The Latin American Diaries
‘Learning to Look’: Latin American Plant Humanities
Illustration for learning toolkit. A’pe Buese – Aprender Brincando (São Paulo: Instituto Socioambiental, 2021), www.lindsaysekulowicz.com By Elizabeth Chant (CLACS and University of Warwick) Crossing both the northern and southern hemispheres and exhibiting a range of...
Belize and the hurricane of 1931 – An avertable tragedy?
Credit: The National Archives (UK), CO 123/335/1,’Hurricane Disaster in Belize’, 1931. By Oscar Webber (CLACS) On 10 September 1934, Antonio Soberanis Gomez and several volunteers fed hundreds of hungry, mostly unemployed Belizeans for free. They offered this...
Everyday Wonderlands: Theme Parks and Citizenship in Argentina and Beyond
Image 1: A hyperreal depiction of the Sacred Heart of Jesus at Tierra Santa. Credit: Brigid Lynch By Brigid Lynch (CLACS) 23 March 2022 marked the second anniversary of the first UK lockdown in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The lockdown and the restrictions that...
Covid-19 and curating: The Amazonart project and two exhibitions in times of pandemic
By Giuliana Borea (Newcastle University) The works of Rember Yahuarcani, Brus Rubio and Harry Pinedo/Inin Metsa were already displayed at the Art Exchange Gallery. With Covid safety protocols in place, the exhibition Place-making, World-making: Three Indigenous...
Curating Arguedas: The Making of ‘A Fox with a Camera’ Exhibition
By Raúl Valdivia-Murgueytio (Newcastle University) I first encountered José María Arguedas’ photographs of Chimbote, a port city some 300 miles north of Lima, in an exhibition at the Casa de la Literatura Peruana in 2018. I was in Lima researching a photographic...
Religion in Latin America and the Caribbean: Past, Present and Possible Futures
By Manoela Carpenedo (University of Groningen) Delineating an accurate religious map of Latin America and the Caribbean is a challenging task (Gutiérrez, 2015). The region reflects numerous global encounters that have only intensified the diversity of its previously...
Exploring reproductive politics, health and justice in Latin America: the ‘Cuerpa Politica’ podcast
Aborto legal by Eduardo Velázquez, available from https://www.flickr.com/ By Rebecca Ogden (University of Kent) and Rachell Sánchez Rivera (University of Cambridge) Latin America has become something of a battleground over reproductive rights in recent years. As...
Digital identity, rights and citizenship in Latin America and the Caribbean: who are we including and who is being left behind?
Nowhere People. A project on statelessness by the photographer Greg Constantine, available from www.nowherepeople.org By Eve Hayes de Kalaf (CLACS) Over the past three decades, a silent global revolution has been taking place which will have an impact on every living...
Populism: What Next?
By Anthony Pereira (King’s College London) Democracy is in trouble. According to the Democracy Matrix, a research project based at the University of Würzburg in Germany, the number of robust (or what they call working) democracies in the world has decreased since...
Beyond the Printed Book; Handwritten Materials in the Service of Elites in Colonial Lima and Santa Fe de Bogotá
Colonial elites in Lima and Santa Fe de Bogotá, during 1700-1750, employed their handwriting skills to enhance their social status. The traditional view has been that elites in Spanish America improved their social position mainly through land ownership, marriage, roles in the colonial administration, and noble titles. However, the handwritten practices of the colonial elite can reveal another part of the story that has been overlooked hitherto.
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