Presidential Session - Latin American Transformations: 50 Years of Change

Session Submission Type: Featured/Invited Session

Abstract

When LASA was founded half a century ago Latin America’s reputation was a region where the more things changed the more they remained the same. Yet, during the last 50 years, Latin America has been transformed, in some aspects more than once.
This presidential panel explores some of the most important areas of change -- the decline of U.S. hegemony, the pendulum swings of economic paradigms and development strategies, the alternation of dictatorship and democracy, migration and development, and the empowerment of oppressed ethnic and racial groups – and examines the prospects for further changes in the near future.

Sub Track

• Presidential Panels

Session Organizers

• Gilbert M Joseph, Yale University

• Peter E Winn, Tufts University

Chair

• Peter E Winn, Tufts University

Individual Presentations

• Economic Paradigms, Economic Policies and Economic Development - José Antonio Ocampo, Columbia University

• Migration, Urbanization and Development - Alejandro Portes, Princeton University

• From Democracy to Dictatorship and Back Again: Alternations in Political Regimes - Maria Hermínia Tavares de Almeida, CEBRAP/University of Sao Paulo

• Empowering the Oppressed: Ethnicity, Race, Gender - Florencia E Mallon, University of Wisconsin

• The Decline of U.S. Hegemony - John H Coatsworth, Columbia University