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...
Sep 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
Jose Guevara, former PhD student at the Institute of Latin American Studies 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...
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