Brazilian Journal of Latin American Studies
type: channel
description: A Brazilian Journal of Latin American Studies (Cadernos Prolam/USP) é uma revista científica especializada em difundir conclusões de pesquisa, análises e interpretações, bem como pensamento e teorias sobre a América Latina. Criada em 2002, pelo Programa de Pós-graduação Integração da América Latina (PROLAM/USP), desde sua criação é uma revista voltada para autores e público de nível de pós-graduação. Na fase inicial o foco das publicações da BJLAS era as relações internacionais. Com o passar dos anos, o periódico ampliou seu universo disciplinar e temático, e hoje publica trabalhos nos diversos campos das humanidades, artes e ciências sociais. Assim, tem como eixo organizador incluir temáticas (a) de impacto regional para a América Latina ou (b) trabalhos com metodologias comparativas sobre dois ou mais países deste continente. Considera-se que os manuscritos devem contribuir de modo significativo ao avanço do conhecimento científico em temáticas sensíveis à América Latina, por este motivo, as propostas publicadas são elaboradas por autores com nível de pós-graduação. As problemáticas que tratam de América Latina exigem perspectivas transdisciplinares com abordagens sobre tópicos transversais em questões sociais, políticas, econômicas, jurídicas, históricas, culturais, artísticas, de comunicação social. Finalmente, a BJLAS tem interesse em divulgar resenhas de livros recentemente publicados ou de obras de grande relevância para a região, como clássicos do pensamento latino-americano, e aceita também críticas de arte ou ensaios de qualidade.
publisher: Universidade de São Paulo - Programa de Pós-graduação em Integração da América Latina
language: en
publication name: Brazilian Journal of Latin American Studies
issn: 1676-6288
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items: Black Woman, Fetishist, and Slave: Racial Politics, Whiteness, and Colonial Memory in BDSM
items: Strategic periphery in the energy–technology transition: critical minerals, dependence, and the conversion of potential power in South America
items: Mapping state and private actors in energy generation in South America: an empirical analysis based on Global Energy Monitor
items: The bodily diversity of twerk in Argentina faced with the racial imprint of fatphobia
items: Aesthetic experiences and memory in traditional Murui-Muina dances in Leticia-Amazonas
items: Who is “american”? Universalism, conquest, and latin american contestation in Greg Grandin
items: Warisata School-Ayllu: a pedagogical experience of community organization for mutual defense
items: The historical trajectory of labor studies in Latin America: Interview with Julio César Neffa
items: Impact of the non-renewal of the Brazil–Argentina maritime transport agreement and potential competitiveness gains
items: Hyperrealism and strategic dissonance in Latin America: methodological operationalization of contradiction and its application to the case study of Chile within the context of Sino–American rivalry
items: The peoples of the world: a decolonizing and counter-hegemonic vision and its necessary updating
items: A literary biography of Horacio Quiroga? Reading the lived experience through fiction in "The solitary anarchist"
items: Towards a south american theory of nuclear development: Nuclear autonomy and regional security
items: Modeling with Complex Adaptive Systems for International Relations in the Latin American Context - The Case of Argentina
items: As animal as human. Portraying the werewolf together with the Qom of the Gran Chaco
items: Dossier presentation - Between Images, Words, and Screens: Challenges, Transversalities, and Reinventions in Latin American Art
items: State-building and development in times of systemic chaos: limits of state intervention in interwar Argentina
items: Visual pedagogy and national listening: the rural worker in mundo radial
items: Productive integration in Latin America between 2000 and 2019
items: The Ladino as enemy: the anthropological and historical debate on the Ladino in twentieth century Guatemala
items: Dussel's Political Philosophy and the Global South: Toward a Reconstruction of Ideas
items: Western? Latinos! Notes on Brazilian latinity in the light of Lula's speeches
items: Care policies and the limits of development policies: an analysis from Brazil and Uruguay and from gender and race perspectives
items: The specialization of consumer law in Bolivia compared to other MERCOSUR countries
items: Institutions, institutional traps and the challenges for latin american development
items: “Without dance there is no life...”. socio-corporal articulation through K-POP in Latin America.
items: Exoduses, diasporas and nomadism Sebastião Salgado and Salman Rushdie in times of global migrations
items: Between saints and twin-sisters: the Brazil-Argentina bridge in the heart of the border strip
items: Energy transition and deepening of the pattern of productive specialization in Latin America: the European Union - MERCOSUR agreement
items: “We are a mixture": notes on borders and (non)belonging in Gloria Anzaldúa

Black Woman, Fetishist, and Slave: Racial Politics, Whiteness, and Colonial Memory in BDSM
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description: This article analyzes consensual slavery relationships and race play practices within BDSM, based on an ethnographic study conducted among the fetish community of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Taking as a case study a controversy triggered by the public circulation of images and accounts involving an interracial Master/slave couple, I examine the ways in which race occupies a central place in BDSM practices and how these practices unsettle the question of colonial memory as a traumatic legacy. I argue that, although race play is often regarded as the most evident expression of the articulation between race, sexuality, and colonial memory, this centrality ultimately obscures the ways in which whiteness also structures the BDSM field. Drawing on scholarship on BDSM, Black feminisms, and whiteness, I contend that the controversies analyzed reveal an unequal economy of racial visibility in which race is readily identified in interracial scenes and race play practices, while certain aesthetics and scenes associated with the fetishization of whiteness tend to be perceived as neutral and unmarked, and thus are not equally recognized as race play.
subject: Dossier - Bodies, Performances, and Racialization in Latin America: Politics, Knowledges, Territories, and Aesthetics
  topic: section
subject: BDSM
  topic: keywords
subject: Race play
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subject: Whiteness
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subject: Colonialism
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subject: Fetish
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subject: BDSM
  topic: subjects
subject: Colonialism
  topic: subjects
subject: Sexuality
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subject: Slavery
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subject: Anthropology
  topic: disciplines
subject: Sociology
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creator: Ava Cruz
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Ava Cruz https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-08-26
publication date: 2026-08-26
starting page: e235914
ending page: e235914
doi: 10.11606/issn.1676-6288.bjlas.2026.235914

Strategic periphery in the energy–technology transition: critical minerals, dependence, and the conversion of potential power in South America
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description: This article examines South America’s position in critical mineral value chains associated with the energy–technology transition. Drawing on international political economy, Latin American structuralism, dependency theories, neo-extractivism, and the resource curse literature, it develops the notion of strategic periphery to explain a central tension: peripheral economies may gain material relevance and potential power without necessarily achieving greater technological, productive, or regulatory autonomy. Building on this theoretical dialogue, the article defines the category through four constitutive conditions—material centrality, systemic criticality, structural asymmetry within the chain, and potential margin for conversion—and operationalizes it through six analytical dimensions. The empirical strategy compares Chile and Argentina within the lithium value chain and contrasts them with Brazil’s magnetic rare earth value chain. The findings reveal distinct trajectories. In Chile, material centrality is translated more clearly into rent capture and governance of extraction; in Argentina, primarily into production expansion and investment attraction; and in Brazil, it remains predominantly potential because of technological and industrial barriers. Strategic periphery therefore designates the gap between material relevance, potential power, and the effective capacity to transform a country’s position within global value chains.
subject: Original Article
  topic: section
subject: Strategic periphery
  topic: keywords
subject: Critical minerals
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subject: Dependency
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subject: Energy transition
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subject: Latin American structuralism
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creator: Soraia Duarte
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Soraia Duarte https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-08-20
publication date: 2026-08-20
starting page: e245831
ending page: e245831
doi: 10.11606/issn.1676-6288.bjlas.2026.245831

Mapping state and private actors in energy generation in South America: an empirical analysis based on Global Energy Monitor
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description: This article maps the ownership and control structure of operating power generation plants in South America and analyzes, from an interpretive perspective, how the institutional heterogeneity it reveals relates to the challenges of regional energy integration. Using public data from the Global Energy Monitor (October 2025 database), 5,795 operating plants across the twelve South American countries were examined, covering six generation segments: hydropower, gas- and oil-fired thermal power, solar, wind, coal, and bioenergy and cogeneration. The methodology is based on the standardization of ownership information at the asset level and the classification of controllers into state-owned, private, and mixed categories, while also distinguishing the national or foreign origin of capital, according to predominant economic and decision-making control. Two metrics are used: plant count (presence) and installed capacity (systemic relevance). The results reveal three governance models — statist, hybrid, and liberalized — and a systematic gap between numerical presence and systemic weight: private capital dominates the number of projects, especially in variable renewables, while state and mixed control remains decisive in installed capacity, anchored in large hydropower plants. The mapping provides a comparable and replicable basis for debates on South American energy integration.
subject: Original Article
  topic: section
subject: Energy integration
  topic: keywords
subject: Governance
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subject: Electric power generation
  topic: keywords
subject: Asset ownership
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subject: South America
  topic: keywords
subject: Integração energética regional; setor elétrico sul-americano; governança energética; estrutura de propriedade; controle de ativos; geração de energia elétrica; Global Energy Monitor; América do Sul
  topic: subjects
subject: Relações Internacionais
  topic: disciplines
subject: Economia Política Internacional
  topic: disciplines
subject: Energia e Desenvolvimento
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subject: Governança do Setor Elétrico
  topic: disciplines
subject: Integração Regional
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creator: Marcos Felipe Almeida Dias da Silva
creator: Miguel Edgar Morales Udaeta
creator: Dorel Soares Ramos
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Marcos Felipe Almeida Dias da Silva, Miguel Edgar Morales Udaeta, Dorel Soares Ramos https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-07-08
publication date: 2026-07-08
starting page: e245213
ending page: e245213
doi: 10.11606/issn.1676-6288.bjlas.2026.245213

The bodily diversity of twerk in Argentina faced with the racial imprint of fatphobia
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description: twerk spaces in Argentina reflect a greater presence of sexual and body diversity, where perceptions of fatness are markedly different from the mandate of thinness that constitutes the hegemonic beauty. This article is part of a doctoral research in the area of ​​anthropology of the body that addresses the dance experience of twerk in Argentina and the processes of signification that emerge around it. The investigation revolves around racial issues in non-racialized social circles, but with a repertoire of meanings regarding bodily and gender diversity that engages with this framework. Its objective is to trace the elements of raciality that, from an intersectional perspective, are revealed in the racism-gender relationship and its classification of whiteness and thinness. The methodology implemented consists of anthropological fieldwork and specifically, there is a sociohistorical tracing based on a study that posits fatphobia as a derivative of racism. From a decolonial epistemology, it is argued that twerk is an aesthetic-political practice capable of challenging the beauty canon, as it gives rise to new reflections on corporality in Argentina and, more broadly, in the Latin American experience.
subject: Dossier - Bodies, Performances, and Racialization in Latin America: Politics, Knowledges, Territories, and Aesthetics
  topic: section
subject: Twerk
  topic: keywords
subject: Racism
  topic: keywords
subject: Gender
  topic: keywords
subject: Fatphobia
  topic: keywords
subject: Decolonial Epistemology
  topic: keywords
subject: antropología
  topic: disciplines
subject: antropología del cuerpo
  topic: disciplines
subject: antropología de la danza
  topic: disciplines
creator: Mayra Jazmin Lucio
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Mayra Lucio https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-08-26
publication date: 2026-08-26
starting page: e236290
ending page: e236290
doi: 10.11606/issn.1676-6288.bjlas.2026.236290

Aesthetic experiences and memory in traditional Murui-Muina dances in Leticia-Amazonas
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description: This paper is the result of collaborative work with the Murui-Muina people living in the city of Leticia, in the Colombian Amazon, on the border with Brazil and Peru. The study focuses on traditional dances and celebrations that take place at different times of the year and form part of a complex network of exchanges. The text historically situates the processes that led the Murui-Muina to move from their traditional territories to the city of Leticia, beginning with the rubber economy in the early twentieth century, as well as the traces of this phenomenon in the memory of this people. It analyzes the ways in which processes of displacement and adaptation shape new relationships with culture and its forms of expression. Drawing on the image of baskets and malocas as aesthetic and material elements of Murui-Muina culture, it analyzes their uses in relation to processes of memory construction connected to dances and agricultural life. In the second part, the text explores the possibilities of thinking about aesthetic experiences through native concepts and the potential of ethnographic work attentive to everyday life for understanding processes of long duration. Finally, it concludes that it is through such native categories that we can approach aesthetic experiences that challenge notions of corporeality and performativity in this context and that are essential for understanding memory and aesthetics when working alongside Indigenous peoples.
subject: Dossier - Bodies, Performances, and Racialization in Latin America: Politics, Knowledges, Territories, and Aesthetics
  topic: section
subject: Body
  topic: keywords
subject: Practices of everyday life
  topic: keywords
subject: Memory
  topic: keywords
subject: Ethnography
  topic: keywords
subject: Murui-Muina
  topic: keywords
subject: Cuerpo
  topic: subjects
subject: practicas cotidianas
  topic: subjects
subject: fiestas indígenas
  topic: subjects
subject: estéticas
  topic: subjects
subject: memoria
  topic: subjects
subject: Antropología de la danza
  topic: disciplines
subject: danza
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subject: performance
  topic: disciplines
creator: Daniela Botero Marulanda
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Daniela Botero Marulanda https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-08-26
publication date: 2026-08-26
starting page: e236270
ending page: e236270
doi: 10.11606/issn.1676-6288.bjlas.2026.236270

Who is “american”? Universalism, conquest, and latin american contestation in Greg Grandin
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description: This review critically examines America, América: A New History of the New World (2025), by Greg Grandin, which advances an integrated hemispheric history by rejecting the separation between “United States history” and “Latin American history.” It aims to reconstruct the book’s central thesis and assess its contribution to International Law debates on sovereignty, conquest, non-intervention, and multilateral institutional design. Methodologically, the review adopts an analytical-interpretive reading structured around key argumentative axes, especially the semantic dispute over the name “America,” the notion of immanent critique, and the genealogy linking the Monroe Doctrine, Pan-Americanism, and the formation of international governance formulas. As its main considerations, the book repositions Latin America as a constitutive agent in the development of normative vocabularies that contest the liberal order, while also exposing the ambivalence of principles mobilized to justify hegemony and intervention. The review further identifies two tensions: the risk of homogenizing Latin America’s internal diversity and the loss of empirical depth entailed by the book’s long-duration ambition. It concludes that the book offers a valuable framework for understanding continuities between hemispheric contestation and contemporary international law.
subject: Book review
  topic: section
subject: Latin America
  topic: keywords
subject: Monroe Doctrine
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subject: Sovereignty
  topic: keywords
subject: International Law
  topic: keywords
subject: Regional integration
  topic: keywords
subject: Latin America
  topic: subjects
subject: Monroe Doctrine
  topic: subjects
subject: sovereignty
  topic: subjects
subject: international law
  topic: subjects
subject: regional integration
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creator: Claudyvan José dos Santos Nascimento Silva
creator: Polyanna Cristina Vieira Cordeiro Silva
creator: Claudyvanne dos Santos Nascimento Silva
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Claudyvan José dos Santos Nascimento Silva, Polyanna Cristina Vieira Cordeiro Silva, Claudyvanne dos Santos Nascimento Silva https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-08-20
publication date: 2026-08-20
starting page: e245927
ending page: e245927
doi: 10.11606/issn.1676-6288.bjlas.2026.245927

Warisata School-Ayllu: a pedagogical experience of community organization for mutual defense
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description: This article examines the historical and pedagogical experience of the Warisata School-Ayllu (1931), characterizing it as a nucleus of active resistance, social emancipation, and territorial sovereignty in early twentieth-century Bolivia. Through a documentary and historiographical analysis, the research demonstrates how the creation of self-managed schools represented a critical transition in the Andean struggle: the shift from the legal militancy of the Caciques Apoderados, focused on tactical literacy for legal self-defense, to a broad project of community territorial and productive reconstitution. Sustained by ancestral social technologies such as ayni and mink'a, and governed under the sovereignty of the Parliament of Amautas, the model guaranteed the material subsistence and self-defense of Indigenous peoples against the expansion of the latifundio (landed estates). Finally, the study articulates the daily tensions of the school with the state’s modernizing project, situating its dismantling within the theoretical debate between the structural limits of the period and the relative autonomy of pedagogical praxis.
subject: Original Article
  topic: section
subject: Warisata School-Ayllu
  topic: keywords
subject: Caciques Apoderados
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subject: Indigenous Education
  topic: keywords
subject: Andean Territory
  topic: keywords
subject: Pedagogical Praxis
  topic: keywords
subject: Warisata
  topic: subjects
subject: Educação Indígena
  topic: subjects
subject: Educação comunitária
  topic: subjects
subject: Ayllu
  topic: subjects
subject: Educação Rural
  topic: subjects
subject: História
  topic: disciplines
subject: Educação
  topic: disciplines
subject: Integração da América Latina
  topic: disciplines
creator: Felipe Uzeda
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Felipe Uzeda https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-08-25
publication date: 2026-08-25
starting page: e247321
ending page: e247321
doi: 10.11606/issn.1676-6288.bjlas.2026.247321

The historical trajectory of labor studies in Latin America: Interview with Julio César Neffa
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description: Julio César Neffa, an internationally renowned Argentine professor and researcher, discusses various topics within labor studies in this interview. These studies have been made possible through the collaboration of intellectuals who contributed to the founding of important institutions and the establishment of research groups in Latin America, often in contexts of political adversity, such as dictatorial regimes. By emphasizing the history of the institutionalization of these studies in the region, Neffa argues that, as they have consolidated into a multidisciplinary field of knowledge, they have focused on topics such as trade unionism and the relationship between the meanings of formal and informal work. He also problematizes the definition of work as a socially grounded activity that involves the worker in their entirety, highlighting that, even in contexts of super-exploitation, it often leads to physical, psychological, and mental illness. Finally, Neffa argues that changes in the mode of production have enabled the development of technologies that simplify labor, so that its management is no longer limited to the body. Thus, this interview, in addition to addressing topics that remain relevant in labor studies, invites reflection on the definition of work and its broader epistemic, theoretical, and methodological implications.
subject: Interview
  topic: section
subject: Work
  topic: keywords
subject: Work history
  topic: keywords
subject: Latin America
  topic: keywords
subject: Production mode
  topic: keywords
subject: trabalho; historia del Trabajo; Latinoamérica; modo de producción
  topic: subjects
subject: Ciências Humanas
  topic: disciplines
subject: Ciências Sociais
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creator: Julio César Neffa
creator: Patrícia Marília Félix da Silva
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Julio César Neffa, Patrícia Marília Félix da Silva https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-07-08
publication date: 2026-07-08
starting page: e247151
ending page: e247151
doi: 10.11606/issn.1676-6288.bjlas.2026.247151

Impact of the non-renewal of the Brazil–Argentina maritime transport agreement and potential competitiveness gains
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description: This paper analyzes the effects of the non-renewal of the Maritime Transport Agreement between Brazil and Argentina, in force from 1985 to 2021, on the dynamics of bilateral trade, national merchant fleets, and freight rate behavior. Using a qualitative approach, based on the descriptive analysis of secondary data, the study examines the period between 2013 and 2023, combining documentary and bibliographic research with statistical evidence from official public databases. In light of international trade theory and regulatory economics, the Agreement is interpreted as a mechanism restricting competition, with potential implications for allocative efficiency and logistics costs. The results indicate the absence of robust evidence that the Agreement contributed to the development of Brazilian and Argentine merchant fleets or to the expansion of bilateral trade. Furthermore, no systematic relationship is observed between its revocation and changes in freight rate volatility. On the other hand, the evidence suggests the existence of costs associated with the previous regime, arising from barriers to entry and intermediation mechanisms in market access. It is concluded that the non-renewal of the Agreement is aligned with the principles of greater openness and regulatory efficiency, with no identifiable negative impacts on the variables analyzed.
subject: Original Article
  topic: section
subject: Short Sea Shipping
  topic: keywords
subject: Brazil–Argentina
  topic: keywords
subject: Protectionism
  topic: keywords
subject: Maritime transport
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subject: Bilateral agreements
  topic: keywords
creator: Bernardo Pinheiro
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Bernardo Pinheiro https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-05-13
publication date: 2026-05-13
starting page: e227618
ending page: e227618
doi: 10.11606/issn.1676-6288.bjlas.2026.227618

Hyperrealism and strategic dissonance in Latin America: methodological operationalization of contradiction and its application to the case study of Chile within the context of Sino–American rivalry
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description: This article presents the first empirical application of the Hyperrealism Index (IHR), a methodological tool designed to measure strategic dissonance between discourse and behavior in international politics. Within the field of International Relations, the study engages with the literature on Latin American autonomy and the systemic rivalry between the United States and the People’s Republic of China, incorporating paraconsistent logic as a formal foundation to model the coexistence of contradictory evidence. Methodologically, the IHR operates through an evidence-based evaluation matrix composed of favorable (μ) and unfavorable (λ) inputs, from which the indices of contradiction (C), certainty (S), and uncertainty (U) are derived, and weighted through explicit parameters (α, β, γ). The model is applied to the case of Chile during the administration of Gabriel Boric, within the context of contemporary geopolitical competition. The findings identify a pattern of moderate hyperrealism, consistent with strategies of adaptive pragmatism under conditions of systemic pressure. The study advances the IHR as a replicable methodological prototype for comparative analysis in Latin America and other international contexts.
subject: Original Article
  topic: section
subject: Hyperrealism
  topic: keywords
subject: Strategic Dissonance
  topic: keywords
subject: Latin American Foreign Policy
  topic: keywords
subject: Sino–American Rivalry
  topic: keywords
subject: Paraconsistent Logic
  topic: keywords
creator: Gustavo A. Báez Castillo
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Gustavo A. Báez Castillo https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-08-06
publication date: 2026-08-06
starting page: e246832
ending page: e246832
doi: 10.11606/issn.1676-6288.bjlas.2026.246832

The peoples of the world: a decolonizing and counter-hegemonic vision and its necessary updating
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description: This article synthesizes a work comprising fourteen updated volumes (2025–2026) on the peoples of the world, based on the principle of ethnographic systematization through a decolonizing and counter-hegemonic approach. A complex reinterpretation of cultural diversity is necessary as a means of countering attempts at global homogenization, given the large number of sources—particularly Western ones—that continue to uphold a colonial view of cultural identities, encompassing languages, geographical location, ethnonyms, social characteristics, religious beliefs, and other aspects, thereby defining the research objectives and their outcomes. The operational organization of the volumes follows the United Nations consensus and rejects the Euro-North American and Australian–New Zealand ways of viewing and interpreting the world and its human groups.
subject: Review Article
  topic: section
subject: Ethnographic dictionary
  topic: keywords
subject: Ideological decolonization
  topic: keywords
subject: Counter-hegemony
  topic: keywords
subject: Systematics of ethnic groups
  topic: keywords
subject: Cultural diversity and identities
  topic: keywords
subject: Los pueblos del mundo
  topic: subjects
subject: antropología
  topic: disciplines
creator: Jesús Guanche Pérez
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Jesús Guanche Pérez https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-08-04
publication date: 2026-08-04
starting page: e246237
ending page: e246237
doi: 10.11606/issn.1676-6288.bjlas.2026.246237

A literary biography of Horacio Quiroga? Reading the lived experience through fiction in "The solitary anarchist"
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description: Drawing on Alain Buisine’s (1991) notion of biography as a producer of fiction, this review examines O anarquista solitário: uma biografia de Horacio Quiroga, by Wilson Alves-Bezerra, with the aim of reflecting on biography as a literary form and on its effects in narrative construction. The discussion is situated within the theoretical framework of studies on (auto)biography (Figueiredo, 2022), authorship (Foucault, 2001), and the relationships between literature and life (Olmos, 2024), engaging with critical reflections on the discursive construction of the author and the boundaries between referentiality and fiction. Methodologically, the review adopts a critical analysis of the biography’s narrative composition, paying particular attention to the biographer’s position of enunciation—as a fiction writer as well—and to the formal procedures that organize the representation of lived experience. It argues that the narrative voice moves toward the construction of a character who undergoes a trajectory akin to that of a cursed Latin American hero situated on the periphery of the literary system. The analysis demonstrates that the narrative not only reconstructs Quiroga’s life trajectory but also sheds light on the processes through which authorship is constructed, the functioning of literature as an institution, and the material conditions of the publishing market. In doing so, it invites readers to understand the biographical space as a site of literary elaboration of lived experience and of critical reflection on the narrative status of life.
subject: Book review
  topic: section
subject: Biography
  topic: keywords
subject: Horacio Quiroga
  topic: keywords
subject: Alves-Bezerra
  topic: keywords
subject: The Solitary Anarchist
  topic: keywords
subject: Horacio quiroga
  topic: subjects
subject: literatura latino-americana
  topic: subjects
subject: biografia
  topic: subjects
subject: literatura
  topic: disciplines
subject: estudos da america latina
  topic: disciplines
subject: escritor uruguaio
  topic: disciplines
creator: Nair Renata Amâncio
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Nair Renata Amâncio https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-07-15
publication date: 2026-07-15
starting page: e245789
ending page: e245789
doi: 10.11606/issn.1676-6288.bjlas.2026.245789

Towards a south american theory of nuclear development: Nuclear autonomy and regional security
type: item
description: This article aims to discuss the development of nuclear technology in South America through theoretical lenses that more accurately reflect the observable experiences of the region. The nuclear programs of Brazil and Argentina are contextualized within a theory of ‘nuclear autonomy’, which is proposed here as an alternative to nuclear proliferation theories that are fundamentally focused on nuclear weapons and traditional international security approaches. It departs from a post-colonial and critical framework to challenge mainstream theories of nuclear proliferation and their applicability to the cases of Brazil and Argentina. The conclusions highlight the necessity of analyzing nuclear development in the region through lenses that prioritize discussions on economic development and autonomy rather than traditional security and proliferation of nuclear weapons. The widening of the concept of security as proposed by the School of Copenhagen and writings on autonomy by South American authors Helio Jaguaribe and Juan Carlos Puig serve as these lenses. Specialized literature on theories of nuclear proliferation, autonomy and the history of the nuclear programs of Brazil and Argentina was used to develop this work.
subject: Original Article
  topic: section
subject: Autonomy
  topic: keywords
subject: Nuclear Non-proliferation
  topic: keywords
subject: Nuclear development
  topic: subjects
subject: Nuclear non-proliferation
  topic: subjects
subject: Autonomy
  topic: subjects
subject: South America
  topic: subjects
subject: Brazil
  topic: subjects
subject: Argentina
  topic: subjects
subject: International Relations
  topic: subjects
subject: Ciência política
  topic: disciplines
subject: Relações Internacionais
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creator: João Marcos Ferreira Pacheco
creator: João Paulo Nicolini Gabriel
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 João Paulo Nicolini Gabriel, João Marcos Ferreira Pacheco https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-12-22
publication date: 2025-12-22
ending page: 227590
doi: 10.11606/issn.1676-6288.prolam.2025.227590

Modeling with Complex Adaptive Systems for International Relations in the Latin American Context - The Case of Argentina
type: item
description: After the “pink tide” of progressive governments in Latin America at the beginning of the 21st century, a wave of conservative governments followed between 2010 and 2020, and then another wave of progressive governments arrived in Mexico (Andrés López Obrador), Argentina (Alberto Fernández), Chile (Gabriel Boric), Colombia (Gustavo Petro), Brazil (Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva), and Bolívia (Luis Arce), highlighting an unpredictable political scenario in the long term. How to model the tangle of International Relations in this region characterized by incipient national elites, incapable of implementing a lasting project of autonomous nationhood? This article defends the thesis that the theory of Complex Adaptive Systems can be employed as a suitable epistemological model to provide explanatory concepts, as well as a mathematical framework for the creation of computational simulation models. Finally, a case study is presented on the shift to the right in Argentina under the Milei government to illustrate the dynamics of internal and external policies in Latin America, as well as the modeling difficulties that this political and economic instability entails.
subject: Original Article
  topic: section
subject: Latin America
  topic: keywords
subject: Argentina
  topic: keywords
subject: Self-organization
  topic: keywords
subject: Complex Adaptive Systems
  topic: keywords
subject: International Relations
  topic: keywords
creator: José Artur Quilici Gonzalez
creator: Mariana Claudia Broens
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 José Artur Quilici Gonzalez, Mariana Claudia Broens https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-12-29
publication date: 2025-12-29
starting page: e243562
ending page: e243562
doi: 10.11606/issn.1676-6288.prolam.2025.243562

As animal as human. Portraying the werewolf together with the Qom of the Gran Chaco
type: item
description: This article is based on ethnographic observations made while studying human-animal relations among the Qom (Toba), an Indigenous group inhabiting the Gran Chaco region in northeastern Argentina. During this research, I encountered the figure of the werewolf among the Qom. However, fieldwork led me to hypothesize the existence of multiple forms of the werewolf, each enacted differently across the diverse ontological and social worlds that I observed. Using first-hand ethnographic material, this study analyzes the processes and characteristics that constitute the human–Qom–werewolf transformation. Understanding this metamorphosis requires engaging with Qom notions of animality, embodiment, and the porous boundaries between humans, animals, and other-than-human beings. Finally, the article situates Qom werewolves in dialogue with other regional representations of werewolves (Indigenous, Creole, and urban), aiming to elucidate the concepts of humanity and animality operative within Qom sociocosmology and to compare them with analogous conceptual frameworks across South America.
subject: Original Article
  topic: section
subject: Animality
  topic: keywords
subject: Humanity
  topic: keywords
subject: Indigenous People
  topic: keywords
subject: Tranformation
  topic: keywords
subject: Werewolf
  topic: keywords
subject: ethnology
  topic: disciplines
subject: ethnography
  topic: disciplines
subject: anthropology
  topic: disciplines
creator: Celeste Medrano
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Celeste Medrano https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-12-29
publication date: 2025-12-29
starting page: e239481
ending page: e239481
doi: 10.11606/issn.1676-6288.prolam.2025.239481

Dossier presentation - Between Images, Words, and Screens: Challenges, Transversalities, and Reinventions in Latin American Art
type: item
description: .
subject: Dossier - Between Images, Words, and Screens: Challenges, Transversalities, and Reinventions in Latin American Art
  topic: section
subject: .
  topic: keywords
creator: Amanda Aguilera
creator: Ana Laura Lusnich
creator: Guilherme Maia
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Amanda Aguilera, Ana Laura Lusnich, Guilherme Maia https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-11-19
publication date: 2025-11-19
starting page: e242594
ending page: e242594
doi: 10.11606/issn.1676-6288.prolam.2025.242594

State-building and development in times of systemic chaos: limits of state intervention in interwar Argentina
type: item
description: This paper analyzes the process of state-building in Argentina during the interwar period (1914–1945), understood as a stage of “systemic chaos” and hegemonic transition on a global scale. The aim is to examine how the transformations of the capitalist system and the disputes among major powers influenced the reconfiguration of the power structure and the characteristics assumed by state building in Argentina. The methodological approach is qualitative, based on a case study supported by secondary sources that allow for the reconstruction of the main socioeconomic transformations and state practices during the period. This article develops a theoretical framework that articulates the political economy of development with a historical sociology of the state, exploring the mechanisms of state self-strengthening and self-weakening that shaped Argentina’s trajectory, offering interpretative keys to understanding the limits of development strategies in Latin America.
subject: Original Article
  topic: section
subject: State-building
  topic: keywords
subject: Systemic chaos
  topic: keywords
subject: Development
  topic: keywords
subject: Argentina
  topic: keywords
subject: State power
  topic: keywords
subject: Poder estatal
  topic: subjects
subject: Estado
  topic: subjects
subject: Argentina
  topic: subjects
subject: Desarrollo
  topic: subjects
subject: Industria
  topic: subjects
subject: Historia económica
  topic: subjects
subject: Sistema-Mundo
  topic: subjects
subject: Teoría del Estado
  topic: subjects
subject: Economía Política Internacional
  topic: disciplines
subject: Desarrollo Económico
  topic: disciplines
subject: teoría del estado
  topic: disciplines
creator: Joel Sidler
creator: Víctor Ramiro Fernández
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Joel Sidler, Víctor Ramiro Fernández https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-12-30
publication date: 2025-12-30
starting page: e235769
ending page: e235769
doi: 10.11606/issn.1676-6288.prolam.2025.235769

Visual pedagogy and national listening: the rural worker in mundo radial
type: item
description: This paper investigates the appropriation of the symbolic universe of rural folklore by the national-popular project of Juan Domingo Perón's government (1946-1955), aiming to create a common Argentine identity based on subaltern sectors. These segments consisted of migrant workers who settled in the suburbs of cosmopolitan Buenos Aires, an environment resistant to the popular rural culture of the interior. Inserted within Visual Culture Studies, the research applies Panofsky's Iconology in three levels of interpretation (pre-iconographic, iconographic, and iconological) to the images in the Nuestro Folklore section of the magazine Mundo Radial, examining its editorial materiality and the politics of the gaze. The analysis demonstrates that visuality, notably through stylized engravings by José Montero Lacasa, sought to resolve the tension between tradition and modernity by presenting an idealized and ethnically neutral figure of the rural worker. This iconographic resource functioned to anchor musical repertoires, educate listening, and organize expectations of belonging to the Peronist national-popular ideal, while simultaneously silencing the class and racial cleavages of internal migrants in Buenos Aires.
subject: Original Article
  topic: section
subject: Peronism
  topic: keywords
subject: Iconography
  topic: keywords
subject: Visual Culture
  topic: keywords
subject: Rural Worker
  topic: keywords
subject: Mundo Radial
  topic: keywords
subject: Política cultural
  topic: subjects
subject: Foclore
  topic: subjects
subject: História da América Latina
  topic: subjects
subject: Argentina
  topic: subjects
subject: Cultura de massa
  topic: subjects
subject: popular
  topic: subjects
subject: rural
  topic: subjects
subject: História da América Latina
  topic: disciplines
subject: Peronismo
  topic: disciplines
creator: Ana Laura Batista
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Ana Laura Batista https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-12-30
publication date: 2025-12-30
starting page: e233489
ending page: e233489
doi: 10.11606/issn.1676-6288.prolam.2025.233489

Productive integration in Latin America between 2000 and 2019
type: item
description: This article analyzes the evolution of the intra- and extra-regional trade structure of ALADI, CAN, and Mercosur between 2000 and 2019, as well as productive integration within these blocs. United Nations trade data were used to classify products according to their production stages. The focus was on the trade of intermediate goods —parts and components— and capital goods, as a way to assess the complementarity of industrial production among member countries and the potential formation of regional value chains. The results showed that, until 2009, there was a trend toward increasing productive integration; however, this trend reversed in the following years, so that the degree of integration after 20 years was lower than at the beginning of the century. Mercosur is the main driver of both the integration and the subsequent productive disintegration observed. These findings suggest that the region is regressing in its internal and external trade relations, specializing in products based on natural resources, which tends to exacerbate the historical problem of dependency and poses new challenges for the Latin American economic integration project.
subject: Original Article
  topic: section
subject: Productive integration
  topic: keywords
subject: Intra and extra-regional trade
  topic: keywords
subject: Mercosur
  topic: keywords
subject: Regional value chains
  topic: keywords
subject: Productive disintegration
  topic: keywords
subject: Economia
  topic: disciplines
creator: Ricardo Lobato Torres
creator: Carlos Rodríguez González
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Ricardo Lobato Torres, Carlos Rodríguez González https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-12-31
publication date: 2025-12-31
starting page: e233468
ending page: e233468
doi: 10.11606/issn.1676-6288.prolam.2025.233468

The Ladino as enemy: the anthropological and historical debate on the Ladino in twentieth century Guatemala
type: item
description: This work investigates the different conceptualizations of the Ladino in Guatemala. It examines how mid-20th-century North American anthropology defined the Ladino as the non-Indigenous person, the invader, and the enemy of Indigenous peoples. Several North American ethnographers studied ethnic or racial conflict in Guatemala from questionable metropolitan canons and from the prejudices of white society. The view of the Ladino as the enemy of the Indigenous person ultimately contributed to the project of racial division promoted by Guatemalan plantation elites as they sought to insert themselves into global capitalism. In response, Severo Martínez Peláez called for de-essentializing the opposition between Ladino and Indigenous, and Eric Wolf urged a critique of the lingering traces of racial-degeneration theory in Mesoamerican anthropology. In this work, I trace different approaches to the history of the Ladino as a colonial, fiscal, political, and racial category within Guatemalan society. I conceptualize the Ladino as a reconfiguration of caste society under the impetus of capitalism through the system of Guatemalan plantations. Finally, I call for tracing experiences of common struggle between Ladinos and Indigenous peoples, experiential liminal zones, and even solidarities, in order to reveal racism within class experience and, conversely, class relations within racism.
subject: Original Article
  topic: section
subject: Guatemala
  topic: keywords
subject: Colonialism
  topic: keywords
subject: Liberalism
  topic: keywords
subject: Plantations
  topic: keywords
subject: Caste Society
  topic: keywords
subject: Ladino
  topic: keywords
creator: Sergio Guillermo Palencia Frener
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Sergio Guillermo Palencia Frener https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-12-30
publication date: 2025-12-30
starting page: e235855
ending page: e235855
doi: 10.11606/issn.1676-6288.prolam.2025.235855

Dussel's Political Philosophy and the Global South: Toward a Reconstruction of Ideas
type: item
description: This paper aims to analyze Enrique Dussel’s political philosophy and its significance to the Global South. It maintains that the reconstruction and re-signification of the ideas of thinkers from Asia, Africa, and Latin America are essential for the constitution of the Global South, for its cooperation, and for facing its contemporary challenges. Moreover, it argues that Dussel’s political philosophy contributes to the development of Global Studies as a discipline by expanding its sources of thought, diversifying its geographical contributions, and extending its field of study.
subject: Original Article
  topic: section
subject: Dussel
  topic: keywords
subject: Global South
  topic: keywords
subject: Political Philosophy
  topic: keywords
subject: Politics
  topic: keywords
subject: Reconstruction of ideas
  topic: keywords
subject: Dussel
  topic: subjects
subject: Reconstrução de ideias
  topic: disciplines
creator: Rafael Gustavo Miranda Delgado
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Rafael Gustavo Miranda Delgado https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-12-28
publication date: 2025-12-28
starting page: e229372
ending page: e229372
doi: 10.11606/issn.1676-6288.prolam.2025.229372

Western? Latinos! Notes on Brazilian latinity in the light of Lula's speeches
type: item
description: The paper explores the tensions between Brazilian, Latin American and Western identities, emphasizing their overlaps and shifts. In a complementary way, it analyzes the contemporary configuration of these ambivalences at the institutional level, through three official speeches by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2023-2024), which exemplify a state project of rapprochement with Latin America and the Global South. It is based on the assumption that Brazil has more affinities with Latin America than with the developed countries traditionally associated with the West. The methodology combines a narrative literature review on Brazil, Latin America and the West, with an interpretivist documentary analysis of official pronouncements. The motivation for the research stems from data indicating the low self-identification of Brazilians as Latin Americans, in contrast to other countries in the region. The classification of Brazil as a Western nation is thus problematized, understanding it as a variable that depends on the criteria and agents involved, from the subjective distance of the Brazilian population in relation to belonging to Latin America to government efforts and state projects to build a Latin American identity.
subject: Original Article
  topic: section
subject: Brazil
  topic: keywords
subject: Brazilian culture
  topic: keywords
subject: Latin American identity
  topic: keywords
subject: Latinity
  topic: keywords
subject: West
  topic: keywords
subject: Latinidade
  topic: subjects
subject: América Latina
  topic: subjects
subject: Ciência Política e Relações Internacionais
  topic: disciplines
creator: Kelvin Araújo da Nóbrega Dias
creator: Maiko Jhonata de Araújo Gomes
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Kelvin Araújo da Nóbrega Dias, Maiko Jhonata de Araújo Gomes https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-10-11
publication date: 2025-10-11
starting page: e228401
ending page: e228401
doi: 10.11606/issn.1676-6288.prolam.2025.228401

Care policies and the limits of development policies: an analysis from Brazil and Uruguay and from gender and race perspectives
type: item
description: Este artigo analisa a política de cuidado como dimensão transversal do desenvolvimento humano, articulando a teoria do desenvolvimento como liberdade, de Amartya Sen, a crítica estrutural de Celso Furtado e as contribuições de Lélia Gonzalez, que introduz as dimensões étnico-raciais e de gênero no debate. Parte-se da hipótese de que o cuidado constitui uma liberdade instrumental indispensável, capaz de evidenciar as contradições entre crescimento econômico e desenvolvimento social na América Latina. A pesquisa, de abordagem qualitativa e quantitativa, fundamenta-se nas obras Desenvolvimento como Liberdade (SEN, 1999), O Mito do Desenvolvimento Econômico (FURTADO, 1974) e Por um Feminismo Afro-Latino-Americano (GONZALEZ, 2020). No eixo empírico, utilizam-se os relatórios da CEPAL de 2022 e 2025, intitulados La Sociedad del Cuidado. Os resultados indicam que as políticas de cuidado, ao redistribuírem tempo, renda e trabalho, fortalecem o exercício das liberdades instrumentais e promovem maior equidade social. Conclui-se que integrar o cuidado como política pública de desenvolvimento é essencial para ampliar as liberdades instrumentais, reduzir desigualdades étnico-raciais e promover a equidade de gênero na América Latina.
subject: Original Article
  topic: section
subject: Development
  topic: keywords
subject: Care policies
  topic: keywords
subject: Gender and Race
  topic: keywords
subject: Brazil
  topic: keywords
subject: Uruguay
  topic: keywords
subject: Política social
  topic: subjects
subject: Política do cuidado
  topic: subjects
subject: Gênero
  topic: subjects
subject: América latina
  topic: subjects
subject: Antropologia social
  topic: disciplines
subject: Sociologia
  topic: disciplines
subject: Política
  topic: disciplines
creator: Iago Sousa Chaves Soares
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Iago Sousa Chaves Soares https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-12-30
publication date: 2025-12-30
starting page: e233478
ending page: e233478
doi: 10.11606/issn.1676-6288.prolam.2025.233478

The specialization of consumer law in Bolivia compared to other MERCOSUR countries
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description: Since the 1990s, MERCOSUR countries have had laws that protect good practices in consumer relations. In 2024, Bolivia joined the Bloc. The country’s Constitution recognizes the values of traditional peoples, imposes the duty to preserve the rights of Mother Earth, and ensures cooperation between the central government and local autonomies in this area. In addition, in 2013 it enacted a law on the rights of consumers and users, which gives new relevance to their legal protection. Consumer rights are essential for regulating economic activity and for implementing sustainable development in the countries of the Bloc. Indigenous and peasant thought, present in the Bolivian Constitution, becomes a new relevant element. Therefore, this article seeks to answer the following question: how can Bolivia’s postcolonial consumer law positively influence the harmonization of consumer rights within MERCOSUR? Using the deductive method and the comparative procedural method, the analysis of consumer law in Bolivia may serve as a reference for legislators in other countries of the Bloc.
subject: Original Article
  topic: section
subject: Globalization
  topic: keywords
subject: Development
  topic: keywords
subject: Consumer Law
  topic: keywords
subject: Bolivia
  topic: keywords
subject: MERCOSUR
  topic: keywords
subject: América Latina
  topic: subjects
subject: sustentabilidade
  topic: subjects
subject: desenvolvimento sustentável
  topic: subjects
subject: Consumo
  topic: subjects
subject: Direito Internacional
  topic: disciplines
subject: Direito regional
  topic: disciplines
subject: Direito do Consumidor
  topic: disciplines
creator: Vitoria Gualberto Vagetti
creator: Luís Alexandre Carta Winter
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Vitoria Gualberto Vagetti , Luís Alexandre Carta Winter https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-12-31
publication date: 2025-12-31
starting page: e233462
ending page: e233462
doi: 10.11606/issn.1676-6288.prolam.2025.233462

Institutions, institutional traps and the challenges for latin american development
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description: The article’s objective is to summarize the political and institutional obstacles which hinder Latin American development and to understand why the governments fail in adopting the necessary policies. It dialogues with theories of economic development and the varieties of capitalism approach, combining economic, political and institutional features. The article shows how development was historically constrained by the dominant groups and by limits in state capacity. It emphasizes how the institutional characteristics of Latin American capitalism do not stimulate productivity and innovation, resulting in an inferior economic performance. A political system marked by the proximity between politicians and interest groups contributes to the model’s resilience and economic stagnation. The defeat of the middle income traps requires investments in labor force skills and innovation, which need to be promoted by the political elite and the state. This requires the building of alliances and the adoption of policies able to circumvent the institutional obstacles. The capacity to advance in this direction may strengthen knowledge intensive sectors and create the political basis able to sustain a dynamic and innovative development model.
subject: Original Article
  topic: section
subject: Institutions
  topic: keywords
subject: Varieties of Capitalism
  topic: keywords
subject: Economic Development
  topic: keywords
subject: Middle Income Trap
  topic: keywords
subject: Latin America
  topic: keywords
subject: Desenvolvimento Econômico
  topic: disciplines
subject: Economia Política
  topic: disciplines
creator: Alexandre Queiroz Guimarães
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Alexandre Queiroz Guimarães https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-12-29
publication date: 2025-12-29
starting page: e229288
ending page: e229288
doi: 10.11606/issn.1676-6288.prolam.2025.229288

“Without dance there is no life...”. socio-corporal articulation through K-POP in Latin America.
type: item
description: Korean popular culture, or Hallyu (the Korean wave), as a global phenomenon, has had a significant impact on everyday life in Latin America. In particular, K-pop dance has become consolidated as a relevant everyday practice. For this reason, this article proposes to analyze K-pop dance performances as a multisensory expression that, at the same time, can be considered a sociocultural narrative. The empirical data for this research come from extensive and prolonged fieldwork carried out between 2019 and 2023 in Argentina, Brazil, and Ecuador (in situ), and in Venezuela (virtually). A methodology that I refer to as “urban corpographies” was applied, which integrates various techniques and tools aimed at understanding the potential of dance expression and bodily perception in contemporary global contexts. I support my arguments based on the theoretical-methodological contributions of phenomenology, post-phenomenology, and visual-digital ethnography, within a research framework that considers the multiple influences and sensibilities that traverse bodies and are expressed through non-verbal articulation as a powerful tool in cultural practice.
subject: Original Article
  topic: section
subject: K-pop
  topic: keywords
subject: Dance
  topic: keywords
subject: Corporeality
  topic: keywords
subject: Corpography
  topic: keywords
subject: Globalisation
  topic: keywords
subject: Antropología Social
  topic: disciplines
subject: Sociología
  topic: disciplines
creator: Grit Kirstin Koeltzsch
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Grit Kirstin Koeltzsch https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-12-31
publication date: 2025-12-31
starting page: e233029
ending page: e233029
doi: 10.11606/issn.1676-6288.prolam.2025.233029

Exoduses, diasporas and nomadism Sebastião Salgado and Salman Rushdie in times of global migrations
type: item
description: In this article, we present some contemporary tensions regarding global migrations, establishing a counterpoint between the photographic work of Sebastião Salgado and the diasporic readings of writer Salman Rushdie. We develop an interpretation of the photographic images from the books Terra (1997) and Exodus (1999), questioning the role of the photographer at the boundary between the contemplative aestheticization of the misery of forced migrations and the ethical identification of the photographic gaze in contemporary nomadism. We conclude the analysis, as Jean Galard (2012) states, considering that the image artist is aware of the impossibility of summarizing a story in a single photograph; therefore, their photographic narrative allows for the articulation of visible facts with those that are suggested, based on the study of the conditions and contradictions of the photographed reality.
subject: Original Article
  topic: section
subject: Migration
  topic: keywords
subject: Nomadism
  topic: keywords
subject: Photography
  topic: keywords
subject: Sebastião Salgado
  topic: keywords
creator: Claudio Cledson Novaes
creator: Marcos Cezar Botelho de Souza
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Claudio Cledson Novaes, Marcos Botelho de Souza https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-10-08
publication date: 2025-10-08
starting page: e226502
ending page: e226502
doi: 10.11606/issn.1676-6288.prolam.2025.226502

Between saints and twin-sisters: the Brazil-Argentina bridge in the heart of the border strip
type: item
description: What could Brazil and Argentina share? The historical complexities of the bilateral relationship between these two countries are territorially connected along the border zone through a bridge built in the 1990s. This study aims to discuss the challenges of circulation in the border region, taking as its starting point the Integration Bridge, which connects the twin cities of São Borja (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) and Santo Tomé (Corrientes, Argentina). This discussion is framed within the discipline of International Political Economy as a cultural project and takes into account the everyday life of local communities as a backdrop. In addition, we analyze the Border Region Development Promotion Program (PDFF), a public policy for sustainable economic development across the entire length of Brazil's border with South American countries. To this end, the content analysis method was used. The results found that: (i) logistics is one of the points of convergence between security and development, and (ii) the PDFF leaves open the notion of including local societies in policymaking for the region.
subject: Original Article
  topic: section
subject: Integration Bridge
  topic: keywords
subject: Brazil-Argentina
  topic: keywords
subject: Infrastructure
  topic: keywords
subject: Circulation
  topic: keywords
subject: International Political Economy
  topic: keywords
subject: Ponte da Integração
  topic: subjects
subject: Integração Regional
  topic: subjects
subject: América Latina
  topic: subjects
subject: Nexo Segurança Desenvolvimento
  topic: subjects
subject: Economia Política Cultural
  topic: subjects
subject: Economia Política Internacional
  topic: disciplines
subject: Relações Brasil-Argentina
  topic: disciplines
subject: Relações internacionais
  topic: disciplines
subject: Ciência Política e Relações Internacionais
  topic: disciplines
creator: Raquel Conceição Santos
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Raquel Conceição Santos https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-10-11
publication date: 2025-10-11
starting page: e227536
ending page: e227536
doi: 10.11606/issn.1676-6288.prolam.2025.227536

Energy transition and deepening of the pattern of productive specialization in Latin America: the European Union - MERCOSUR agreement
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description: This article examines the potential implications of the Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and Mercosur for the economies of the Southern Cone. It draws on the theoretical framework of Marxist Dependency Theory. The argument is that the agreement represents a historical continuation of the entropic forces of capital on a global scale, which, by shaping a world market, integrated Latin American economies into the dynamics of accumulation in a subordinate manner. This integration has produced an unequal and combined capitalist development, structurally hindering endogenous industrialization processes and instead consolidating dependent structures subordinated to the economic cycles of core countries. Methodologically, the study is based on a critical theoretical and documentary review aimed at uncovering how the treaty reshapes the region’s pattern of productive specialization, reinforcing its role as a provider of agricultural and mineral raw materials. This pattern aligns with the EU’s strategic objective of advancing its energy transition within the broader context of systemic capitalist crisis and an intensifying geopolitical struggle over the control of strategic resources and rare earth elements. The main findings suggest that the implementation of the agreement could result in severe consequences for Mercosur, including the dismantling of its nascent industrial base, increased labor precarization, and the expansion of the agro-export frontier, with significant socio-environmental impacts. Ultimately, the study concludes that the treaty transcends its commercial scope, positioning itself within a scenario of inter-imperialist rivalry for global hegemony and control over strategic resources and supply chains.
subject: Original Article
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subject: Dependence
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subject: Energy Transition
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subject: Free Trade
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subject: European Union
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subject: Mercosur
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subject: América del Sur
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subject: Mercosur
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subject: TLC
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subject: Unión Europea
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subject: Dependencia
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subject: Economía Política Internacional
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subject: Historia Económica
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subject: Desarrollo Económico
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creator: Alhelí González Cáceres
creator: Andrea Taborri
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Alhelí González Cáceres, Andrea Taborri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-12-31
publication date: 2025-12-31
starting page: e233436
ending page: e233436
doi: 10.11606/issn.1676-6288.prolam.2025.233436

“We are a mixture": notes on borders and (non)belonging in Gloria Anzaldúa
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description: This text is a review of Gloria Anzaldúa’s masterpiece Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987), aiming to highlight its relevance in cultural, postcolonial, feminist, and intersectional studies. Anzaldúa, a lesbian and Chicana intellectual, articulates innovative concepts around borders, mestizaje, and belonging, challenging Western binary epistemologies. The author rejects the reduction of complex subjectivities to fixed categories, advocating for mestizaje as both a practice of cultural translation and a form of resistance to coloniality. Her perspective expands the notion of difference by incorporating the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality into a “third space” of identity. Furthermore, Anzaldúa frames queerness as an act of rebellion against normative structures, linking it to her own experiences as a Chicana and lesbian woman. Finally, the work calls for the creation of new symbolic systems that challenge coloniality, proposing a border culture that embraces the complexity and contradictions of (non)belonging — neither fully aligned with native nor American culture, nor with heteronormative standards or Westernized racial categories. This review, therefore, engages the work in its entirety, also drawing on other intellectuals to underscore Gloria Anzaldúa’s transformative contribution to contemporary postcolonial and feminist thought.
subject: Dossier - Between Images, Words, and Screens: Challenges, Transversalities, and Reinventions in Latin American Art
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subject: Chicano feminism
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subject: Postcolonial queer theory
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subject: Border identity
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subject: Mestizaje
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subject: (Non)Belonging
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subject: Antropologia Cultural
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subject: migração
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subject: Chicano
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subject: Pós-colonialismo
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subject: Pertencimento
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subject: Hibridismo
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subject: Fronteira
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subject: antropologia social
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subject: Estudos culturais
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creator: Maria Paula Rodrigues Martins de Carvalho
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Maria Paula Rodrigues Martins de Carvalho https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-12-01
publication date: 2025-12-01
starting page: e233243
ending page: e233243
doi: 10.11606/issn.1676-6288.prolam.2025.233243