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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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Role of national regime ideology for predicting biodiversity outcomes
Conservation Biology, Volume 39, Issue 1, February 2025.Abstract The rapid decline of global biodiversity has engendered renewed debate about the social, economic, and political factors contributing to it. Specifically, there is little understanding of the role that political ideology within a country (e.g., nationalism, conservatism, socialism) plays in determining biodiversity outcomes.
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Walter Benjamin: between academic fashion and the avant-garde [PDF]
, 2012 In the present context of the triumph of capitalism over real socialism, this article points out that, despite their ideological differences, both systems are bound to the same conception of history-as-progress.
Buck-Morss, Susan
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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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Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, 2015 Visión político-económico-social que recorre la China de Mao hasta la actual apertura del Este; las diferencias en torno a los cambios del socialismo real y la posición de este país ante la comunidad internacional.
Mario Salazar Valiente
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Editorial: Paolo Sylos Labini (1920-2005) [PDF]
, 2015 The article introduces to the new issue of the Review, which roughly corresponds with the tenth anniversary of the passing away of Paolo Sylos Labini (PSL).
D'Ippoliti, Carlo
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Cultura política y democracia: el debate intelectual en la revista Controversia para el análisis de la realidad argentina. [PDF]
, 2013 Este artigo revisa os debates da revista acadêmica Controvérsia para a análise da realidade argentina sobre a questão da democracia. Esses debates articulam tradições políticas antigas e novos significados em torno de um conceito de democracia que leva ...
Reano, Ariana
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