Latin American Perspectives

Welcome to the LAP Virtual Exhibit

Latin American Perspectives publishes six issues per year featuring critical analysis of Latin American politics, economics, culture, and social movements.

Managing Editor: Ronald H. Chilcote

Recipient of the 2022 LASA Kalman Silvert Award for lifetime achievement and distinguished contribution to the study of Latin America

To watch the Silvert award session and Dr. Chilcote's lecture on YouTube, click here

To read Dr. Chilcote's essay The Challenges of Being a Latin Americanist in the LASA Forum, click here.

LAP celebrates 50 years of

fostering progressive theoretical and political debate
encouraging the work of emerging scholars
making scholarship from Latin America available in English

Rated the #1 journal in Latin American Studies by Google Scholar Metrics

For current calls for manuscripts, click here.

For recent issues, scroll down to pp. 1-2.

For recent books, scroll down to p. 3.

For all issues 1974-present, click here.

LAP Editors and Friends Meeting

June 14, 3:50-5:20 pm Bogota (US Central) time

LAP will participate in the Featured Session:

Getting Your Journal Article Published: Advice from the Editors

June 14, 12:10-1:40 Bogota time

Latin American Studies and the Cold War
Autores: Ronald H. Chilcote
Lengua: English
Edición: 2022
Página Web del Libro: Cique aquí

Latin American Social Movements and Progressive Governments
Creative Tensions between Resistance and Convergence
Autores: Steve Ellner; Ronaldo Munck AND Kyla Sankey Eds.
Lengua: English
Edición: 2022
Página Web del Libro: Cique aquí

Contemporary Latin American Revolutions
Autores: Marc Becker
Lengua: English
Edición: Second Edition, 2022
Página Web del Libro: Cique aquí

Latin American Extractivism
Dependency, Resource Nationalism, and Resistance in Broad Perspective
Autores: Steve Ellner, Ed.
Lengua: English
Edición: 2021
Página Web del Libro: Cique aquí

Latin America's Pink Tide
Breakthroughs and Shortcomings
Autores: Steve Ellner, Ed.
Lengua: English
Edición: 2019
Página Web del Libro: Cique aquí

Memory, Truth, and Justice in Contemporary Latin America
Autores: Roberta Villalon, Ed.
Lengua: English
Edición: 2017
Página Web del Libro: Cique aquí

Rethinking Latin American Social Movements
Radical Action from Below
Autores: Richard Stahler-Sholk, Harry E. Vanden, and Marc Becker, Eds.
Lengua: English
Edición: 2014
Página Web del Libro: Cique aquí

Pachakutik: Indigenous Movements and Electoral Politics in Ecuador,
Autores: Marc Becker
Lengua: English
Edición: Updated 2012
Página Web del Libro: Cique aquí