Latin American Studies in the Twenty-first Century

Creating spaces within our institutions that will allow scholar-activists to work in ways that are consistent with progressive educational and social ideals requires, initially, a nucleus of faculty members who share perceptions about the field. Many young Latin Americanists in the late 1960s and early 1970s had developed the critical dependency perspective that made such cross-disciplinary cooperation possible. By the end of the century, the growing dissatisfaction with neoliberal solutions to the problems of the region had produced a new generation of academics who wanted to combine their teaching and research with involvement and the development of perspectives that would lead to meaningful social change. What is more, this was what many students were seeking. Even university administrations might look kindly upon such an enterprise if it seemed to fit into institutional requirements for service learning and community outreach. The establishment of an interdisciplinary Latin American studies program in a college or university may in many cases require a fortuitous combination of circumstances. In the contemporary university environment, support for area studies is not abundant, although late-twentieth-century foundation initiatives such as that of the Ford Foundation indicate that in some circles the idea may be coming back into fashion. However, the strength of such a program will depend on the presence of faculty experts on Latin America in various social science and humanities disciplines, a language program in Spanish and ideally Portuguese, and faculty members in these positions with a commitment to establishing and supporting such an endeavor

Discipline · Higher education · Latin Americans · Outreach · Pedagogy · Political science · Portuguese · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Education and Teacher Training · Educational theories and practices · Latin American social science · Law

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  Open Access•Dimitri Della Faille•Revue d Histoire des Sciences…•2008

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• América Latina y la sociología estadounidense durante la década de 1960

  Open Access•Dimitri Della Faille•Estudios Sociológicos de El…•2009

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• Researching Latin America

  Open Access•Orchid Mazurkiewicz, Claude H Potts et al.•Latin American Research Review•2007

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• Sociology on Latin America in the 1960s

  Open Access•Dimitri Della Faille•The American Sociologist•2013

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• Se Représenter les Amériques Durant la Guerre Froide

  Dimitri Della Faille•Canadian Journal of Latin…•2011

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• Postmodernism and Neoliberalism in Latin America

  Martín Hopenhayn•boundary 2•1993

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• Is Socialism Still An Alternative for the Third World

  Carlos M Vilas•Monthly Review•1990

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• Still the Century of Corporatism

  Open Access•Philippe C Schmitter•The Review of Politics•1974

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• State Power and Military Nationalism in Latin America

  Irving Louis Horowitz, Ellen Kay Trimberger•Comparative Politics•1976

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• Mass Participation and the Transition to Socialism

  Open Access•Keith A Haynes•Latin American Perspectives•1988

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• The Bourgeois Revolution in Peru

  Open Access•William Bollinger•Latin American Perspectives•1977

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• Dependency, Nationalism and the State in Latin America

  Open Access•Timothy F Harding•Latin American Perspectives•1976

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• Toward a New Understanding of Development and Underdevelopment

  Open Access•Norma Stoltz Chinchilla, James Lowell Dietz•Latin American Perspectives•1981

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• Confusion About the Transition to Socialism

  Open Access•Frank T Fitzgerald, James F Petras et al.•Latin American Perspectives•1988

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• Authoritarianism and Democracy in the Transition to Socialism

  Open Access•James F Petras, James Petras et al.•Latin American Perspectives•1988

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• "A Summary of "Problems and Perspectives of Dependency Theory

  Open Access•Agustín Cueva, Jose J Villamil et al.•Latin American Perspectives•1976

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• Scholarship in the Age of Transperialism

  Open Access•Donald W Bray, Marjorie Woodford Bray•Latin American Perspectives•1998

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• A Statistical Evaluation of Latin-American Democracy

  Open Access•Russell H Fitzgibbon•The Western Political Quarterly•1956

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• "Big Business and "Dependencia

  Osvaldo Sunkel•Foreign Affairs•1972

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