ABSTRACT In the current global political landscape, characterised by increasing polarisation and a rise in far‐right conservative governments, ‘care’ has become a contested field. In particular, the decline in birth rates has catalysed conservative discourse advocating a return to ‘traditional’ values around the world. In contrast, in Latin America, issues related to ‘care’ have become associated with feminist agendas and are closely linked to the progressive reform of social protection systems amidst the region's new ‘left turn’. In this work, I examine how the diffusion of ideas influences and shapes the care agenda in Latin America. Based on an extensive document analysis, the article argues that the role of feminist epistemic communities in the region, the existence of institutionalised intergovernmental mechanisms and the window of opportunity created by the end of the commodities supercycle during a new wave of progressive governments have contributed significantly to the promotion of a feminist and progressive care agenda at the regional level.
ABSTRACT The following paper analyses, from a transnational perspective, the origins and evolution of the Ecuadorian guerrilla group Alfaro Vive Carajo (1983–1991). As proven by extensive documentary research and in‐depth interviews with well‐known members of this armed organisation, its revolutionary project cannot be fully understood without also comprehending the influences and adaptations that came from Nicaragua, Colombia and Uruguay from the late 1970s onwards. This highlights the importance of transnational approaches to enrich the study and understanding of a deeply heterogeneous, plural and changing Latin American guerrilla phenomenology, highly dependent on the geopolitical coordinates of the moment.
ABSTRACT This article examines how Diamela Eltit's Lumpérica (1983) constructs a regime of visibility through the spatial organisation of the public square that structures the novel. While criticism has often emphasised the text's linguistic fragmentation and performative dimensions, less attention has been paid to the visual procedures through which perception is organised within the urban scene. The article argues that, in the context of Chilean dictatorship and its reorganisation of public space, the plaza functions as a visual dispositif in which bodies are exposed, positioned and rendered legible under conditions of intensified illumination. Through close reading of scenes structured by cinematic framing, projection and visual correction, the article shows how Eltit turns visibility into a technology of order within the urban space of dictatorship‐era Chile.
This article examines how food insecurity became established as a public problem in Belo Horizonte by tracing the actors, disputes, and framings shaping this arena over time. Drawing on historical sources and 37 key-informant interviews (2024-2025), it adopts a public-arena approach understanding public problems as being constituted through interaction and contestation. The trajectory of Food and Nutrition Security (FNS) policies shows that their durability derives from sustained democratic experimentation and recurrent re-problematization led by state and non-state actors. These interactions co-produced a moral grammar that framed hunger as indignity, underpinning the institutionalisation, adaptability, and public legitimacy of FNS policies.
This article explores how documentary film constructs responsibility for environmental harm in response to the Argentine Supreme Court's 2008 ruling on the polluted Matanza-Riachuelo river basin. Through an interdisciplinary dialogue between socio-legal, film and cultural studies, the analysis explores how three documentaries envisage different forms of responsibility through legal, political-economic and post-anthropocentric lenses. The article argues that critical documentaries mobilise but also exceed legal logics, thereby interrogating the limits of judicialisation. The archive emerges as the judicial, cinematic, and spatial form through which film registers and contests responsibility across interconnected scales, ranging from the molecular to the institutional and the transnational.
