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Latin American Perspectives

Welcome to the LAP

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Latin American Perspectives publishes 6 issues per year featuring critical research and analysis of capitalism, socialism and imperialism in Latin America and the social forces and strategies involved in transforming its sociopolitical structures.

For 48 years, LAP has pursued its mission to foster progressive debate on current theoretical and political issues, to encourage the work of emerging scholars, and to make the work of Latin American scholars available to English speaking readers.

Rated the #1 journal in Latin American Studies 2015-2020 by Google Metrics

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Pages 1-6 below show LAP issues from 2021-2014 and selected older issues. For each issue, click Book Webpage to access the Table of Contents and download articles. To buy print issues, click here. Interviews with issue editors are available on audio or video podcasts (click here) for most issues since 2012. Click here to visit Archives to see issues from 2007-2014.

LAP Books

LAP publishes 2 book series with Rowman & Littlefield:

LAP in the Classroom - click here

and Critical Currents. - click here

Pages 6-7 below show LAP books with links to information for each book.

LAP also collaborates with CLACSO to produce Latin American Perspectives en Español y Português, an anthology of selected articles from the journal in Spanish or Portuguese.

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LAP Editors and Friends Meeting

Wednesday, May 26

1-2:45 Eastern/10-11:45 Pacific

Afro-Descended Americans, Displacement, and Neoliberalism: Environmental Justice as a Human Right
November 2014
Authors: LAP
Language: English
Edition: Volume 41 Number 6
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Brazil: State and Citizens in Pursuit of National Goals
September 2014
Authors: LAP
Language: English
Edition: Volume 41 Number 5
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Cuba in Transition
July 2014
Authors: LAP
Language: English
Edition: Volume 41, Number 4
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Indigenous Migration in Mexico and Central America: In the Footsteps of Michael Kearney
May 2014
Authors: LAP
Language: English
Edition: Volume 41 Number 3
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Imagined Narcoscapes: Narcoculture and the Politics of Representation
March 2014
Authors: LAP
Language: English
Edition: Volume 41 Number 2
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Violence against Women in Latin America
January 2014
Authors: LAP
Language: English
Edition: Volume 41 Number 1
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Political Documentary Film and Video in the Southern Cone (1950s-2000s)
January 2013
Authors: LAP
Language: English
Edition: Volume 40 Number 1
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Arts, Culture, and Politics Part 2: Representations of Resistasnce in Latin American Art
May 2012
Authors: LAP
Language: English
Edition: Volume 39 Number 3
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Arts, Culture and Politics Part 1: Latin American Art, Activism, and Performance in the New Global Context
March 2012
Authors: LAP
Language: English
Edition: Volume 39 Number 2
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