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Heroic Creation and the Socialist City: The Making of Villa El Salvador
Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2026.Abstract J.C. Mariátegui believed Indo‐American socialism would be neither calque nor copy, but heroic creation. This article explores an attempt at heroic creation in 1970s Peru: the Self‐Managed Urban Commune of Villa El Salvador (Villa). Putting Marxism in conversation with decolonial theory, I argue Villa shows universality and particularity can be
Rafael Shimabukuro
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 899-916, September 2025.This article explores transformation as a way of being in the rural Andes. It traces how transformation connects, and produces value within, multiple different spheres of life, specifically agricultural labour, personhood, identity, and space and movement.
Miranda Sheild Johansson
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What does it mean to ‘live well’? The contentious politics of vivir bien as alternative development
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 436-453, June 2025.Abstract Vivir bien is widely used by academics, activists, and governments of the Latin American ‘Pink Tide’ to refer to alternatives to conventional economic development based on indigenous worldviews claimed to oppose capitalist modernity. Through ethnography of local politics within a Bolivian Quechua community, this article explores how the term ...
Matthew Doyle
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Beyond simplistic narratives: Dynamic farmers, precarity and the politics of agribusiness expansion
Journal of Agrarian Change, Volume 24, Issue 4, October 2024.Abstract Agribusiness expansion is usually framed around two competing narratives. On the one hand, advocates present it as a promising vehicle to modernise agriculture and integrate small farmers into global value chains. On the other hand, critics denounce it as a top‐down corporate assault to monopolise agriculture and dispossess peasants of land ...
Enrique Castañón Ballivián
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The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 230-242, September 2024.Abstract How is alienability produced as a mode of relation? Is capital a (racialized) affect? This article examines clashing expectations about minerals, specifically sodalite, at the Cerro Sapo mine in Ayopaya Bolivia. It describes how Cerro Sapo's current owner, a white Kenyan, engaged in narrative and bodily practices that sought to detach him from
Mareike Winchell
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Socialismo real e socialização do poder político
Crítica Marxista, 1994 A crise do socialismo real, explodindo nos últimos anos da década passada, derivou num panorama espantoso. O que se mostra, sob os escombros do sorex (socialismo realmente existente), não é somente o colapso material de regiões inteiras que regridem rapidamente em níveis de vida típicos do "Terceiro Mundo"; este colapso (parece inconteste a emersão de ...
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En torno a la crisis del socialismo real. Algunas notas historiográficas
Memoria y Civilización, 1970 Pérez-Sánchez, G.Á. (Guillermo Á.) +3 more
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Partito comunista italiano e "socialismo reale". I casi romeno e polacco
Storicamente, 2013 From the 1960s to the 1980s, the Italian Communist Party developed new contacts with Eastern Europe: this article considers the Romanian and the Polish cases, which gave a significant contribution in highlighting the increasing distance existing between the Italian communist ideology and its practical implementation in the countries of “real socialism”.
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Las utopías reales de Erik Olin Wright: ¿una reconstrucción científica del socialismo utópico?
Revista Española de Sociología, 2021 El conjunto de la obra de Erik O. Wright puede concebirse como un esfuerzo por reconstruir el marxismo en dos direcciones: el análisis de clase y la formulación de alternativas al capitalismo, a las que llamó “utopías reales”. Este artículo se propone ofrecer un balance crítico de este segundo programa de investigación.
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[The health system in Colombia 1945-2020: between reality and the social imaginary]. [PDF]
Rev Salud Publica (Bogota), 2023 Morales-Sánchez LG.
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