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50th Anniversary: Centre of Latin American Studies 1966-2016
50th Anniversary: Centre of Latin American Studies 1966-2016 overview
Centre of Latin American Studies: 50 years in Media
Centre of Latin American Studies: 50 years in Media overview
Memories and Reflections on CLAS
Memories and Reflections on CLAS overview
The Centre in the Early Years by Dr Rory Miller
Reminiscences on the establishment of the Simón Bolívar Chair from Francisco Kerdel-Vegas
Interview with Prof Sarah Radcliffe
Interview with Dr. David Lehman
Interview with Prof Bebbington
Recollections from Christine Hunefeldt
Recollections from Julie Koch
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Letter of congratulations from Diamela Eltit
Letter of congratulations from Dr Clara Kriger
Mensagem ao CLAS, outubro 2016 / Message for CLAS, October 2016 (see below for English version)
50th Anniversary Symposium Presentations
MPhil and PhD
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MPhil in Latin American Studies
MPhil in Latin American Studies overview
MPhil Latin American Studies Course Structure
Modules
Modules overview
Core Course
Core Course overview
Core Course: Michaelmas 2024
Core Course: Michaelmas 2024 overview
Modern Latin American Politics
Latin American Urbanisation: Informality, Inequalities and Politics
Latin America in the 1980s: a Decade of Transformation
Judicialization and Juridification in Latin America
Race in Latin America
The Caribbean in World History
The Visual Cultures of Disappearance
Core Course Lent 2025
Core Course Lent 2025 overview
Latin America in the World
Political Disappearance
The War on Drugs and its Alternatives
Plant-human relations in Latin America and the ‘ontological turn’
Shifting socioeconomic inequalities in Latin America
The Journeys of Intersectionality in Latin America: From Desks to the Streets
Feminist Strike (and Beyond)
Global Imaginaries
Research Methods and Frameworks
Optional Modules
Optional Modules overview
Capitalism and Society in Latin America (MT)
Capitalism and Society in Latin America (MT) overview
Key Issues and Texts
Key Issues and Texts overview
Bibliography: Latin America and the world market
Bibliography: Latin America, global value chains, and the zero-carbon agenda
Bibliography: The state and violence in Latin America
Bibliography: Social reproduction and capitalism in Latin America
Bibliography: Urbanisation in Latin America
Bibliography: Which development? For whom? Challenges from Latin America
Teaching Schedule
The Politics of Nature in Latin American Culture (MT)
The Politics of Nature in Latin American Culture (MT) overview
Key Texts and Issues
Key Texts and Issues overview
Bibliography: Landscapes in the Anthropocene
Bibliography: Nature and Empire: Natural Histories and Colonial Rule
Bibliography: Postcolonial Ecologies: Nature, Catastrophe and Modernity
Bibliography: Romanticism: Reinventing América as Nature
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Power and Protest: Social Movements and the State in Latin America (MT)
Power and Protest: Social Movements and the State in Latin America (MT) overview
Key Issues and Texts
Key Issues and Texts overview
Bibliography: Social Protest in 20th Century Latin America
Bibliography: Social movements, popular participation, neo-extractivisim and indigenous protest
Bibliography: Transnational Activism
Bibliography: Feminisms and gender based social movements
Bibliography: Social Movements and social media
Bibliography: The Rise of Social Movements in Latin America
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Indigeneity in Latin America (LT)
Indigeneity in Latin America (LT) overview
Key Issues and Texts
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Development and Policy in Latin America (LT)
Development and Policy in Latin America (LT) overview
Teaching Schedule: Development and Policy in Latin America
Key Issues and Texts
Key Issues and Texts overview
Bibliography: Industrial policy and catching-up in Latin America
Bibliography: Social Movements and the Policy Process in Latin America
Bibliography: Social policy under the (Post-) Washington Consensus
Bibliography: Mass Incarceration in Latin America
Bibliography: Public Policy and Gender
Bibliography: Social conflict and illegal economies
Race, Racism and Anti-Racism in Latin America and the Caribbean (LT)
Race, Racism and Anti-Racism in Latin America and the Caribbean (LT) overview
Key Issues and Texts
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Present Pasts, Pasts Present: Reflections on Literature and History in Latin American Writing (LT)
Present Pasts, Pasts Present: Reflections on Literature and History in Latin American Writing (LT) overview
Key Issues and Texts
Teaching Schedule
The Politics of Representation in Latin American Visual Culture (LT)
The Politics of Representation in Latin American Visual Culture (LT) overview
Key Issues and Texts
Key Issues and Texts overview
Bibliography: Contemporary Documentary Film and the Law
Bibliography: Questioning Past Utopias: Race and Genre in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema. Afro-Futurism in the Brazilian Context
Bibliography: Sex and Scandal: Exploitation Cinema in Latin America
Bibliography: Sexuality, Cinema and the Transnational Queer
Bibliography: Violent Materialities: Conflict, Victimhood and the Documentary Body
Bibliography: Waste Not Want Not
General Reading on Film and Visual Culture
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The Caribbean in World History (LT)
The Caribbean in World History (LT) overview
Key issues and texts
Teaching Schedule: The Caribbean in World History (LT)
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MPhil Handbook 2024-25
PhD in Latin American Studies
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Nora Paola González Solís
Karen Domínguez Mendoza
Daniela Meneses Sala
Andrea Morales Loucil
Axelle Tisseau
Ana María Villaveces Galofre
Lila Gaudêncio
Nathan Huanacune
Rafael Shimabukuro
Ange La Furcia
Ana Lucía Pelaez Echeverría
Maria Victoria Cogorno
Latin American Cultural Studies Consortium
Latin American Cultural Studies Consortium overview
Current Consortium students from SpanPort
Past PhD Students
Past PhD Students overview
Beatriz Santos Barreto
Alejandro Lerch
Andrea Aramburu-Villavisencio
Andrew Tillman
Anna Corrigan
Callie Vandewiele
Carlyn Rodgers
Chandra Morrison
Cherilyn Elston
Ed King
Elsa M. Treviño
Emily Baker
Erika Teichert
Geoffrey Maguire
Jessica A. Fernández de Lara Harada
Jessica Sequeira
Joey Whitfield
Jordana Blejmar
Joseph Brandim Howson
Katherine Anne Mato
Lucy Bollington
Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra
Minyan Sun
Niall Geraghty
Oliver Balch
Oliver Wilson-Nunn
Parvathi Subbiah
Paul Merchant
Rachel Randall
Rachell Sánchez-Rivera
Ramona A. Braun
Rebecca Jarman
Sandra del Valle Casals
PhD Handbook 2024-25
Latin America Research Guides
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Funding for Current Students overview
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Overview of Postdoctoral Research
Overview of Postdoctoral Research overview
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships Competition 2023-24
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Latin American Studies Fellowship
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Visiting PhD Students overview
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Simón Bolívar Chair
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Simón Bolívar Professor 2025: Mara Viveros Vigoya
Former Simón Bolívar Professors
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Diamela Eltit
Federico Navarrete
Juan Fernando Calderón Gutiérrez
Leonardo Waisman
Maristella Svampa
Natalia Majluf
Rosalva Aída Hernández
Ángel Luis Viloria Petit
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