A spectre is haunting Latin American and Hispanic Studies (LAHS). Their Australasian elite has made it possible, as Marx once said of Napoleon, for “a grotesque mediocrity to play a hero’s part”. Whilst this demise has its roots in the malaise of the late capitalist academy, LAHS’ path from [...]
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With oil prices nearing historic lows, a new round of introspection about the pitfalls of oil-based development has kicked off in the media and development policy circles. The arguments, as to be expected, rehash some version of the ‘resource curse’ thesis, which holds that resource [...]
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Building Alternatives to Neoliberalism in Latin America: Roundtable with Marta Harnecker, Michael Lebowitz and Luis Angosto-Ferrández '
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Rodrigo Acuña (Macquarie University), 'Venezuelan Foreign Policy and Latin American Unification'
This is the third seminar in the [...]
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The judicial coup against President Dilma Rousseff is the culmination of the deepest political crisis in Brazil for 50 years.
Every so often, the bourgeois political system runs into crisis. The machinery of the state jams; the veils of consent are torn asunder and the tools of power [...]
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With the first visit to Cuba in 88 years by a sitting U.S. president unfolding this week, this co-authored piece with Chris Hesketh – stemming from a joint visit to the island in 2013 – is offered as a snapshot reflecting on the changing dynamics facing revolutionary [...]
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As first posted on E-International Relations, Brazil is the world’s sixth largest economy, a prominent member of the G-20 and the BRICS group of large emerging countries, and the host of the 2014 Football World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics. The country has also attracted attention since [...]
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The electoral victory of Mauricio Macri in the Presidential elections in Argentina last year (22 November 2015) signifies a dramatic change in Argentine and Latin American politics. Despite Mauricio Macri’s campaign promise to ‘keep the good policies’ of the former center-left [...]
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