Tradition and Disruption in Latinx and Latin American Political Thought

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ID3383471
AuthorsInés Valdez (0000-0002-8834-809X, Johns Hopkins University, corresponding author), Raymond Rocco (0009-0007-5257-307X, University of California, Los Angeles, corresponding author), Andrew Chang (0000-0002-0758-5967, University of Toronto, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume119
Issue2
Pages932-946
Publication date2025-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Political Science Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0003055424000534
OpenAlexW4401341819
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited89

This article presents Latinx political thought as a distinctive tradition in political theory that reworks central concepts in response to historical experiences of conquest, colonialism, migration, and transnational politics. In reconstructing this tradition, we argue that its problem space converges with US-based Latin American political thought. The article first traces a genealogy of Latinx political theory and then explores three realms of theorizing around which Latinx and Latin American political thought cluster: sovereignty and state violence, peoplehood, and transnationalism. We explain how the surveyed works disrupt and enrich political theory accounts of these problems. In arguing for the recognition of this field as a tradition, the article also aims to make it intelligible as an area of concentration for PhD students in political science

American political science · Colonialism · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Latin Americans · Political economy · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Sovereignty · State (computer science · Transnationalism · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Politics and Society in Latin America · Populism, Right-Wing Movements

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