The Latinoamericanist

Episodios

• Ezequiel Gonzalez Ocantos: The judicialization of politics 09.06.2026 39m

  Ezequiel Gonzalez Ocantos is Professor of Comparative & Judicial Politics and a Fellow of Nuffield College. He first came to prominence with his book entitled The Politics of Transitional Justice in Latin America: Power, Norms and Capability Building (2020) in which he showed how judges in Mexico, Peru Chile and Argentina came to be influenced both by civil society expertise in the field of human rights and also by international human rights law. The book won prizes from the American Poli...
• Mara Viveros Vigoya: Raza y género en la vorágine colombiana 18.05.2026 40m

  Welcome to The Latinoamericanist, the podcast from the Centre of Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge. I am David Lehmann, and today we have the honour and pleasure of welcoming Mara Viveros Vigoya, a distinguished figure in Colombian public life, writer, professor, and pioneer in the study of gender, race, and the relationship between the two. Mara has served as President of LASA, the Latin American Studies Association based in the United States, which today brings together ...