In the following months we will be discussing the effects of COVID19 across Latin America. We will be able to read the opinions, thoughts, reflections of scholars, activists and researchers from different parts of Latin America. The space is open to everyone interested in offering a critical and sustained opinion of the cultural significance and uniqueness that the pandemic poses for this part of the Global South.
Contact us if you are interested in sending a short text (1000-1500 words).
Anna Giulia Macchiarelli e Lavinia Micheli Sapienza, Università di Roma Missione Etnologica Italiana in Messico El enfoque del análisis siguiente, los resultados de la cual fueron presentados en junio 2020 en una…
Bolivia found itself fighting Covid-19 during a period of political turmoil. The interim government, formed in November 2019 after Evo Morales was forced to resign as President after disputed elections the previous…
During lockdown, in Santa Cruz de La Sierra a community of people got together and for over two months cooked for those who were struggling due to the unemployment and lack of resources during COVID.
Amy Penfield The first confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the UK were reported on January 29th 2020. In the early days it spread rapidly around Europe, but it was a little while before it reached South America. Not long…
Anthropologists and other researchers studying reproductive issues in Latin America have been alarmed by the effects of the pandemic on their interlocutors. Our research on abortion in Brazil affords some insights into…
Andrés Napurí Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos Antes de que la pandemia llegase a este continente, Walter Panduro estaba muy preocupado. Me decía que algo muy malo iba a suceder. Estas conversaciones las hemos…
The estimated 4 million waste-pickers in Latin America are responsible for most of the recycling that goes on in the region. Yet they are often socially excluded and economically vulnerable, the precarious bottom rung…
Illustration by Marinho (@m_ciano) a Brazilian transman, art student at UFBA Vicente is a black trans man resident in a low-income neighbourhood with the one of highest rates of confirmed cases of the new coronavirus…
Last week it was announced that the UK will be leading in post-El Niño Costero reconstructions in Peru…