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LASA Forum Fall 2007 Latin American Studies Association fFALL 2007 | oVOLUME XXXVIII | rumISSUE 4 IN THIS ISSUE On the Profession The Latin Americas I Have Known and Loved by HELEN SAFA La Investigación-Acción en convergencias disciplinarias por ORLANDO FALS BORDA Locating the Ephemeral South in the Latin Americanization of LASA by CLAUDIA MILIAN LASA y la conciencia de lugar por MYRIAM JIMENO Utaik tzij: En búsqueda de consensos por ALICIA IVONNE ESTRADA Angels Dancing on the Head of a Pin? by GILBERTO ARRIAZA and ROBERTO RIVERA Debates Post-Washington Consensus ¿Qué hay más allá del consenso de Washington? por MARGARITA LÓPEZ MAYA Making the World New Latin American Studies After the Washington Consensus by ERIC SELBIN El Movimiento Indígena-Popular en los Andes y la Pluralización de la Política Una Hipótesis de Trabajo por MARISOL DE LA CADENA President Charles R. Hale, University of Texas, Austin [email protected] Vice President Eric Hershberg, Simon Fraser University [email protected] Past President Sonia E. Alvarez, University of Massachusetts, Amherst [email protected] Table of Contents Treasurer Kevin Middlebrook, University of London [email protected] EXECUTIVE COUNCIL 1 From the President | by CHARLES R. HALE For term ending October 2007 4 From the Associate Editor | by ARTURO ARIAS José Antonio Aguilar Rivera, Centro de Docencia e Investigación Económica Elizabeth Jelin, Consejo de Investigaciones ON THE PROFESSION Científicas y Tecnológicas Lynn Stephen, University of Oregon 6 The Latin Americas I Have Known and Loved | by HELEN SAFA For term ending April 2009 10 The Diskin Lecture at LASA2007 Alcida Rita Ramos, Universidade de Brasília Guillermo Delgado, University of California/Santa Cruz 17 La Investigación-Acción en convergencias disciplinarias José Rabasa, University of California/Berkeley por ORLANDO FALS BORDA Ex Officio 23 Locating the Ephemeral South in the Latin Americanization of LASA Neil F. Harvey, New Mexico State University by CLAUDIA MILIAN María Socorro Tabuenca Córdoba, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte 25 LASA y la conciencia de lugar | por MYRIAM JIMENO Milagros Pereyra-Rojas, University of Pittsburgh Philip Oxhorn, McGill University 27 Utaik tzij: En búsqueda de consensos | por ALICIA IVONNE ESTRADA 29 Angels Dancing on the Head of a Pin? FORUM EDITORIAL COMMITTEE by GILBERTO ARRIAZA and ROBERTO RIVERA Editor Charles R. Hale, University of Texas, Austin DEBATES Associate Editor Arturo Arias, University of Redlands Post-Washington Consensus Managing Editor Milagros Pereyra-Rojas, University of Pittsburgh 31 ¿Qué hay más allá del consenso de Washington? | por MARGARITA LÓPEZ MAYA 33 Making the World New: Latin American Studies After the Washington Consensus LASA STAFF by ERIC SELBIN Membership Coordinator 36 El Movimiento Indígena-Popular en los Andes y la Pluralización de la Política Jenna B. Bielewicz, University of Pittsburgh Una Hipótesis de Trabajo | por MARISOL DE LA CADENA Congress Coordinator María Cecilia Q. Dancisin, University of Pittsburgh ON LASA2007 Communications Specialist Ian Downing, University of Pittsburgh 39 Final Report from the Program Chairs by NEIL HARVEY and MARÍA SOCORRO TABUENCA Assistant Director for Institutional Advancement Sandra Klinzing, University of Pittsburgh 40 Report of the LASA Business Meeting Executive Director 43 Photos from LASA2007 Milagros Pereyra-Rojas, University of Pittsburgh 51 LASA2009 Call for Papers Administrative Coordinator Israel R. Perlov, University of Pittsburgh The LASA Forum is published four times a year. It is the official vehicle for conveying news about the Latin American Studies Association to its members. Articles appearing in the On the Profession and Debates sections of the Forum are commissioned by the Editorial Committee and deal with selected themes. The Committee welcomes responses to any material published in the Forum. Opinions expressed herein are those of individual authors and do not necessarily reflect the view of the Latin American Studies Association or its officers. ISSN 0890-7218 President’s Report by CHARLES R. HALE | University of Texas, Austin | [email protected] Although the Montréal Congress came to a intellectuals at the Montréal Congress; and close ten days ago, I still feel the afterglow. the general sense that issues of race, anti- Anyone’s experience of these massive events Black racism, and Afro-descendant cultural is inevitably partial, of course; and there are politics historically have occupied a areas in need of improvement, a point to marginal space within LASA and Latin which I will return. But rising above these American studies more generally. Prime with their academic counterparts; with details, my thoughts keep returning to movers of this emergent community are some refinement along these lines, moments when LASA’s mission as a now engaged in discussions on how best to continuity would be well-justified. Third, scholarly association met its heart and soul constitute themselves—one possibility is and most important in my mind, was the as a space for the inception, growth and under the aegis of the Ethnicity, Race and strong presence of civil society-based affirmation of community. Although we Indigenous Peoples (ERIP) Section, and intellectuals. This has long been a are all members of one association, this is another is to establish a separate, closely distinctive feature of our Congresses, and it adamantly not community in the singular, linked Section. In any case, this is an received special emphasis in Montréal; my but rather communities: some strictly exciting development, precisely the kind of sense is that their presence added a critical academic, others of more heterogeneous community-building that the LASA edge to many sessions, giving rise to cross- membership, some focused solely on Congress is meant to engender. talk that is a crucial and perhaps growing scholarly endeavors, others who link source of LASA’s vibrancy. knowledge production to aspirations for Before this issue of the Forum reaches your social change; nearly all transnational, mailboxes, you will have received, via There also is room for improvement. We making face-to-face connections that, email, a request for critical feedback on the need to rethink the Business Meeting, despite the rich possibilities for “going Montréal Congress. I urge you to take a traditionally held at 8:00 p.m. on Friday virtual,” are still essential. moment to respond, since this will be vital evening, concurrent with a half-dozen to our ongoing efforts to improve on this sumptuous receptions, not to mention city I think, for example, of the outpouring of periodic signature event of our Association. night life, which lure all of our 6,000 warmth and gratitude for Helen Safa, our Here are a few thoughts of my own. Three Congress participants except the forlorn Kalman Silvert awardee: successive innovations seemed successful enough to few who for one reason or another are generations of scholars who benefitted from merit continuation with refinement. The required to be there. This is especially her generosity as a mentor, joined with her first is the inaugural plenary, preceding the unfortunate for the winners of three in collaborative scholarly endeavors, and Welcoming Reception. Success in important LASA Awards—Bryce Wood, worked alongside her to transform Latin Montréal, of course, was due largely to the Iberoamericano, and Media—and our American studies, achieving hard-fought acuity and charisma of Governor General hardworking committees who honor the changes—such as the principle of gender Michäelle Jean, who drew a large and awardees inside a virtually empty ballroom; equity and the vibrant presence of feminist appreciative crowd. But such events also it also has a negative impact on Association scholarship—that today seem so integral to give LASA officers an opportunity to governance, undermining the accountability LASA they run the risk of being taken for address the membership, both to of the elected officers to the membership. granted. I think also of Maestro Orlando communicate key points about the There must be a better way! I also believe Fals Borda, who delivered the 2007 LASA- Association, and to open the Congress with LASA Congresses, given the presence of Oxfam America Martin Diskin Lecture, and ceremonial ánimo. Another successful especially high-profile participants and whose humility, humanism and fervent innovation was the Diálogos Políticos sessions, have great untapped potential lifelong commitment to investigación-acción series. It seemed to strike a chord of appeal to the news media. Since media inspired and energized so many. And I interest and excitement that the Congress coverage contributes directly to the stature, think of the scholars working on Afro- would offer the possibility for close-up visibility and impact of our Association, I descendant issues, who have taken steps to interaction with prominent political actors think we need to develop more effective constitute themselves as a community who are, quite literally, making the history strategies for realizing this potential. Third, within LASA. Two factors appear to have that academics seek to interpret and and most important, we may be reaching a motivated this initiative: the significantly narrate. Questions linger for me about point where our own success is creating increased presence of Afro-descendant how best to achieve the intended diálogo 1 lasaforum FALL 2007 : VOLUME XXXVIII : ISSUE 4 PRESIDENT’S REPORT continued… predicaments stemming from
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