Latin American studies 5745869 218976102 2008-06-13T00:48:54Z Jbmurray 4128317 why remove Franco? And in any case, Munck is out of alphabetical order '''Latin American studies''' ('''LAS''') is an [[academic discipline]] dealing with the study of [[Latin America]] and Latin Americans. == Definition == Latin American studies critically examines the [[history]], [[culture]], [[politics]], and experiences of Latin Americans in [[Latin America]] and often also elsewhere (such as [[Latino (demonym)|Latinos]]/[[Hispanics in the United States]]). Latin American studies is [[Interdisciplinarity|interdisciplinary]] from numerous disciplines such as [[sociology]], history, [[Literary criticism|literature]], [[political science]], [[geography]], [[gender studies]], and [[economics]], Latin Americanists consider a variety of perspectives and employ diverse analytical tools in their work. Though Latin America is a fluid (and sometimes contested) concept, with no fixed definition, Latin American studies is usually quite open and often includes or is closely associated with, for instance, [[Latino studies]], [[Caribbean studies]], and transatlantic studies. The [[Latin American Studies Association]], for instance, has sections dealing with [[Europe]] and Latin America, [[Haiti]], and Latino studies (among many others).[http://lasa.international.pitt.edu/lasaSections.html] ==History== Latin America has been studied in one way or another ever since Columbus's "discovery" of 1492, and even before. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, scientist explorers such as [[Alexander von Humboldt]] published extensively about the region. Towards the end of the nineteenth century and at the turn of the twentieth, within the region itself writers such as [[José Martí]] and [[José Enrique Rodó]] encouraged a consciousness of regional identity. But "Latin Americanism" as a concept and an academic discipline emerges only later in the twentieth-century, and mostly in Europe and North America. In the USA, Latin American Studies (like other [[area studies]]) was boosted by the passing of Title VI of the National Defense Education Act (NDEA) of 1958, which provided resources for Centers of Area and International Studies.[http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ope/iegps/history.html] In the UK, the 1965 "Parry Report" provided similar impetus for the establishment of Institutes and Centres of Latin American Studies (see Bulmer-Thomas). ==Associations== * [[Brazilian Studies Association]] * [http://www.claspprograms.org/ Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs] * [[Latin American Studies Association]] (USA, founded 1966) * [http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/salalm/ SALALM], the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials * [[Society for Irish Latin American Studies]] (Ireland, founded 2003) * [http://www.slas.org.uk/ Society for Latin American Studies] (UK, founded 1964) ==Journals== * ''[[Bulletin of Latin American Research]]'' * ''[[Colonial Latin American Review]]'' * ''[[Hispanic American Historical Review]]'' * ''[[Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies]]'' * ''[[Journal of Latin American Studies]]'' * ''[[Latin American Research Review]]'' * ''[[NACLA Report on the Americas]]'' * [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probl%C3%A8mes_d%27Am%C3%A9rique_latine''Problems of Latin America''] ==Some Major Programs== * [[Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos|CELA]], Mexico * [[Institute for the Study of the Americas]], London * [http://clacs.aas.duke.edu// Duke University's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies] * [http://lacc.fiu.edu/ Florida International University's Latin American and Caribbean Center] * [http://clas.georgetown.edu/ Georgetown University's Center for Latin American Studies] * [http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu/ Harvard University's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies] * [http://www.albany.edu/lacs SUNY-Albany's Department of Latin American, Caribbean, & U.S. Latino Studies] * [http://www.tulane.edu/~clas Tulane University's Roger Thayer Stone Center], the oldest LAS program in the United States * [http://violet.berkeley.edu:7001/ University of California, Berkeley's Center for Latin American Studies] * [http://ilas.unc.edu/ University of North Carolina's Institute of Latin American Studies] * [http://www.utexas.edu/cola/insts/llilas University of Texas at Austin's Long Institute], one of the largest LAS programs in the United States * [http://www.liv.ac.uk/rilas University of Liverpool's Research Institute of Latin American Studies] ==Some Notable Latin Americanists== See also [[:Category:Latin Americanists]] * [[Richard Adams (anthropologist)|Richard Adams]] * [[Manuel Alcántara]] * [[Victor Bulmer-Thomas]] * [[Simon Collier]] * [[Antonio Cornejo Polar]] * [[Ariel Dorfman]] * [[James Dunkerley]] * [[Arturo Escobar (anthropologist)|Arturo Escobar]] * [[Richard Fagen]] * [[Albert Fishlow]] * [[Jean Franco]] * [[Néstor García Canclini]] * [[Federico Gil]] * [[Roberto González Echevarría]] * [[Lewis Hanke]] * [[Albert O. Hirschman]] * [[Daniel James (historian)|Daniel James]] * [[John J. Johnson]] * [[George Kubler]] * [[Neil Larsen]] * [[Miguel León-Portilla]] * [[John Lynch (historian)|John Lynch]] * [[Sylvia Molloy]] * [[Alberto Moreiras]] * [[Richard McGee Morse]] * [[June Nash]] * [[Guillermo O'Donnell]] * [[Gustavo Pérez Firmat]] * [[James Petras]] * [[Mary Louise Pratt]] * [[Ángel Rama]] * [[Nelly Richard]] * [[Riordan Roett]] * [[William Rowe]] * [[Beatriz Sarlo]] * [[Donald Shaw]] * [[Thomas Skidmore]] * [[Doris Sommer]] * [[Osvaldo Sunkel]] * [[Michael Taussig]] * [[Alain Touraine]] * [[Victor L. Urquidi ]] * [[Arturo Valenzuela]] * [[Charles Wagley]] * [[Henry Wells (author)|Henry Wells]] * [[Ayonna Gray]] * [[John Womack]] * [[Peter Winn]] == References == * [[Victor Bulmer-Thomas]], ed. ''Thirty Years of Latin American Studies in the United Kingdom 1965-1995''. London: Institute of Latin American Studies, 1997. ==See also== * [[Latino/a studies]] * [[Chicano Studies]] * [[Caribbeanist]] * [[Latin America]] == Links == * [http://memory.loc.gov/hlas/ Handbook of Latin American Studies] * [http://lanic.utexas.edu/subject/lastudies.html Latin American Studies] at the University of Texas's [http://lanic.utexas.edu/ Latin American Network Information Center] * [http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/ Latino Studies Resources] [[Category:Latin American studies]] [[Category:Latin America]] [[Category:Interdisciplinary fields]] [[Category:Area studies]] [[fi:Latinalaisen Amerikan tutkimus]]