La conferencia virtual del Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 12 de enero de 2021, 11 am (EST) / 4 pm GMT / 8 am (PST): ‘El nexo poesía-cine: intermedialidad e indisciplina en culturas audiovisuales latinoamericanas’ 8 de febrero de 2021, 12 pm (EST) / 5 pm (GMT) / 9 am (PST): ‘Humano/no humano: perspectivas decoloniales sobre la vida en un planeta disminuido’ 12 de marzo, 12 pm (EST) / 5 pm (GMT) / 9 am (PST): ‘Cuerpos erotizados y deseos politizados’. Para registrarse a la sesión de preguntas y respuestas, haga click aquí. ¿Cómo podemos pensar juntos el trabajo…

The Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies virtual conference January 12th, 11 am (EST) / 4 pm GMT / 8 am (PST): ‘The poetry-film nexus: intermediality and indiscipline in Latin American audiovisual cultures‘ February 8th, 12 pm (EST) / 5 pm (GMT) / 9 am (PST): ‘Human/nonhuman: decolonial perspectives on life on a diminished planet’ March 12th, 12 pm (EST) / 5 pm (GMT) / 9 am (PST): ‘Eroticized bodies and politicized desires’. To register for the Q&A sessions, please click here. How can we think together about the work of cultural studies in times of pandemic? Has Covid-19 upended…

Abstract Deadline: December 15, 2020 Co-edited by Javier Fernández-Galeano (Wesleyan University) and Zeb Tortorici (NYU) The Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies seeks contributors for a special issue on the topic of “Obscenity, Censorship, and Libidinal Politics in Latin America.” We are particularly interested in exploring interdisciplinary approaches to better understand the shifting political, cultural, and technical contours of what gets defined as “obscene,” and how censorship works in relation to state politics, aesthetics, and forms of activism. In recent years, with the explosive growth of the field of Porn Studies, there has been a rise in scholarship on the…

Abstract Deadline: December 15, 2020 Co-edited by Javier Fernández-Galeano (Wesleyan University) and Zeb Tortorici (NYU) The Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies seeks contributors for a special issue on the topic of “Obscenity, Censorship, and Libidinal Politics in Latin America.” We are particularly interested in exploring interdisciplinary approaches to better understand the shifting political, cultural, and technical contours of what gets defined as “obscene,” and how censorship works in relation to state politics, aesthetics, and forms of activism. In recent years, with the explosive growth of the field of Porn Studies, there has been a rise in scholarship on the…

Abstract Deadline: December 15, 2020 Co-edited by Javier Fernández-Galeano (Wesleyan University) and Zeb Tortorici (NYU) The Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies seeks contributors for a special issue on the topic of “Obscenity, Censorship, and Libidinal Politics in Latin America.” We are particularly interested in exploring interdisciplinary approaches to better understand the shifting political, cultural, and technical contours of what gets defined as “obscene,” and how censorship works in relation to state politics, aesthetics, and forms of activism. In recent years, with the explosive growth of the field of Porn Studies, there has been a rise in scholarship on the…

(Esta é a quarta remessa em nossa série COVID-19 na América Latina: despachos da linha de frente do sul)   Para contextualizar Este texto apresenta em poucas linhas a complexidade da pandemia pelo novo coronavírus Covid-19 no Brasil, destacando os efeitos sobre a população negra, no qual exponho meu olhar de mulher negra, moradora e observadora da cidade de Salvador, Bahia. Estamos com cinco meses de pandemia a partir da declaração da Organização Mundial de Saúde. Inicialmente, especulava-se a duração da pandemia no Brasil por volta de dois ou três meses. No entanto, parece que a pandemia e seus efeitos durarão…

(Éste es el tercer envío de nuestra serie COVID-19 in Latin America: Dispatches from the Southern Frontlines) Resumen El 3 de marzo el Ministerio de Salud confirmó públicamente el primer caso de coronavirus en el país. En esta fecha se cumplían cerca de cinco meses de uno de los estallidos sociales más grande que ha tenido la historia de Chile. Esta extensa revuelta popular se expresó en la irrupción de múltiples protestas a nivel nacional, en la aparición y el fortalecimiento de diversas organizaciones políticas no tradicionales. Y aunque fue detonada por una pequeña alza en el pasaje del tren…

(This is the second dispatch in our series COVID-19 in Latin America: Dispatches from the Southern Frontlines)   Abstract The emerging SARS-CoV-2, a novel human coronavirus, caused the COVID-19 pandemic, with more than 9.5 million cases and 484 000 known fatalities to date (June 24th, 2020). In several regions, healthcare systems have collapsed whereas interventions applied to slow the viral spreading have had major social and economic impacts. After China, Europe, and the United States, Latin America has emerged as the new epicenter of the pandemic. By late-June, the region accounted for roughly 50% of global daily deaths (Gardner, 2020)….

Aldeia Guarani/Kaiowá, Dourados (Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil). Foto: Maximino Rodrigues (Este é o primeiro texto na nossa serie COVID-19 in Latin America: Dispatches from the Southern Frontlines. ) Caros senhores, leitores e interessados desta situação que amedronta todos os povos desta terra, planeta água. Vivemos ao meio de tantas diversidades que hoje nos confundimos ate mesmo que povo somos nós, mesmo sendo os primeiros habitantes desta terra chamada de tekoha guasú (terra grande). Neste momento tão difícil e que assusta muito mais nosso povo indígena aqui na aldeia onde moramos. Até o momento ainda de forma confusa não estamos…

DOSSIER: COVID-19 in Latin America: Dispatches from the Southern Frontlines Introduction The outbreak of coronavirus with early epicenters in Eastern Asia, Europe, and the United States, has been followed more recently by increasingly alarming health emergencies across the Global South, with India, Southern and Central Africa reporting exponential surges of deaths and infections in May and June. But it is in Latin America where the pandemic is now threatening to explode into dimensions unseen even at the previous epicenters’ peak points, with Brazil now reporting the highest daily numbers of infections and deaths worldwide and other countries including Chile, Ecuador,…