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UCL ProfilesFrancesca Lessa
Terror Beyond Borders: Introducing the Database on South America’s Transnational Human Rights Violations
Article in Latin American Research Review
Enrique Castañón Ballivián
Les dynamiques de contre-réforme agraire au Sud et au Nord
Chapter in Obsolètes, les réformes agraires ? Points de vue du Sud
Malu Gatto
Collective Candidate Strategies and Diverse Representation in Brazil
Chapter in Gendering Party Politics: Feminist Institutionalist Perspectives
Sophie Brockmann
Heritage and Environment: Archaeology at a United Fruit Company Site, 1909–1939
Article in Environmental History
Francesca Lessa
Archives and Algorithms: The Plancondor.org Experience and the Human Rights Potential of New Technologies
Article in The International Journal of Transitional Justice
Enrique Castañón Ballivián
Pesticides and food sovereignty: (dis)connections and challenges for agrarian movements
Article in Journal of Peasant Studies
Malu Gatto
Ancestrality and the Fight for the Right to Self-Representation: The Political Struggle of Enslaved People’s Great-Granddaughters in Brazil
Chapter in Brave Women: Fighting for Justice in the 21st Century
Paulo Drinot
Entrevista: Fuentes Históricas del Perú
Article in Latin American Research Review
Malu Gatto
What explains election-driven family conflicts?
Article in Research & Politics
Enrique Castañón Ballivián
‘Capital grabs back’: towards a global research agenda on the land grabbing-land reform/restitution nexus
Article in The Journal of Peasant Studies
Par Engstrom
An Elusive Goal: Understanding the Effectiveness of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Chapter in Cortes Interamericana, Europeia e Africana: Avaliando a Eficácia dos Direitos Humanos Através dos Continentes.
Malu Gatto
Choosing Women: Party elites’ preferences in the candidate selection process
Article in British Journal of Political Science
Grace Carrington
Author of Global Decolonisation and Non-Sovereignty
Malu Gatto
Author of Resistance to Gender Quotas in Latin America
Steve Cushion
The Ministry for the Recovery of Embezzled Property: the first two years of the Cuban Revolution
Article in Socialist History
Par Engstrom
Confronting extractivism: The Inter-American Human Rights System and indigenous rights in Latin America
Chapter in Mounting Pressures on the Rule of Law Governability for Development and Democracy in Latin America
Francesca Lessa
Author of Best Practices Toolkit: Digital Technologies and Memory: The Search for Justice in South America
Malu Gatto
Author of Candidatas: Os primeiros passos das mulheres na política no Brasil
Francesca Lessa
No Safe Haven: Operation Condor and Transnational Repression in South America
Article in International Studies Quarterly
Paulo Drinot
Global Mariátegui
Article in Journal of Latin American Studies
Tony McCulloch
Roca-Runciman Revisited: Anglo-American relations and Argentina during the 'Infamous Decade', 1933-1943
Chapter in Locating the Transatlantic in Twentieth-century Politics, Diplomacy and Culture
Paulo Drinot
Entrevista a Nelson Manrique
Article in Histórica
Maxine Molyneux
Cuban Youth: Changing Attitudes towards Sexual and Reproductive Health
Article in Progress in Development Studies.
Enrique Castañón Ballivián
Beyond simplistic narratives: Dynamic farmers, precarity and the politics of agribusiness expansion
Article in Journal of Agrarian Change
Paulo Drinot
Author of Los años de Leguía (1919-1930)
Néstor Castañeda
Review of Flores-Macías, G.A., 2022. Contemporary State Building: Elite taxation and Public Safety in Latin America.
Article in Political Science Quarterly
Tony McCulloch
A royal visit revisited: Mackenzie King and the British royal visit to the USA, June 1939
Article in British Journal of Canadian Studies
Malu Gatto
A series of reports that seeks to identify the obstacles and opportunities for the political representation of historically marginalized groups
Grace Carrington
The Queen in the Cayman Islands : symbolic power and colonial continuities
Article in Small States & Territories
Enrique Castañón Ballivián
Timothy J. Killeen, A Perfect Storm in the Amazon Wilderness: Success and Failure in the Fight to Save an Ecosystem of Critical Importance to the Planet White Horse Press, 2022, pp. xxiii + 484
Article in Journal of Latin American Studies
Nadia Hilliard
The Truth of Fiction: Robert Lowell’s Imitations and the Logic of Translation
Article in Bishop-Lowell Studies
Néstor Castañeda
Business Coordination and Regressive Taxation in Latin America
Chapter in Taxation and Inequality in Latin America: New Perspectives on Political Economy and Tax Regimes
Par Engstrom
The Impact of the Inter-American Human Rights System beyond Latin America
Chapter in The Impact of the Inter-American Human Rights System: Transformations on the Ground
Néstor Castañeda
Fairness and Tax Morale in Developing Countries
Article in Studies in Comparative International Development
Par Engstrom
Transitional Justice in Aparadigmatic Contexts Accountability, Recognition, and Book: Disruption Concluding Remarks
Chapter in Transnational Justice in Aparadigmatic Contexts
Maxine Molyneux
Women in socialist societies: Problems of theory and practice
Chapter in Of Marriage and the Market: Women's Subordination Internationally and its Lessons
Emily Morris
Well-to-wheel greenhouse gas emissions assessment for diesel and battery electric bus fleets based at the Technical University of Havana
Article in Revista Cubana de Ingenieria
Francesca Lessa
Author of Plan Cóndor: Viejos secretos y nuevos hallazgos (Operation Condor: Old Secrets and New Developments)
Paulo Drinot
Laboring Lives: New Approaches to Biography and Labor History in Latin America
Article in International Labor and Working-Class History
Jonathan Bell
Health Care Capitalism and the Precarious Right to Bodily Autonomy in the United States since the Rights Revolutions
Article in Modern American History
Malu Gatto
A report that examines the opportunities that exist to maximize the performance of civil society organizations in the elected refor
ms that aim to promote more diversity in political representation in Brazil.
Francesca Lessa
Boundaries Unsettled: Invisible Threats and Activist Scholarship in Uruguay
Article in Qualitative and Multi-Method Research
Paulo Drinot
Author of José Carlos Mariátegui o el "cojito genial": Historia y discapacidad en el Perú
Maxine Molyneux
Feminisms in Latin America: Pro-Choice Nested Networks in Mexico and Brazil
Article in Journal of Latin American Studies
Tony McCulloch
War and Society in Modern Canada, 1914-1949
Article in London Journal of Canadian Studies
Studies of the Americas Series
Radical Americas explores the historical, political and social contexts that have underpinned radicalism in the Americas, engaging fully with the cross-currents of activism which connect North, Central and South America along with the Caribbean. They welcome submissions from early career and established scholars worldwide and will consider work in a number of different formats. In addition to peer-reviewed articles on all aspects of Western Hemisphere radicalism, the journal runs a variety of regular features, including opinion pieces, photo essays, reviews, and archival notes. Editorial Board Members: Paulo Drinot and Kate Quinn
The Studies of the Americas Series, published in conjunction with the Institute of the Americas, includes country specific, cross-disciplinary, and comparative research on the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada, particularly in the areas of Politics, Economics, History, Sociology, Anthropology, Development, Gender, Social Policy, and the Environment. The series publishes monographs, readers on specific themes and also welcomes proposals for edited collections, that allow exploration of a topic from several different disciplinary angles. Series Editors: Nick Witham and Néstor Castañeda Emeritus Series Editor: Maxine Molyneux
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