Since 2018, leftist presidents have won or retaken office in Mexico, Bolivia, Peru, Honduras, Chile, Argentina, Colombia and now Brazil. What’s behind Latin America’s new Pink Tide? What can we learn from this?
With Edwin F Ackerman, Marilene Felinto, Ana Grondona, Camila Osorio and Rene Rojas.
Discussant: Michael A Cohen.
Chaired by: Sean Jacobs.
• Edwin F. Ackerman is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Maxwell School AT Syracuse University. He is the author of Origins of the Mass Party: Dispossession and the Party-form in Mexico and Bolivia (Oxford Press, 2022). Twitter: @edwinackerman.
• Marilene Felinto is a Brazilian writer, journaslist and translator. She is the author of the award-winning novel The Women of Tijucopapo (University of Nebraska Press) among other books. She works as a columnist on political, social and literary issues for Folha de S. Paulo, a daily newspaper in São Paulo in Brazil. Twitter: @FelintoMarilene
• Ana Grondona works as a researcher at the National Council of Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET) in Argentina. She also teaches social theory at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). Her research interests the production and interests include theoretical questions around the production and circulation of expert knowledge and discourse in the peripheries and the intellectual history of “modernization” and “development” in Latin America.
• Camila Osorio is a journalist at EL PAÍS América. She previously worked at The New Yorker and La Silla Vacía, a digital communication medium that explores how power is exercised in Colombia. Twitter: @Camimi68
• Rene Rojas is is on the faculty of Binghamton University’s College of Community and Public Affairs and is an editorial board member of Catalyst Journal. He spent years as a political organizer in Latin America.
• Michael A Cohen is Co-Director of the Observatory on Latin America at The New School. He is also Director of the PhD in Public and Urban Policy program at the Milano School of Policy, Management, and Environment, and professor of international affairs at The New School.
• Sean Jacobs is an Associate Professor of International Affairs of The New School.
Presented by Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs in International Affairs and the Observatory of Latin America.
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