THE WEST AND NON-WEST: A NEW APPROACH TO THE OLD DICHOTOMY by D. A. Kuznetsov

“…Moscow: Institute of Latin American Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2015. 172 p.…”
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Theotônio dos Santos (1936-2018) y la reconstrucción de la economía política del desarrollo by DOMÍNGUEZ-MARTÍN, Rafael

“…This essay analyzes economic thought trajectory of the great Latin American intellectual Theotônio dos Santos in his vital context and the history of ideas, as well as his main contributions to the critical studies of development.…”
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Bolivie, de l'autonomie à l'éclatement ? by Sophie Blanchard

“…The poor Bolivian highlands are Evo Morales's electoral basis - the president, leader of the new Latin-American political leftwing, is an eager defender of the rights of indigenous people -, whereas the wealthier and whiter lowlands are claiming for more autonomy.…”
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La política exterior del Paraguay frente a la dependencia y al orden internacional multipolar. by Alberto Maresca, Fabiola Francisca Martínez Cabrera

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La política exterior del Paraguay frente a la dependencia y al orden internacional multipolar. by Alberto Maresca, Fabiola Francisca Martínez Cabrera

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José Medina Echavarría y la sociología del desarrollo by Juan Jesús Morales Martín

“…Medina Echavarría’s contribution can be summarized in three essential points: the understanding of a concrete sociology of the culturalist and historicist type; the encounter and understanding among Latin American sociology and other academic disciplines, especially the science of economics; sociology and science as instruments at the service of human beings.…”
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Stigma and social support and their impact on quality of life and self-esteem among women with endometriosis in Latin-America and the Caribbean. by Yatzmeli Matías-González, Astrid Sánchez-Galarza, Ernesto Rosario-Hernández, Idhaliz Flores-Caldera, Eliut Rivera-Segarra

“…A total of 169 self-identified cisgender women with endometriosis from 14 Latin-American and Caribbean countries participated in the study. …”
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Myth as Urban Collective Memory: A Reading of José María Arguedas’s Representation of Cuzco in "Los Ríos Profundos" by Maxwell Woods

“… This article explores the socio-political function of mythical representations of urban space in Latin American literature. Based on an analysis of the first chapter of José María Arguedas’s Los ríos profundos (1958), I argue that myth is a narrative technology of collective memory that binds together a regional community through the practice of reproducing shared narratives of the urban meaning of a uniting city. …”
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Epidemiology of Chagas Disease in the United States of America: A Short Review and Some Comments by Stephen A. Klotz

“…This report discusses autochthonous cases of Chagas disease as well as disease in immigrants from Latin American countries. Suggestions for epidemiology research and medical care are discussed given the evolving epidemiology of the disease in the United States of America.…”
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A narrativa entre aspas de Bernardo Carvalho: legitimação e paratopia em um estudo de Onze: uma história by Paulo César Silva de Oliveira

“…The paratopic situation of the Latin American writer and the legitimating process are the starting point of this article, concentrated on the analysis of the novel Onze: uma história , by Bernardo Carvalho. …”
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Cultural industries, nation and state in the work of Renato Ortiz: A view from inside the Anglosphere by Philip Schlesinger

“…It then discusses the author’s meeting with Ortiz in Scotland during a European-Latin American ‘encounter’ set up to discuss cultural identity and communication. …”
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Introduction to dossier. Mining extractivism in Latin America: The juridification of environmental conflicts by Rachel Sieder, Ainhoa Montoya, Yacotzin Bravo-Espinosa

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Sobre a perda da grandiloquência na literatura hispano-americana pós-noventa: notas sobre a des-representação do exílio em Lemebel e Bolaño by Pablo Gasparini

“…The aim of this article is to analyze the transition from the political comprehension of the Hispanic-American Literature on the ’80 to another paradigm that involves speci fi c changes on the functions and characteristics of the literary discourse due to the Latin-American democratization and the strengthening of the mass culture. …”
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International or National Orientation: A Comparative Study of Mexican Franchisors by Cesario Armando Flores Villanueva, María del Carmen Gaytán

“…Despite the importance of the franchise system in Latin American countries, few academic studies address the issue of internationalization. …”
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El Buen Vivir como alternativa al desarrollo para América Latina by Cubillo-Guevara, A.P., Hidalgo-Capitán, A.L., García-Álvarez, S.

“…In this article we show the theoretical-regulatory basis of Good Living, understood as a transformation proposal of Latin American socioeconomic systems that aims to overcome the problems of bad development (alienation, inequality and unsustainability). …”
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The Word become Flesh. Wild orality and “palliative” conservation for the Mexican performative arts by Juan Gerardo Ugalde Salinas

“…This text revisits some considerations on the treatment and conservation of these very specific works, decanted to the movements of Latin American artistic autonomy, and which in a consensus between specialists and artists, may find in orality and “assisted” disappearance a chance to ensure their perpetuity.…”
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Os estudos culturais na encruzilhada dos feminismos materiais e descoloniais by Claudia de Lima Costa

“…I see echoes of what material feminists advocate vis - à - vis the thorny issue of the materiality of the world in the cosmopolitical proposals advanced by Latin American decolonial feminisms. I claim that the articulation of these two projects (one derived from debates in the North and the other from the South) can serve as an inspiration to rethink – and decolonize – the practices of cultural studies in Latin America.…”
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Interview with Piet J. Naudé by Martin Laubscher

“…His thesis explored the relation between theory and practice in Latin-American Liberation Theologies and the work of Johann Baptist Metz. …”
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L’intégration des cueilleurs de déchets latino-américains ou la création d’une nouvelle marge by Mathieu Durand, Fabio De Oliveira Neves

“…For decades, Latin American cities have been fighting against informal wastepickers, prioritizing sanitary safety and hygienist logic. …”
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ICTs and Poverty in Latin America by John Gabriel Rodríguez, Angélica Sánchez-Riofrío

“…The main result of this work is that technological change is an important factor for the reduction of poverty and inequality in the Latin American region. For ICTs to increase the total factor productivity of each country, policies are needed to improve the quality of education, protection of property rights and access to ICTs for households and for public and private enterprises.…”
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