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Latin American Perspectives (LAT AM PERSPECT)

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Journal description

Latin American Perspectives discusses and debates critical issues relating to

capitalism, imperialism and socialism as they affect societies and nations
throughout the Americas.

RG Journal Impact: 0.53 *

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RG Journal impact history

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2016 0.34
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2015 0.57 700k+ research projects

2014 0.57
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2012 0.79

2011 0.64 Advertisement

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2009 0.62

2008 0.45

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Immediacy index 0.11

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Article in uence 0.19

Website http://lap.sagepub.com/

Website description Latin American Perspectives website

Other titles Latin American perspectives (Online), Latin American

perspectives

ISSN 0094-582X

OCLC 47076049

Material type Document, Periodical, Internet resource

Document type Internet Resource, Computer File, Journal / Magazine /

Newspaper

Publications in this journal

Urban Trails, Human Traps: The Construction of Territories of Pleasure

and Pain in the Lives of Male Homosexuals in the Brazilian Northeast in
the 1970s and 1980s
Article
Feb 2002
Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Junior · Rodrigo Ceballos · Laurence
Hallewell
In late 1978, a time of political "glasnost" in Brazil, the military dictatorship
was clearly nearing its end. The press, no longer under tight censorship,
reported a resurgence of trade-union demonstrations and the emergenc…

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The Adverse Effects of Structural Adjustment on Working Women in

Mexico
Article
May 1999
D Alarcon-Gonzalez · T McKinley
The focus of this article is on the speci c gender effects of structural
adjustment on Mexican labor markets. The effects of adjustment policies
on women workers depend to a great extent on the extent of their…

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Leaving to Get Ahead Assessing the Relationship between Mobility and

Inequality in Peruvian Migration
Article
Sep 2010
Ayumi Takenaka · Karen A. Pren
Analysis of the impact of international migration on the socioeconomic
conditions of migrants and their families in Peru, using data from the
Latin American Migration Project, suggests that international migration…

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Cooperatives for "Fair Globalization"? Indigenous People, Cooperatives,

and Corporate Social Responsibility in the Brazilian Amazon
Article
Oct 2010
Brian J. Burke
Cooperatives and socially responsible corporations are being hailed as
possible correctives to the socioeconomic and ecological exploitation of
transnational capitalism. AmazonCoop—a cooperative linking indigeno…

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Engendering Powers in Neoliberal Times in Latin America: Re ections

from the Left on Feminisms and Feminisms
Article
Feb 2001
M Garcia Castro · L Hallewell
The differences among the various components of the women's move-
ment in Latin America today are assumed to be gradually diminishing. I
question this assumption here and argue that the currents known in the…

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Infant Mortality Trends and Capitalist Development in Brazil: The Case

of Sao Paulo and Belo Horizonte
Article
Feb 1977
Charles H. Wood

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Outsourcing Care
Article
Sep 2010
Jessaca B. Leinaweaver
Migration from Peru has increased dramatically over the past decade, but
the social and relational repercussions of these transnational movements
have not yet been fully explored. Examination of the way migrants…

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Rethinking the Circle of Poison: The Politics of Pesticide Poisoning

Among Mexican Farm Workers
Article
Feb 1986
A Wright
Shows how the use of pesticides in Mexico is hazardous to Mexican
farmworkers and although there are numerous ways to reduce these
hazards, such strategies are not adopted because of economic costs a…

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Institutions, Military Policy, and Human Rights in Colombia

Article
Feb 2001
William Avilés
Politicians operating within this framework have been successful in
reducing certain elements of military power within the Colombian political
t di l ti f Th h h b littl
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The Peruvian Diaspora Portrait of a Migratory Process

Article
Sep 2010
Jorge Durand
Since the 1980s and especially the 1990s, Peru has become a nation of
emigrants. Emigration has become massive over the past two decades,
and the Peruvian populations of the United States, Japan, and Spain ha…

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Narcotraf cking, Migration, and Modernity in Rural Mexico

Article
Feb 2001
V Malkin
My case study is the arrival of narcotraf ckers in the town of Mayapan.
The information was obtained through informal conversations, prompted
if the situation permitted.3 My research does not place narcotraf cking…

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The Neoliberal State and the Penalization of Misery

Article
Aug 2011
Isabella Jinkings
The strategy adopted by the neoliberal state to maintain social order and
safeguard private property in a context of economic deregulation and
social precariousness has destroyed the welfare state and aggravated…

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Neoliberal Reforms and Rural Poverty

Article
Feb 2001
Thomas J. Kelly
The author shifts our focus to the countryside and to the early period of
neoliberal reforms. Using of cial surveys of household income and
expenditure, he demonstrates that neoliberal rural reforms exacerbated…

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Puerto Rico: A Case Study of Population Control

Article
Feb 1977
B Mass

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Agrarian Labor Market and Technology Under Different Regimes: A
Comparison of Cuba and the Dominican Republic
Article
Feb 1987
Harry Clemens · J.P. de Groot
Begins with a case study of the sugar sector in the Dominican Republic
and follows with a study of the one in Cuba, with a general description of
the development strategy, giving emphasis to the type of state and the…

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Dependence Is Dead, Long Live Dependence and the Class Struggle: An

Answer to Critics
Article
Jan 1974
Andre Gunter Frank
The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the
point, however, is to change it. —Karl Marx, Theses on Feurbach.The mark
of an important contribution, whether in the hard or the social sciences,…

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Indigenista Dreams Meet Sober Realities The Slow Demise of Federal

Indian Policy in Chiapas, Mexico, 1951–1970
Article
Sep 2012
Stephen E. Lewis
In 1951, Mexico’s National Indigenist Institute (Instituto Nacional
Indigenista—INI) opened its pilot coordinating center in highland Chiapas.
For several years, Mexico’s top indigenistas directed the center and test…

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Religious Beliefs and Actors in the Legitimation of Military Dictatorships

in the Southern Cone, 1964–1989
Article
Nov 2011
Soledad Catoggio
The military regimes of 1964–1989 in Chile, Argentina, and Brazil
implemented a code of legitimacy that appealed to various secular beliefs
rooted in civil society at the same time that they fostered a common m…

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Documentary Film from the Southern Cone during Exile (1970–1980)

Article
Jan 2013
Javier Campo
Soon after the establishment of the Southern Cone dictatorships many
artists and intellectuals, mostly political activists, had to go into exile. The
documentary lmmakers among them continued to work in their…

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Clientelistic Stability and Institutional Fragility The Political System in
the Dominican Republic (1978-2010)
Article
Nov 2012
Ana Belen Benito Sanchez · Wilfredo Lozano
Since 1978, with the disappearance of the historical caudillos (Joaquín
Balaguer, Juan Bosch, and José Francisco Peña Gómez), institutional
fragility and electoral power have been the keys to the survival of the…

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Anarchism and Counterinformation in Documentaries From Civil War

Spain to Post-2001 Argentina
Article
Jan 2013
Antonio Prado
The work of anarchist collectives in the lm industry during the Spanish
Civil War and the video documentaries of Grupo Alavío in post-2001
Argentina, as represented in two documentaries that attest to historical…

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The people, not the movement: Opposition to CAFTA in Costa Rica,

2002-2007
Article
Nov 2012
Eduardo Frajman
The social mobilization against the Central American Free Trade
Agreement (CAFTA) in Costa Rica between 2002 and 2007 was the
strongest of any nation associated with the treaty. The popular oppositi…

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Migration, Gender, and Politics The 2006 Peruvian Elections Abroad

Article
Sep 2010
Angeles Escriva · Ursula Santa Cruz · Anastasia Bermudez
Emigrant support for 2006 Peruvian presidential candidate Lourdes Flores
(the choice of the conservative Unidad Nacional coalition) was enough to
win her the rst electoral round abroad, but this tendency was not…

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Uruguay 2008 The Year of the Political Documentary

Article
Jan 2013
Jorge Ruf nelli
The year 2008 was proli c in terms of documentary lm production in
Uruguay. This type of Uruguayan cinema, which dates to the 1960s, was
interrupted by the military dictatorship (1973–1984), and on the return …

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Neoliberalism, Law, and Strikes Law as an Instrument of Repression at
the University of Puerto Rico, 2010–2011
Article
Sep 2013
José M. Atiles-Osoria
The exercise of power in the student strikes at the University of Puerto
Rico in 2010–2011 was determined in part by Puerto Rico’s colonial
condition, and at the same time the strikes in uenced the ideological…

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Representing Absences in the Postdictatorial Documentary Cinema of

Patricio Guzmán
Article
Jan 2013
Patrick Blaine
For nearly 40 years, Patricio Guzmán has explored the complex
relationships between time, memory, and absence in postdictatorial Chile
while infusing his documentaries with personal narrative and devices…

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Academic Exchange between Cuba and the United States A Brief

Overview
Article
Sep 2006
Milagros Martinez
Examination of the origin and evolution of academic exchange between
Cuba and the United States, with emphasis on the period since 1959,
reveals a close relationship between that exchange and both the con ic…

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Populism’s Achilles’ Heel Popular Democracy beyond the Liberal State

and the Market Economy in Venezuela
Article
Jan 2011
Sara C. Motta
Minimalist de nitions of populism, which are dominant in “Western”
analysis, conceptualize Chavismo as a form of illiberal populism A
methodological, theoretical, and empirical critique of the applicability of…

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Black Thoughts, Black Activism Cuban Underground Hip-hop and Afro-

Latino Countercultures of Modernity
Article
Mar 2012
Tanya Saunders
A study of the symbols employed by the Cuban underground hip-hop
movement based on ethnographic data gathered in Havana from 1998 to
2006 situates the movement as one of a number of transnational Afro-…

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The Bridge Called Zapatismo Transcultural and Transnational Activist

Networks in Los Angeles and Beyond
Article
Jan 2011
Kara Zugman Dellacioppa
Study of a social movement in Los Angeles called Casa del Pueblo
reveals the limitations of current theory on transnational social
movements and advocacy networks. Whereas current theory tends to…

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The Metamorphosis of Black Movement Activists into Black Organic

Intellectuals
Article
May 2011
Sales Santos
Examination of the pro les and trajectories of 15 current or past leaders
of the Brazilian Association of Black Researchers points to the
emergence in Brazil of a new category of intellectuals who may be calle…

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How Activists “Take Zapatismo Home” South-to-North Dynamics in

Transnational Social Movements
Article
Jan 2011
Abigail Andrews
Transnational Zapatismo exempli es a broader pattern wherein Southern
movements inspire discourses and practices in the Global North that
challenge lines of economic and political domination. Recent scholars…

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Cooperativism and Agroforestry in the Eastern Amazon The Case of

Tomé-Açu
Article
Nov 2010
Jessica Piekielek
An agricultural cooperative in the eastern Amazon region composed
primarily of Japanese immigrants and their descendants practices
agroforestry with black pepper, cacao, and tropical fruits as the principa…

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Ruling the Womb The Sexual and Reproductive Struggle during the
Bachelet Administration
Article
Jul 2012
Alejandra Brito · Beatriz Cid · Carla Donoso
In Chile, sexual and reproductive rights have been at the core of an
ideological and material struggle during the past decade between the
women’s movement—the grassroots, academic, and nongovernmental…
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Dealing with Income Inequality during the Bachelet Administration A

Critical Analysis of the Discourse of Chilean Political Elites
Article
Jul 2012
Ricardo Camargo
The notoriety that income inequality has achieved in the Chilean political
debate since the presidential election of 2006 can be explained as a
response discursively produced by Chilean political elites to a sense of…

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Removed from the Bargaining Table The CUT during the Bachelet
Administration
Article
Jul 2012
Diego Barría Traverso · Eduardo Araya Moreno · Oscar Drouillas
As a candidate, Michelle Bachelet asserted that hers would be a citizens’
government. This gave the impression that she would create a favorable
climate for social actors such as the Central Unitaria de Trabajadores…

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Democracy, State, and Industry Continuity and Change between the

Cardoso and Lula Administrations
Article
May 2011
Eli Diniz
Brazilian industrial entrepreneurs have shown a high degree of
mobilization and political activity in defense of their speci c interests
since the beginning of Brazilian industrial capitalist development. They…

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Afro-Colombians and the Cosmopolitan City New Negotiations of Race

and Space in Bogotá, Colombia
Article
Mar 2013
Fatimah Williams Castro
Since 2005, Colombian tourism and economic development sectors have
spearheaded an intensive image-building campaign called “Colombia Is
Passion.” This campaign brands and markets Bogotá as a cosmopolita…

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Obama and the Bolivarian Agenda for the Americas

Article
Jul 2011
Daniel Hellinger
President Barack Obama’s campaign rhetoric suggested a signi cant shift
away from the militarist intervention practiced by U.S. administrations
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The Split-Person Narrative Resisting Closure, Resistant Genre in

Albertina Carri’s Los rubios
Article
Jan 2013
Wilson Kristi
The Argentine director Albertina Carri’s documentary/docudrama Los
rubios confounds the binary between postmodern and neoconservative
trends in recent Latin American cultural studies and popular media. It…

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Dollars, "Free Trade," and Migration: The Combined Forces of Alienation

in Postwar El Salvador
Article
Sep 2013
Alisa Garni · L. Frank Weyher
Driven by new conditions of desperation and alienation, mass migration in
postwar El Salvador has continued unabated. While this migration could
be seen as a way of “opting out” of ongoing class struggle, we argue th…

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Assisted Breathing Developing Embodied Exposure in Oscar Muñoz’s

Aliento
Article
May 2012
Amanda Jane Graham
The Colombian artist Oscar Muñoz’s Aliento (Breath)—10 steel discs,
photoserigraph with grease—is an experiment with materials. On the
surface it is minimalist—art about the surface of art, the stuff art is ma…

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The Cuban Revolution Historical Roots, Current Situation, Scenarios, and

Alternatives
Article
Mar 2011
Francisco López Segrera
The new stage of the Cuban Revolution that began with the presidency of
Raúl Castro has seen consultation with the masses about what kind of
socialism they want to build, a return to some aspects of the economic…

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The Ambiguities of Human Rights in Colombia Re ections on a Moral

Crisis
Article
Sep 2013
Paul A. Chambers
The inherent ambiguities of human rights language and activism in the
context of Colombia’s ongoing armed con ict and the way the discourse

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Theorizing Gender, Race, and Cultural Tourism in Latin America A View

from Peru and Mexico
Article
Nov 2012
Florence E. Babb
Theorizations of gender and race in Latin America have led to wide-
ranging views concerning women and men in subaltern groups, whether
indigenous or Afro-descendant, rural or urban. Views are similarly wide-…

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Obama’s “Smart Strategies” against Latin America and the Caribbean

Continuities and Changes
Article
Jul 2011
Luis Suarez Salazar
A critical appraisal of the “smart strategies” (a new combination of “hard”
and “soft” power) of Barack Obama reveals that, despite his criticism of
the policies of his predecessor, his Latin American policy has been…

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Imperialism and the Working Class in Latin America

Article
Jan 1976
Aníbal Quijano
The following selection is excerpted from "Imperialism and the Working
Class in Latin America." 1 In the rst part of the original article, Quijano
points to the urgency of analyzing the world-wide crisis of capitalism in…

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President Obama, the Crisis, and Latin America

Article
Jul 2011
Marco A. Gandasegui
Since his election in 2008, President Barack Obama has tried without
success to disguise U.S. military initiatives and the neoconservative
milieu inherited from George W. Bush without changing any of the…

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For Richer and Poorer: South America's Tenuous Social Truce

Article
Oct 1995
Jan Knippers Black
In the early 1960s "democracy' was being discredited - in Central America
and the Caribbean by fraud, in the Southern Cone by vulnerability to
 military intervention. Now, in the 1990s, democracy is being discredited …
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Border Enforcement at Family Sites Social Reproductive Implications for

Mexican and Central American Manual Labor in the United States
Article
Sep 2013
Olga Sanmiguel-Valderrama
Border securitization and escalating detentions and deportations in the
United States fall almost entirely on immigrant manual laborers from
Mexico and Central America. Deportees face the possible permanent…

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