{"title":"Reconceptualizing the Spanish Caribbean in the Long Seventeenth Century: A Review Essay","authors":"Keith Richards","doi":"10.1353/tla.2024.a929910","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2024.a929910","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":508998,"journal":{"name":"The Latin Americanist","volume":"2018 35","pages":"297 - 300"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141400787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jürgen Buchenau, Jill Massino, Carmen Soliz, Matilde Ciolli, José Antonio Galindo Domínguez, Eunice Rojas, Thomas Ruckebusch, Mary Elizabeth Watts, Keith Richards, John Thomas, S. Mattiace, Thomas Guderjan, Camila Vidal, Jayne Howell, Andrew J. Kirkendall, Ilan Palacios Avineri
{"title":"Contributors Page","authors":"Jürgen Buchenau, Jill Massino, Carmen Soliz, Matilde Ciolli, José Antonio Galindo Domínguez, Eunice Rojas, Thomas Ruckebusch, Mary Elizabeth Watts, Keith Richards, John Thomas, S. Mattiace, Thomas Guderjan, Camila Vidal, Jayne Howell, Andrew J. Kirkendall, Ilan Palacios Avineri","doi":"10.1353/tla.2024.a929903","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2024.a929903","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The essay aims to reconstruct the early dissemination of neoliberal ideas in Argentina, particularly focusing on the thought of Friedrich A. von Hayek between 1955 and 1983. It argues that outside the regions where this theory was originally conceived, namely Europe and United States, its conservative and authoritarian core was accentuated and radicalized by both Western and Argentine neoliberal intellectuals. Specifically, on the one hand, Hayek’s thought was interpreted in continuity with the Argentine liberal-conservative tradition and used to validate and restore its most elitist and anti-democratic aspects. On the other hand, it was adopted to oppose Peronism, developmentalism, and socialism as well as to justify, dictatorial regimes tasked with temporarily restoring the conditions for a free-market society. The first part of the essay, therefore, examines the institutions, think tanks, and journals that allowed the initial circulation of neoliberal ideas in Argentina, illustrating how they were adapted to the local context. While the second part analyzes Hayek’s visits to Argentina and the content of his lectures, the last part examines how Hayek’s thought was interpreted by Álvaro Alsogaray, Carlos Sanchez Sañudo, and Alberto Benegas Lynch, shedding light on how they reinforced and pushed its conservative and authoritarian nucleus to its extreme consequences.","PeriodicalId":508998,"journal":{"name":"The Latin Americanist","volume":"11 2","pages":"181 - 182 - 183 - 189 - 190 - 218 - 219 - 243 - 244 - 258 - 259 - 281 - 282 - 296 - 297 - 300 - 301"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141393918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain: The Neoliberal State and Beyond ed. by Miguel Centeno and Augustin Ferraro (review)","authors":"Camila Vidal","doi":"10.1353/tla.2024.a929914","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2024.a929914","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":508998,"journal":{"name":"The Latin Americanist","volume":"97 2","pages":"309 - 311"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141408621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Latin American Neoliberalism, a Transnational Class Project?","authors":"José Antonio Galindo Domínguez","doi":"10.1353/tla.2024.a929906","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2024.a929906","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article contributes to recent research efforts in understanding Latin America’s neoliberal experience. While the phenomenon’s origins have often been associated with North Atlantic experiences, this study aims to explore its emergence in the region’s historical, ideological, and political contexts. By focusing on the Inter-American Council for Trade and Production (Consejo Interamericano de Comercio y Producción), a trans-national private organization active during the second half of the 20th century, the text delves into the formation of a distinctly Latin American neoliberal ideology. The groundwork for this ideology was laid amid transcontinental discussions, negotiations, and consensus-building efforts. Contrary to diffusionist narratives, which emphasize the North’s influence on the South, this study underscores the autochthonous roots of Latin American neoliberalism. By tracing the evolution of neoliberalism within the continent’s own history, this article challenges predominant interpretations and underscores the role of endogenous political, economic, and intellectual dynamics in shaping the region’s ideological landscape.","PeriodicalId":508998,"journal":{"name":"The Latin Americanist","volume":"64 1","pages":"219 - 243"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141415731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction to Neoliberalism Compared: Transformations in Latin America (and Eastern Europe)","authors":"Jürgen Buchenau, Jill Massino, Carmen Soliz","doi":"10.1353/tla.2024.a929904","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2024.a929904","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":508998,"journal":{"name":"The Latin Americanist","volume":"34 136","pages":"183 - 189"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141389833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"South-South Solidarity and the Latin American Left by Jessica Stites Mor (review)","authors":"John Thomas","doi":"10.1353/tla.2024.a929911","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2024.a929911","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":508998,"journal":{"name":"The Latin Americanist","volume":"1979 11","pages":"301 - 302"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141400970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“A Revolution in Economic Thinking” – USAID and Privatization in Latin America and Eastern Europe (1981–1993)","authors":"Thomas Ruckebusch","doi":"10.1353/tla.2024.a929908","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2024.a929908","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:With Ronald Reagan’s ascent to power in January 1981, the conservatives were eager to promote neoliberalism to revitalize America at home and weaken the Communists and the New International Economic Order abroad. Surprisingly, the main vehicle of this ideological offensive was an agency long hated by the American conservatives, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Throughout the 1980s, the agency promoted neoliberal dogmas in developing countries, especially in Latin America which was considered as a testing ground for the neoliberal ideology. To achieve this goal, USAID promoted an important tenet of neoliberalism as a tool for economic development: privatization. At the same time, the agency established various collaborations with different types of actors in a “neoliberal nebula” in which it found an important place. At the end of the 1980s, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Eastern Bloc provided the reaganized agency its most important test: the promotion of free-market economy in the socialist countries. This article examines how USAID became part of the ideological offensive led by the Reagan administration through its transformation into a neoliberal actor seeking to promote privatization in developing countries. In the process, Latin America became a testing ground for these new policies, but also a blueprint for those that USAID would soon implement in the Eastern Bloc after the fall of the Berlin Wall.","PeriodicalId":508998,"journal":{"name":"The Latin Americanist","volume":"46 12","pages":"259 - 281"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141398127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala by Rachel Nolan (review)","authors":"Ilan Palacios Avineri","doi":"10.1353/tla.2024.a929917","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2024.a929917","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":508998,"journal":{"name":"The Latin Americanist","volume":"45 1","pages":"316 - 318"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141406425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Region Out of Place: The Brazilian Northeast and the World, 1924–1968 by Courtney J. Campbell (review)","authors":"Andrew J. Kirkendall","doi":"10.1353/tla.2024.a929916","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2024.a929916","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":508998,"journal":{"name":"The Latin Americanist","volume":"98 6","pages":"314 - 315"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141411475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cycles of Contempt: Exploring Argentine-IMF Relations Through Protest Music","authors":"Mary Elizabeth Watts","doi":"10.1353/tla.2024.a929909","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2024.a929909","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Argentina has a history of tumultuous agreements with the International Monetary Fund. While the IMF has provided essential economic support, their loan agreements have often caused further economic issues that most profoundly impact the middle and working class, such as high inflation and poverty rates. This has created much frustration among the people, and they have taken these frustrations into music, protesting the damage and harm that is produced by the IMF’s involvement in Argentina. These protest songs can be analyzed through Jeneve Brooks’ EMM- framing theory, with EMM standing for emotive, moral, and mnemonic, to understand how the IMF is negatively represented and how the songs can influence the public’s opinion on the IMF. This paper makes use of this theoretical framework to analyze three examples of Argentine protest songs against the IMF: “Estoy tocando fondo” by Viuda e Hijas de Roque Enroll,“F.M.I. (Sufre Sudamérica)” by Fun People, and “Sinceramente militamos” by La Cámpora. This analysis provides insight into the increasing reactiveness of the Argentine people against the IMF, which was witnessed in 2021 and 2022 when protests broke out over negotiations between the IMF and the Argentine government even though an agreement had yet to be made.","PeriodicalId":508998,"journal":{"name":"The Latin Americanist","volume":"10 1","pages":"282 - 296"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141390113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}