Latin American Research Review, vol. 55, num. 1

About this Journal

The Latin American Research Review (LARR) publishes original research and review essays on Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latina/Latino studies. LARR covers the social sciences and the humanities, including the fields of anthropology, economics, history, literature and cultural studies, political science, and sociology. The journal reviews and publishes papers in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. All papers, except for book and documentary film review essays, are subject to double-blind peer review. LARR, the academic journal of the Latin American Studies Association, has been in continuous publication since 1965.

Back content for this journal from 1965 to 2012 can be found on JSTOR. Content from 2003 to 2016 is available at Project Muse. Back content is available on the LASA website to LASA members.

Due to the high number of submissions and long processing time, it may take up to two years from submission to the publication of your article.

Economics

Bolivia: Una nueva mirada al rol de los recursos naturales en el crecimiento económico
Manuel Olave,  Ricardo Nogales,  Pamela Córdova,  Brisa Rejas

Literature and Cultural Studies

Crisis naturales y textos de emergencia: Cómo leer el sismo del 19 de septiembre de 2017 en la Ciudad de México
Francisco Carrillo Martín

Valuing Literature: The Picaresque and the Writing Life in Mexico
Jorge Téllez

O “Recitatif” de Machado de Assis: Para uma leitura negra de “Missa do galo” e “Teoria do medalhão”
Paulo Dutra

Politics and International Relations

Self-Governance in Bolivia’s First Indigenous Autonomy: Charagua
Nancy Postero, Jason Tockman

¿Cuánto pueden condicionar las condicionalidades? Evidencia sobre las asignaciones familiares de Argentina y Uruguay
Cecilia Rossel,  Mora Straschnoy

La sub representación de mujeres en gabinetes ministeriales: El caso ecuatoriano en perspectiva comparada, 1979–2015
Santiago Basabe-Serrano

Sociology

Los norteamericanos que reinventaron a los pueblos de México: Los emprendedores extranjeros en la redefinición de la cultura y el turismo
Mario Alberto Velázquez García,  Helene Balslev Clausen

Interrogando la gramática racial de la blanquitud: Hacia una analítica del blanqueamiento en el orden racial colombiano
Darío Hernán Vásquez-Padilla,  Castriela Esther Hernández-Reyes

Book Review Essays

Latin America’s “Great Divergence”: New Research on the Age of Revolution
Jesse Zarley

Revisiting the Judicialization of Politics in Latin America
Rachel Sieder

Breakdown, Cooperation, or Backsliding? A Return to Presidents and Legislatures in Latin America
David Doyle

Controlling Their Own Destiny: Latin American Agency in the Context of US Hegemony
Dexter Boniface

Choosing Relevance: New Research Directions and the Future of Brazilian Foreign Policy
Haroldo Ramanzini Júnior

Histórias em quadrinhos: Um balanço bibliográfico desde a América Latina
Ivan Lima Gomes

Is American Spanish Healthy?
Ilan Stavans

Research Note

Sound and Politics: The Audio Archive of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies
Bryan Pitts,  Yahn Wagner Pinto,  Madeleine Roberts

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