Bulletin of Latin American Research最新文献

The paper examines the participatory strategies promoted by local councillors (known as comuneros) in the City of Buenos Aires, questioning the dichotomy between participation and representation. Based on qualitative research conducted between 2012 and 2023, we argue that comuneros activate different participatory strategies to build their representative role, depending on their political position. Those aligned with the ruling party promote resident participation through institutional avenues, presenting themselves as problem-solvers who respond to local demands. Those in opposition stage conflicts and promote collective activism, presenting themselves as advocates for neighbourhood struggles.

This paper grapples with two crucial landscapes of extraction of the Argentine nineteenth century and their mediation through literature: maritime capitalism and primitive accumulation. First, it describes Domingo Faustino Sarmiento's aquatic utopia, focusing on his Americanism, his equation between oceans and plains and the aporias of his Orientalism. Second, this study shows an early displacement towards countryside provincialism in Argentine ideology by analysing José Mármol's novel Amalia. Departing from Etienne Balibar's concept of interior frontiers, this paper shows the emergence of a terrestrial imagination that was crucial for the consolidation of telluric ideologies. This process of ideological displacement coincides with the vanishing frontier and the dissolution of gaucho life within the Argentinian landscape, enabling the emergence of a new contempt for the urban plebs and the proletariat.

There are an estimated quarter of a million Latin Americans living in the UK, yet they remain outside the British national imaginary. This invisibility has historically extended to the literary scene and publishing industry, with only very few British-based Latin American and Latinx writers gaining any exposure. However, recent years have seen increased opportunities for Latin American and Latinx writers in Britain, largely due to the efforts of grassroots and independent publishing to create spaces for Latinx representation. This essay sketches the current landscape of our literature, tracing a timeline of the three generations of Latin American and Latinx writing in Britain and highlighting some of the writing groups, publishers, and events that have forged a Latin American presence. I also propose some of the shared themes and aesthetics of an emergent British Latinx canon.

This article reconstructs the political trajectories of Chilean exiled women settling in Costa Rica. It analyses the manifestations and transmutations of their political praxis before, during and after the period of ostracism, based on life stories reconstructed through semi-structured interviews with several women who began militancy before the 1973 coup d'état and are still active in the struggles for memory. Analysis shows how political praxis during exile facilitated alternative ways of conceiving citizenship, linking transnationally with solidarity networks and making their healing process a political instrument. During exile, the intersection between their background of militancy and detention, their political practices and social contexts promoted the development of gender perspectives that explain and redefine traumatic experiences.

This article analyses the philosophical assumptions embedded in the notions of family, as well as in the way the State's relationship with the family is conceptualised, in three social programmes for family support in Uruguay (Centros de Atención a la Infancia y la Família [CAIF], Uruguay Crece Contigo and Cercanías). Using a qualitative research design, the reconstruction of their normative assumptions was carried out through documentary analysis and semi-structured interviews with different actors. It is argued that the philosophical–political perspective present in the three programmes can be linked to egalitarian liberal feminism, thereby showing a certain shift from the traditional way in which a liberal State has related to the family.