Ángel E. Páez Moreno, Jairo Lugo-ocando, Viviana Garzón
{"title":"Bringing Down the Scaremongers: Venezuelan Diaspora as a Dog Whistle in Colombia's 2022 Presidential Election","authors":"Ángel E. Páez Moreno, Jairo Lugo-ocando, Viviana Garzón","doi":"10.1111/blar.13540","DOIUrl":"10.1111/blar.13540","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines how the Venezuelan diaspora has been portrayed in the media during the Colombian presidential election of 2022 and how it has influenced voters' preferences there. It examines presidential debates and conversations on X (formerly Twitter), as well as traditional legacy media and digital natives' media material. The authors used a population-based sample of 17,372 articles on the 2022 elections to analyse data from a stratified sample. Our findings point to a potential socio-political turning point away from the social imaginary that had been equating Venezuelan realities with leftist ideologies in Colombia and other parts of Latin America.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"43 1","pages":"46-59"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139421107","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":"Protecting the Forest Beings that Protect Us: The Cosmo-Political Challenge Kawsak Sacha Poses to Ecuador's Extraction-Based Development","authors":"Leonidas Oikonomakis","doi":"10.1111/blar.13535","DOIUrl":"10.1111/blar.13535","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Sarayaku, an Amazonian Kichwa community in Pastaza province, Ecuador, is suspected to be rich in oil reserves. This fact has generated outside interest in the region and in turn pushed Sarayaku Runa (Sarayaku people) to defend their territory against state-led extractivist projects. In this context, the conflict in Sarayaku territory, among the state, multinational oil companies and the Indigenous Peoples who inhabit it, goes beyond natural resources. In an effort to distance themselves from the current use of terms such as <i>buen vivir</i> and <i>Pachamama</i> rights, Sarayaku Runa are now inventing new legal and social concepts, such as <i>Kawsak Sacha</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"43 2","pages":"145-158"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.13535","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139409938","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":"Communities as a Subject of Social Fabric Construction in the Colombian Catatumbo Region","authors":"Magali Alba-Niño","doi":"10.1111/blar.13525","DOIUrl":"10.1111/blar.13525","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The community actions developed by the inhabitants of <i>marginalised communities</i> by Idler and McGill have contributed to the construction of a social base for peace, favouring cohesion and the reproduction of social life in the resistance to years of armed conflict, state abandonment and other social phenomena. The Catatumbo region in Colombia has been the focus of several analyses regarding the visibility of public and private organisations that have come to the territory to provide perishable assistance, which do not constitute a holistic social project involving all aspects of the conflict and its impact on the community. This prevents the recognition of the figure of collective social subject that contributes to the construction of a social basis for peace. In this sense, this article is intended to address the contribution of the communities as collective subject to the construction of the social fabric, recognising the different initiatives that have been developed by the subjects who inhabit the region from their historical-political role.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"43 1","pages":"32-45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138537750","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":"Wil G. Pansters and Benjamin T. Smith (eds.) (2022) Histories of Drug Trafficking in Twentieth-Century Mexico, University of New Mexico Books (Albuquerque, NM), x + 366 pp. $75.00 hbk.","authors":"Onur Ağkaya","doi":"10.1111/blar.13529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13529","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"42 5","pages":"750-751"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71936839","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":"Christenson, Allen (2022) The Title of Totonicapán: Transcription, Translation, and Commentary, University Press of Colorado (Louisville, CO), vii + 436 pp. $126.00 hbk., $45.95 pbk.","authors":"Josefrayn Sánchez-Perry","doi":"10.1111/blar.13533","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13533","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"42 5","pages":"754-756"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71950435","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":"Vernon, Dylan (2022) Political Clientelism and Democracy in Belize: From My Hand to Yours, University of the West Indies Press (Kingston, Jamaica), xi + 299 pp. $50.00 hbk.","authors":"Matthew Restall","doi":"10.1111/blar.13530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13530","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"42 5","pages":"751-752"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71916349","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":"Frej, William (2020) Maya Ruins Revisited: In the Footsteps of Teobert Maler, Peyton Wright Gallery Press (Santa Fe, NM), 291 pp. $60.00 hbk.","authors":"Rubén G. Mendoza","doi":"10.1111/blar.13531","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13531","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"42 5","pages":"752-753"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71925853","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":"Merkel, Ian (2022) Terms of Exchange: Brazilian Intellectuals and the French Social Sciences, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL), 285 pp. $35.00 pbk., $105.00 hbk., $34.99 pdf.","authors":"Philipp Altmann","doi":"10.1111/blar.13532","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13532","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"42 5","pages":"753-754"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71925854","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 to Special Section: Elections in Latin America from a Multi-Level Perspective","authors":"Jayane Dos Santos Maia, Mariana Llanos","doi":"10.1111/blar.13486","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13486","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In multi-level systems with several arenas of political competition, national electoral results or political outcomes are unlikely to have a homogeneous distribution throughout the territory. Therefore, a nationalised perspective on politics has to date not led to a deep understanding of political dynamics (Došek and Freidenberg, <span>2013</span>; Snyder, <span>2001</span>). This is particularly true in Latin America, which was the first region in the world systematically to carry out decentralisation measures, devolving political authority to subnational actors and creating new arenas of competition (Falleti, <span>2010</span>). Not only have federal countries implemented a wide variety of decentralisation reforms, but unitary countries have become less unitary thanks to the cumulative effects of decentralising processes (Eaton, <span>2018</span>).</p><p>Located at the intersection of debates on agency and structure in politics, this Special Section examines different aspects of elections in Latin America from a multi-level perspective. We aim to highlight the territorial diverseness of multi-level elections as well as the heterogeneous distribution of their political outcomes using disaggregated data. Latin America offers an interesting setting for the study of elections from a multi-level perspective thanks to its outstanding cross-country diversity in territorial power and decentralisation processes. Given that the territorial heterogeneity of national and subnational elections is context-specific, a closer look at these countries is the most appropriate empirical strategy.</p><p>This Special Section makes two contributions. First and foremost, we call attention to the fact that the sole use of aggregate data to draw conclusions about electoral participation, party strength and the functioning of intergovernmental relations seems no longer sufficient to grasp political phenomena (Došek and Freidenberg, <span>2013</span>). Accordingly, the contributions of this Special Section show that the disaggregation of electoral data by constituency is a more accurate way to assess political variation across and within countries, as well as to trace change of cross-territorial political dynamics over time. Second, we show that multi-level political dynamics help to explain national political outcomes regardless of the country's territorial structure (whether federal or unitary).</p><p>The six articles included here address three different themes in five Latin American countries. The first focuses on how multi-level institutional settings impact electoral and political outcomes. Méndez de Hoyos and Arellano, as well as Jaramillo, explore the relationship between electoral institutions and turnout rates in Mexico and party fragmentation in Peru, respectively. Analysing the effect of electoral integrity on electoral participation in violent contexts in subnational elections in Mexico, Méndez de Hoyos and Arellano suggest that the effect of violence on e","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"42 5","pages":"605-606"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71936837","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":"Bebbington, David W. (2022) The Gospel in Latin America: Historical Studies in Evangelicalism and the Global South, Baylor University Press (Waco, TX), xii + 243 pp. $49.99 hbk., $39.99 pbk.","authors":"Erika Helgen","doi":"10.1111/blar.13534","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13534","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"42 5","pages":"756-757"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71950436","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}