The Latin American Diaries
‘The Legal Cultures of the Subsoil’: mapping the use of law in environmental politics in Central America
Courts have increasingly become the locus of environmental disputes. Dr Ainhoa Montoya looks at one such case, which occurred in El Salvador, where resource extraction has preoccupied many of its citizens for more than a decade. In 2017, the Salvadoran Legislative...
Writers in a Foreign Land: A Conversation with Margarita García Robayo
Following our second highly successful literary evening organised with the Institute of Modern Languages Research and the award-winning Charco Press, we are delighted to release the recording of the evening’s discussion for you to enjoy again. An expert panel chaired...
Ethnography of the Double Bind: a Conversation with Aymara Sociologist, Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui
By Paulo Ilich Bacca (Lecturer in International Legal Ethnography, National University of Colombia) The following ethnographic exercise is encapsulated in a twin-track anthropological approach characterized by the methodological possibility of interacting smoothly...
Women in the Cuban Republic: from Democracy to Revolution
By Manuel Ramírez Chicharro (Comparative Studies of Caribbean and Atlantic World (GECCMA) / Former Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Latin American Studies - University of London) The following contribution is based on a talk given by Dr. Manuel Ramírez...
Confronting the Pervasiveness of Violence and Marginality in the Work of Mexican Artist Teresa Margolles
by Dr Michela Coletta (Teaching Fellow in Hispanic Studies, University of Warwick and Associate Fellow, ILAS) Exploring the exhibition ‘Ya basta hijos de puta’ in conversation with museum curator Diego Sileo. PAC contemporary art museum, Milan, Italy ...
Fostering Social Business in Brazil: Interview with Maure Pessanha at Artemisia
by Dr Jessica Sklair (Stipendiary Fellow, ILAS) On 15th May, ILAS and Canning House will jointly host the event Corporate Social Responsibility in Latin America: what potential for new global trends in the region?, bringing together practitioners from the...
The Names of Spain and Peru: Inca Garcilaso de la Vega
by Professor Mark Thurner (ILAS) Professor Mark Thurner (ILAS) shares a segment from a forthcoming piece called 'The Names of Spain and Peru.' 23 April was World Book Day. Although it is unlikely that all three died on this date, the bookish celebration ostensibly...
Revolutions in Bolivia
By Into A. Goudsmit (Goldsmiths College / Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London) and Winston Moore (Anglo-Bolivian Society) On 16 March 2018, the Anglo-Bolivian Society and the Institute for Latin American Studies will host a one-day...
The Human Rights Champion Who Refused to be Silenced: Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Nobel Peace Prize Winner
by Martina Rodriguez (Birkbeck student and member of the Argentina Solidarity Campaign) The violence unleashed throughout Latin America and the serious violations of human rights committed by authoritarian regimes in the region during the 1960s and 70s...
Voices of Latin America
by the Latin America Bureau (LAB) In Latin America, a new generation has come of age over the last twenty years or so. This is a generation which has grown up in a period of relative prosperity in what has historically been one of the world’s poorest regions. It is a...
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