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In search of the lost decade. Everyday rights in post-dictatorship Argentina, by Jennifer Adair, University of California Press, 2020 

Disciplinary Conquest. U.S. Scholars in South America, 1900-1945, by Ricardo D. Salvatore. Duke University Press, 2016.

The twenty-first century seemed to herald profound changes for Latin America. The return of democracy in the 1980s and the accompanying radical neo-liberal reforms had occasioned profound dissatisfaction. The resulting 'pink tide' that started with the election of Hugo Chavez in 1999 was described by many observers, in and outside of academia, as the revolution the region had been waiting for. The new policies of growth and redistribution with their concomitant conditional cash transfers seemed to finally offer the solution for Latin America's endemic poverty and inequality. Some political scientists even dubbed these governments as 'post-neoliberal' regimes. They stressed the return of the state and point at the end of the hegemony of neoliberalism. Similar confrontations and discussions occurred in Ecuador under the government of Rafael Correa. The new Constitution that was accepted in 2008 recognized the 'rights of nature' and celebrated the idea of vivir bien or Sumak Kawsay. In daily practice tensions arose which were very cogently described by Victor Breton.

Nicaragua must survive. Sandinista revolutionary diplomacy in the Global Cold War, by Eline van Ommen. University of California Press, 2024

This exploration is based on joint fieldwork conducted by an interdisciplinary research team in the city of Quetzaltenango (Xela), Guatemala. It uses the notion of commoning as an analytic lens to understand social transformations in this intermediate city, and in contempo-rary Latin America at large. The interplay of commoning, de-commoning and re-commoning processes draws attention to the cocreation and collective production of tangible and intangible resources happening at different scales. The proposed commoning perspec-tive further aims to critically assess the binary contrasts and presumed dualisms that inform academic and policy approaches to social change, in order to create a better understanding of the drivers, interactions and practices of transformation in intertwined rural-urban contexts. Esta exploración se basa en un trabajo de campo conjunto realizado por un equipo de inves-tigación interdisciplinario en la ciudad de Quetzaltenango (Xela), Guatemala. Utiliza la no-ción de \"comunizar\" (commoning) como una lente analítica para comprender las transfor-maciones sociales en esta ciudad intermedia y en la América Latina contemporánea en gene-ral. La interacción de los procesos de comunizar, descomunizar y recomunizar llama la atención sobre la creación conjunta y la producción colectiva de recursos tangibles e intan-gibles que ocurren a diferentes escalas. La perspectiva de \"comunizar\" propuesta tiene como objetivo evaluar críticamente los contrastes binarios y los supuestos dualismos que informan los enfoques académicos y de política para el cambio social, a fin de crear una mejor com-prensión de los impulsores, las interacciones y las prácticas de transformación en contextos rurales-urbanos entrelazados.

Dutch Latin American studies as a field of academic teaching and research emerged in the late 1960s and became consolidated in the 1970s and 1980s. It began as a purely academic endeavor, but in a changing Dutch and global society in the 1970s it rapidly became connected to and influenced by social and political processes in Latin America. The strong Christian and social-democratic traditions in the Netherlands allowed for strong links between academic researchers and civil society organizations. This resulted in the productive coexistence of academic and more political objectives and activities and allowed Dutch Latin American studies to grow into a dynamic field. A review of this experience calls attention to the importance of local conditions for understanding the consequences of the Cold War for academic research. Los estudios holandeses sobre Latinoamérica emergieron como un campo de investigación y enseñanza académica a finales de la década de 1960, consolidándose durante los setenta y ochenta. Comenzaron como una actividad puramente académica, pero en la cambiante sociedad holandesa y global de los años setenta, rápidamente se vincularon a y fueron influenciados por los procesos políticos y sociales de América Latina. La fuerte tradición cristiana y social-democrática de Holanda dio lugar a poderosos vínculos entre investigadores académicos y organizaciones civiles. Esto llevó a la coexistencia de metas y actividades académicas al igual que aquellas de índole más política, transformando a los estudios holandeses sobre Latinoamérica en un campo dinámico. Un vistazo a esta experiencia resalta la importancia de las condiciones locales para una debida comprensión de las consecuencias de la Guerra Fría en la investigación académica.