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Latin America: The Next Transition

After neoliberalism and structural adjustment, followed by the long decade of the commodity boom and ‘pink tide’ governments: where now for Latin America? Impacts of the shifting fortunes of the Chinese economy and a US bent on ‘near-shoring’ for a region still trapped in the extractive logic of export dependency.

The End of Landscape?

From Carleton Watkins to Edward Burtynsky, shifting relations between portrayals of nature and techno-economic regimes registered in successive eras of landscape photography.

Andean Impasses

Social and political turmoil is spreading in Venezuela, Colombia and Peru, as recession deepens throughout Latin America. The historical roots of the current crisis in the region, and the watershed of the last decades.

Post-Populist Argentina

“Falling dictatorships and troubled transitions to democracy in Latin America have dominated the agenda of social scientists of the region. These regime changes have largely been appraised within conjunctures of suddenly shifting political balances and economic crises. Such an approach seems all the more valid in light of . . .” read more