summer 2017 | volume xlviii | issue 3 President Aldo Panfichi Huamán Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Vice President-President Elect Lynn M. Stephen University of Oregon Past President Joanne Rappaport Georgetown University Treasurer Table of Contents Patricia Tovar Rojas City University of New York, John Jay College Incoming Treasurer Diego Sánchez-Ancochea University of Oxford 1 From the President ON LASA2018 EXECUTIVE COUNCIL by Aldo I. Panfichi Huaman 37 Interdependent Inequalities: Globalization from For term ending May 2018: 3 From the Outgoing President a Latin American Perspective Jo-Marie Burt, George Mason University by Joanne Rappaport by Marianne Braig Claudia Ferman, University of Richmond Daniela Spenser, CIESAS/Mexico City 38 From the Program Co-chair 2017 KALMAN SILVERT AWARD by Charles F. Walker For term ending May 2019: Angela C. Araújo, Universidade Estadual de Campinas 5 Kalman Silvert Award Lecture, Lima, Perú, 39 LASA2018 Call for Papers Barbara S. Weinstein, New York University 29 de abril de 2017 Ginetta E. Candelario, Smith College por Marysa Navarro Aranguren CALLING ALL MEMBERS Ex Officio Program Co-Chair LASA/OXFAM AMERICA 2016 MARTIN DISKIN 41 Nominations Invited Charles F. Walker, University of California/Davis MEMORIAL LECTURE Program Co-Chair ON LASA2017 Marianne Braig, Lateinamerika Institut der FU Berlin 8 Del “diálogo de saberes” a la construcción Executive Director 49 Presentación Padre Gustavo Gutiérrez de modalidades de “colaboración intercultural”: Milagros Pereyra-Rojas Aprendizajes y articulaciones más allá de la por Mauricio Archila Editor of LARR Academia 50 A propósito de “Otros Saberes” Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, University of Pittsburgh por Daniel Mato por Gustavo Gutiérrez Editors of Latin America Research Commons (LARC) Florencia Garramuño, Universidad de San Andrés GUILLERMO O’DONNELL DEMOCRACY AWARD 51 ¿Qué nos queda del congreso de lima? Philip Oxhorn, McGill University por Juliet Hooker y Mauricio Archila 18 Announcing the Guillermo O’Donnell Strategic Plan Oversight Committee 52 LASA2017 Awards and Recipients Gilbert Joseph, Yale University Democracy Award and Lectureship Timothy Power, University of Oxford by Gabriela Ippolito-O’Donnell and 57 Acknowledgments Catalina Romero, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Kevin J. Middlebrook 58 Seen at LASA2017 LASA STAFF 19 Los desafios de la democracia en 60 Sponsors and Contributors América Latina: Como gobernar mejor ADMINISTRATION OPERATIONS por Sergio Bitar Executive Assistant Sections and Awards LASA SECTIONS Jocelyn Inlay Coordinator ARTICLES 61 Section Reports Executive Director Ghisselle Blanco 24 Life without Papers Milagros Pereyra-Rojas Congress Coordinator Emily Boal NEWS FROM LASA by Denise Brennan and Citlali Alvarez COMMUNICATIONS Almendariz Operations Assistant 87 Richard Fagen Receives O’Higgins Award Graphic Designer Gabriela Vargas 29 Reconstitución del Ayllu: Los desafíos del Jason Dancisin, Contractor movimiento indígena en Bolivia bajo el Social Media Coordinator FINANCES socialismo del Siglo XXI Paloma Díaz-Lobos Financial Administrator por Cristóbal Huanca Salles Publications Specialist Mirna Kolbowski Sara Lickey Accountant Sharon Moose, Contractor INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Data Analyst MAESTROMEETINGS INC. John Meyers Director of Operations Pilar Rodriguez Blanco Social Media Manager Paloma Díaz-Lobos President Milagros Pereyra-Rojas 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. LASA 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 From the President by ALDO I. PANFICHI HUAMAN | Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú | [email protected] While the president of the United States Spain, France, the United Kingdom, and opts for isolationism, building walls to across Europe. keep out immigrants and denying the need for global cooperation to protect the future As incoming president of LASA, I consider of our planet, Latin American studies are it fundamental to incorporate other centers experiencing unprecedented dynamism of research and teaching from outside the around the world. This is reflected in LASA Americas, with their distinct perspectives and knowledge that have helped people itself, which after 51 years of existence and traditions, into our common effort to around the world to understand processes has become a truly global academic understand this region and its relation to of social, cultural, and political change organization, with 12,000 members from the world. Intellectual curiosity leads us that go well beyond this region. Latin over 50 countries. Some 49 percent of to ask what questions, perspectives, and Americanists have been at the forefront LASA members reside in Latin America findings these centers of knowledge can of debates about the difficult relationship and the Caribbean, 38 percent in North bring to the table and how we can generate between democracy, development, America, and 13 percent in Europe or Asia. a fruitful exchange that can renew our own and dependence on natural resource forms of understanding the complex reality exports—challenges faced around the Our transformation is not only in of Latin America. globe. Migration, immigration, and the numbers. Gone are the days when LASA displacement of people due to political was fundamentally a space for exchange Globalization not only feeds interest in violence and economic need are also deeply between academics and activists in the Latin America in other regions of the rooted phenomena in our region, and so-called North and South of the Americas, world, it also demonstrates our need to pioneering work from Latin America can and when the vast majority of LASA have a more profound understanding of shed light on comparable experiences in congresses were held in the North. This those other parts of the planet and how other regions today. The magic realism in year we met in Lima, in 2018 we meet we engage with them. It is undeniable that our literature has been loved and emulated in Barcelona, and subsequent congresses global interests–be they economic, social around the world, and the experience of should alternate in order to reflect our or geopolitical–affect and give shape to Latin America’s various truth commissions presence in distinct countries and regions diverse Latin American problems. From the has also been repeated in other places of the world. expansion of the extractive industries to affected by violence and civil war. Needless the social and environmental organizations to say, Latin American studies also have The expansion and diversification of LASA that question them, recent studies much to contribute to discussions about membership has been made possible, show there are important transnational populism and authoritarianism in their in the first instance, by the expansion components to these phenomena that we various forms in Europe and the United of Latin American studies in the region must understand. Our research networks States today. itself. Changing relations of economic and increasingly opt for comparative studies political power at the global level have that cross borders and regions, giving rise But the globalization of LASA also raises motivated those of us who live in Latin to transcontinental collaborations that challenges for our organization and America to rethink what “Latin America” can generate truly new knowledge and institutional culture. If we are to continue is today and what we want it to be in the innovation. to have a presence in distinct parts of future, in terms of models of development, the world, we must be conscious of the values, and alliances. This renewed interest This worldwide interest in Latin America, academic schedules of all of our members in and identity with the region is seen not and Latin American studies, also reflects and try to program LASA congresses when only in the major universities in capital the maturity of our field. Over the last as many colleagues as possible can be cities but also in numerous regional and half century, Latin Americanists have present. We must work harder to be flexible provincial universities, research centers and produced an enormous and diverse body and adapt LASA to the global era. NGOs as well. Meanwhile, centers for the of research, with a strong commitment to study of Latin America have also bloomed interdisciplinarity as well as to teaching Furthermore, our LASA congresses should across Asia and Oceania, and interest in about this part of the world. Latin continue to have local academic partners, Latin America has also seen a revival in American studies has produced concepts a situation from which we all benefit. 1 lasaforum summer 2017 : volume xlviii : issue 3 The presence of hundreds of panels and rights and civil liberties remain a challenge world-class experts in diverse disciplines to guarantee for all. can vitalize local academic communities and activists, while LASA panelists have In sum, in a context in which globalization the opportunity to interact with distinct is challenged by reactionary and communities from those with whom they xenophobic forces, LASA is embracing regularly engage. The experience of LASA openness–in its diversity of members and Lima 2017 was magnificent, with 6,643 disciplines, academic agenda, and physical registered