Book Exhibition

Latin American Perspectives

LAP is a multidisciplinary journal that welcomes diverse critical theoretical and political perspectives to analyze the social forces shaping contemporary Latin America.

Welcome to the LAP Virtual Exhibit

Latin American Perspectives publishes six issues per year featuring critical analysis of Latin American politics, economics, culture, and social movements.

Managing Editor: Ronald H. Chilcote

Recipient of the 2022 LASA Kalman Silvert Award for lifetime achievement and distinguished contribution to the study of Latin America

To watch the Silvert award session and Dr. Chilcote's lecture on YouTube, click here

To read Dr. Chilcote's essay The Challenges of Being a Latin Americanist in the LASA Forum, click here.

LAP celebrates 50 years of

fostering progressive theoretical and political debate
encouraging the work of emerging scholars
making scholarship from Latin America available in English

Rated the #1 journal in Latin American Studies by Google Scholar Metrics

For current calls for manuscripts, click here.

For recent issues, scroll down to pp. 1-2.

For recent books, scroll down to p. 3.

For all issues 1974-present, click here.

LAP Editors and Friends Meeting

June 14, 3:50-5:20 pm Bogota (US Central) time

LAP will participate in the Featured Session:

Getting Your Journal Article Published: Advice from the Editors

June 14, 12:10-1:40 Bogota time

	The Agrarian Question as an Ecological Question Author(s): LAP Language: English Edition: Vol. 51 No. 1, January 2024 Book Webpage: Click here
	Conflict, Memory and Conciliation. Author(s): LAP Language: English Edition: Vol. 50, No, 6, November 2023 Book Webpage: Click here
	Brazil: Assessing the Past Half Decade Author(s): LAP Language: English Edition: Vol. 50, No, 5, September 2023 Book Webpage: Click here
	COVID-19 Coronavirus: Pandemic Politics In Latin America Author(s): LAP Language: English Edition: Vol. 50 No. 4, July 2023 Book Webpage: Click here
	Music, Politics, and Social Movements in Latin America Author(s): LAP Language: English Edition: Vol. 50 No. 3, May 2023 Book Webpage: Click here
	A New Dawn or a False Hope for Mexico’s Left? Overcoming Neoliberal Legacies in an Uncertain World Author(s): LAP Language: English Edition: Vol. 50 No. 2, March 2023 Book Webpage: Click here
	Brazil under Bolsonaro Author(s): LAP Language: English Edition: Vol. 50 No. 1, January 2023 Book Webpage: Click here
	Social Struggle in Neoliberal Central America Author(s): LAP Language: English Edition: Vol. 49 No. 6, November 2022 Book Webpage: Click here
	Brazil: The Perils of Uncertainty Author(s): LAP Language: English Edition: Vol. 49 No. 5, September 2022 Book Webpage: Click here
	Marxism, Critical Thinking, and Andean Futures Author(s): LAP Language: English Edition: Vol. 49 No. 4, July 2022 Book Webpage: Click here