In this special two-part edition of Editors' Choice, Felipe Antunes de Oliveira, joins us to discuss his recent book Dependency and Crisis in Brazil and Argentina: A Critique of Market and State Utopias (2024).

In this timely and theoretically rigorous work, Antunes de Oliveira examines why the two largest countries in South America fail to materialize the development they continually promise to achieve. Instead of approaching the topic from a policy-failure perspective, he focuses on what public debates reveal about "development" itself. Building on this, Antunes de Oliveira offers a theoretical and empirical critique of neoliberal and neodevelopmentalist ideas surrounding cycles of structural reform in Brazil and Argentina, drawing on dependency theory to propose an alternative political economic framework for analyzing development challenges.

Felipe Antunes de Oliveira is a senior lecturer in International Relations at Queen Mary University of London and a coordinating editor at Latin American Perspectives. Outside the academy, he has served as a diplomat for the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as General Coordinator of International Financial Affairs at the Brazilian Ministry of Finance in 2024, and, since December 2024, as an Alternate Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund.

Dependency and Crisis in Brazil and Argentina is available for purchase through the University of Pittsburgh Press: https://upittpress.org/books/9780822948100/

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En este episodio, conversamos con Javier Ocampo, editor de Una historia del cine documental argentino: Tomo 1 (1896–1989), publicado por Prometeo Editorial. La charla recorre la evolución del cine documental argentino desde la era del cine mudo hasta los años de la dictadura y la transición democrática, mostrando cómo distintos realizadores han utilizado el documental para abordar temas de memoria, resistencia y cambio social.

Ocampo reflexiona sobre el proceso de investigación y edición detrás de este ambicioso proyecto histórico, y sobre el papel fundamental que el cine documental ha desempeñado en la vida política y cultural de la Argentina. También analizamos la relevancia de este género para comprender las luchas más amplias en América Latina en torno a la historia, la representación y la política de la imagen.

Javier Campo es investigador del CONICET especializado en el cine documental argentino. Es autor de Revolución y Democracia: El cine documental argentino del exilio y Jorge Prelorán: Cineasta de las culturas populares argentinas, y editor de A Trail of Fire for Political Cinema: The Hour of the Furnaces Fifty Years Later. Actualmente es presidente de la Asociación Argentina de Estudios de Cine y Audiovisual (AsAECA).

Encuentra Una historia del cine documental argentino: Tomo 1 (1896–1989) en Prometeo Editorial.

Anthropologist Sarah England and Political Scientist Alfonso Gonzales Toribio join the pod to discuss their new issue of LAP "Latin Americans Seeking Asylum in North America," as well as the history of US immigration policy and the current crisis of immigration enforcement and deportations in the United States.

Sarah England is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Soka University of America and the author of Afro-Central Americans in New York City: Garifuna Tales of Transnational Movement through Racialized Space (2006) and Writing Terror on the Bodies of Women: Media Coverage of Violence against Women in Guatemala (2018). She has served as an expert witness in asylum cases since 2012.

Alfonso Gonzales Toribio is Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He is the Director and Founder of the Latino and American Studies Research Center, Ronald H. Chilcote Endowed Chair in Latino and Latin American Studies, and has been long serving community organizer, immigrant rights advocate, and expert witness in asylum cases.

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