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
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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
 | Neoliberalism and Higher Education in Latin America
Author(s): LAP
Language: English
Edition: Volume 49 No. 3, May 2022
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 | Reassessing Development: Past and Present Marxist Theories of Dependency and Periphery Debates:
Part 2
Author(s): LAP
Language: English
Edition: Volume 49 No. 2, March 2022
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 | Reassessing Development: Past and Present Marxist Theories of Dependency and Periphery Debates
Part 1
Author(s): LAP
Language: English
Edition: Vol. 49 No. 1, January 2022
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 | The Nicaraguan Crisis and the Challenge to the Internatonal Left
Author(s): LAP
Language: English
Edition: Vol. 48 No. 6, November 2021
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 | Popular Feminism(s): Pasts, Presents, and Futures Part 2
Author(s): LAP
Language: English
Edition: Vol. 48 No. 5, September 2021
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 | Popular Feminism(s): Pasts, Presents, and Futures Part 1
Author(s): LAP
Language: English
Edition: Vol. 48 No. 4, July 2021
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 | Vivir bien/Buen vivir and Post-Neoliberal Development Paths in Latin America:
Scope, Strategies, and the Realities of Implementation
Author(s): LAP
Language: English
Edition: Vol.48 No. 3, May 2021
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 | Gender, Sexuality, Film, and Media in Latin America
Challenging Representation and Structures
Author(s): LAP
Language: English
Edition: Vol. 48 No. 2, March 2021
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 | Violence, Capital Accumulation, and Resistance in Contemporary Latin America
Author(s): LAP
Language: English
Edition: Vol. 48 No. 1, January 2021
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 | The Cold War and Latin American Studies
Author(s): LAP
Language: English
Edition: Vol. 45 No. 4, July 2018
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