Historias Podcast

SECOLAS
Historias Podcast

The Historias podcast is a weekly program featuring scholars, journalists, and activists discussing cutting edge research and offering perceptive observations on current events associated with Latin American and Caribbean societies. If you are looking for smart and inviting conversation on a wide variety of issues and more, this show is for you. Historias is a digital media project from the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS).

  1. A conversation with Brooke Larson about her most recent book, The Lettered Indian.

    4 DAYS AGO

    A conversation with Brooke Larson about her most recent book, The Lettered Indian.

    Several scholars, including Joanne Rappaport, Sinclair Thomson, Gavin O'Toole, and Bret Gustafson, have praised Brooke Larson's book as a monumental, meticulously documented history of Indigenous education in twentieth-century Bolivia.

    43 min
  2. A fabulous interview with Paulina Alberto, discussing her award-winning book Black Legend.

    4 DAYS AGO

    A fabulous interview with Paulina Alberto, discussing her award-winning book Black Legend.

    In this episode, historian Paulina Alberto joins us to talk about her award-winning book Black Legend, published by Cambridge University Press in 2022. Celebrated with the 2023 Bolton-Johnson Prize for Best Book in Latin American History and the 2023 Southern Cone Section Award for Best Book in the Social Sciences, Black Legend has quickly become a must-read. Tune in to discover the groundbreaking insights of Alberto’s second monograph and learn more about her inspiring academic journey.

    41 min
  3. Javier Puente nos habla de su libro El Estado rural: indígenas, comuneros, y campesinos en la sierra central

    4 DAYS AGO

    Javier Puente nos habla de su libro El Estado rural: indígenas, comuneros, y campesinos en la sierra central

    El Estado Rural estudia la política interna de una comunidad de la sierra central peruana, desde principios del siglo XX, cuando el estado peruano reconoció la legalidad de las comunidades indígenas, hasta finales del conflicto armado en la década de 1990. Este largo arco temporal permite al autor analizar un siglo de intervenciones estatales y mercantiles en el campo y sus repercusiones en la vida rural.

    58 min
  4. Lina Britto y Ricardo López nos hablan de Historias de Soledad y Perplejidad

    4 DAYS AGO

    Lina Britto y Ricardo López nos hablan de Historias de Soledad y Perplejidad

    Los historiadores Lina Britto y Ricardo López Pedreros -editores de dos volúmenes, Historias de soledad e Historias de perplejidad- reflexionan sobre las trayectorias personales y académicas que impulsaron la producción de esta obra, las condiciones de producción de conocimiento en Estados Unidos y América Latina, y la importancia de utilizar Colombia como lente para mirar a las Américas y al mundo.

    56 min
  5. Rafael Archondo on Hernan Siles Zuazo

    01/16/2023

    Rafael Archondo on Hernan Siles Zuazo

    Rafael Archondo and Isabel Siles’ Sobre un barril de pólvora, is a comprehensive review of the former president’s life, Hernan Siles Zuazo (1913-1996). He was one of the founding members of the nationalist revolutionary party (MNR) in 1942. He was elected two times as president (1956-1960 and 1982-1985), and his role was vital to consolidate revolutionary achievements like Agrarian Reform or social participation and pluralistic democracy. The authors highlight Siles Zuazo’s commitment to human rights and civil liberties. During his tenure, power was peacefully transferred to the next elected president. Siles was a kind of tragic hero because of his conviction in using peaceful means in political struggles.

    25 min
  6. Sarah Hines on water, citizenship, and revolution

    01/16/2023

    Sarah Hines on water, citizenship, and revolution

    Dr. Sarah Hines explores residents of Cochabamba struggle for access to water that is linked to broader historical processes such as the dispossession and dismantling of indigenous communities in the 19th century, the Bolivian revolution of 1952, and the dictatorships of the 1960s and 1970s. Her book argues that the Cochabambinos defeated privatization in the Water War in 2000 because they defended something they had fought for and won decades earlier, especially in the context of the 1952 revolution.

    36 min
  7. Nicole Pacino on revolutionary public health

    01/16/2023

    Nicole Pacino on revolutionary public health

    Dr. Nicole Pacino is an associate professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Nicole has studied the effects of the policies of the 1952 Revolution on rural health, particularly on indigenous women. Her work shows how maternity was a central axis of the nationalist policies of the MNR that strived to create/consolidate the nation.

    27 min
  8. Elizabeth Shesko on conscription in Bolivia

    01/15/2023

    Elizabeth Shesko on conscription in Bolivia

    Elizabeth Shesko argues that conscription evolved into a pact between the state and society. It was not only imposed from above but also embraced from below because it provided a space for Bolivians across divides of education, ethnicity, and social class to negotiate their relationships with each other and the state. Shesko contends that state formation built around military service has been characterized in Bolivia by multiple layers of negotiation and accommodation. The resulting nation-state was and is still hierarchical and divided by profound differences, but it never was simply an assimilatory project. It instead reflected a dialectical process to define the state and its relationships.

    19 min
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The Historias podcast is a weekly program featuring scholars, journalists, and activists discussing cutting edge research and offering perceptive observations on current events associated with Latin American and Caribbean societies. If you are looking for smart and inviting conversation on a wide variety of issues and more, this show is for you. Historias is a digital media project from the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS).

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    SECOLAS
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2024
  • Episodes
    175
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