The articles collected in this double issue were selected among the responses to an open call for papers circulated at the beginning of 2025, encouraging contributors to think from the vantage poin...

The defining feature of Javier Milei’s electoral triumph in Argentina has been both the breadth and depth of his victory and his rapid development as a political influence. This statement challenge...

This essay analyses Brazil’s Sociedade Brasileira de Defesa da Tradição, Família e Propriedade (Brazilian Society for the Defence of Tradition, Family, and Property; TFP) to explore the deep roots ...

Although Argentine cinema has gained recognition at the world’s most prestigious film festivals, little research has examined its internal network of film events, which plays a crucial role in stre...

The Latin American publishing industry has been a breeding ground for the systematic production, circulation, and dissemination of right-wing ideas that are then materialised and divulged on a mass...

Geological Groundings: Earthly Memories and Inhuman Becomings in Latin American Cultures. Guest-edited by Azucena Castro and Estefania Bournot. Volume 34, Issue 3 of Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies

Data visualisation has come to the forefront of graphic design and digital representation in the past two decades as the power of personal computers and electronic hand-held devices has exponential...

The following essay addresses the affective and material dispossessions in Rosario Castellanos’s Balún Canán. Centring affect and trauma theory, I study the political implications of revenge and gu...

This paper examines the concept of “cambio” (change) within the context of the Cuban Revolution and its recent use by Afro-Cuban artists to inspire protests against social injustice. It analyses in...

Recently, three excellent studies about En la puta vida, directed by Uruguayan film director Beatriz Flores Silva (1956–), have been published. While all three pieces opened up pivotal avenues for ...

This essay is an aesthetic and social account of the series of cartoons – rarely screened or seen in public – that were made as part of a clandestine programme of the United States Information Agen...