{"title":"Stuck with Tourism: Space, Power and Labor in Contemporary Yucatán by Matilde Córdoba Azcárate (review)","authors":"Jayne Howell","doi":"10.1353/tla.2024.a929915","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2024.a929915","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":508998,"journal":{"name":"The Latin Americanist","volume":"11 11","pages":"312 - 313"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141409510","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":"The Transnational Construction of Mayanness: Reading Modern Mesoamerica through US Archives ed. by Fernando Armstrong-Fumero and Ben Fallaw (review)","authors":"S. Mattiace","doi":"10.1353/tla.2024.a929912","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2024.a929912","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":508998,"journal":{"name":"The Latin Americanist","volume":"5 6","pages":"303 - 306"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141412619","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":"The Free Market between Constitutionalism and Dictatorship: on the Adaptation and Radicalization of Friedrich von Hayek’s Thought in Argentina","authors":"Matilde Ciolli","doi":"10.1353/tla.2024.a929905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2024.a929905","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":"16 3","pages":"190 - 218"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141403680","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":"“Memory Makes Us Brave”: Hauntological Echoes of the Past in the Music of Chile’s 2019 Social Upheaval","authors":"Eunice Rojas","doi":"10.1353/tla.2024.a929907","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2024.a929907","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The 2019 social upheaval in Chile began with students jumping turn-stiles in protest over a modest increase in the metro fare, but it quickly expanded into a widespread denunciation of nearly every facet of the neo-liberal economic system installed under the 1973–1990 Augusto Pinochet dictatorship. “It’s not the thirty pesos,” protesters claimed, “it’s the thirty years,” referring to the three decades of neoliberal policies after the return to democracy in 1990. In the days and weeks after the protests began, a soundtrack emerged of both original music and songs repurposed from Chile’s past. Even the new songs created in the wake of the 2019 protests also frequently reference, sample, or allude to Chile’s musical icons of the Chilean New Song era of the 1960s and early 1970s or to dictatorship era music. Both the protests and their music are therefore rooted in a hauntological past. Jacques Derrida coined the term “hauntology” in Spectres of Marx (2006), where he examines the ways in which the spirit of Marxism, like all ghosts which have yet to be laid to rest, would return, repeatedly, disrupting the present and continuing to remind us of another possible future.” In Ghosts of My Life, British cultural theorist Mark Fisher applies Derrida’s concept of hauntology to English language cultural production, arguing that 21st-century cultural products reflect a “slow cancellation of the future.” “It doesn’t feel like the future,” Fisher writes; instead, “we remain trapped in the 20th century.” This article examines how the hauntological songs of the 2019 social upheaval seek to inspire and support an oppositional consciousness against the neoliberal system and how the resilience of that same system maintains Chile’s musical ghosts in a perpetual limbo.","PeriodicalId":508998,"journal":{"name":"The Latin Americanist","volume":"2013 33","pages":"244 - 258"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141400618","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":"The Comitán Valley: Sculpture and Identity on the Maya Frontier by Caitlin C. Early (review)","authors":"Thomas Guderjan","doi":"10.1353/tla.2024.a929913","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2024.a929913","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":508998,"journal":{"name":"The Latin Americanist","volume":"21 6","pages":"307 - 308"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141404733","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}