Areas of Interest
The democratic regimes established across Latin America in the late twentieth century have proven remarkably resilient, defying the region's long history of instability and authoritarian relapse. Nearly all face serious strain today: institutions eroded from within, the weakening of unions, parties, and other organized forms of collective action, criminal organizations exercising authority where the state has collapsed or colluded, mass migration, mobilization and countermobilization around gender and racial equality, and an environmental crisis reordering the politics of land and energy. These changes raise enduring questions about political order and authority, the durability of formal institutions and the resilience of informal practices, and the boundaries of citizenship.
The series welcomes contributions on democratic erosion and resilience, authoritarianism, populism, polarization, parties and social movements, violence and organized crime, inequality and social policy, gender and identity politics, migration, indigenous and Afro-descendant politics, environmental and extractive politics, urban and subnational politics, corruption, informality, state-building, and the politics of new technologies. It especially encourages multidisciplinary and methodologically pluralist work spanning political science, sociology, anthropology, history, and economics, as well as comparative research placing Latin America in dialogue with other world regions. The series particularly seeks scholarship on the Andes, Central America, and the Caribbean.
