Latin America

The Killers’ Kindness: Gang Humanitarianism in Latin America

Amalendu Misra • Mar 14 2023 • Articles

When accepting a gang’s favour, communities can become prisoners to criminal authority and demands in perpetuity.

Cultural and Artistic Expressions of Haitians on Mexicali, Baja California

In migrant spaces, customs and traditions are printed, endowed and expressed – providing meaning and symbolism in and towards a space.

The Xukuru Vision of Sacred Agriculture as a Counter-Hegemonic Proposal

The knowledge and practices of care seek to heal, through agricultural-spiritual systems, the impacts of territorial invasion.

The Internationalization of the Landless Workers Movement in Latin America

A revolutionary process must be internationalist, otherwise it won’t have the strength to confront a system so transnationalized like capitalism.

Decolonising Politics and Constructing Worlds in the Everyday through Zapatista Autonomy

Sebastián Granda Henao • Apr 24 2022 • Articles

Zapatista autonomy rearticulates the dynamics of power and enacts an acknowledgement of other worlds beyond the world of capitalist destruction.

Messages from the Meek: Dynamic Resistance at the Edge of Amazonian Colonization and Capitalism

Christian Ferreira Crevels • Apr 24 2022 • Articles

Detailing local history is crucial to an understanding of how the intersubjectivity of coloniality came to reach groups with great differences in ideology.

Latin American Critical Economic Thinking and the Labor Market

Rocio Arredondo and Javier Castellon • Apr 12 2022 • Articles

Latin American critical thinking addresses problems intrinsic to Latin American countries and provides policy makers with the analytical arguments for implementing a different development strategy. 

New Book – Decolonizing Politics and Theories from the Abya Yala

Aura Cumes • Apr 9 2022 • Articles

This book has important contributions, but it has a greater virtue – to generate concerns of various topics from decolonial thought of great relevance at this time for the social sciences.

Latin American Antiphilosophies

Christina Soto van der Plas • Apr 7 2022 • Articles

Truths exist in a space and time, and not in the vacuum that Europe promotes in order to preserve the character of ‘universal’ history.

Decoloniality and Contemporary Regionalism in ALBA

Alina Ribeiro and Marina Scotelaro • Mar 26 2022 • Articles

Neoliberalism did not provide sufficient solutions to the crises of the integration model in Latin America. As a result, emancipatory approaches are gradually gaining space in knowledge production.

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