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The journal publishes original manuscripts that address Latin America and the Caribbean from any of the disciplinary approaches of the social sciences and humanities. Researchers from all over the world are welcome to submit their manuscripts, in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Futuros Feministas y Decoloniales en la Poesía Especulativa Caribeña

By Maria Grau-Perejoan, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

This article maintains that Caribbean Speculative or Futurist literature plays a crucial role in proposing alternative futures to neoliberal patriarchal humanism. Focusing on Caribbean speculative poetry written by women, this paper argues that Thaís Espaillat, Yaissa Jiménez, Ann-Margaret Lim, Canisia Lubrin and Jennifer Rahim’s lines are privileged spaces from which to analyse contemporary coloniality as well as to imagine alternative futures for the region. The poetry of these five contemporary Caribbean women poets from the English and Spanish-speaking Caribbean not only unmasks the coloniality of power and gender, but it also points towards forms of resistance and resilience grounded in the knowledges and practices of the region as essential for the collective reconstruction of decolonial and feminist futures.

The footprints of the Bear. Why does the Return of Russia to Latin America Matter?

By Mónika Szente-Varga, Ludovica - University of Public Service, Hungary.

This paper examines the motives behind the ‘return’ of Russia to Latin America and the means employed for that end: general commercial relations, arms sales, energy deals, niche technology related to nuclear science, naval and air power displays and high-level political meetings. The growth of Russian presence in Latin America in the 21st century has not been even. There is a clustering in time around events via which Russian leadership tried to alter the status quo near its borders, in Georgia and Ukraine. It will be argued that the intensity of Russian top diplomatic activities and military displays in far-away Latin America do not only coincide with the date of these anti-status quo events, but in fact could have helped to foresee some of them.

https://www.iberoamericana.se/articles/10.16993/iberoamericana.549/