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{"title":"Revolutionary Encounters in the Cold War: Carlos María Gutiérrez and the Socialist Dialogue Between Latin America and China","authors":"Georgina Marcela Pagola Rodríguez,&nbsp;Yong-an Zhang","doi":"10.1111/blar.70040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70040","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In 1966, Uruguayan journalist Carlos María Gutiérrez visited the People's Republic of China (PRC) as part of China's People's Diplomacy initiative. This article examines his travel writings and official Chinese reports to explore the complexities of intellectual and cultural exchanges between the PRC and Latin America during the Cold War. It argues that Gutiérrez's journey led to a nuanced reassessment of China's revolutionary path, underscoring the significance of first-hand encounters in shaping Latin American perspectives on socialism. His experience exemplifies the implications of People's Diplomacy, validating socialism as a path for social transformation in Latin America and the role of intellectuals in bridging ideological divides.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145845931","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 Biopower of Abundance: Towards Agroecological Worldings","authors":"Juan Camilo Cajigas","doi":"10.1111/blar.70041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70041","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines how grassroots agroecological practices, as carried out by small farmers and neorurals in the Cerro Manjui cloud forest of Colombia, hinge on a continuum that connects agricultural techniques, soil health, microorganismic life and forest ecosystems. Drawing on posthumanist scholarship on biopolitics and morphogenesis, the study demonstrates how a biopower of abundance offers an alternative to the hegemonic discourse of development and growth, which is fuelled by agro-industrial economies in Latin America. In rural Colombia, abundance does not necessarily refer to the utopia of freedom and happiness promoted by liberal democratic ideals; on the contrary, it points to flourishing and wellbeing across species. In short, abundance signifies autonomy and resistance against late-capitalist ideologies of scarcity.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 3","pages":"263-273"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.70041","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144574234","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":"Expecting the Next Coup? The Unchallenged Brazilian Military's Bargaining Power","authors":"Érico Esteves Duarte","doi":"10.1111/blar.70036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70036","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The civil-military relations in Brazil have faced criticism due to weak political institutions and significant military autonomy, resulting in a regression of democratisation. This article posits that the shortcomings in Brazilian civil-military relations have historical roots, with military prerogatives established in the early twentieth century and largely unopposed since that time. The military's robust corporate identity and its pivotal role in public administration and policy have granted it significant bargaining power, enabling resistance to reforms and undermining civilian authority. This paper provides evidence indicating that elected Brazilian administrations since 1995, particularly during Silva (2003–2011, 2023–) and Rousseff (2011–2016) administration, have significantly militarised the defence decision-making process and increased the involvement of the armed forces in public security, infrastructure development and public administration.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.70036","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145887726","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":"Throwing a Stone in the Techno-Artistic Pond (or Some Notes on the Dialogue Between Art, Technology and Living Matters in Latin America)","authors":"Mariela Yeregui","doi":"10.1111/blar.70039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70039","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper argues that paradigms rooted in Western epistemologies of control, extraction and anthropocentrism fail to address Latin America's socio-environmental complexities and cultural pluralities. Analysing contemporary techno-artistic practices, this approach offers a decolonial critique of dominant frameworks and proposes methodologies that reorient art, life and technology towards reciprocity, hybridity and situated knowledge. Focusing on Latin American artists who transcend <i>bioart</i>'s conventional boundaries, the paper highlights practices resisting lab-centric reductionism and engaging with living systems as co-creative partners, destabilising the nature-technology binary and forging new analytical categories grounded in decolonial thought.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 3","pages":"231-247"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144574200","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 Chilean Revolts and the Failure of the Constituent Process","authors":"Sergio Villalobos-Ruminott","doi":"10.1111/blar.70038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70038","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article aims to contextualise the recent constituent process in Chile and its subsequent failure, paying attention not only to the so-called contingent nature of the revolts inaugurated in October 2019, but also to the reengineering process implemented by the Pinochet dictatorship. The most ostensible result of this reengineering process was the Constitution of 1980, which was supplemented by a complex juridical-political framework that has both protected the Constitution and regulated the life of the country during the last 50 years. Despite the recurrence of revolts during the last decades and the aspirations and hopes for a new Constitution, the failure of the recent constituent process is symptomatic of what we can consider the limitations of neoliberal democracy.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.70038","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145848203","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":"De/Sedimentation: The Geopoetics of José Watanabe and Soledad Fariña","authors":"Rosa Berbel","doi":"10.1111/blar.70037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70037","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper explores de/sedimentation as both a textual and geological concept through the works of José Watanabe (<i>La piedra alada)</i> and Soledad Fariña (<i>PAC PAC PEC PEC</i>) to examine how literary and material traces accumulate, erode and reemerge within the colonial Anthropocene. Building on Watanabe's engagement with deep time, and non-extractive ways of temporal relating to stones, as well as Fariña's interrogation of the sedimentary layers of history and discourse, this research considers the fundamental interplay between poetry and geology in Latin American writings. Thus, the notion of palimpsest, thematically and formally understood, serves as a critical lens for tracing the entanglement of human and more-than-human histories and voices in times of extinction.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 3","pages":"147-160"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.70037","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144573914","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 Land of Language, the Language of the Earth","authors":"Gabriela Milone,&nbsp;Franca Maccioni","doi":"10.1111/blar.70033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70033","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper explores the links between language (speech, language, and writing) and land/ earth (geo): can language say land, can land be a language? From the notion of figure, we will postulate literality to analyse the land of language and pathography to explore the language of land. Our study summons a concert of voices and ideas coming from apparently dissimilar theories because it will make of that dissimilarity its major bet: a theoretical twist for a situated thinking that assumes its differences, its traditions, and its translations.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 3","pages":"136-146"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144574058","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":"Afterword","authors":"Mary Louise Pratt","doi":"10.1111/blar.70034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70034","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 3","pages":"274-278"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144574021","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: Navigating Criminalisation: Visible and Hidden Resistances in Dangerous Contexts","authors":"ROMAIN BUSNEL,&nbsp;LÉA LEBEAUPIN-SALAMON,&nbsp;LUIS RIVERA-VÉLEZ","doi":"10.1111/blar.70013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70013","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The special issue examines the paradox of visible and hidden resistance in dangerous contexts, exploring the conditions under which dissenting practices emerge and the effects they generate. Latin America is marked by deep economic and political inequalities, perpetuated through repressive practices inherited from authoritarian regimes. Despite democratic transitions, these practices have not disappeared; rather, they have shifted into more localised forms of repression, targeting residents and activists who oppose urban renewal projects, the expansion of agricultural frontiers, large-scale energy exploitation, or activities deemed illegal. In this context—where violence, intimidation and abuse persist in both urban and rural areas, in workplaces and factories—it becomes essential to understand the conditions that enable resistance to take shape. While extreme coercion typically reduces the likelihood of contention, mobilisation has not only persisted but also evolved in response to repression, adapting to shifting political landscapes and new forms of criminalisation (Varela Huerta and McLean, <span>2019</span>).</p><p>Collective action is often organised within specific timeframes and led by established actors considered ‘legitimate’, such as NGOs, social organisations and unions with local roots, who engage with the state or corporations. However, beyond these structured mobilisations, resistance also unfolds through hidden practices among marginalised groups (Scott, <span>1990</span>). While both visible and discreet forms of contention have been documented in resistance repertoires elsewhere (e.g., Caouette and Turner, <span>2009</span>), little is known about how affected populations in Latin America experience and navigate repression in their daily lives. This issue seeks to fill that gap by highlighting pragmatic resistance practices and strategies shaped by a ‘dealing with’ approach. These actions operate along a continuum, from invisible tactics—often socially delegitimised due to their perceived archaic nature, such as rumours or accusations of witchcraft—to deliberate strategies of self-visibility aimed at protection against criminalisation.</p><p>This nuanced perspective is grounded in qualitative research based on extensive fieldwork in national contexts where activist criminalisation is a pressing concern. The articles on this issue examine the distinct tactics ordinary people employ to navigate repression. In the first article, Léa Lebeaupin-Salamon explores how Brazilian mining trade unionists resisted corporate oppression. Confronted with an environment dominated by the extractive industry, activists combined visible and covert practices to sustain their fight against injustice. For those resisting intimidation, activism extends beyond the political arena, permeating both professional and personal lives.</p><p>The second article examines ‘dissenting implementation’, a visible yet outlawed form of resistance that lies between ","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 4","pages":"294-295"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.70013","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145204818","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":"Accusatory Whispers: Micro-Politics of Irreconciliation in the Peruvian Andes","authors":"Dorothée Delacroix","doi":"10.1111/blar.70032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70032","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In post-conflict Peru, the ideology of reconciliation promotes the image of a pacified country, often erasing ongoing conflicts or reframing them positively as forms of resistance to domination. Drawing on the perspectives of Andean peasants mobilised for human rights, this article explores the ‘micro-politics of irreconciliation’ in a post-conflict context. Ethnographic research into rumours of witchcraft and poisoning reveals the underlying tensions that persist among villagers, as well as the discursive strategies by which crimes and their perpetrators are evoked. I argue that these rumours serve as implicit warnings against certain neighbours and signal the emergence of a diverted political language. Given the risks of expressing such accusations openly, ‘accusatory whispers’ convey the challenges of cohabitation and persistent resentments, particularly when the power dynamics inherited from the war persist and NGO workers unknowingly support locally contested individuals.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 4","pages":"341-352"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.70032","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145204886","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}