Alexandra Jima-González, José Ángel Alcántara-Lizárraga, Kendra D. Carrión-Vivar
{"title":"Autonomous Responses to the Russia–Ukraine Conflict? Evidence from the Feminist Foreign Policy in Latin America","authors":"Alexandra Jima-González, José Ángel Alcántara-Lizárraga, Kendra D. Carrión-Vivar","doi":"10.1111/blar.13593","DOIUrl":"10.1111/blar.13593","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Given the conflict between Russia and Ukraine and the Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP) institutionalisation by Mexico (2020) and Chile (2023), this study analyses their differentiated responses to empirically assess FFP's promised potential to achieve autonomy in foreign policymaking. Through a thematic analysis, we examined the official stances towards the war, diplomatic interactions, and specific cooperation policies proposed or supported by the two countries. The results are twofold: (1) theoretically, FFP challenges conventional theories on international relations and foreign policymaking by fostering a nuanced understanding of the war thus creating conditions for developing autonomous discourses and policies, and (2) empirically, FFP has practical limitations evidenced in Mexico and Chile's heterogeneous – and sometimes unexpected – responses.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"43 4","pages":"322-325"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.13593","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142185488","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 Russia-Ukraine War and the Peruvian Agrarian Crisis","authors":"Miryam Nacimento","doi":"10.1111/blar.13592","DOIUrl":"10.1111/blar.13592","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article analyses the effects of the Russia-Ukraine war on Perú's agricultural sector. Studies have shown that the war has created a sudden ‘shock’ in Peruvian agriculture because of disruptions to the import of Russian fertilisers. These findings highlight that fertiliser scarcity has provoked a disastrous decline in Perú's agricultural production, primarily affecting small farmers. While these approaches might lead to considering the war-led agricultural ‘shock’ in Perú as an anomalous and externally generated catastrophe, this article argues that the ripple effects of the war should have been expected thanks to domestic historical inequalities and structural dynamics that are intrinsic to the global food system.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"43 4","pages":"340-343"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.13592","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141946432","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":"Who Trusts Russia? Members of Parliament (MPs') Support for Putin's Government and Multilateralism","authors":"Francisco Sánchez, Castellar Granados","doi":"10.1111/blar.13591","DOIUrl":"10.1111/blar.13591","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines the ambivalent stance of Latin American governments towards Russia's actions in Ukraine. Using Proyecto Élites Parlamentarias de la Universidad de Salamanca (PELA-USAL) data, it explores ideological self-placement, Putin's approval and alliance preferences among Latin American Members of Parliament, highlighting the influence of anti-imperialism and multilateralism on their international alignments and support for Russia.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"43 4","pages":"309-314"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.13591","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141770361","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":"Ghosts of Alignments Past: Understanding Latin American Proposals for ‘Mediation’ in the War against Ukraine","authors":"Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín","doi":"10.1111/blar.13590","DOIUrl":"10.1111/blar.13590","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As the continent continues to reel from the effects of a seemingly distant conflict, certain Latin American diplomatic actors have surprised their partners abroad by issuing calls for mediation to end the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. While these proposals have often been dismissed as naïve or cynical, I argue that they ought to be understood in the context of a decades-long Latin American uneasiness with notions of alignment in international relations. To understand the conundrums of this continental foreign policy strategy, I contextualise the history and theory of this uneasy project of active neutrality or non-indifference.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"43 4","pages":"296-299"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.13590","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141770365","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}
Tallulah Lines, Bruna Curcio, Jean Grugel, Pia Riggirozzi, Natalia Cintra
{"title":"Visual Narratives of Care and Reproduction in Forced Migration: Women Displaced from Venezuela to Brazil","authors":"Tallulah Lines, Bruna Curcio, Jean Grugel, Pia Riggirozzi, Natalia Cintra","doi":"10.1111/blar.13579","DOIUrl":"10.1111/blar.13579","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Migration is deeply gendered, yet little is known about the lived experiences of displaced women or how they manage their reproductive health challenges. Here, we explore the meaning of sexual and reproductive health for displaced Venezuelan women in Brazil, using photovoice. This methodology revealed that women interpret ‘sexual and reproductive health’ in ways that go beyond medicalised understandings and include concerns more usually associated with ‘social reproduction’ or care work. Caring, for Venezuelan migrant women, is complex: many take comfort from their roles as carers, but they also experience depletion and anxiety. Our research suggests the need for wider understandings of what reproductive health in displacement means and for support for migrant women that goes beyond addressing their biological reproductive roles.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 1","pages":"33-48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.13579","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141608668","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":"Change from Above or Pressure from Below? The Diffusion of Cannabis Reform in Latin America","authors":"Angélica Durán-Martínez, Connor Pennell","doi":"10.1111/blar.13580","DOIUrl":"10.1111/blar.13580","url":null,"abstract":"<p>What explains variation in the adoption of cannabis regulation reforms, both for medical and recreational purposes, across Latin America? This article argues that social mobilisation is essential to understand where debates for reform emerge and become stronger. Yet it further contends that policy adoption depends on the existence of pro-reform elite political coalitions. These coalitions in turn depend on whether drug policy becomes a legislative priority and on specific conditions of the party system. The article compares four countries that show variation in the timing and content of reform: Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"43 5","pages":"347-361"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.13580","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141567907","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":"Speed, Shannon (2019) Incarcerated Stories: Indigenous Women Migrants and Violence in the Settler-Capitalist State, University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill), v + 153 pp. £81 hbk., £29.95 pbk.","authors":"Jessica A. Fernandez de Lara Harada","doi":"10.1111/blar.13581","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13581","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"43 3","pages":"277-278"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141565815","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":"Jarman, Rebecca (2023) Representing the Barrios: Culture, Politics, and Urban Poverty in Twentieth-Century Caracas, University of Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, PA), 352 pp. $60 hbk.","authors":"Harry Rodgers","doi":"10.1111/blar.13583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13583","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"43 3","pages":"279-280"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141565758","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":"Pérez Ahumada Pablo (2023) Building Power to Shape Labor Policy: Unions, Employer Associations, and Reform in Neoliberal Chile, University of Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, PA), xiii + 224 pp. US$55.00 hdbk.","authors":"J. Patrice McSherry","doi":"10.1111/blar.13582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13582","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"43 3","pages":"278-279"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141565816","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":"Contrasting Affective responses and the Politics of the Energy Transition: Impact of the War in Ukraine on the Colombian Coal Industry","authors":"Susana Carmona","doi":"10.1111/blar.13589","DOIUrl":"10.1111/blar.13589","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This piece explores the effects of the war in Ukraine on Colombia's coal industry and the contrasting affective responses of different actors. The stark contrast between environmental and Indigenous activists' anger and the industry representatives' optimism about the revival of coal exports evidences the tension between the climate policies of the current Colombian government and the longstanding pattern of export-led economies in Latin America, a path difficult to break. Nonetheless, the situation enables a space to discuss how a ‘just transition’ would look for regions dependent on coal and, importantly, when that transition will be.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"43 4","pages":"335-339"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.13589","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141567908","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}