Showing papers in "Bulletin of Latin American Research in 2011"

TL;DR: The authors argue that a volatile economic climate, poorly implemented reforms, increased opposition, and low political tolerance all indicate limitations to the viability of twenty-first-century socialism as a post-neoliberal development model.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw from the case of Guatemala, where metal exploration has grown by 1,000 per cent since 1998, to illustrate how the proliferation of small "junior" firms, together with neoliberal investment policies and suitability of mineralisation, set the stage for fly-by-night gold mining and, therefore, intense resistance from host communities to mineral development.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors attempt to identify the nature of Kirchner's administration through analysis of political economy, therefore seeking to facilitate a deeper understanding of the developmental nature and impact of the Argentine economy during 2003-2007.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the impact of the current recession on Ecuadorian labour migration to Europe, focusing on a relatively less studied issue: emigrant policies, symbolised, in Ecuador, by a pervasive emphasis on migrant return, somewhat echoed even in Spain, as a destination country.

TL;DR: Using examples drawn from the Trinidad Carnival, the authors shows how culture becomes a marketing force in the wake of increasingly difficult economic times in the Caribbean. Drawing on Foucault's notion of biopower, the article draws a connection between the increasing importance of cultural performances for state revenue and government intervention into those performances.

TL;DR: In this article, an ethnographic account examines the complex ways in which Cubans and international visitors experience tourism as an economic and cultural force in the country, which has met surprising success in appealing to desires for both pre-revolutionary pleasures and enduring revolutionary culture and politics.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors find that vertically integrated, corporatist clientelism in Mexico and more locally oriented, bossist clientelistism in Brazil differentially shape the choices of governments to turn piecemeal, discretionary CCTs into more expansive and secure benefits.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the Brazilian state abandoned its "politics of silence" and started to actively champion the memory of the left-wing "resistance" during the military regime in Brazil.

TL;DR: A comparative perspective of the tourism industry in the islands of Col ´ on, Panama and Carriacou, Grenada is presented in this paper, where the authors assess the underlying reasons for the differing responses by African Caribbean populations toward tourism development, in spite of similar colonial and post-colonial histories.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider ecotourism among the Kuna of the San Blas Archipelago in Panama, using the term I use the concept of islamiento to describe both isolation and island-isation as central metaphors to understand Kuna strategies in demarcating tourist and community spaces.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the regional and domestic space that the Morales administration has in which to implement the vision of trade articulated in its Plan Nacional de Desarrollo (PND; National Development Plan).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the economic and financial crisis that began in Mexico in 2008 has not been primarily caused by the US crisis that started in 2007, as many have argued.

TL;DR: The authors expose the part played by Canadian imperialism in Honduras before and after the military overthrow of democratically elected Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, on 28 June 2009, drawing attention to the neglected role of the Canadian state's efforts to protect the interests of Canadian capital in Honduras and Latin America more generally through the constant undermining of Zelaya's attempts to return to his legitimate office, and in the ultimate consolidation of the coup under Porfirio ‘Pepe’ Lobo in early 2010.

TL;DR: The authors examines the concept of military entrepreneurs and scholarship on the topic, and then suggests how three approaches from the domain of comparative politics can be useful to develop theoretical frameworks for studying the military's role in the economy.

TL;DR: In this article, ethnic social movement autonomy claims in three regions of Colombia are studied and it is found that to assert local self-determination and territorial control, ethnic social movements respond to territorial regimes threatening local autonomy; use innovative tactics to negotiate autonomy; and engage in deliberation to redefine identities and understand the conditions limiting local autonomy.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the new spaces for the participation of civil society organisations (CSOs) in local governance that have emerged in Nicaragua between 2000 and 2009, and how government and CSOs interact in these spaces.

TL;DR: This paper explored the production and reception of El Templete, anineteenth-century memorial erected to commemorate the founding of Havana, which is a paradigmatic example of the multivalence of public, monumental art in the late colonial classicism of Latin America and the Caribbean.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the networks of intermunicipal cooperation that occur through a process of subnational regionalization and found that interlocal subjective interdependence and strong relationships between actors, results in greater inter-municipality cooperation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the response of the Argentine state to the accumulation and transfer of capital among Argentine emigrants is analyzed using the asset accumulation framework, and relying on interviews with civil servants working in the department of migration for the Argentine government.

TL;DR: This paper explored the significance of melancholy in two novels by Roberto Bolano, Amuleto (1999) and Nocturno de Chile (2000), which aim to give narrative form to memories surrounding the violent dismantling of the political left that occurred in the 1960s and 1970s in Latin America.

TL;DR: This article found that fundamental weaknesses in regional financial systems continue and suggested that there are three basic policy reactions: a deepening of neoliberal policies, a neo-structural reform of them, and a Bolivarian social reform-oriented approach.

TL;DR: The authors examines two post-modern critiques of modernity: a general history which argues that it was never solely Western, and a work of Latin American cultural criticism which wishes to leave a modernity seen as eurocentric.