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{"title":"Explaining Brazil's Stance on the Ukraine War","authors":"Felipe Krause","doi":"10.1111/blar.13575","DOIUrl":"10.1111/blar.13575","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Brazil's diplomatic stance on the Ukraine War should be understood within the context of broader geopolitical tensions. Brazil's position goes beyond geopolitical hedging and represents a strategic alignment with the global South based on a vision aimed at stimulating economic development through cooperation. This article highlights Brazil's reluctance to criticise Russia, articulates its grievances with the West and explains the Brazilian government's conviction that a stronger alliance with the global South can result in economic gain. Ultimately, Brazil's new foreign policy is shifting from its historical commitment to non-alignment and pragmatism and reveals a growing inclination to challenge liberal international norms.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"43 4","pages":"326-329"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.13575","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141188124","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":"Decoloniality and the Spectre of Modernity: Notes for a Theoretical Critique","authors":"Julián Harruch","doi":"10.1111/blar.13576","DOIUrl":"10.1111/blar.13576","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines a thesis that has become a common currency in Latin American critical thought, namely that ‘coloniality’ is constitutive of modernity. This proposition rests on a reifying conception of modernity as a Eurocentric civilisational project which, I contend, is theoretically flawed and politically pernicious. I will trace this conceptualisation of modernity and some of the problems it involves in recent works of Arturo Escobar and Walter Mignolo. I argue that modernity is better understood as a politico-theoretical toolkit that, while having no immanent ideological content, is vital to the analysis and critique of (neo)colonialism and imperialism.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"43 3","pages":"251-262"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.13576","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141188339","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":"Between Tradition and Pragmatism: Challenges for Latin America amid the Russia–Ukraine War","authors":"Kendra D. Carrión-Vivar,&nbsp;Alexandra Jima-González,&nbsp;José Ángel Alcántara-Lizárraga","doi":"10.1111/blar.13571","DOIUrl":"10.1111/blar.13571","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article explores Latin America's response to the Russia–Ukraine War by navigating the delicate balance between tradition and pragmatism. Historically championing self-determination and non-intervention, the region faces challenges in coordinating responses due to ideological divisions. Analysing reactions from Brazil, Mexico, Nicaragua and Venezuela, the study reveals various responses, ranging from diplomatic neutrality to outright support. Economic dependencies, power dynamics and domestic priorities influence approaches. As Latin America struggles with internal challenges and external pressures, the study advocates a nuanced understanding of the role of the region in the evolving international order, emphasising the need for cohesive diplomatic strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"43 4","pages":"305-308"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.13571","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141188097","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":"International Order and Latin American Reticent Support for Ukraine","authors":"J. Luis Rodriguez","doi":"10.1111/blar.13573","DOIUrl":"10.1111/blar.13573","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Latin America has promoted the nonintervention principle as a fundamental tenet of the international order. The region defends this principle to prevent abuses of force by great powers. Why, then, have Latin American governments been reticent to support Ukraine against the ongoing Russian invasion? The Latin American reactions to the Russian invasion do not represent a normalisation of aggression or a rejection of the international order. The Latin American responses are anchored in two regional approaches to the international order favouring nonintervention: republicanism promotes collective responses while pluralism defends non-Western values. If the West wants to win more Latin American support for Ukraine, it is necessary to disentangle supporting Ukraine and defending the international order.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"43 4","pages":"292-295"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.13573","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141188123","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 Influence of the Militarisation of Bureaucracies during Bolsonaro's Government on Public Opinion about the Brazilian Armed Forces","authors":"Tatiana Paula Da Cruz","doi":"10.1111/blar.13565","DOIUrl":"10.1111/blar.13565","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper examines the consequences of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's strategy of appointing military officials to high-level positions within the federal executive branch and its effect on public opinion about the Armed Forces. The main argument is that the outsized role of the Armed Forces in the Bolsonaro administration harmed public perceptions of the Brazilian military. Despite the robust recruitment process in the public bureaucracy, Bolsonaro found a way to surround himself with ideologically extreme bureaucrats at the highest level. The study explores the systematic approach of enhancing military personnel's presence in the government and hypothesises about declining levels of trust in the Armed Forces. The paper draws on data from three waves of the Brazilian survey ‘A Cara da Democracia’ (The Face of Democracy) to show that the population's level of trust in the Armed Forces decreased during Bolsonaro's tenure. Furthermore, the Brazilian survey data also suggest that lower trust in the Armed Forces is robustly associated with dissatisfaction with Brazilian democracy.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"43 3","pages":"238-250"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.13565","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140800078","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":"Belonging to No One, to Everyone, and for Whom? Learnings from the Disputes about the Public Dimension of Education in Chile's Constitutional Convention","authors":"Carmelo Galioto","doi":"10.1111/blar.13537","DOIUrl":"10.1111/blar.13537","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The public dimension of education is a key issue in democratic countries. However, in a time of conspicuous privatisation and pluralism, the value and meaning of the public sphere in education are in dispute with other value preferences. This paper offers a phenomenological account of the discussion that took place in Chile's Constitutional Convention, which represents an interesting case study due to the country's background of extensive privatisation of education. The main themes that revealed the spheres of values in dispute in this respect revolved around: the public function of the State, the public arena and its relationship with freedom of education and the diversity of educational projects, and finally the relationship between the public arena and the preferences of families. The paper describes the value controversies implicit in this debate and explains the philosophical foundations that enable us to continue questioning what constitutes the public dimension of education.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"43 3","pages":"225-237"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140626424","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":"Postcards Post‐Petroleras: Exploring Collaborative Ethnography via Mail from the Venezuelan Diaspora","authors":"Rebecca Irons","doi":"10.1111/blar.13554","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13554","url":null,"abstract":"Postcards, as ‘travelling communication devices’, have been identified as excellent tools for their ability to collapse ‘the field’ in a new, visually experiential way. Though often presented as a (post)colonial medium that has exoticized ‘the other’, they may also be able to give snapshots of diverse biographies otherwise silenced, and can therefore be utilised as a form of collaborative ethnography. This paper analyses postcards sent from Venezuelans living in Bogota during the pandemic. It will suggest that when migrants express lived‐experience via postcards, the coloniality of the medium is challenged and reimagined as collaborative ethnography.","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"201 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140568483","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":"Introduction: Contesting Control: Indigenous Strategies towards Territorial Governance in Lowland South America","authors":"Evan Killick,&nbsp;Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti","doi":"10.1111/blar.13551","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13551","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;After centuries of conflict and political struggles over land and resources across Lowland South America, recent decades have shown an expansion of the rights of Indigenous Peoples to determine their own futures and manage their territories (Monterroso et al., &lt;span&gt;2017&lt;/span&gt;; Palacios Llaque and Sarmiento Barletti, &lt;span&gt;2021&lt;/span&gt;). This shift is the result of decades of the deployment of strategies undertaken by Indigenous Peoples and their allies to overcome histories of displacement, marginalisation and exploitation by settler societies. These processes of dispossession and resistance have been driven by different actors laying different claims on Indigenous territories in a contradictory process that involves the expansion of the extractive frontier in the region – ranging from hydrocarbon extraction to agroindustrial development – and of initiatives to conserve the biodiversity of the region, including various kinds of protected areas and carbon projects (Álvarez, &lt;span&gt;2012&lt;/span&gt;; Larsen, &lt;span&gt;2015&lt;/span&gt;). Conflicts have been noted to arise over the management and use of the area's natural resources and how nature and the environment are constructed, but also over the imposition of different forms of governance over the region (Merino Acuña, &lt;span&gt;2015&lt;/span&gt;). The relative success of Indigenous strategies in these contexts has long been of academic concern, highlighting the work of Indigenous organisations and social networks (e.g. Jackson and Warren, &lt;span&gt;2005&lt;/span&gt;; Yashar, &lt;span&gt;2005&lt;/span&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;However, less attention has been placed on the different ways in which Indigenous communities and their representative organisations engage the legal frameworks for territorial governance, rights recognition and tenure regimes, often through mixed and at times seemingly contradictory strategies of conflict and collaboration, and of the manner in which these strategies interact with Indigenous cosmologies, preferred forms of social relations and notions of living well. This focus is important to avoid presenting the government as a monolithic entity – considering that its different agencies tend to have different agendas in relation to Indigenous Peoples and that environmental governance is multi-level – as well as generalising the different strategies deployed by communities and their organisations in their engagements with government actors.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Based on long-term fieldwork with Indigenous communities, the four articles in this special section give insight into the different actions and impacts of the region's national governments on their Indigenous citizens. The articles engage with the different ways in which Indigenous Peoples conceptualise these relations and attempt to counteract historical forms of domination and control through different, changing and at times seemingly contradictory strategies within a continuum of resistance and collaboration. The articles reflect the fact that just as the government and its agencies","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"43 2","pages":"101-103"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.13551","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140552961","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":"Erlend Johnson Goodwin, A. Whitney, and Alejandro J. Figueroa (eds.) (2021) Southeastern Mesoamerica: Indigenous Interaction, Resilience, and Change, University Press of Colorado (Louisville, KT), vi + 343 pp. $89.00 hbk., $71.00 ebk.","authors":"David Tavárez","doi":"10.1111/blar.13557","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13557","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"43 2","pages":"197-198"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140553090","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":"Territorial Conflicts and Soybeans: Kanhgág Politics and Their Struggle for Land Rights in Southern Brazil","authors":"Lucas Cimbaluk","doi":"10.1111/blar.13553","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13553","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Today, <i>Kanhgág</i> people live mainly in small <i>Terras Indígenas</i> (Indigenous Lands) in southern Brazil. Those lands are the outcome of a history of equivocal alliances and conflicts between indigenous peoples and European colonisers. Presenting aspects of these relations in both historical and contemporary settings, this article traces continuities and transformations in indigenous politics and cosmology, focusing on the struggles over territory and resources now playing out around soy cultivation. Avoiding simplistic presentations of colonial impositions, it draws on <i>kanhgág</i> people's dualist cosmology, factional sociality and the fecundity of alterity to consider those territorial struggles within indigenous autonomy and alliances.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"43 2","pages":"132-144"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140552958","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}