Oct 4, 2021

Our third episode features Pavithra Vasudevan and Sara Smith.  Pavi is Assistant Professor in the Department of African & African Diaspora Studies and the Center for Women’s & Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Sara is Professor of Geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. They...

Aug 17, 2021

LAP podcast host Alex Scott speaks with LAP editors Janet M. Conway and Nathalie Lebon  to discuss "popular feminism" and the diverse forms of gendered agency appearing among Latin America’s poor, working-class and racialized communities, and their relation to the politics of feminism and to the broader left in...

Aug 17, 2021

For this episode LAP coordinator Alex Scott interviewed LAP contributing editors Kepa Artaraz and Melania Calestan to discuss their May 2021 issue "Vivir bien/Buen vivir and Post-Neoliberal Development Paths in Latin America: Scope, Strategies, and the Realities of Implementation."

Jul 22, 2021

For this episode LAP coordinator Alex Scott met with LAP associate managing editor Steve Ellner to discuss his edited book titled Latin America’s Pink Tide: Breakthroughs and Shortcomings, recent events in progressive politics in Latin America and the current state of the pink tide

May 17, 2021

In this episode, we talk to Natalie Koch about her recent article on the food embargo imposed on Qatar by its regional neighbours in 2017 and the wider geopolitics of food it exemplifies. We discuss the long-standing persistence of the idea of “food as a weapon”, the entanglement of food security with discourses on...