Welcome to the LAP Virtual Exhibit
Latin American Perspectives publishes six issues per year featuring critical analysis of Latin American politics, economics, culture, and social movements.
Managing Editor: Ronald H. Chilcote
Recipient of the 2022 LASA Kalman Silvert Award for lifetime achievement and distinguished contribution to the study of Latin America
To watch the Silvert award session and Dr. Chilcote's lecture on YouTube, click here
To read Dr. Chilcote's essay The Challenges of Being a Latin Americanist in the LASA Forum, click here.
LAP celebrates 50 years of
- fostering progressive theoretical and political debate
- encouraging the work of emerging scholars
- making scholarship from Latin America available in English
Rated the #1 journal in Latin American Studies by Google Scholar Metrics
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Book Presentations
May 25, 12:30-1 pm, Latin American Studies and the Cold War with author Ronald Chilcote
May 25, 2-2:30 pm, Latin American Social Movements and Progressive Governments with chapter author Federico Rossi
LAP Editors and Friends Meeting Thursday, May 25, 5:15-6:45 pm
Brazil under Bolsonaro: Social, Political, and Economic Impacts in the Country and in Latin America
Authors: LAP
Language: English
Edition: Vol. 50 No. 1, Jan. 2023
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Social Struggle in Neoliberal Central America
Authors: LAP
Language: English
Edition: Vol. 49 No. 6, Nov. 2022
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Brazil: The Perils of Uncertainty
Authors: LAP
Language: English
Edition: Vol. 49 No. 5, Sept. 2022
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Marxism, Critical Thinking, and Andrean Futures
Authors: LAP
Language: English
Edition: Vol. 49 No. 4, July 2022
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Neoliberalism and Higher Education in Latin America
Authors: LAP
Language: English
Edition: Vol. 49 No. 3, May 2022
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Reassessing Development: Past and Present Marxist Theories of Dependency and Periphery Debates: Part 2
Authors: LAP?
Language: Ebglish
Edition: Vol. 49 No. 2, March 2022
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Reassessing Development: Past and Present Marxist Theoriesof Dependenct and Periphery Debates: Part 1
Authors: LAP
Language: English
Edition: Vol. 49 No. 1, Jan. 2022
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The Nicaraguan Crisis and the Challenge to the International Left
Authors: LAP
Language: English
Edition: Vol. 48 No. 6 , Nov. 2021
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Popular Feminism(S): Pasts, Presents, and Futures Part 2
Authors: LAP
Language: English
Edition: Vol. 48 No. 5, September 2021
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Popular Feminism(s): Pasts, Presents, and Futures Part 1
Authors: LAP
Language: English
Edition: Vol. 48 No. 4, July 2021
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