{"title":"Academic Output in China on the Sino-Latin American Relationship (2013–2025): Current Status and Evolution of Perspectives","authors":"Antonio José Pagán Sánchez","doi":"10.1111/blar.70123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70123","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Despite the growing importance of China–Latin America relations, academic perspectives from China on this topic remain understudied. This manuscript addresses that gap by analysing the 213 articles on the subject retrieved from CNKI through two subject searches covering the period 2013–2025. The findings reveal several key patterns. First, much of the literature is closely linked to China's Party-State institutions. Second, the economic and political dimensions are jointly dominant and almost equally represented, while the cultural dimension gains ground over the period. Third, the academic discourse on the relationship throughout the period mainly focused on opportunities in spite of new global challenges.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149145692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Over-Ideologisation to De-Autonomisation: Worldview, Cognitive Shortcuts, and Foreign Policy Under the Milei Government","authors":"Gisela Pereyra Doval","doi":"10.1111/blar.70125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70125","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article examines the foreign policy of the Milei government in Argentina. Its central argument is that the president's worldview—conceptualised as Western Supremacist Civilisationism—functions as a relatively closed cognitive schema that activates systematic heuristic shortcuts and produces what we call the paradox of power. Rather than generating diffuse costs, this worldview concentrates them structurally in exactly those domains where the state most needs negotiating space. Drawing on Hermann's Leadership Trait Analysis framework and on Jervis's perceptual mechanisms, the article examines three empirical dimensions to show that these costs are the predictable product of an expansionist cognitive profile, documented in a corpus of primary discursive sources. The cumulative result of this cognitive architecture is de-autonomisation: the structural erosion of Argentina's international room for manoeuvre.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149146786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Che Guevara on Economics and Politics in the Transition to Socialism. By Carlos Tablada Pérez, New York: Pathfinder, 2024. 372 pp. £14.99 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-60488-124-0","authors":"William Rowlandson","doi":"10.1111/blar.70119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70119","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149146520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Did Eve Emerge From Evo's Rib? Gendered Complexities Over the Period of MAS Rule in Bolivia","authors":"Kate Maclean","doi":"10.1111/blar.70122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70122","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The MAS governments in Bolivia (2006–2019) sought to overturn neoliberalism through a decolonial and post-neoliberal political project informed by indigenous movements, feminist thought, and social movement participation. However, feminist activists and scholars soon argued that MAS discourse and policy increasingly essentialised gender and reinforced extractivist and developmentalist logics that limited the transformative potential of the project. This article examines the gendered dimensions and contradictions of the MAS years, combining analysis of political discourse, social policy and financial reform with qualitative insights from long-term fieldwork in La Paz and El Alto. It first situates gender within the heterogeneous landscape of Bolivian feminist and women's movements, highlighting tensions between liberal, indigenous, decolonial, and queer feminist approaches. It then analyses reforms to political participation, welfare and finance, showing how women's inclusion often remained tied to maternalist and productivist assumptions. The final section explores a central contradiction of the MAS period: while urban indigenous women were largely absent from official imaginaries of development, the <i>chola</i> market trader became an emblem of Bolivia's transformed political economy. The article finally reflects on the implications of these tensions for feminist political economy beyond Bolivia.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.70122","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149146493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Bajío Revolution: Remaking Capitalism, Community and Patriarchy in Mexico, North America and the World. By John Tutino, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2025. xii + 543 pp. £112 (hardcover). £25.99 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-4780-2870-3","authors":"Rosie Doyle","doi":"10.1111/blar.70120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70120","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149048287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prizefighting and Civilization: A Cultural History of Boxing, Race, and Masculinity in Mexico and Cuba, 1840–1940. By David C. LaFevor, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2020. x + 288 pp. £88.50 (hardcover); £36.20 (paperback). ISBN: 978-0-8263-6158-5","authors":"David M. K. Sheinin","doi":"10.1111/blar.70115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70115","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148994348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pensadores Rebeldes. By Kay Cristóbal, Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales, 2023. 195 pp. £20.00 (paperback). ISBN: 978-9-56-314578-6","authors":"Julián Harruch","doi":"10.1111/blar.70114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70114","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148994597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Memory State: Disputing the Past in Plurinational Bolivia","authors":"Sue A. S. Iamamoto","doi":"10.1111/blar.70111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70111","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article analyses the politics of memory in Bolivia from the so-called Gas War in 2003 and the crisis of 2019, travelling from a struggle for power to state's legitimation language and back to the streets. It also studies dissident movements that claimed reparation from the Plurinational State, particularly human rights activists and the regional movement of Potosí. I define the Plurinational State as a ‘memory state’ that, by strongly tying its legitimation to the injustices of the past uncovered by the previous cycle of protests, forced all political groups to use the grammar of memory to dispute Bolivian politics.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.70111","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148994598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The New Kingdom of Granada: The Making and Unmaking of Spain's Atlantic Empire. By Santiago Muñoz-Arbeláez, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2025. xii + 242 pp. £84.00 (hardcover), £22.90 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-4780-6080-2","authors":"Katherine Godfrey","doi":"10.1111/blar.70117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70117","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148994594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Elections in Latin America: Campaigns, Voters, and Institutions. By Kevin Pallister, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2024. x + 239 pp. £69.00 (hardcover), £25.99 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-5381-8902-3","authors":"Kathleen Bruhn","doi":"10.1111/blar.70118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70118","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148994595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}