Land and Power in Latin America: Agrarian Economies and Social Processes in the Andes

The fight against imperialism and racism was central to the Comintern's political and cultural program of the interwar period. Although the more immediate interests of the Soviet state would come to overshadow such causes, the cultural and political connections forged during this time influenced later forms of organizing. Throughout the interwar period (1918-39), the Soviet Union served as the core location of a newly formed world-system of socialist and communist radicalism. The origin of Latin American Marxism in the work of the Peruvian theorist and political organizer José Carlos Mariátegui, as well as the politically committed literature associated with the interwar communist left in the Andean region of Latin America, shows how literature and theory devoted to the indigenous revolutionary contributed to interwar Marxist debates. The interwar influence of Mariátegui and César Vallejo makes clear the importance of resisting attempts to drive a wedge between the two authors and the broader communist movement at the time.

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International Courts in Latin America and the Caribbean

International Courts in Latin America and the Caribbean ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198867999.003.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-24

Author(s):

Salvatore Caserta

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Social Groups ◽

Social Processes ◽

The Political ◽

Political Environment ◽

Methodological Issues ◽

International Courts ◽

The Social ◽

The Caribbean

This introductory chapter presents the main theoretical and methodological issues of the book. In terms of theory, the chapter explains that the book relies on the concept of de facto authority, according to which international courts become authoritative and powerful when their rulings are endorsed by relevant audiences in their practices. To complement this approach, the chapter explains that the book proposes five original analytical markers, which are central for analysing and explaining the social processes through which international courts, in general, and regional economic courts, in particular, gain or lose de facto authority. These are: (i) the nature of the political environment surrounding them; (ii) the timing of their institutional founding; (iii) the material and/or abstract interests of the agents interacting with them; (iv) the fundamental support of different social groups relating to them; and (v) the societal embeddedness in their operational context.

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Contesting the ‘War on Drugs’ in the Andes: US–Bolivian Relations of Power and Control (1989–93)

Journal of Latin American Studies ◽

10.1017/s0022216x19000324 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 52 (1) ◽

pp. 77-106

Author(s):

Allan Gillies

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Drug Policy ◽

War On Drugs ◽

Drug War ◽

Country Level ◽

The Andes ◽

Power And Control ◽

The Us ◽

Relations Of Power ◽

And Control

AbstractThe implementation of President George H. W. Bush's 1989 Andean Initiative brought to the fore competing US and Bolivian agendas. While US embassy officials sought to exert control in pursuit of militarised policies, the Bolivian government's ambivalence towards the coca-cocaine economy underpinned opposition to the ‘Colombianisation’ of the country. This article deconstructs prevailing top-down, US-centric analyses of the drug war in Latin America to examine how US power was exercised and resisted in the Bolivian case. Advancing a more historically grounded understanding of the development of the US drug war in Latin America, it reveals the fluidity of US–Bolivian power relations, the contested nature of counter-drug policy at the country level, and the instrumentalisation of the ‘war on drugs’ in distinct US and Bolivian agendas.

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Evidences, Methodologies, Analysis, and the Joy of Historical Research: An Interview with Noble David Cook

Histórica ◽

10.18800/historica.202001.005 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 44 (1) ◽

pp. 161-175

Author(s):

Adrián Lerner Patrón

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Social History ◽

Demographic History ◽

Historical Research ◽

Colonial Latin America ◽

The Andes ◽

History Of ◽

Methodological Approaches ◽

The City

Noble David Cook is a leading historian of the demographic and social history of the Andes and the Atlantic World. In this interview, he discusses the origins of his interest in the histories of Peru, the Andes, and the Iberian Atlantic; the methodological approaches that influenced his work; how he sees the evolution, present and future of the fields of demographic history and Colonial Latin America; the role of the archive in his career; his vital and intellectual links with the city of Sevilla; his collaborations with his wife Alexandra Parma Cook; his long history of engagement with Peruvian scholars; and his perspectives on the current COVID-19 crisis.

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FANON IN THE ANDES

International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies ◽

10.5204/ijcis.v1i1.19 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 10 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Jose Antonio Lucero

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Nation Building ◽

Frantz Fanon ◽

Indigenous Movements ◽

Profound Impact ◽

The Andes ◽

Dialectical Analysis

In the rise of contemporary indigenous movements in Latin America, indigenous leaders have acknowledged their debt to the Bolivian indigenous intellectual Fausto Reinaga (1906-1994), a major theorist of the anti-colonial and anti-Occidental ideology known as indianisimo. His work, especially his 1969 classic La revolución india had a profound impact on the development of indigenous movements, intellectuals, and leaders including Bolivian President Evo Morales. Yet, curiously, his work remains sorely understudied. This essay examines the continuing relevance of Reinaga by exploring his ‘Atlantic’ encounter with the thought of the Martinican-Algerian theorist Frantz Fanon. Reinaga’s encounter with Fanon, however, is not an unproblematic one and there are instructive commonalities and tensions in their work. This article addresses Fanon’s influence on Reinaga’s views on colonialism, compares Fanon’s and Reinaga’s deployments of the concept of race, and contrasts their views on postcolonial nation-building. Though in some ways Fanon is more attentive to the complexities and tensions of anticolonial struggles than Reinaga, I argue that the work of Reinaga can be read in a Fanonian spirit, as a dialectical analysis in which the focus on the particular is necessary for universal projects of emancipation.

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The Artistic Posterity of Joachim of Fiore in Latin America

Religion and the Arts ◽

10.1163/15685292-01801004 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 18 (1-2) ◽

pp. 26-60

Author(s):

Jaime Lara

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Visual Arts ◽

New World ◽

Spanish Colonial ◽

Cultural Constructs ◽

The Andes ◽

Self Defense ◽

Saint Francis ◽

World Mission ◽

Joachim Of Fiore

‭It has long been recognized that Joachim of Fiore (d. 1202), the Calabrian abbot, prophet, and artist, had a profound effect on the mendicant friars, particularly on the Franciscans and Dominicans who recognized their respective founders in his eschatological prophecies. Both orders made use of Joachim’s prognostications in their self-defense and in their world mission, especially when the New World was discovered. Franciscan art in the Andes and Mexico employed Joachimite references, and included the portrait of the Calabrian abbot in paintings depicting a flying Saint Francis of Assisi. There is evidence that native peoples saw and understood this unique New World iconography, with its utopian and apocalyptic messages, within their own cultural constructs and values. The end result suggests that Joachim of Fiore was better known in the Spanish colonial world than in the medieval European world of his own day, and that the visual arts had much to do with this.‬

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Beyond Benedict Anderson: Nation-Building and Popular Democracy in Latin America

International Review of Social History ◽

10.1017/s0020859005002191 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 50 (3) ◽

pp. 485-498 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Michiel Baud

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Latin American ◽

Race And Ethnicity ◽

Washington Dc ◽

Latin American Studies ◽

Woodrow Wilson ◽

Cambridge University ◽

The Andes ◽

Johns Hopkins University ◽

University Of Chicago Press

Beyond Imagined Communities. Reading and Writing the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Latin America. Ed. by Sara Castro-Klarén and John Charles Chasteen. Woodrow Wilson Center Press, Washington DC; Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore [etc.] 2003. 280 pp. $45.00. (Paper: $22.95.)Boyer, Christopher Robert. Becoming Campesinos. Politics, Identity, and Agrarian Struggle in Postrevolutionary Michoacán, 1920–1935. Stanford University Press, Stanford (Cal.) 2003. xii, 320 pp. Ill. £45.95.Forment, Carlos A. Democracy in Latin America, 1760–1900. Volume I, Civic Selfhood and Public Life in Mexico and Peru. [Morality and Society Series.] University of Chicago Press, Chicago [etc.] 2003. xxix, 454 pp. Maps. $35.00; £24.50.Larson, Brooke. Trials of Nation Making. Liberalism, Race, and Ethnicity in the Andes, 1810–1910. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [etc.] 2004. xiii, 299 pp. Ill. Maps. $70.00; £45.00. (Paper: $24.99; £17.99.)Studies in the Formation of the National State in Latin America. Ed. by James Dunkerley. Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London, London, 2002. 298 pp. £14.95; € 20.00; $19.95.

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