The Latin American Diaries
The Massacre of El Mozote, El Salvador: Between Journalism and Ethnography
by Leigh Binford, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center, CUNY To coincide with publication of a revised and expanded edition of his "The El Mozote Massacre: Human Rights and Global Implications", Leigh Binford...
Abriendo el diafragma de análisis: una panorámica del sistema político ecuatoriano post 2006–pre 2017
por Manuela Celi, Doctoranda en la Universidad Complutense-Instituto Universitario Investigación Ortega y Gasset, y Associate Fellow en ILAS Previo a la llegada de Alianza País (AP) al escenario político ecuatoriano, la crisis de representación fue un tema de análisis...
Finding My History in the Literary ‘Archive’ of Indenture
by Dr Maria del Pilar Kaladeen, Associate Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies In partnership with Gitanjali Pyndiah (PhD candidate, Goldsmiths) and Institute of Commonwealth Studies colleagues Dr Catherine Gilbert and Dr Kavyta Raghunandan, from 3 to 5...
The Ethiopic Ocean and Luiz Felipe de Alencastro’s New Perspectives on the South Atlantic
by Marília Arantes Moreira, Research Student, Institute of Latin American Studies I recently met up with Brazilian historian Luiz Felipe de Alencastro in Paris to discuss his latest article, “The Ethiopic Ocean - History and Historiography 1600−1975”, published in...
Travelling to do a PhD: The role of international postgraduate students in networks of information circulation
by Jose Luis Guevara Salamanca, Research Student, Institute of Latin American Studies I am writing this post one year after arriving in London. Having finished my undergraduate studies in 2005 in Colombia I began looking for a place abroad where I could develop my...
Thinking Inside the Boxes: The Latin American Political Pamphlets Collection at Senate House Library
by Christine Anderson (Latin America Research Librarian) and Julio Cazzasa (Special Collections Cataloguer), Senate House Library On 23 February 2016, Senate House Library will be hosting "Thinking Inside the Boxes", a series of talks about its extensive Latin...
The Venezuelan Elections and Gasoline-Fuelled Citizenship
by Dr Amy Penfield, ILAS Stipendiary Fellow 2015-16 On the morning of Monday 7th December, I was greeted with news reports of the Venezuelan ruling socialist party’s (PSUV) landslide defeat in the previous day’s parliamentary elections, accompanied by images of...
Reconsidering Tristán Bauer’s “Iluminados por el fuego” (2005)
by Dr Niall Geraghty, ILAS Stipendiary Fellow 2015 On the 4th of November 2015, the Argentine Embassy in London organised a screening of Tristán Bauer’s semi-fictional film of the Falklands-Malvinas conflict, Iluminados por el fuego [Enlightened by Fire] (2005)....
Beyond Good Business: the gender-based discrimination behind the extraction of natural resources
by Camilla Capasso, Latin American Mining Monitoring Programme Máxima lives in Peru, in a house by the Blue Lagoon of Celendin in the Andean region of Cajamarca. Like most campesinos of her community, Máxima and her family are subsistence farmers and herders. The...
Economics Research on Latin America: A Personal Viewpoint from China
by José R. Sánchez-Fung, Assistant Professor in Economics at University of Nottingham China (Ningbo) and Associate Fellow of ILAS I am currently a full-time member of the economics faculty at the University of Nottingham’s Business School in Ningbo, China. I moved to...
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