Urban Green Infrastructure in Latin America – A strategy for Bogota courtyards by Julia Nerantzia Tzortzi, Maria Stella Lux, Natalia Pardo Delgado

“…Despite being one of the most urbanised global areas, the Latin American and Caribbean region still needs to be more researched. …”
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Community, vulnerability and reproduction in disaster conditions. Approaches from Latin America and the CaribbeanIntroduction to dossier by Ana Gabriela Fernández, Johannes Waldmüller, Cristina Vega

“…The following introductory article addresses the vulnerability approach towards disasters in the social sciences from different Latin American contemporary perspectives. First of all, the elements that propose a vision about vulnerability and its initial approaches are presented and put into critical dialogue with the resilience approach. …”
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La documentación de las lenguas patagónicas en el gabinete de Samuel A. Lafone Quevedo. El Vocabulario Guenaken by Marisa Malvestitti, María Emilia Orden

“…Concerned about the configuration of a Latin American ethnic map, he established lexical-grammatical patterns in order to detect structural patterns allowing the recognition of genetic links or diffusion processes. …”
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Between revolution and human rights: the testimonies of Brazilian exiles at the Russell Tribunal II by Felipe Magaldi, Cynthia Sarti

“…Abstract: In this article, we study the testimonies given at the Russell Tribunal II, held in Rome in 1974 with the objective of denouncing Latin American dictatorships. The event was attended by exiles who had been arrested and tortured after joining clandestine organizations opposing Brazil’s military dictatorship. …”
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Autonomia delle persone in movimento e antropologia compromessa: riflessioni sulle reciproche influenze nella gestione dell’immigrazione in Perù by Irene Palla

“…Entering into the Latin American debate and placing it in dialogue with the concept of 'other meaning' by Ferdinando Fava, the text questions the contribution of compromised anthropology to the critical reflection of studies on the autonomy of migrations, highlighting the peculiarities of Peru. …”
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Sorry it took me so long: Latin America and rapid governments’ response to COVID-19 by Ian Rebouças Batista, Amanda Domingos, Rodrigo Lins

“…The region had more information on what to do to prevent the disease from spreading itself and social isolation was the most recommended measure to avoid contamination. Still, Latin American countries varied greatly on how fast they adopted strict social isolation measures. …”
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Transcultural transformation in cinema by Yu. V. Vorontsova

“…This concept was the basis for a study of the organisational practices of director Carlos Saura, who in his last phase of his career focused on making films that offer samples of music, dance and unusual storytelling (based on the principle of “photography”) associated to the Iberian and Latin American space. This creates a special definition of the musical and artistic genres, combining traces of a documentary style influencing the authenticity of the representations depicted, with a strong aesthetic impulse emphasising the organisational and artistic nature of these representations. …”
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Corporate storytelling and the idea of Latin America by Mariana I. Paludi, Jean Helms Mills, Albert J. Mills

“…In a continuation of critical perspectives that challenges the dominance of Anglo-Saxon onto-epistemologies in management and organization studies (MOS), we conducted an empirical study on a multinational airline company whose past successes depended on the North/South, Anglo/Latin American borderlands. We analyzed the grand narratives of Pan American Airways’ (PAA) corporate archival material to determine its dominant discourses about people from Latin America. …”
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Employability of Older Workers: An International Scoping Review by Luiza de Souza Coroa Contage, Lucia Helena de Freitas Pinho França

“…There is a need for more research on the subject, especially in Latin American countries, which are poorly represented in the current literature.…”
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Género y gestión del riesgo de desastres: análisis comparado de la agenda internacional y latinoamericana y caribeña by Ana Gabriela Fernández-Saavedra, Rosario González-Arias, Sandra Dema-Moreno

“…The article carries out a comparative documentary analysis in a double sense: on the one hand, on the incorporation of the gender perspective in the main multilateral agreements on disaster risk reduction approved in the international, Latin American, and Caribbean sphere and, on the other, on the treatment of disasters risk reduction in the equality agenda in the same territorial area. …”
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Las voces del pueblo ecuatoriano: construcción del pueblo en el fenómeno populista de Rafael Correa by Ingrid Ríos-Rivera

“…Originality: It addresses the narratives constructed about “the people,” focusing on those who comprise it as key actors in the Latin American populist phenomenon.…”
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Judicial Lawfare: Analysis of Legal Arguments against Abortion Rights in Peruvian Courts by Camila Gianella, Brenda Álvarez

“…Through the analysis of three judicial cases, with a focus on the legal arguments and strategies, the article argues that two features of the abortion legal mobilization in Peru are key to understand the lack of more positive developments: 1) formalistic feature of Peruvian Courts, that offers little space toward recognizing additional grounds for abortion, as has been the case in other Latin American countries; 2) innovative capacity of anti-abortion legal mobilization, that have forced to create a tacit alliance between the movement toward the recognition of abortion rights and the State, to defend the (restricted) abortion rights in the country.…”
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The role of oligopolies and economic groups in accelerating inflation in recent Argentina by Pablo Manzanelli, Leandro Amoretti

“…The article examines the impact of market concentration and corporate conglomeration strategy on the variation in relative prices or, according to the Latin-American structuralist view, on the “downward stickiness” of prices following the international shock that resulted in a significant increase in corporate profit margins. …”
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Shifting the focus of world industrial development from European countries and North America to Asia by A. V. Ivanchenko

“…It makes it possible to change the term “developed countries” meaning and extend it not only to European and North American countries, but also to a number of Asian and Latin American countries due to the ever-growing importance of these countries’ industry on a global scale.…”
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Transportation, Social Inequality and Spatial Capital: Comparative Analysis between Buenos Aires and Santiago de Chile by Ricardo Apaolaza, Jorge Blanco, Natalia Lerena, Ernesto López-Morales, Michael Lukas, Maite Rivera

“…This paper studies how the characteristics of Latin American urban transportation generate dimensions of dispute of ‘spatial capital’, meaning an individually internalizable type of urban resource which results from the combination of objective material conditions and subjective socio-cultural conditions. …”
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Health information-seeking among Latino newcomers - an exploratory study by Christina Courtright

“…This exploratory study examines health information-seeking practices among Latin American newcomers to a small city in the United States. …”
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Three Waves of Populism in Latin America by O. V. Varentsova

“…This article presents common characteristics of Latin American populist regimes that emerged in different historical periods which help identify the origins as well as distinctive features of Venezuelan and Bolivian political regimes. …”
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The indifference towards democracy in Latin America by Alejandro Monsivais-Carrillo

“…This statement is supported by the analysis of four surveys conducted in 18 Latin American countries from 2013 to 2017. The evidence indicates that even though there is a preference for democracy in the region, this preference is not very high. …”
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Vaping illusions: The hidden risks of E-cigarette use among young Filipinos and adolescents in Latin America by John Patrick C. Toledo

“…The study aims to examine the prevalence of e-cigarette use among Latin American teenagers, identify contributing factors, and guide public health initiatives to reduce the hazards associated with vaping. …”
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Knowledge as cause and tool for resistance against large scale mining: heuristic cases in Ecuador by Cristina Espinosa

“…These questions are illuminated using the theoretical contributions provided by approaches such as the sociology of knowledge, Latin American de-colonial thought, and feminist contributions to the study of science, technology and society. …”
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