Introduction

The articles collected in this double issue were selected among the responses to an open call for papers circulated at the beginning of 2025, encouraging contributors to think from the vantage point of cultural studies about the novel affective energies, subjectivities, and symbolic forms the Latin American new right has ushered in, arguing that these cannot be left to sociology and political science alone. Understanding their novelty (as well as the way they merely update long-standing patterns) also requires addressing them in their complexity as cultural phenomena, including aspects such as new religiosities, the impact of social media technologies, gendered fashion and corporeal forms of expression and their libidinal and political valences, or the performative deployment of musical styles and attire once associated with rebelliousness and with youth and underground culture. What kinds of “emergent formations”, we need to ask, do these structures of feeling reveal, and are the crises to which they respond merely “conjunctural” or rather “organic” in kind, as Stuart Hall would once have put it

Latin American studies · Latin Americans · New Right · Period (music · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · Politics and Society in Latin America · Populism, Right-Wing Movements

• The Frankfurt School on Religion

  Eduardo Mendieta•The Frankfurt School On Religion•2005

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• The Latin American Cultural Studies Reader

  Marc Zimmerman, Marc A Zimmerman et al.•Latin American Cultural Studies…•2004

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• War and cultural studies

  William Rowe, William L Rowe•Travesia•1992

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• What Is Populism

  Jan-Werner Müller, Jan‐werner Müller•What Is Populism?•2016

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• Brief History of Neoliberalism

  Desley J Harvey, David Harvey et al.•BRIEF HISTORY OF NEOLIBERALISM.•2005

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• The Reconfigurations of Post-dictatorship Critical Thought

  Nelly Richard•Journal of Latin American…•2000

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• Protests in Peru

  Alejandra Watanabe Farro, Carla Hernández Garavito et al.•Journal of Latin American…•2023

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• Indigeneity, Race, and the Media from the Perspective of the 2019 Political Crisis In Bolivia

  Gabriela Zamorano Villarreal•Journal of Latin American…•2020

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• From Protest to Parliamentary Coup

  Fabiane Vinente Dos Santos, Fabiano Santos et al.•Journal of Latin American…•2016

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• Alien to Modernity

  Jean Franco•Journal of Latin American…•2006

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