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fall 2016 | volume xlvii | issue 4 President Joanne Rappaport Georgetown University Vice President Aldo Panfichi Huamán Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Past President Gilbert Joseph Table of Contents Yale University Treasurer Patricia Tovar Rojas City University of New York, John Jay College EXECUTIVE COUNCIL 1 From the President ON LASA2017 For term ending May 2017: by Joanne Rappaport 39 Las sesiones presidenciales en el congreso Evelina Dagnino, Universidade Estadual de Campinas de Lima 2017 Lauren “Robin” Derby, University of California, Los Angeles Maria Helena Machado, Universidade de São Paulo by Mauricio Archila and Juliet A. Hooker REPORT FROM LASA2016: AYOTZINAPA For term ending May 2018: 41 Film Festival Form Jo-Marie Burt, George Mason University 2 Mexico after Ayotzinapa: A Conversation Claudia Ferman, University of Richmond with the International Investigatory Group Daniela Spenser, CIESAS/Mexico City edited and translated by Elizabeth Oglesby SECTION NEWS Ex Officio Mauricio Archila, Universidad Nacional de Colombia 42 Student Section of LASA Juliet A. Hooker, University of Texas, Austin UPDATE ON THE COLOMBIAN PEACE PROCESS Philip Oxhorn, McGill University Milagros Pereyra-Rojas, University of Pittsburgh 6 En Colombia hay una guerra verdadera y NEWS FROM LASA muchas paces artificiales LASA STAFF por Marco Palacios 42 Brazil Resolution Is Approved ADMINISTRATION OPERATIONS 43 Rolling Membership Dates Executive Assistant Congress Coordinator Jocelyn Inlay Assistant DEBATES: ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND CLIMATE 44 Survey Report CHANGE IN LATIN AMERICA Angela Bejarano by Pilar Rodriguez Executive Director Coordinated by Mattias Borg Rasmussen Milagros Pereyra-Rojas Sections and Awards and Patricia Pinho 46 LASA Membership Report 2015 Operations Director Coordinator Ghisselle Blanco 8 Introduction: Environmental Justice and Pilar Rodriguez Blanco Congress Coordinator Climate Change in Latin America COMMUNICATIONS Emily Boal by Mattias Borg Rasmussen and Patricia LASA’S 50TH ANNIVERSARY Graphic Designer Pinho 48 Kalman H. Silvert Jason Dancisin, Contractor FINANCES Financial Administrator 12 Justicia climática y mujeres indígenas en by Henry M. Silvert, PhD Social Media Coordinator Paloma Díaz-Lobos Mirna Kolbowski América Latina Publications Specialist Accountant por Astrid Ulloa Sharon Moose, Contractor IN MEMORIAM Sara Lickey 17 Vulnerabilidad al cambio ambiental global: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MAESTROMEETINGS INC. Enunciados para un enfoque hacia la justicia 49 Judith Tendler, 1938–2016 Analyst climática Data Analyst John Meyers Shannon Agredo por Elma Montaña y Paula Mussetta Membership Coordinator Development Director Carlos Bustamante 21 Watching Brazil but Missing the Story: An Israel Perlov Amazonian Inferno Social Media Manager Paloma Diaz by Patricia Pinho President 26 “The Social Vindication of the Highlands”: Milagros Pereyra-Rojas Climate Change and Justice in Southern Peru Partner Engagement Director by Astrid B. Stensrud Alejandro Pinedo 30 On the Brink of Survival: The Climate Justice The LASA Forum is published four times a year. It is the official vehicle Movement in the Morales Era for conveying news about the Latin American Studies Association to its by Nicole Fabricant and Kathryn Hicks members. LASA welcomes responses to any material published in the Forum. 34 Cryoactivism Opinions expressed herein are those of individual authors and do not by Jorge Daniel Taillant and Peter Collins necessarily reflect the view of the Latin American Studies Association or its officers. ISSN 0890-7218 From the President by JOANNE RAPPAPORT | Georgetown University | [email protected] So much has happened in Latin America Latin American institutions. In this column during the past three months, that if I were I will focus on the intellectual reasons why to dedicate this column to these events Lima is such a good choice by very briefly I would not know where to begin. I will summarizing some of the research going on mention only a few of the most recent in various institutions in the city, in order developments. The Brazilian Senate opened to emphasize that Lima is not just a good the impeachment trial of President Dilma city to visit but a city with a long and rich led me to incorporate the field into one Rousseff, which will have concluded by the scholarly tradition. of the Congress tracks. Excavations at time this column goes to press. As many Pachacamac, a massive ceremonial center of you are aware, LASA sent a fact-finding Our host institution will be the Pontificia in the Lima region that was in operation delegation to Brazil in July and we are Universidad Católica del Perú. It was for a millennium, are currently being awaiting its report, which will be published the institutional home of Alberto Flores coordinated by Católica archaeologist in the LASA Forum, posted on our Galindo, the author of Buscando un inca, Krzysztof Makowski. website, and disseminated widely beyond recently translated into English, a wide- our organization; a link to the results of ranging reflection on Andean utopias, The other major university in Lima is voting on the Brazil resolution are posted beginning in the colonial period and the Universidad Nacional Mayor de on LASA’s main web page. The Colombian moving into the author’s present (he died San Marcos. Founded in 1551, it is the government and the FARC guerrillas have in 1990, only recently having turned 50). oldest university in the Americas. San concluded their peace negotiations and a Among the Católica’s faculty are a highly Marcos has a long genealogy of illustrious cease-fire has begun. The process will now regarded set of scholars in linguistics, alumni—among them, authors José María move from the negotiating table in Havana musicology, political science, literature, Arguedas and Mario Vargas Llosa, and to a national plebiscite in Colombia, a and history, many of whom are involved ethnohistorian María Rostworowski hopeful sign after more than five decades of in the planning of LASA2017. Given space de Diez Canseco—as well as a roster war, with several hundred thousand dead, limitations, I want to point out three of over the decades of well-known faculty over a thousand massacres, and millions the Católica faculty’s most impressive members, such as sociologist Aníbal displaced. We are currently working on a contributions to recent scholarship. One Quijano and anthropologist Julio Cotler, dossier for the next issue of LASA Forum of these is Gonzalo Portocarrero, the as well as historians Pablo Macera and that will include articles on the Colombian highly prolific founder of the university’s Manuel Burga. Many current members peace process. Finally, Donald Trump has master’s program in cultural studies and of the San Marcos academic community put forward (then rescinded, then put last year’s awardee of the Premio Nacional are contributing to the success of forward—I’m losing count) yet another de Cultura. A public intellectual whose LASA2017 as track chairs and members immigration plan. I urge those of you who influence ranges far beyond the Católica of prize committees. A center for Andean didn’t read the last issue of the Forum to go campus, Portocarrero has written books and Amazonian studies, San Marcos back to the excellent articles prepared by and essays on the educational system, has produced outstanding studies of Mexican scholars in response to Trump’s racism, Andean art and literature, and the Quechua language, indigenous call for a wall at the border. the place of intellectuals in Peru, among literatures, intercultural education, and many other topics that demonstrate the relationship between ecology and Notwithstanding these and other his bold transcendence of traditional cultural diversity. In the past few decades, developments in Latin America, I will disciplinary boundaries. I must also point San Marcos has also been a significant dedicate this quarter’s column to another to Scarlett O’Phelan Godoy’s highly academic space for research into political subject: why we chose Lima as the site of influential research into the late colonial violence and inequality. the 2017 LASA Congress. LASA members period and the independence era, as and the Executive Council have become an example of the major contributions Finally, the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos increasingly aware of the need to choose made by historians of the Católica to (IEP) is one of the major contributors Latin American locations for the Congress, our understanding of the emergence of to limeño intellectual life. A private especially given the fact that such a large nation-states in Latin America. Finally, the institution dedicated to research, teaching, proportion of our membership is based in preeminence of archaeology at the Católica and publication, the IEP was founded in 1 lasaforum fall 2016 : volume xlvii : issue 4 REPORT FROM LASA2016: AYOTZINAPA Mexico after Ayotzinapa: A Conversation with the International Investigatory Group Edited and translated by ELIZABETH OGLESBY | University of Arizona| [email protected] 1964 as an interdisciplinary center for The disappearance of 43 students from lost, files misplaced. Or it can be pretend studies in the social sciences. Many of Ayotzinapa, Mexico, in September 2014 incompetence—police leaving footprints its most notable researchers have also grabbed worldwide attention. During in the victim’s blood, evidence lost, files taught concurrently at the Universidad its 2016 Congress in New York at the misplaced. Impunity can be