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Latin American Perspectives Podcast

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by Alexander Scott

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30 episodes
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A podcast for discussion and debate on the political economy of capitalism, imperialism, and socialism in the Americas. For more than forty years Latin American Perspectives has served as the leading academic journal in Latin American Studies, publishing timely, progressive analyses of the social forces shaping contemporary Latin America. We currently produce two podcasts: Latin American Perspectives & Editors' Choice: Latin American Perspectives' Book Conversations. Latin American Perspectives features interviews with LAP issue editors, academics, and activists where participants discuss current research, political-economic issues, and social movements in Latin America. The podcast is hosted by sociologist and LAP coordinating editor Alexander Scott. Editors' Choice features interviews with authors of exciting new books in the fields of Latin American and Latino studies. The series is intended to share critical educational resources and information on a variety of topics and issues in Latin America and provide detailed and in-depth political and theoretical analysis of the texts covered. Editors Choice is hosted by LAP coordinating editors Alexander Scott and Tomas Crowder-Taraborrelli.

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Episode thumbnail for Editor's Choice Ep. 13: P FKN R: Bad Bunny and Puerto Rican Resistance w/ Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau

July 9, 2026

Editor's Choice Ep. 13: P FKN R: Bad Bunny and Puerto Rican Resistance w/ Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau

<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal"> Hosts Alexander Scott and Tomás Crowder-Taraborrelli speak with Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau about their new book P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance (Duke University Press, 2026).</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal"> Díaz and Rivera-Rideau — creators of the "Bad Bunny Syllabus" — situate Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio within more than a century of Puerto Rican history and a much longer tradition of music as resistance. The conversation traces the political and economic conditions that shaped Bad Bunny's formative years: the end of Section 936, the debt crisis and the imposition of the fiscal oversight board Puerto Ricans call La Junta, the gentrification and displacement accelerated by Acts 20/22, and the devastation and abandonment of Hurricane María. Vanessa shares her family's own experience of the storm and its aftermath, and both authors discuss the summer 2019 uprising that forced Governor Ricardo Rosselló's resignation — with particular attention to the Black feminist organizing of Colectiva Feminista en Construcción and the deep genealogy connecting bomba and plena to reggaetón and perreo as forms of communal protest. They close with Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime performance, the politics of a Spanish-language anti-colonial statement on one of the most-watched stages in the world, and why, in Puerto Rico, the party is the protest.</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal"> Vanessa Díaz is associate professor of Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies at Loyola Marymount University and author of Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood (Duke University Press, 2020).</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal"> Petra R. Rivera-Rideau is associate professor of American Studies at Wellesley College and author of Remixing Reggaetón: The Cultural Politics of Race in Puerto Rico (Duke University Press, 2015) and Fitness Fiesta!: Selling Latinx Culture through Zumba (Duke University Press, 2024).</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal"> <strong>Get the book:</strong><br /> P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance is available now from Duke University Press: <a class= "underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current" href= "https://www.dukeupress.edu/p-fkn-r">https://www.dukeupress.edu/p-fkn-r</a> (also available in Spanish)</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal"> Explore the Bad Bunny Syllabus: <a class= "underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current" href= "https://www.badbunnysyllabus.com/">https://www.badbunnysyllabus.com/</a></p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal"> <strong>Support Latin American Perspectives:</strong><br /> Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, TikTok, and Bluesky to stay up to date on new issues, articles, and episodes. Subscribe and rate the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, or your preferred listening app. Annual print subscriptions to the journal start at $74, with discounted rates for students and LASA members. Your subscription helps sustain a critical space for internationalist, anti-capitalist, and decolonial scholarship.</p>

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July 3, 2026

US Imperialism and Cuban Development w/ Andrew Smolski

<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal"> Alexander Scott speaks with rural sociologist Andrew Smolski about U.S. imperialism and the long history of empire in Cuban development.  Drawing on Smolski's archival research and his work on Cuban agriculture, the conversation traces how imperialism has shaped Cuba's capacity to develop across five centuries — from Spanish colonialism, the Haitian Revolution, and the rise of the sugar-slavery complex, through U.S. occupation and the Platt Amendment era, to a blockade now in its seventh decade — and asks what it would mean for development research to treat imperialism as a condition of development rather than mere background.</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal"> Andrew Smolski is an assistant professor of rural sociology in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education at The Pennsylvania State University, and a member of the Latin American Perspectives editorial collective.</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal"> Further reading from our guest:</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal"> "Interrogating Structural Conditions for Agricultural Production: A Comparative-Historical Study of Cuban Incorporation, Delinking, and Exile," Journal of World-Systems Research 28(2), 2022 (open access):<br /> <a class= "underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current" href= "https://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/jwsr/article/view/1117">https://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/jwsr/article/view/1117</a></p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal"> The Agrarian Question as an Ecological Question in Latin America, special issue of Latin American Perspectives (January 2024), co-edited with Daniela García Grandón and Joana Salém Vasconcelos:<br /> <a class= "underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current" href= "https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0094582X241252111">https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0094582X241252111</a></p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal"> Violence, Capital Accumulation, and Resistance in Contemporary Latin America, special issue of Latin American Perspectives (January 2021), co-edited with Matthew Lorenzen:<br /> <a class= "underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current" href= "https://doi.org/10.1177/0094582X20975005">https://doi.org/10.1177/0094582X20975005</a></p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal"> "Class Struggle and Violence in Latin American Cities," Latin American Perspectives 48(1):<br /> <a class= "underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current" href= "https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0094582X19860470">https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0094582X19860470</a></p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal"> For more information about Latin American Perspectives, our podcasts, and guests, please contact <a class= "underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current" href= "mailto:lap.outreach@gmail.com">lap.outreach@gmail.com</a>.</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal"> Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, or your preferred listening platform.</p>

Episode thumbnail for Editor's Choice Ep. 12: Emergent Quilombos: Black Life and Hip-Hop in Brazil w/ Bryce Henson

May 13, 2026

Editor's Choice Ep. 12: Emergent Quilombos: Black Life and Hip-Hop in Brazil w/ Bryce Henson

<p data-start="113" data-end="374">Bryce Henson joins the pod to discuss his book Emergent Quilombos: Black Life and Hip Hop in Brazil (University of Texas Press, 2023). Drawing on ethnographic research in Salvador da Bahia, Henson explores Brazilian hip hop as a diasporic cultural and political movement rooted in Black radical traditions, anti-racist struggle, and collective community formation. Throughout the conversation, the group discusses the historical significance of quilombos in Brazil, the relationship between Blackness and political struggle, the role of hip hop as a form of "quilombismo," and the intersections of race, class, gender, and diaspora in contemporary Brazil.</p> <p data-start="1341" data-end="1733">Bryce Henson is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at Texas A&M University, with affiliations in Africana Studies and the Race and Ethnic Studies Institute. He is also an affiliated researcher with the Pós-Afro Program at the Universidade Federal da Bahia and serves as Associate Editor for Transforming Anthropology.</p> <p data-start="1753" data-end="1911">Emergent Quilombos: Black Life and Hip Hop in Brazil can be purchased here: <a class= "decorated-link cursor-pointer" target="_new" rel="noopener" data-start="1870" data-end= "1911">https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477327986/</a></p> <h3 data-section-id="1t0b3q3" data-start="1913" data-end="1957"> Spotify Playlist Curated by Bryce Henson:</h3> <p><a href= "https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3KnR3IBULZ9aAesr8pY3Ov?si=wp_fX5SwSnigAXai5nWT6Q"> https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3KnR3IBULZ9aAesr8pY3Ov?si=wp_fX5SwSnigAXai5nWT6Q</a> </p> <p data-start="2093" data-end="2340"> </p> <h3 data-section-id="csysfe" data-start="2342" data-end="2386"> Subscribe to Latin American Perspectives</h3> <p data-start="2387" data-end="2506">A journal for discussion and debate on the political economy of capitalism, imperialism, and socialism in the Americas.</p> <p data-start="2508" data-end="2546" data-is-last-node="" data-is-only-node=""><a class="decorated-link" href= "https://latinamericanperspectives.com/" target="_new" rel= "noopener" data-start="2508" data-end="2546" data-is-last-node= "">https://latinamericanperspectives.com/</a></p>

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What is Latin American Perspectives Podcast?

A podcast for discussion and debate on the political economy of capitalism, imperialism, and socialism in the Americas. For more than forty years Latin American Perspectives has served as the leading academic journal in Latin American Studies, publishing timely, progressive analyses of the social forces shaping contemporary Latin America. We currently produce two podcasts: Latin American Perspectives & Editors' Choice: Latin American Perspectives' Book Conversations.

Latin American Perspectives features interviews with LAP issue editors, academics, and activists where participants discuss current research, political-economic issues, and social movements in Latin America. The podcast is hosted by sociologist and LAP coordinating editor Alexander Scott.

Editors' Choice features interviews with authors of exciting new books in the fields of Latin American and Latino studies. The series is intended to share critical educational resources and information on a variety of topics and issues in Latin America and provide detailed and in-depth political and theoretical analysis of the texts covered. Editors Choice is hosted by LAP coordinating editors Alexander Scott and Tomas Crowder-Taraborrelli.

How often does this podcast release new episodes?

This podcast updates bi-weekly.

Where can I listen to this podcast?

This podcast is available on 8 platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. You can also use the RSS feed directly.

Does this podcast accept guests?

No, this podcast does not typically feature guests.

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