Latin American Perspectives

Dando início à Segunda temporada do LAP Editor's Choice, nos juntamos ao renomado cientista político marxista e teórico Armando Boito para discutir seu recém-lançado livro "Reform and Political Crisis in Brazil: Class Conflicts in Workers' Party Governments and the Rise of Bolsonaro Neo-fascism" (disponível em inglês).

O livro examina o processo político brasileiro entre os anos de 2003 e 2020, focando nos governos do Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT), suas políticas reformistas, a crise política que levou ao impeachment da presidente Dilma Rousseff, e a ascensão do neofascismo com Bolsonaro. Com base em uma estrutura teórica marxista, Boito argumenta que conflitos ideológicos e partidários estão intimamente ligados aos conflitos distributivos baseados em classe social dentro da sociedade brasileira em geral. Portanto, após a quarta derrota consecutiva nas eleições presidenciais, partidos políticos representando o capital internacional, segmentos da burguesia e a classe média abandonaram normas democráticas com o objetivo de acabar com o ciclo de governança do PT, pavimentando o caminho para a ascensão do neofascismo.

Armando Boito é professor de Ciências Políticas na Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brasil, e editor do jornal Crítica Marxista.

"Reform and Political Crisis in Brazil" pode ser comprado online através do site Haymarket Books: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2019-reform-and-political-crisis-in-brazil

Outras leituras do LAP e Armando Boito:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0094582X221140419

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0094582X19887910

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Esse episódio foi co-produzido pelos estagiários do LAP, Lara Paredes e Mateus Quesada.

Professor's Kristin Ciupa and Jeffery Webber join the podcast to discuss their new co-edited volume The Labor of Extraction in Latin America that was recently published by Rowman & Littlefield as part of the "Latin American Perspectives in the Classroom" series.

This edited volume traces the power of labor in extractive sectors in Latin America starting in the 1980s and shows how labor shapes national export sectors, economies, politics, and societies more broadly. Bringing together a team of international experts who look at labor in several extractive sectors—including oil and gas, mining and agriculture, and migrant labor, the volume presents a variety of viewpoints and case studies, exploring themes of the strategic organizing potential of extractive workers, the rise of informal labor and its impact on organizing and worker solidarity, and migrant labor-power as extraction.

Kristin Ciupa is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Regina and the author of the forthcoming book The Political Economy of Oil in Venezuela: Class Conflict, the State, and the World Market.

Jeffery R. Webber is a professor of politics at York University, Toronto. He is the author or co-author of five books, and co-editor of two books. Most recently, he co-authored The Impasse of the Latin American Left (Duke 2022) with scholars Franck Gaudichaud and Massimo Modonesi.

The Labor of Extraction in Latin America is available for purchase through Rowman & Littlefield at https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538187548/The-Labor-of-Extraction-in-Latin-America

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Filmmaker and author Rodrigo Dorfman joins the podcast to discuss his 2023 memoir Generation Exile: The Lives I Leave Behind.

Spanning four continents and a hundred years of personal history, Generation Exile Provides an insightful meditation on one man's experience as a political exile and migrant and his life-long quest to establish family, roots, and a sense of belonging by bearing witness to what he calls the "Nuevo South."

Rodrigo Dorfman is a Chilean-born Latino writer, visual storyteller, performance artist, and the son of famed Chilean writer Ariel Dorfman. His Docu-Memoir, Generation Exile was recently published by Arte Publico Press and is available for purchase online: https://artepublicopress.com/product/generation-exile-the-lives-i-leave-behind/

Additional reading from LAP on Chile and political exile:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0094582X07302902

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0094582X16683374

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LAP contributing editor and ethnomusicologist Jonathan Ritter joins the podcast to discuss the May 2023 issue of LAP Music, Politics, and Social Movements in Latin America. Topics covered include the legacy of influential musical and political movements in Latin America alongside research on more contemporary mobilizations.

Jonathan Ritter is the department chair and associate professor of music at the University of California Riverside. His research focuses on the indigenous and Afro-Hispanic musical cultures of Andean South America.

Featured music:

"El derecho de vivir en paz" - Victor Jara: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkXise2bHE0

"El derecho de vivir en Paz" en las calles de Santiago (2019): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_xRSfjCyrg&t=40s

"Dina Asesina" canción himno de las protestas con la voz de mujeres Andinas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKABdgKRHRo

"Tukuy Llaqtakuna Hatarisunchik" - Liberato Kani: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhhfe9PXvqg

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Renowned marxist feminist scholar Nancy Fraser joins us to discuss her recent book Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet – and What We Can Do About It (Verso 2022).

In this tightly argued and urgent volume, Fraser charts the voracious appetite of capital, tracking it from crisis point to crisis point, from ecological devastation to the collapse of democracy, from racial violence to the devaluing of care work. These crisis points all come to a head in Covid-19, which Fraser argues can help us envision the resistance we need to end the feeding frenzy. What we need, she argues, is a wide-ranging socialist movement that can recognize the rapaciousness of capital - and starve it to death.

Nancy Fraser is Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics at the New School for Social Research, Einstein Fellow of the city of Berlin, and holder of the "Global Justice" Chair at the Collège d'études mondiales in Paris. Her books include Redistribution or Recognition; Adding Insult to Injury; Scales of Justice; Justice Interruptus; and Unruly Practices.

Cannibal Capitalism is available for purchase through Verso at https://www.versobooks.com/products/2685-cannibal-capitalism

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International relations scholar Francesca Lessa joins us to discuss her book The Condor Trials: Transnational Repression and Human Rights in South America, (Yale University Press 2022). Through the voices of survivors and witnesses, human rights activists, judicial actors, journalists, and historians, The Condor Trials unravels the secrets of transnational repression masterminded by South American dictators between 1969 and 1981. Under Operation Condor, their violent and oppressive regimes kidnapped, tortured, and murdered hundreds of exiles, or forcibly returned them to the countries from which they had fled. South America became a zone of terror for those who were targeted, and of impunity for those who perpetuated the violence. Based on extensive fieldwork, archival research, trial ethnography, and over one hundred interviews, The Condor Trials explores South America's past and present and sheds light on ongoing struggles for justice as its societies come to terms with the unparalleled atrocities of their not-so-distant pasts.

Dr Francesca Lessa is an Associate Professor in International Relations of the Americas in the Institute of the Americas at University of College London, and holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Prior to joining the faculty at University of College of London, between 2011 and 2023, Dr. Lessa held various roles at the University of Oxford, including Departmental Lecturer in Latin American Studies and Development (2020-2023). Her latest book, The Condor Trials: Transnational Repression and Human Rights in South America, was the winner of the 2023 Juan Méndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America and received an honourable mention for the 2023 Bryce Wood Book Award of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA).

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El arquitecto y antropólogo Carlos Salamanca Villamizar y socióloga Pamela Colombo conversan con nosotros sobre su libro La Violencia en El Espacio: Políticas urbanas y territoriales durante la dictadura cívico-militar en Argentina (1976-1983) (Universidad Nacional de Rosario Editora 2019).

PAMELA COLOMBO, es profesora en el Departamento de Sociología de la Université Laval (Québec, Canada). Es doctora en Sociología por la Universidad del País Vasco (UPV) y fue investigadora Marie Curie en l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris). Sus trabajos se centran en analizar el vínculo entre el espacio, la violencia y el Estado. Ha trabajado sobre el vínculo entre el espacio y la desaparición forzada en Argentina ; sobre la centralidad del espacio en las políticas de contra-insurgencia de la guerra fría en América latina y actualmente trabaja sobre la búsqueda de niños de pueblos originarios desaparecidos en los pensionados en Canadá.

Fue investigadora visitante en la City University of New York (USA), Goldsmiths College (UK), Freie Universität Berlin, Ibero-Amerikanische Institut Berlin, Konstanz Universität, Universität Freiburg (Alemania), Centro de Investigaciones Sociales (Argentina) y la Université de Quebec à Montréal.

Entre sus publicaciones, se destaca el libro "Espacios de desparición. Vivir e imaginar los lugares de la violencia estatal (Tucumán, 1975-1983)" (Miño y Dávila, 2017), la coedición del libro "Space and the Memories of Violence: Landscapes of Erasure, Disappearance and Exception" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), y la coordinación de varios números especiales. Junto con Carlos Salamanca ha curado la exposición "La violencia en el espacio" que ha sido presentada en diferentes museos en Argentina (2018-2020).

CARLOS SALAMANCA VILLAMIZAR es un arquitecto colombiano y argentino. Doctor en Antropología por la École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) de París. Tiene más de 15 años de experiencia trabajando como antropólogo con pueblos indígenas en Argentina, Colombia y Guatemala. Desde 2009 ha sido Investigador Independiente del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas. CONICET-Argentina. Desde 2014 dirije el Programa Interdisciplinario Espacios, Políticas, Sociedades en el Centro de Estudios Interdisciplinarios de la Universidad Nacional de Rosario (UNR) y la colección editorial homónima en la Editorial de la misma Universidad. Se especializa en el trabajo interdisciplinario en torno al espacio como problema epistemológico y político. Sus trabajos en esta línea de investigación han sido publicados en revistas especializadas, recopilaciones y libros, algunos de los cuales son trabajos colaborativos. Ha estado liderando y gestionando proyectos editoriales, museográficos y académicos en torno a los derechos humanos de los pueblos indígenas, la cartografía social, la dimensión social del agua, la justicia espacial, el espacio y los entramados de territorio, violencia y memoria.

PLATAFORMA LA VIOLENCIA EN EL ESPACIO: Políticas urbanas y territoriales en contextos autoritarios

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Instagram: @violenciaenelespacio https://www.instagram.com/violenciaenelespacio/?hl=en

EXPOSICION LA VIOLENCIA EN EL ESPACIO

https://violenciaesp.hypotheses.org

Editora contribuyente del LAP Verónica Silva acompaña el podcast para conversar sobre su nuevo número para Marzo 2023: "El Estado y la Acumulación de Capital en México." Los temas discutido incluyen el proceso histórico del neoliberalismo y sus efectos en las políticas, la sociedad, y la económia de México. Además, conversamos sobre la presidencia de Andrés Manuel López Obrador, y los fracasos y succesos de las políticas progresistas en el país. Para más información sobre nuestro publicación, el podcast, o nuestros invitados escribanse a [email protected]

El sociólogo argentino Daniel Feierstein conversa con nosotros sobre su libro Pandemia: Una balance social y político de la crisis del COVID-19 ( Fondo de Cultura Económica 2021). Durante la pandemia, Feierstein participó en consejos nacionales y provinciales, y grupos interdisciplinarios para enfrentar la crisis de COVID-19. Su libro analiza esta experiencia y las consecuencias diferentes de la pandemia en los vínculos y representaciones sociales.

Daniel Feierstein se desempeña como profesor titular de la cátedra Análisis de las Prácticas Sociales Genocidas en la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de Buenos Aires y como director del Centro de Estudios sobre Genocidio y de la Maestría en Diversidad Cultural, ambos en la Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero. Es experto independiente por las Naciones Unidas para la elaboración de las Bases de un Plan Nacional de Derechos Humanos argentino y anteriormente se desempeño como Presidente del Asociación Internacional de Estudiosos del Genocidio.

Pandemia: Una balance social y político de la crisis del COVID-19 está disponible para su compra a través del Fondo de Cultura Económica:

https://fce.com.ar/tienda/sociologia/pandemia/

La traducción de Inglés está disponible para su compra a través del Routledge: https://www.routledge.com/Social-and-Political-Representations-of-the-COVID-19-Crisis/Feierstein/p/book/9781032212807

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LAP contributing editors James N. Green and Tulio Ferreira join the podcast to discuss the January 2023 LAP issue "Brazil Under Bolsonaro: Social, Political, and Economic Impacts in the Country and in Latin America." Topics covered include the causes, consequences, and tragedies of Jair Bolsonaro's presidency, the political history of the far-right and fascist movements in Brazil, and the fascist tendencies of Brazil's contemporary far-right. For additional information about contacting the journal, podcast host, or guest please contact [email protected].

Be sure to check out James N. Green's podcast 'Brazil Unfiltered' :

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/brazil-unfiltered/id1455527001

https://open.spotify.com/show/0nBMVB7KwcEsobBzl4zjYN?si=231042c24e3b4fec