de una comprensión andina del encuentro (encuentro de distintos textos y “prácticas textuales”), abordamos el concepto de transformación (transformación de un motivo textil) como uno d…
La Dra. Ana Echegoyen de Cañizares
La conocida Campaña de Alfabetización en Cuba tuvo sus inicios en el año 1960 y culminó en el 1961. Esta campaña nacional es considerada como uno de los sucesos más innovadores y significativos del siglo XX en América Latina. Sin embargo, sus comienzos y propulsores principales son muy poco conocidos en la historia actual. Este artículo tiene como propósito fundamental difundir los antecedentes de la Campaña de Alfabetización cubana de 1960, los …
Shifting Sands
Ninety miles east of Havana is Varadero Beach. Beyond a site of mere leisure, Varadero's history provides a lens to examine the changing goals of the Cuban government, Cuba's relationship with the United States, and the island's position in the world. Cubans have continuously reconfigured the beach, dramatizing the island's transition from U.S. control, to a socialist society, and now to a hybrid of capitalism and socialism. Initially an exclusiv…
Off the Books’ Consumption
The purpose of this article is to explore the determinants, practice, and punishment risk of “off the books” consumption in Belize, Central America. We operationalize off the books consumption as market transactions that evade governmental oversight. Our data source is a 2014 random national sample of 1,534 Belizeans surveyed through the Latin America Public Opinion Project (LAPOP). An empirical model of off the books consumption explores the key…
Muertos-vivos pop en tiempos de crisis
Biting the Bullet” and Banning Guns
After the United Nations named Brazil the country with the highest number of gun deaths in the world in 1996, the Brazilian government set the date for the world's first and only national referendum to vote on gun prohibition in 2005. Although public opinion polls showed popular support levels over 80% just three months before the vote, the ban was surprisingly defeated with 64% of those who voted, or 59 million people, voting against it. To date…
The Perfection of Democracy Cannot Dispense with Dealing with the Past
This article uses recent events in Brazil to argue for a consideration of the ways collective memory and transitional politics intersect with political life in the twenty-first century. Drawing on a wide array of phenomena – the creation and completion of Brazil's National Truth Commission, the 2013 protests, the 2016 impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, and more – this article considers the ways in which the military past continues to ripple into the …
Cederistas
Le Sens Commun ”
The Central American Child Migration Surge
Almost one-fifth of the “surge” of Central American migrants crossing the US border in early 2014 was unaccompanied children, mostly from the “Northern Triangle”—Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador. Although prior research identifies violence, economic factors, and US policies as probable causes, determining their relative importance is more challenging. In this article I examine time trends in child migration from the Northern Triangle in relat…
Family Rupture among Conversos and the Inquisition Tribunal in 1640s New Spain
This article examines the lives of two Portuguese conversos, Gaspar Robles and Francisco Home, a nephew and his uncle, both tried by the Inquisition tribunal in seventeenth-century colonial Mexico during the decade leading up to the Gran auto de fé of 1649. However, their trajectories were vastly different. Gaspar Robles voluntarily approached the Inquisition tribunal confessing his own and his family's secret Jewish practices. He incriminated hi…
Solemn Expression of Faith”
The ascendance of Juan Domingo Perón to Argentina's presidency in 1946 led to fundamental changes in the way the country was ruled, producing a reformulation of ideas of citizenship and belonging among large portions of the population. While certainly influencing and benefiting from organized labor and the working poor, Perón also inspired immigrants and their descendants to imagine anew their place in national society. The sizable Muslim communi…
El materialismo histérico
Through his collection of short stories El materialismo histérico (2004) Mexican writer Xavier Velasco presents various narrative depictions of the increasing socioeconomic gap in Mexico between rich and poor in recent years in that has been clearly induced by the global onslaught of neoliberalism. With varying degrees of realism his work decisively and clearly treats the economic, social, and even psychological effects that have been asserted by…
Parody, Ritual, and Counter-Conquest in Felix Darío Mendoza's La Hispaniola
Talking About the Weather in Chiapas, Mexico
Climate change is a global phenomenon with effects that reverberate throughout the world at individual, local, and national scales. Individuals, communities, organizations, states, nations, and regions often have different capacities and strategies to adapt to changing environmental realities, and those nuanced experiences can contribute to a global conversation about climate change. Through semi-structured interviews with women in 2 local develo…
Los Hijos de Sánchez. Xenofobia y Nacionalismo
The Politics of Student Protest and Education Reform in Chile
Push Back
Shifting Trends in Central American Migration
Corruption, Economic Satisfaction, and Confidence in Government Evidence From Argentina
The Electoral Fortunes of Ecuador's Pachakutik Party
Does Crime Undermine Public Support for Democracy? Findings from the Case of Mexico
The Central American Child Migration Surge
Almost one-fifth of the “surge” of Central American migrants crossing the US border in early 2014 was unaccompanied children, mostly from the “Northern Triangle”—Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador. Although prior research identifies violence, economic factors, and US policies as probable causes, determining their relative importance is more challenging. In this article I examine time trends in child migration from the Northern Triangle in relat…
Bienestar Social Rural
TrumpEffects
Does Religion Bias Individuals Against Female Political Leadership in Latin America
This study explores the relationship between several dimensions of religiosity and biases against female political leadership within 15 Latin America countries. The central finding is that religious characteristics are correlated with pro-male bias in many countries; however, the relationship varies in strength and even direction from one country to the next. Analyses of a subset of religiously diverse nations further demonstrate that individual-…
Colombian Voters and Ballot Structure
Latino Migrant Labor Strife and Solidarity in Post-Katrina New Orleans, 2005-2007
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, lapses in federal policy-making and a lack of state level enforcement paved the way for employer exploitation of predominantly Latino migrant workers, transforming working-class Latino newcomers into the newest class of storm victims in post-Katrina New Orleans. In essence, a "rebuild above all else" recovery scenario took hold between 2005-2007 in which immediate reconstruction of the city took priority ove…
From“Parliamentarized”to“Pure” Presidentialism
Municipal Elections
Uncertain Flags
This article looks at the shifting Argentine policy towards immigrants, the role of immigrant settlers in the Patagonian frontier, and challenges presented by large immigrant colonies of areas of contested sovereignty. Argentina encouraged tran-Atlantic immigration in the late nineteenth century to populate the country, including the newly incorporated region of Patagonia, which was formerly controlled by independent indigenous groups. Immigrants…
Talking About the Weather in Chiapas, Mexico
Climate change is a global phenomenon with effects that reverberate throughout the world at individual, local, and national scales. Individuals, communities, organizations, states, nations, and regions often have different capacities and strategies to adapt to changing environmental realities, and those nuanced experiences can contribute to a global conversation about climate change. Through semi-structured interviews with women in 2 local develo…
The United States and Latin America
It is commonly asserted that the United States no longer holds the dominant position it once did in Latin America. This decline is credited to several factors: a global decline in U.S. power, lower levels of U.S. attention to the region, the entrance of new extra-hemispheric challengers, and more “assertive” Latin American leaders. This paper examines those claims of U.S. decline and seeks to empirically evaluate them. U.S. decline has too often …
Modernization and the Changing Perceptions of Animals in Bogotá Colombia, 1960 to the Present
Structural Limitations of the Mercosur
This article aims to analyze what we call the Mercosur model as presented in Brazilian foreign policy. Starting from the assumption that Brazil’s positions play a relevant role in defining important characteristics of the integration process, our hypothesis is that the pattern of Brazilian foreign behavior limits the amplitude of the integration, mainly the possibility of deepening the bloc. Brazilian positions are more adapted to the bloc’s enla…
The Land is Ours and We Are Free to Do All that We Want”
The DR-Cafta and the Costa Rican Health Sector
Programmatic or Personalistic? Pachakutik Strategies in Ecuador's 2006 Elections
Many scholars of Latin America have assumed that ethnic parties are able to avoid the personalistic tendencies of traditional parties, and capture votes primarily due to their party platforms, rather than with the provision of pork, patronage, or other tangible goods. In this paper, I examine this assumption through an analysis of the campaign strategies of ethnic party candidates in Ecuador. I find that ethnic party candidates behave strategical…
The Question of Disarmament in the Brazilian House of Representatives
This article evaluates the decision made in the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies with regard to the problem of disarmament in the country. I particularly intend to examine what factors can explain a parliamentarian’s vote in favor of the referendum which dealt with the prohibition of the sale of firearms, accessories, and munitions. In the United States, studies have shown that the topic of firearms is strongly linked to political ideology. However,…
El Periodismo de la Independencia. El Papel de la Prensa en los Inicios de la Esfera Pública Política en México
La historia del periodismo mexicano ha hecho grandes progresos en los últimos años y ha pasado de ser una descripción de nombres de periódicos y periodistas, a un intento de explicación de la historia de esos mismos órganos de prensa en las diferentes coyunturas históricas y políticas de México, sin desvincular a los periódicos de su función política y social ni tampoco de sus condiciones materiales de producción y circulación
Voter Turnout in Central and South America
We examine explanations of aggregate voting turnout among the voting age population and registered voters across Central and South American political systems. Models of voting turnout typically applied in Western industrialized contexts contain a number of assumptions regarding connections between institutional, political and socioeconomic variables and voter mobilization. We consider these specific conditions, but include the concentration of ex…
Corruption in Latin America
Un Acercamiento Al Discurso De La Corrupción Y De La Burocracia en La Narrativa De Gabriel Garía Márquez Y Emilio Carballido
Municipal Elections
Conflict of Interest
Rules and regulations concerning conflict of interest play an important role in discussions on the institutional prerequisites for good governance. This analysis focuses on the concept of conflict of interest and possible solutions. Following a review of the concept and its treatment in recent literature, the concept is applied to the case of elected legislative officials, discussing the applicability of avoidance, disclosure, and procedure as so…
Voicing a Lost History through Photographsï¿1⁄2in Hispaniola's Diasporic Literature
The Aids Pandemic in Latin America by Shawn Smallman
Cuba on the Edge
Subcommander Marcos
Myths of Modernity
The Electoral Fortunes of Ecuador's Pachakutik Party
Malestares en la “Suiza centroamericana”. Interpretaciones de la identidad nacional en el ensayo costarricense
En este artículo se propone una relectura crítica de seis ensayos costarricenses del siglo XX. En ellos se aborda, principalmente, el tema de la identidad, idiosincrasia o ser nacional costarricense. Aunque se reconoce el importante papel desempeñado por esos textos en lo que puede denominarse como proceso de autopercepción crítica de la sociedad costarricense, también se expresan dudas sobre el tipo de supuestos que apoyan la argumentación en ca…
Espacios De Con-Tensión
Panamanian Democracy One Hundred Years After Independence
This article examines Panama’s troubled history with democratization, since its scandalous independence from Colombia in 1903. Rather than emphasizing the centralist effects of Iberian culture or the popularity of caudillos, often posited as sources of authoritarianism in Latin America, I point out that Panama’s troubles with democracy are as much the result of foreign influence as they are of domestic forces. Using the knowledge accumulated by a…
Mirroring and the (Re) Vision of Identity in Cristina Peri Rossi's Erotic Poetry
Uruguayan-born author Cristina Peri Rossi is best known for her prose, which often features omniscient narrators and male protagonists. Her poetry, in contrast, privileges an erotic, woman-centered, transgressive subjectivity. Although the author herself eschews labeling her work as “lesbian,” this study argues for the inclusion of her lyrical works in a body of lesbian-identified literature because of their subjective, intimate nature, their con…
Panama Turns 100
Panama Elagua Y El Desarrollo en Las Visperas Del Segundo Siglo
Borges Juega Con La Literatura Confesional
María Izquierdo
Matters of Difference
Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo’s claim of impartiality and sole use of aesthetics as the basis for analyzing the works of three nineteenth-century Cuban poets: Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, José María de Heredia, and Gabriel Concepción de Valdés (Plácido), falls apart under careful scrutiny. Through a close reading of Menéndez y Pelayo’s analysis of the aforementioned Cuban poets, the critic’s literary concerns are shown to be governed by his subje…
Democracia Y Movimientos Sociales en Panamá en El Centenario De La República
Este trabajo analiza los movimientos sociales y su rol en la construcción de la democracia en Panamá. La democracia panameña puede definirse como la búsqueda de la “hegemonía perdida”. Los avances de las capas medias y sus aliados de las clases obreras y campesinas, puso en tensión la fábrica social del país a lo largo de la centuria. En el siglo XX la clase transitista perdió la hegemonía en tres ocasiones (1902, 1931 y 1968). En igual número de…
Dobles's Una Burbuja en El Limbo
Centrally-Mandated Testing Systems in the Neoliberal Educational Reform
Urban Planning Characteristics in 16th Century Yucatan
The colonial chronicles implied several objectives in the 1542 urban plan and geometry at Merida. The first was implementation of a geometrical order consistent with royal instructions in the first half of the century. The second was more pragmatic: It shaped the urban plan as part of a methodology to sustain Hispanic civilization in the challenging ecology of Yucatan. Finally, it was a means to implement the common good and the social well-being…
Panama Lost
None of the Above