{"title":"Memory Scripts and Life History in the Shadow of Brazil's Dictatorship","authors":"Jacob Blanc","doi":"10.1017/s0022216x24000452","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022216x24000452","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article proposes the concept of ‘memory script’ to analyse how, in the aftermath of political violence, memory activists narrate their lives in a way that is practised, repetitive and performative. Through a self-reflective life history of Aluízio Palmar, a Brazilian human rights activist and former political prisoner who suffered intense torture under military rule, this approach seeks to elucidates the personal and political contours of somebody's decision to transform their experiences into a public narrative. A close reading of Palmar's various platforms of memory-sharing reveals the complex moral reckoning of an activist's own trauma.","PeriodicalId":510235,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American Studies","volume":"17 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141271930","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":"Gabriel Hetland, Democracy on the Ground: Local Politics in Latin America's Left Turn Colombia University Press, 2023, pp. 307","authors":"Matthew Doyle","doi":"10.1017/s0022216x24000403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022216x24000403","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":510235,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American Studies","volume":"52 31","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141108577","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":"Noah Oehri, Landscapes of Liberation: Mission and Development in Peru's Southern Highlands, 1958–1988 Leuven University Press, 2023, pp. 231","authors":"Andrew Orta","doi":"10.1017/s0022216x24000415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022216x24000415","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":510235,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American Studies","volume":"53 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141112003","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":"Javier Corrales, Autocracy Rising: How Venezuela Transitioned to Authoritarianism Brookings Institution Press, 2023, pp. xiv + 242","authors":"Laura Gamboa","doi":"10.1017/s0022216x24000440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022216x24000440","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":510235,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American Studies","volume":"18 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141108077","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":"Agnes Gehbald, A Colonial Book Market: Peruvian Print Culture in the Age of the Enlightenment Cambridge University Press, 2023, pp. xxii + 374","authors":"Emily C. Floyd","doi":"10.1017/s0022216x24000427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022216x24000427","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":510235,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American Studies","volume":"37 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141112715","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":"Milton Fernando Gonzalez Rodriguez, Indigeneity in Latin American Cinema Bloomsbury, 2022, pp. x + 326","authors":"Anneli Marisa Aliaga","doi":"10.1017/s0022216x24000336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022216x24000336","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":510235,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American Studies","volume":"53 47","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141108755","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":"Sarah Zukerman Daly, Violent Victors: Why Bloodstained Parties Win Postwar Elections Princeton University Press, 2022, pp. vii + 383","authors":"Rachel A. Schwartz","doi":"10.1017/s0022216x24000373","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022216x24000373","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":510235,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American Studies","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141112562","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":"Chilean-Style Populism: Carlos Ibáñez's Electoral Support Base","authors":"Nicolás Mimica, Patricio D. Navia","doi":"10.1017/s0022216x24000282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022216x24000282","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Based on his record as president, Carlos Ibáñez is usually considered a populist caudillo in Chilean historiography. However, there are few studies of whether his electoral base permits this classification or of the type of populism he represented. In his four presidential bids between 1927 and 1952, Ibáñez ran with the support of both left- and right-wing parties. Using municipal-level data, we assess his electoral support in the 1942 and 1952 presidential campaigns and support for Ibañista parties in the 1953 legislative elections. In 1942, Ibáñez's electoral base was similar to that of right-wing candidates while, in 1952, his support increased in areas where the Left was historically strong. While he received consistent support in agricultural areas, it fluctuated in mining and industrial areas.","PeriodicalId":510235,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American Studies","volume":"15 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141121345","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":"Carrying the Cross: Popular Christian Communities and Religious Protest during Pinochet's Dictatorship, 1973–90","authors":"Denisa Jashari","doi":"10.1017/s0022216x24000294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022216x24000294","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article examines the activities of Comunidades Cristianas Populares (Popular Christian Communities, CCPs) in marginalised neighbourhoods of Chile's capital, Santiago, during the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship. It traces how the CCPs emerged, thrived and then stopped, to showcase the uneasy co-existence between liberationist practices espoused by popular sectors and traditional ecclesiastical paradigms until their breaking point in 1990. In doing so, I argue that religious ritual is an important form of social protest against authoritarianism. Public processions exposed tensions between the Church and state, within the Church's diverse constituents, as well as between Christian community members and left-wing party militants. In the late 1980s, as the Church increasingly retreated from liberation theology, the dictatorship successfully co-opted social organisations and rendered religious rituals largely ineffective as a form of social protest.","PeriodicalId":510235,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American Studies","volume":"83 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141021159","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":"Carlos Solar, Cybersecurity Governance in Latin America: States, Threats, and Alliances State University of New York Press, 2023, pp. 352","authors":"María Paz Sandoval Bravo","doi":"10.1017/s0022216x24000221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022216x24000221","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":510235,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American Studies","volume":"32 20","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140373813","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}