Lucas Barbi, Waleska Caiaffa, Solimar Carnavalli Rocha, Helen Pineo, Elis Borde
{"title":"When Food Becomes a Public Issue: Policy Trajectories and the Public Arena of Food Security in Belo Horizonte","authors":"Lucas Barbi, Waleska Caiaffa, Solimar Carnavalli Rocha, Helen Pineo, Elis Borde","doi":"10.1111/blar.70098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70098","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines how food insecurity became established as a public problem in Belo Horizonte by tracing the actors, disputes, and framings shaping this arena over time. Drawing on historical sources and 37 key-informant interviews (2024–2025), it adopts a public-arena approach understanding public problems as being constituted through interaction and contestation. The trajectory of Food and Nutrition Security (FNS) policies shows that their durability derives from sustained democratic experimentation and recurrent re-problematization led by state and non-state actors. These interactions co-produced a moral grammar that framed hunger as indignity, underpinning the institutionalisation, adaptability, and public legitimacy of FNS policies.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.70098","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148463173","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}
Yewen Zhu, Guxin Zhou, Ying Liu, Carlos Aquino Rodriguez
{"title":"From Bullets to Development: Developmental Security Governance in Latin America","authors":"Yewen Zhu, Guxin Zhou, Ying Liu, Carlos Aquino Rodriguez","doi":"10.1111/blar.70094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70094","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Existing research on Latin America's non-traditional security challenges has generated important insights into structural inequality, institutional weakness, and external dependence, yet less attention has been paid to how these conditions can be translated into sustainable governance pathways. This article examines how security can be strengthened through development-oriented governance under conditions of spatial fragmentation, weakened state–society trust, and limited state capacity. Within the framework of Developmental Security Governance (DSG), security is understood as the capacity of a socio-political-economic system to resist, adapt to, and recover from internal and external shocks through everyday governance practices. This process operates through three interconnected mechanisms: structural prevention, relational restructuring, and endogenous empowerment. An in-depth case study of Ecuador's ECU 911 project illustrates how development-oriented intervention can reduce governance fragmentation, rebuild institutional trust, and foster endogenous capacity through the interaction of these mechanisms. The findings suggest that effective security governance depends not only on immediate crisis response, but on whether development processes can be institutionally organized to generate durable governance resilience. In this sense, the article shifts the analytical focus from episodic crisis management to understanding security as a long-term effect of developmental governance.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148466696","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":"How the Military Remembers: Human Rights and Countermemories in Latin America. By Cynthia E. Milton and Michael Lazzara (eds.), Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2025. xii + 324 pp. £75.71 (hardback). ISBN: 978-0-29-935270-7.","authors":"J. Patrice McSherry","doi":"10.1111/blar.70103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70103","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148466697","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":"China and Latin America: Development, Agency and Geopolitics. By Chris Alden and Álvaro Méndez, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. x + 218 pp. £75.00 (hardback), £23.99 (paperback). ISBN: 978-1-78-699252-9","authors":"Jian Ren","doi":"10.1111/blar.70101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70101","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148381148","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":"Language Brokers: Children of Immigrants Translating Inequality and Belonging for Their Families. By Hyeyoung Kwon, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. 236 pp. £84.00 (hardback). ISBN: 978-1-50-363868-6, £19.99 (paperback). ISBN: 978-1-50-363946-1","authors":"Amelia Tseng","doi":"10.1111/blar.70099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70099","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148381150","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":"Representations of China in Contemporary Latin American Literature (1987–2016). By María Montt Strabucchi, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2024. vii + 262 pp. £28.30 (hardback). ISBN: 978-1-83764-427-8","authors":"Xingjie Du","doi":"10.1111/blar.70102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70102","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148381146","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":"El imperio del trabajo. Historia social de la producción de la plata de Potosí para el mundo (s. XVI–XVIII). By Rossana Barragán Romano, La Paz: Plural Editores, CIDES-UMSA, 2025. 620 pp. £28.99 (paperback). ISBN: 978-9-91-734142-0","authors":"Mario Graña Taborelli","doi":"10.1111/blar.70104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70104","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148381149","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":"Is There Such a Thing as Populism? 3 Provocations and 5 1/2 Proposals. By Benjamin Arditi, New York: Routledge (Oxford), 2025. xvii + 202 pp. £112 (hardback), £30.39 (paperback). ISBN: 978-1-03-252343-9","authors":"Jack Noel","doi":"10.1111/blar.70100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70100","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148381042","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":"¿Un país de irresponsables?: Filming Responsibility for Environmental Harm in the Judicialised Matanza-Riachuelo River Basin","authors":"Oliver Wilson-Nunn","doi":"10.1111/blar.70096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70096","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article explores how documentary film constructs responsibility for environmental harm in response to the Argentine Supreme Court's 2008 ruling on the polluted Matanza-Riachuelo river basin. Through an interdisciplinary dialogue between socio-legal, film and cultural studies, the analysis explores how three documentaries envisage different forms of responsibility through legal, political-economic and post-anthropocentric lenses. The article argues that critical documentaries mobilise but also exceed legal logics, thereby interrogating the limits of judicialisation. The archive emerges as the judicial, cinematic, and spatial form through which film registers and contests responsibility across interconnected scales, ranging from the molecular to the institutional and the transnational.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.70096","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148381184","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":"Political Emotions in Crisis: A Comparative Study of Alberto Fernández and AMLO During COVID-19","authors":"Pablo Agustín Artero Abellán","doi":"10.1111/blar.70097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70097","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article compares the emotional strategies of Mexican president López Obrador and Argentine president Fernández during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Combining discourse analysis, affect theory and prosodic analysis, it examines six presidential speeches to explore how affect and voice contribute to political legitimacy. The study introduces two concepts: <i>affective disobedience</i> (AMLO) and <i>affective-institutional legitimacy</i> (Fernández), highlighting contrasting responses to crisis. Findings show that emotional governance in Latin America relies on culturally embedded styles of communication, where prosody and discourse jointly shape leadership ethos and public trust under conditions of uncertainty.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148381181","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}