Latin America

Colombia and Chile: How Parties and Ideologies Affect LGBTQ+ Identities

James Manville • Dec 13 2023 • Essays

While Chile and Colombia have unique political landscapes, the recent emergence of leftist leaders indicates a shifting societal acceptance of LGBTQ+ people.

Transitional Justice in Colombia: Between Retributive and Restorative Justice

Lluc Torrella Llauger • Nov 16 2022 • Essays

Colombia’s Comprehensive System of Truth, Justice, Reparation and Non-Repetition (SIVJRNR) presents a mixed restorative and retributive justice approach in peace building.

The Sky is Not the Limit: The Billionaires’ Space Race Read Through Buen Vivir

Heloísa Traiano • Aug 8 2022 • Essays

The billionaire’s space race is critiqued as being exclusionary and individualistic (resulting from Western subjectivities) with the ethical framework of Buen Vivir.

Populism and Extractivism in Mexico and Brazil: Progress or Power Consolidation?

Ian Granit • Jul 26 2022 • Essays

AMLO and Bolsonaro both consolidate power in their countries, while their promises of progress through the extractive industries have thus far been barely effective.

Deconstructing Narco-Terrorism in Failed States: Afghanistan and Colombia

Silvia De Giuseppe • Jun 21 2022 • Essays

The essay establishes the causational relation, or the lack thereof, between failed states and narco-terrorism; re-framing narco-terrorism’s ontology, and epistemology.

Shifting Constitution of Indigeneity in (Post-)Colonial Brazil

Qi Zhang • Jun 18 2022 • Essays

Indigenous peoples’ reality remains one of refusing to be mourned as (near-)extinct, refusing to be written out of history, and refusing to relinquish to a capitalist ideology.

Piracy in the Southern Gulf of Mexico: Upcoming Piracy Cluster or Outlier?

Anja Stelzer • Feb 27 2022 • Essays

The evolving situation in the Southern Gulf of Mexico raises the question if the area has potential to become a piracy hotspot to the likes of the Gulf of Aden or Gulf of Guinea.

Wind Energy in Mexico: Who Benefits?

Ian Granit • Aug 11 2021 • Essays

The wind energy project Eólica del Sur in Oaxaca, Mexico resulted in negative outcomes for indigenous peoples, and as such violated principles of environmental justice.

Climate Debt: A Model for Indigenous Latin American Self-determination?

Danielle Santos • May 7 2021 • Essays

Latin America provides relevant context for the implications of a climate debt scheme given its high levels of foreign debt and significant export of natural resources.

From Bandung to R2P: Non-Western Contributions to Modern Sovereignty

Emil Sondaj Hansen • May 4 2021 • Essays

Contributions of non-Western states challenge narratives about the natural expansion of international society or the construction of a solely Western global order.

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