Latest LAP issue! The Nicaraguan Crisis and the Challenge to the International Left

edited by William I. Robison

https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/lapa/48/6

Debate is heating up among scholars over the ongoing crisis in Nicaragua. For some, the Ortega-Murillo government is a continuation of the 1980s Sandinista revolution while for others it is a corrupt and nepotistic regime that has promoted capitalist expansion while carrying out harsh repression against its opponents. This symposium brings together 10 scholars who debate the crisis at a time when it is generating deep fissures among the left and progressives in and out of the academy.

This issue also includes two commentaries on the July 11, 2021 protests in Cuba as well as nine additional articles on a variety of topics including indigenous movements, agriculture, precarious work, religion, and film as well as a number of book reviews.

Table of Contents

Abstract, The Bolivian Climate Justice Movement: Mobilizing Indigeneity in Climate Change Negotiations by Kathryn Hicks and Nicole Fabricant

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The Bolivian Climate Justice Movement: Mobilizing Indigeneity in Climate Change Negotiations 
by Kathryn Hicks and Nicole Fabricant

The Bolivian Platform against Climate Change is a coalition of civil society and social movement organizations working to address the effects of global warming in Bolivia and to influence the global community. Many of the organizations use indigenous philosophy and worldviews to contest normative conceptions of development. A study of the growth of this movement drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in 2010 reveals a complex relationship between state and nonstate actors that has had a striking impact on the global community despite the failure of multilateral climate change negotiations.

Book, "Cauca's Indigenous Movement in Southwestern Colombia Land, Violence, and Ethnic Identity" by Brett Troyan

Cauca's Indigenous Movement in Southwestern Colombia

Land, Violence, and Ethnic Identity

BRETT TROYAN

Lexington Books

Pages: 220 • Size: 6 1/2 x 9 3/8

978-1-4985-0228-3 • Hardback • June 2015 • $85.00 • (£54.95)

978-1-4985-0229-0 • eBook • June 2015 • $84.99 • (£54.95)

Series: The Peoples of "Latin" America and the Caribbean

Subjects: Political Science / World / Caribbean & Latin American

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Book, "Pachakutik: Indigenous Movements and Electoral Politics in Ecuador" By Marc Becker

Pachakutik: Indigenous Movements and Electoral Politics in Ecuador 
By Marc Becker

This authoritative book provides a deeply informed overview of one of the most dynamic social movements in Latin America. Focusing on contemporary Indigenous movements in Ecuador, leading scholar Marc Becker traces the growing influence of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE), which in 1990 led a powerful uprising that dramatically placed a struggle for Indigenous rights at the center of public consciousness. Activists began to refer to this uprising as a "pachakutik," a Kichwa word that means change, rebirth, and transformation, both in the sense of a return in time and the coming of a new era. Five years later, proponents launched a new political movement called Pachakutik to compete for elected office. In 2006, Ecuadorians elected Rafael Correa, who many saw as emblematic of the new Latin American left, to the presidency of the country. Even though CONAIE, Pachakutik, and Correa shared similar concerns for social justice, they soon came into conflict with each other.