Apr 5, 2022 | Argentina, LAC and the World, Latin America, South America, Uncategorized
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...
Dec 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
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...
Oct 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
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...
Jun 30, 2021 | Uncategorized
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...
May 28, 2021 | Uncategorized
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...
Mar 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
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...
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