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: 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: 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
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items: The main impedances for the ratification of the treaty between Mercosur and the European Union: the two-level games perspective
items: https://revistas.usp.br/prolam/en/article/view/227602
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items: A comparative exploration of foreign policy strategies between Panama and China: how does the lack of governmental continuity impact economic activity?
items: Alfonso Garcia Robles and the Treaty of Tlatelolco: between the cold war and denuclearization in Latin America

Towards a south american theory of nuclear development: Nuclear autonomy and regional security
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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
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subject: Nuclear development
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subject: Nuclear non-proliferation
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subject: Autonomy
  topic: subjects
subject: South America
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subject: Brazil
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subject: Argentina
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subject: International Relations
  topic: subjects
subject: Ciência política
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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
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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
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subject: Complex Adaptive Systems
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subject: International Relations
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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subject: teoría del estado
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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
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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
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subject: Visual Culture
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subject: Rural Worker
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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

The Ladino as enemy: the anthropological and historical debate on the Ladino in twentieth century Guatemala
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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
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subject: Liberalism
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subject: Plantations
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subject: Caste Society
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subject: Ladino
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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
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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
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subject: Political Philosophy
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subject: Politics
  topic: keywords
subject: Reconstruction of ideas
  topic: keywords
subject: Dussel
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subject: Reconstrução de ideias
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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
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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
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subject: West
  topic: keywords
subject: Latinidade
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subject: América Latina
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subject: Ciência Política e Relações Internacionais
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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
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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
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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.
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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
type: item
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
  topic: section
subject: Dependence
  topic: keywords
subject: Energy Transition
  topic: keywords
subject: Free Trade
  topic: keywords
subject: European Union
  topic: keywords
subject: Mercosur
  topic: keywords
subject: América del Sur
  topic: subjects
subject: Mercosur
  topic: subjects
subject: TLC
  topic: subjects
subject: Unión Europea
  topic: subjects
subject: Dependencia
  topic: subjects
subject: Economía Política Internacional
  topic: disciplines
subject: Historia Económica
  topic: disciplines
subject: Desarrollo Económico
  topic: disciplines
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
type: item
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
  topic: section
subject: Chicano feminism
  topic: keywords
subject: Postcolonial queer theory
  topic: keywords
subject: Border identity
  topic: keywords
subject: Mestizaje
  topic: keywords
subject: (Non)Belonging
  topic: keywords
subject: Antropologia Cultural
  topic: subjects
subject: migração
  topic: subjects
subject: Chicano
  topic: subjects
subject: Pós-colonialismo
  topic: subjects
subject: Pertencimento
  topic: subjects
subject: Hibridismo
  topic: subjects
subject: Fronteira
  topic: subjects
subject: antropologia social
  topic: disciplines
subject: Estudos culturais
  topic: disciplines
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

The “Quijote negros”: identity crisis and the reflection of being the other
type: item
description: This text presents an analysis of the film Quijotes negros by director Sandino Burbano, who, through the journey of two characters, invites us to engage in an exercise of introspection and to question our identity — to find in the other a sign of survival. Between characters from world literature and the very marked Latin American — and, of course, Ecuadorian — idiosyncrasy, we are still confronted with that colonial attachment and resentment, which is undoubtedly palpable in the social dynamics of our everyday lives and further complicates the task of understanding ourselves through the concepts that shape us, but which we also resist. Naturally, this film breaks away from alienating logics, inviting viewers to reflect and be surprised, to enter a dreamlike atmosphere and to look at, into, and from this periphery, to contemplate this distorted reality: that mirror which both limits and feeds us daily, where excessive and disparate elements combine to piece together the puzzle of our identity and memory, with — or without — the lingering traces of colonization.
subject: Dossier - Between Images, Words, and Screens: Challenges, Transversalities, and Reinventions in Latin American Art
  topic: section
subject: Film
  topic: keywords
subject: Memory
  topic: keywords
subject: Identity
  topic: keywords
subject: Quixotes
  topic: keywords
subject: Blackness
  topic: keywords
subject: Literature
  topic: keywords
subject: identidad
  topic: subjects
subject: subjetividad
  topic: subjects
subject: cine
  topic: disciplines
subject: literatura
  topic: disciplines
subject: america latina
  topic: disciplines
creator: Pamela Villarreal
creator: Juan Diego Andrango
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Pamela Villarreal, Juan Andrango https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-12-01
publication date: 2025-12-01
starting page: e232989
ending page: e232989
doi: 10.11606/issn.1676-6288.prolam.2025.232989

“La sierra y el llano”. Review of the Cuban Revolution: a reinterpretation, by Vânia Bambirra
type: item
description: First published in Mexico by Editora Nuestro Tiempo in 1974, the work The Cuban Revolution: A Reinterpretation was only published in Brazil fifty years later. This important work was undertaken by Editora Expressão Popular, which, over just over two hundred pages, presented to the Brazilian public all the vigor and theoretical depth of Vânia Bambirra analysis of the Cuban Revolution. Bambirra’s understanding of the Cuban Revolution from the general features of its dependent capitalism and its constituent classes is illuminating. That is, that the Revolution would inexorably involve a confrontation with imperialism, given the absence of a national bourgeoisie linked to industry. Indeed, her political analysis of the revolutionary process aligns with her economic analysis of dependent Latin American capitalism, based on a rich typology she created in her work Dependent Latin American Capitalism. In this sense, Bambirra’s analysis of the Cuban Revolution provides an invaluable contribution to the study of revolutionary and counter-revolutionary processes in other Latin American countries.
subject: Book review
  topic: section
subject: Cuban Revolution
  topic: keywords
subject: Socialism
  topic: keywords
subject: Marxist Dependency Theory
  topic: keywords
subject: Imperialism
  topic: keywords
subject: Cuba
  topic: keywords
creator: Glauber Lopes Xavier
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Glauber Lopes Xavier https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-02-04
publication date: 2026-02-04
starting page: e232696
ending page: e232696
doi: 10.11606/issn.1676-6288.prolam.2026.232696

Gustavo Gutiérrez and Liberation Theology: A Theological and Political Response to the Historical and Social Demands of Latin America
type: item
subject: Editorial
  topic: section
creator: Bruno Massola Moda
creator: Vivian Urquidi
creator: Maria Cristina Cacciamali
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Vivian Urquidi, Maria Cristina Cacciamali, Bruno Massola Moda https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-12-01
publication date: 2024-12-01
starting page: 1
ending page: 65
doi: 10.11606/issn.1676-6288.prolam.2024.232672

The main impedances for the ratification of the treaty between Mercosur and the European Union: the two-level games perspective
type: item
description: The new Regional Treaties, or inter-regionalism, are characterized as a grouping of aspects that range from geopolitical development, multilateral and regional dynamics, and the political-economic decisions of countries. This article evaluates the barriers to the Free Trade Agreement between Mercosur and the European Union (EU); as in 2019, the third negotiation phase was completed, but the ratification process still needs to be completed. In this discussion, we aim to understand, through a literature review and the application of two-level game theory, how Mercosur and the EU are positioned in the negotiations concerning the main obstacles to the bi-regional agreement. The analysis shows that the agricultural and industrial aspects have caused disputes regarding tariffs and export quotas for specific products since the beginning of the talks. However, more recently, the pressure for environmental issues such as sustainability and ecological control has entered as an element of negotiations and has made ratification difficult. Therefore, it corroborates that games at both levels effectively identify the influence of international and domestic levels on agreement discussions.
subject: Original Article
  topic: section
subject: European Union
  topic: keywords
subject: Interregional Agreement
  topic: keywords
subject: Mercosur
  topic: keywords
subject: Two-Level Games
  topic: keywords
creator: Rodolfo Nunes
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Rodolfo Nunes https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-12-01
publication date: 2024-12-01
starting page: 336
ending page: 368
doi: 10.11606/issn.1676-6288.prolam.2024.225726

https://revistas.usp.br/prolam/en/article/view/227602
type: item
title: Peruvian Military Developmentalism of the 1970s revisited from Uruguay: A unique phase in the development of capitalism in that country and the attraction that "Peruvianism" exerted during those critical years in the Region
description: This text proposes an interpretation of the period in Peru’s economic history between 1968 and 1975, known as the "military progressivism" led by Velasco Alvarado, and the favourable reception this phenomenon had in Uruguay at the time, particularly among certain left-wing sectors. The analysis draws on existing academic literature and focuses on the class character of Alvarado’s government and the economic policies it implemented. It seeks to situate the process, with its specificities, within the broader context of Latin American economic history, establishing contrasts with the Uruguayan case. The conclusions emphasize the differences between the trajectories and relative levels of development of both countries, highlighting the impossibility of replicating Peru's military developmentalism in early 1970s Uruguay.
subject: Original Article
  topic: section
subject: Economic history of Peru
  topic: keywords
subject: Industrialization
  topic: keywords
subject: Velasco Alvarado
  topic: keywords
subject: Uruguayan Left
  topic: keywords
subject: Modernization
  topic: keywords
subject: História econômica
  topic: subjects
subject: Modernização.
  topic: subjects
subject: Esquerda
  topic: subjects
subject: Velasco Alvarado
  topic: subjects
subject: Industrialização
  topic: subjects
subject: Historia Económica
  topic: disciplines
subject: Historia
  topic: disciplines
creator: Antonino Zunino
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Antonino Zunino https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-12-01
publication date: 2024-12-01
starting page: 130
ending page: 162
doi: 10.11606/issn.1676-6288.prolam.2024.227602

Religious fundamentalism, racial capitalism, and civilizational crisis
type: item
description: As igrejas evangélicas de orientação fundamentalista, tornadas neoconservadoras a partir dos anos 1980, costumam ser apreciadas tanto pela direita quanto pela esquerda por seu potencial eleitoral. Este artigo busca desvendar o neoconservadorismo como um complemento do neoliberalismo, cuja função principal é a salvaguarda dos valores da sociedade ocidental cristã, capitalista e branca, através da difusão de suas teologias que podem ser mais bem descritas como ideologias religiosas de opressão: a Teologia da Prosperidade, a Teologia do Domínio e a Guerra Espiritual. Mostra-se como a pretensão de salvar a sociedade ocidental, percebida como estando em perigo devido às lutas das multidões de oprimidos de diferentes formas, e a de gerar crescimento econômico, se concretiza em ações de guerra, fome, expropriação e extermínio ao longo de todo o planeta, sob a legitimação dessas “teologias” que fortalecem a supremacia branca.
subject: Original Article
  topic: section
subject: Evangelical Churches
  topic: keywords
subject: Fundamentalism
  topic: keywords
subject: Neoconservatism
  topic: keywords
subject: Prosperity Theology
  topic: keywords
subject: Dominion Theology
  topic: keywords
subject: Spiritual Warfare
  topic: keywords
subject: Ciências Sociais
  topic: disciplines
creator: Betty Ruth Lozano
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Betty Ruth Lozano https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-12-01
publication date: 2024-12-01
starting page: 103
ending page: 129
doi: 10.11606/issn.1676-6288.prolam.2024.225545

Carlos Granés: Delirio Americano.Un estudio global para entender Iberoamérica
type: item
description: Carlos Granés (Bogotá, 1975), writer and essayist, PhD in Social Anthropology from the Complutense University of Madrid and a scholarship holder at the University of Berkeley, California, where he completed his thesis on Anthropology of Art with an Extraordinary Prize. He has recently published an extensive study - full of data and examples - that helps to understand the thinking and feeling of the Ibero-American continent. A period that spans more than a century, in which the life of the peoples of Latin America - politics, art, dreams, conquests and failures - is mixed with the very heartbeat of its people. A pleasant read that draws attention and leads the reader by the hand to introduce him to this peculiar universe. A serious study that does not admit simplifications or simple interpretations. A true American adventure captured in an essay of global repercussion. I offer below some considerations that its reading provoked in me: not as a summary - which would be arrogant - but to encourage all Latin Americans to read it. To those who are by origin or to those of us who have become adopted children of this fascinating Continent.
subject: Book review
  topic: section
subject: Carlos Granés
  topic: keywords
subject: Latin America
  topic: keywords
subject: Colombia
  topic: keywords
subject: Culture
  topic: keywords
subject: Politics
  topic: keywords
subject: Society
  topic: keywords
subject: Latin America
  topic: subjects
subject: History
  topic: disciplines
creator: Pablo González Blasco
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Pablo González Blasco https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-12-29
publication date: 2025-12-29
starting page: e232653
ending page: e232653
doi: 10.11606/issn.1676-6288.prolam.2025.232653

Gustavo Gutiérrez: a theology committed to the historical praxis of liberation
type: item
description: The article examines the work and legacy of Gustavo Gutiérrez, Peruvian theologian and founder of liberation theology, whose proposal reinterprets Christianity from the perspective of the poor and oppressed in Latin America. Gutiérrez argues that Christ's salvation embraces all human dimensions, including the social, economic, and political, thus questioning religious interpretations that disassociate faith from historical reality. His approach integrates ethical commitment to the values of the Kingdom of God, emphasizing justice and human dignity. Gutiérrez's theology does not separate divine transcendence from historical processes, considering praxis as the place where God's saving action is manifested. This challenges traditional notions of development, often legitimizing inequalities under the pretext of progress. Influenced by the philosophy of history and social analysis, Gutiérrez articulates an interdisciplinary approach that uses critical tools, such as Marxist analysis, without compromising the spiritual core of Christianity. The text also addresses contemporary critics who accuse Gutiérrez's theology of Marxism, responding that it is grounded in Christian spirituality and commitment to the most vulnerable. Finally, it highlights the relevance of his legacy as a call to a communitarian praxis-oriented towards integral liberation and the overcoming of structures of oppression.
subject: Original Article
  topic: section
subject: Gustavo Gutiérrez
  topic: keywords
subject: Liberation theology
  topic: keywords
subject: Historical praxis
  topic: keywords
subject: Poverty
  topic: keywords
subject: Liberation
  topic: keywords
creator: Manuel Leonardo Prada Rodríguez
creator: Israel Arturo Orrego Echeverría
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Israel Arturo Orrego Echeverría, Manuel Leonardo Prada Rodríguez https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-12-01
publication date: 2024-12-01
starting page: 81
ending page: 102
doi: 10.11606/issn.1676-6288.prolam.2024.232066

Gustavo Gutiérrez and the legacy of Liberation Theology (in memoriam)
type: item
description: The recent death of Gustavo Gutiérrez has motivated the writing of this article, which aims to pay tribute to the "father" of Liberation Theology and highlight his extraordinary contributions to the creation of one of the most influential currents of thought in Latin America. In addition to outlining his life trajectory, the historical context, and sources that contributed to Gutiérrez's intellectual formation, this text focuses on the most striking aspects of Liberation Theology. This audacious and innovative worldview contributed not only to rescuing the genuine message of Christianity and renewing the church but also to reveal the causes of exploitation and poverty faced by oppressed peoples while supporting social movements and popular organizations in their struggles to free themselves from all forms of domination and work toward the construction of a new civilization.
subject: Original Article
  topic: section
subject: Theology of liberation
  topic: keywords
subject: Gustavo Gutierrez
  topic: keywords
subject: Latin America
  topic: keywords
subject: History
  topic: keywords
subject: Politics
  topic: keywords
subject: Teologia da Libertação
  topic: subjects
subject: Gustavo Gutierrez
  topic: subjects
subject: Filosofia Latino-Americana
  topic: disciplines
creator: Giovanni Semeraro
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Giovanni Semeraro https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-12-01
publication date: 2024-12-01
starting page: 66
ending page: 80
doi: 10.11606/issn.1676-6288.prolam.2024.231636

More than an economist: Maria da Conceição Tavares (1930-2024)
type: item
subject: Editorial
  topic: section
subject: .
  topic: keywords
creator: Vivian Urquidi
creator: Maria Cristina Cacciamali
creator: Bruno Massola Moda
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Vivian Urquidi, Maria Cristina Cacciamali, Bruno Massola Moda https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-11-25
publication date: 2024-11-25
starting page: 01
ending page: 31
doi: 10.11606/issn.1676-6288.prolam.2024.231618

THE PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE ON LATIN AMERICA BY RESEARCH GROUPS IN BRAZIL: CHARACTERISTICS, POTENTIALS AND CHALLENGES
type: item
description: We present an overview of a set of 76 Research Groups registered on the CNPq Directory of Research Groups that constitute part of a larger and more diverse set of academic and non-academic institutions that were mapped out between 2016 and 2020, as part of a research on the fields of production and diffusion of knowledge and information on Latin America in Brazil, supported by FAP-DF. Research Groups are, quantitatively speaking, and according to data collected in our research, the most important type of institution focused on the region amongst, the different types of institutions selected in the research and were therefore prioritized in our analyses. Our goal is to understand the organizational and operational conditions of these groups. Based on quantitative and qualitative data gathered from these institutions’ websites, the CNPq-MCT Directory forms, and the CNPq Lattes Platform, we present the main characteristics of these groups regarding their period of creation, geographical distribution, institutional affiliation, public or private nature, mission, research agendas, theoretical approaches, issues investigated, dynamics of operation, the professional trajectories of their leaders and their evaluation on public policies. Considering the political conjuncture in this period and recent changes in the national and regional scenarios, we also aim to explore potential opportunities and challenges for the consolidation of the Latin Americanist fields in Brazil and their influence on regional integration processes on sociocultural dimensions.
subject: Original Article
  topic: section
subject: Production of knowledge on Latin America
  topic: keywords
subject: Research groups/CNPq
  topic: keywords
subject: Brazilian public Institutions of Higher Education
  topic: keywords
subject: Latin Americanism
  topic: keywords
subject: Regional integration
  topic: keywords
subject: Ciências Sociais
  topic: disciplines
creator: Flávia Lessa de Barros
creator: Lilia Gonçalves Magalhães Tavolaro
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Flávia Lessa de Barros, Lilia Gonçalves Magalhães Tavolaro https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-12-01
publication date: 2024-12-01
starting page: 197
ending page: 246
doi: 10.11606/issn.1676-6288.prolam.2024.227628

A comparative exploration of foreign policy strategies between Panama and China: how does the lack of governmental continuity impact economic activity?
type: item
description: The following article presents a comparative exploration of the foreign policy strategies implemented by two administrations in Panama (2014-2019 and 2019-2024) towards China and describes their impact on bilateral economic activity. The research deduces that, despite the alignment of the respective policies of Panama and China, the advancement of their relationship was impeded by the 2019-2024 administration, which chose to create distance with China to improve ties with the United States of America. Consequently, this led to the suspension or postponement of commercial projects and efforts that would have been advantageous, such as the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and various infrastructure initiatives. The article presents a methodology that explores how fluctuations in political ties towards China from one government to another impact the commercial and international cooperation sphere. This analysis is a reference point for other Central American states that have established diplomatic relations with China.
subject: Original Article
  topic: section
subject: Diplomatic Relations
  topic: keywords
subject: China
  topic: keywords
subject: Panama
  topic: keywords
subject: Foreign Policy
  topic: keywords
subject: Belt and road initiative (BRI)
  topic: keywords
subject: Relaciones Diplomáticas
  topic: subjects
subject: Centroamérica
  topic: subjects
subject: China
  topic: subjects
subject: Panamá
  topic: subjects
subject: Relaciones Internacionales
  topic: disciplines
subject: Política Exterior
  topic: disciplines
creator: Sebastian Naranjo Rodriguez
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Sebastian Naranjo Rodriguez https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-12-01
publication date: 2024-12-01
starting page: 303
ending page: 335
doi: 10.11606/issn.1676-6288.prolam.2024.227616

Alfonso Garcia Robles and the Treaty of Tlatelolco: between the cold war and denuclearization in Latin America
type: item
description: This paper argues that Mexican participation in the negotiation process for the signing of the Treaty of Tlatelolco can be explained by the characteristics of Mexican postwar foreign policy. Mexico worked hard to build an active foreign policy that expressed its recent political evolution, which emerged from the revolution of 1910-1920. The figure and thought of Ambassador Alfonso García Robles are taken as an example of a strategist of Mexican international relations. Through this guiding thread, we can see that Mexican foreign policy has a liberal doctrinal basis, but is anchored in Latin American history. This experience will be reflected in the period of the Cold War when it joined the Committee of the 18 Nations in Geneva and, later, when considering one of the most critical events of this period, the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962. This event would justify launching the denuclearization initiative as a joint call from the Latin American region, although Mexico and Brazil led the coordination in the negotiations. A detailed description is made of the XVIII session of the UN General Assembly where the will to denuclearize Latin America is made concrete.
subject: Original Article
  topic: section
subject: Denuclearization
  topic: keywords
subject: Cold War
  topic: keywords
subject: Latin America
  topic: keywords
subject: United Nations
  topic: keywords
subject: Mexico-Brazil Collaboration
  topic: keywords
subject: Relaciones Internacionales
  topic: subjects
creator: Martín López Avalos
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Martín López Avalos https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-12-01
publication date: 2024-12-01
starting page: 272
ending page: 302
doi: 10.11606/issn.1676-6288.prolam.2024.227772