This conversation between member of the editorial board Amanda Smith (University of California Santa Cruz) and guest-editor Patrícia Vieira (University of Coimbra) expands on the critical and conceptual coordinates framing the newly published special issue “The Amazon River Basin: Extractivism, Aesthetics, and Indigenous Perspectives” (32.3).

Silvana Mandolessi (Universidad Católica de Lovainas) y Reindert Dhondt (Universidad de Utrecht), co-editores del dossier que acabamos de publicar en el Vol. 32, 3 de la revista, conversaron con Jens Andermann, editor de JLACS, sobre el giro afectivo y sus implicaciones para el abordaje de la violencia en América Latina.   Link al dossier.  

Rachel Price, member of the editorial board of JLACS; the magazine’s executive editor, Isis Sadek; the guest editor of the dossier “Material Turn in Cuban Studies”, María A. Cabrera Arús; and two of the authors, Jacqueline Loss and Michael Bustamante, discussed the highlights of this special issue on Cuban material culture (Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies vol. 30, no. 2). What are the implications of the recent shift towards material culture in Cuban studies? Could material culture studies help fill some of the analytical gaps produced by the lack of access to some archives? The debate revolved around the…

Join us for a conversation between editors Gabriel Gatti and David Casado-Neira, and authors Pamela Colombo and Jens Andermann, on the new ramifications of the concept of disappearance in global landscapes marked by the precarization of the living, migrations of uprooted communities, and the rapid advance of extractive frontiers in the Global South. How have the debates of the Latin American postdictatorship responded to current challenges to human rights, memory, and justice, and which are the new meanings these circumstances reveal to have always already been latent in the imaginary of disappearance?  

How can we think together about the work of cultural studies in times of pandemic? Has Covid-19 upended our research agendas, or has it transformed the ways in which we think about culture, coloniality, empire, mediality, race, queerness, and aesthetics? For more than two decades, the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies conferences have showcased new work in the field, first in the form of annual one-day events at Birkbeck College, London, and more recently as multi-day events hosted, among others, by the University of Texas, Austin, UNAM (Ciudad de México), the University of Zurich and Oxford University. This year’s…

Los siguientes materiales son charlas y debates que tuvieron lugar en el marco de un taller co-organizado por el Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies y el Centro Latinoamericano de Zurich, el 2 y 3 de marzo de 2017 en la Universidad de Zurich, Suiza. Bajo el título algo provocativo de “Critica Cultural y el Giro Fascista”, el taller invitó a cuatro renombrados críticos culturales de Argentina, Brasil, y Paraguay a reflexionar sobre los recientes cambios en el panorama político de estos países, y sobre las maneras en que estos cambios contrastan con — o tal vez anticipen a — tendencias político-culturales y debates críticos a nivel regional y global.