Latin American Perspectives is a theoretical and scholarly journal for discussion and debate on the political economy of capitalism, imperialism, and socialism in the Americas. Most issues focus on a single problem, nation, or region, providing an in-depth look from participants and scholars throughout the Americas.

A VALUABLE RESOURCE
In six thematic issues per year, Latin American Perspectives provides

• Critical analysis and discussion of Latin America's political economy—capitalism, imperialism, and socialism
• In-depth articles about the movements, ideas, and conflicts shaping the course of events in the region
• Access to the voices of Latin America's critical intellectuals and leading activists

A MULTIDISCIPLINARY VIEW
Latin American Perspectives offers a vital multidisciplinary view of the powerful forces that shape the Americas. Disciplines covered include:

• ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL ECONOMY - Neoliberalism and the struggle for alternatives, the internationalization of capital and production, the informal sector, fair trade
• INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS - U.S. hegemony and Latin American challenges, grassroots globalization, regional integration, and international solidarity
• HISTORY - The trajectory of social and political movements, exile, Latin American and the international Left
• SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS - Class, migration, labor organization, new social movements, human rights
• GEOGRAPHY AND ECOLOGY - Struggles over the privatization of natural resources, the fate of the rainforests, tourism and ecotourism, shanty-towns and the urban environment
• ANTHROPOLOGY - Indigenous and Afro-Latin American movements and resistance, migration and transnational communities, ethnogenesis and borders
• WOMEN'S AND GENDER STUDIES - National feminisms, sexual identity movements, women in social movements, migration and gender, transforming family and domestic relations
• LITERATURE AND CULTURE - Manifestos and chronicles by leaders and participants in social movements, memory, mass and alternative media, censorship and the free movement of scholars, artists, and ideas
• CRITICAL THEORY - Testimonio reconsidered, cultural hybridity, critical pedagogy
• POLITICAL SCIENCE - Democratization, popular versus liberal democracy, civil society and the state, military regimes, and repression