Watch Bolivia Burning, a @thegeckoproject.org doc following Bolivian human rights lawyer Alvaro Bozo García & British journalist David Hill as they hear from people impacted by the fires which ripped through over 12.5 million hectares of the country in 2024. lab.org.uk/bolivia-burn...

Bolivia Burning: ‘We are on the edge of a precipice’ | Latin America Bureau

In a record year for forest loss across the tropics, more than a fifth of all the primary forest destroyed in 2024 was in Bolivia, placing the Latin

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Delighted to join AmericanPrestige podcast this week to discuss the shock results of the recent Bolivian elections. You can listen to the update here 🇧🇴📢 americanprestige.supportingcast.fm/listen/ameri...

American Prestige | News - Trump-Putin Summit, India Turns From US to China, and Bolivia Election w/ Olivia Arigho-Stiles

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@oliviaarigho.bsky.social se demande dans les colonnes de @jacobinmag.bsky.social si ces élections signeront la fin du MAS jacobin.com/2025/08/boli...

Is This the End of MAS?

Bolivians head to the polls on Sunday amid a spiraling economic crisis and the total collapse of the Movement Toward Socialism. A right-wing victory could bring neoliberal austerity back to Bolivia, u...

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Award-winning Brazilian photographer Marilene Ribeiro is an artist, ecologist & activist. Her most recent work is a handcrafted book of images and artefacts entitled Photo-Rituals for Disappearance. She spoke to LAB's Linda Etchart about the project: lab.org.uk/photo-ritual...

Photo-Rituals for Disappearance: elegies to the disappeared | Latin America Bureau

In this interview with LAB’s Linda Etchart, artist Marilene Ribeiro explains the inspiration behind her recent projects rooted in humans’ relationship

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Bolivia stands on the precipice - elections are tomorrow and the right are surging amid an economic crisis. Read my analysis here: jacobin.com/2025/08/boli...

Is This the End of MAS?

Bolivians head to the polls on Sunday amid a spiraling economic crisis and the total collapse of the Movement Toward Socialism. A right-wing victory could bring neoliberal austerity back to Bolivia, u...

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Fellowship Opportunity! Harvard University - 2026-27 Faculty Fellowship: Commemorative Acts (Harvard's Charles Warren Center) networks.h-net.org/jobs/68902/h...

The French looked less happy: ‘You see all the same faces as you see in Paris,’ one producer told me, ‘most of whom you try to avoid.’ www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Daniella Shreir · Diary: What happens at Cannes

I arrived​ in Cannes with a terrible line from Sélection officielle ringing in my head: ‘To paraphrase Woody Allen...

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Our Cape Town hub, at the Nelson Mandela School of Governance, University of Cape Town, held its final conference in the program. The topic: Building democratic resilience and economic transformation in Africa. More info: globalforum.ceu.edu/conference-i...

Yesterday, @oliviaarigho.bsky.social @rociofernandezu.bsky.social @sarahthompson.bsky.social Elena Perez and Pooja Kalita participated in an @globalforum.bsky.social cross-hub collaboration at UCT on ecology, land and democracy.

Big news in Bolivia, where Andrónico Rodríguez, president of the senate and VP of the six tropics coca growers federation, says he will be a candidate in August's election. That means three will be going for the MAS vote: Arce, Morales and now Rodríguez. larazon.bo/nacional/202...

Andrónico mueve el tablero electoral, acepta ser candidato

"Desde acá, queridos hermanos y hermanas, quiero expresar en respuesta a este pedido: acepto", dijo el senador Andrónico Rodríguez en Oruro.

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livingwithwater.hcommons.org pleased to share our website, which has all the essential links and info

Enjoyed this from Matthew Gavlin: "I seek to articulate a political theory of non-relation – a schematic model through which Indigenous Peoples might disguise themselves to the forces that expose and govern them in the Anthropocene" #indigeneity #Anthropocene doi.org/10.1177/0305...

kicking off now! Our third ECODEM talk: Sri Lanka in the age of Anthropocene with Kasun Kariyawasam @globalforum.bsky.social 🌴🇱🇰 (message for zoom link!)

Ppl attending @slaslatam.bsky.social SLAS come to our UKLAH panel on Thursday 10 April, 15:15 – 16:45 ! NEW TRENDS IN LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY I will be there on zoom and am getting FOMO from the amazing programme, the organising team have done a great job! 🙌

Exciting talk by @hochstet.bsky.social organized under our ECO-DEM project, on energy transitions & democracy in the Global South. globalforum.ceu.edu/eco-dem-talk... @oliviaarigho.bsky.social @pedroalarcon76.bsky.social @dyzenhaus.bsky.social @sarahthompson.bsky.social @rociofernandezu.bsky.social

50 personas fallecidas y 8 personas desaparecidas, más de 360 mil damnificadas, por las lluvias en Bolivia Climate catastrophe ... rains in Bolivia have left 50 people dead + more than 360,000 people homeless www.vision360.bo/noticias/202...

Las lluvias ya dejan 50 personas fallecidas y hay 8 desaparecidos

El viceministro de Defensa Civil calificó la situación como "muy compleja y crítica".

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For historians of Latin America based in the UK: you can now submit materials to the 2025 UK Latin American Historians Early Career Article Prize AND the 2025 UKLAH Dissertation Prize. Deadline is 31 March 2025. Please spread the word! More information here: uklah.wordpress.com/opportunitie...

Opportunities and Awards

UK Latin American Historians (UKLAH) has three prizes open to its members, at least one of which will be awarded each year at the annual UKLAH conference. Early Career Article Prize (awarded biennu…

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Excited to host @hochstet.bsky.social in Bogotá on Fri 21 March as part of our ECO-DEM project on energy transitions and democracy in the Global South. @globalforum.bsky.social Prof Hochstetler (LSE) will discuss energy transitions in Amazonian countries 🌴🔋 Hybrid format. Message for details!

Why are minerals so central to geopolitics? How green are electric cars? Why is anti-mining protest increasing? Can the inequalities of the global economy be transformed? I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism 👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social

We are increasingly concerned about the crisis in UK Higher Education. Read our joint statement with @royalhistsoc.bsky.social , History UK and the @histassoc.bsky.social https://buff.ly/4hSg16N #history #skystorians

More than ever, history and historians need a collaborative and co-ordinated approach

26th February 2025

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Looks like #lithium is once again a political hot potato in Bolivia... #EnergyTransition Amid protests in Potosí over the contracts with a Chinese and a Russian company, President Arce is defending his lithium industrialisation plans... www.lostiempos.com/actualidad/p...

Arce defiende la industrialización del litio para diversificar la economía

En medio de las protestas y el rechazo de varios sectores del departamento de Potosí a los contratos con una empresa china y otra rusa, el presidente Luis Arce defendió este viernes el proceso de indu...

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Our ECO-DEM project, looking at energy transitions and political transformations across the Global South, has kicked off in Bogotá. @pedroalarcon76.bsky.social @oliviaarigho.bsky.social @rociofernandezu.bsky.social @sarahthompson.bsky.social globalforum.ceu.edu/eco-dem-proj...

Do any academics need documents from Bogotá archives? #twitterstorians If you are seeking materials in archives/repositories in Bogotá area, do get in touch !

CARNAVALES, MISAS Y KUTICHIKUY PARA NO OLVIDAR lindo artículo por @ameriqo.bsky.social #Peru jugo.pe/carnavales-m...

Carnavales, misas y kutichikuy para no olvidar

Manifestaciones creativas y rituales catárticos a un año del estallido social.

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fue un gran placer compartir un borrador/work in progress en el coloquio de hoy....gracias por los comentarios de mis increíbles colegas en Historia y Geografía en Uni. de Los Andes ✨

delighted to be part of this amazing array of projects with our new ECO-DEM collaboration on energy transitions & political transformations in the Global South

Global Forum on Democracy and Development@globalforum.bsky.social · 2y ago

The winning proposals are here! We have called on our researchers to propose initiatives that foster collaboration across the four hubs and the four key themes of our project. Here is the list of the accepted proposals: globalforum.ceu.edu/cross-hub-co...

En Bogotá! VII Congreso de Historia Intelectual de América Latina: balances, debates y perspectivas conectadas www.caroycuervo.gov.co/7o-congreso-...

VII Congreso de Historia Intelectual de América Latina: balances, debates y perspectivas conectadas - Instituto Caro y Cuervo

Bogotá, D. C., 24, 25 y 26 de septiembre de 2025 El Congreso de Historia Intelectual de América Latina (CHIAL) se constituyó en el año 2012 en la ciudad de Medellín. Surgió como una interpelación al e...

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Oscar season is coming up and we are beyond proud that our alumnus Julian Brave NoiseCat (MSt History, 2015) has a film nominated for Best Documentary. Sugarcane (2024) is an incredible tribute to the Native community in Canada, revealing the abuse perpetuated at Catholic residential schools.

Call for Papers! Grounded Futures: the poetics and politics of soil in a changing world. Special issue of @newformations.bsky.social jeremygilbertwriting.wordpress.com/2025/01/30/c...

Call for Papers “Grounded Futures: The Poetics and Politics of Soil in a Changing World”

Call for Papers: “Grounded Futures: The Poetics and Politics of Soil in a Changing World”Rich with past histories of abundance and scarcity, composed of cycles of death and regeneration…

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New article out ! 🏔️🌎 "Children of the altiplano: Elite constructions of race and space in Bolivia 1900–1950" www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....