Decolonizing art – Unmaking to Make
The editors hope that the collection of essays Unmaking to Make will be ‘a starting point and place of encounter’ for artistic responses to colonial legacy. Reviewer Harriet Gilbert Savage says, 'I hope that it elicits responses of agreement and resistance that are both practical and creative. I hope that they are unique and diverse and abundant.'
Colombia: how football is changing lives
Beyond the glitz and glamour of the world cup, football has the power to change and rescue lives in some of Colombia's poorest and most endangered communities -- especially for women, children and young people.
Review of Sara Torres’ X Is Where I Am
A writer navigating her mother's death while falling into a new love affair. Sara Torres's autofiction questions how we mourn and love.
Film: why the focus on the dictatorship period?
As far-right governments ramp up denialist narrative, film directors in Argentina, Chile and Brazil often set their stories in the period of the dictatorships
Ránquil – Victor Jara’s unfinished project
Folk-singer Victor Jara, murdered by Pinochet’s troops in 1973, had planned to record an album, telling the story of the 1934 massacre of peasants and Indigenous Mapuche and Pehuenche at Ránquil. He never completed the project and in the following decades repression has claimed new victims whenever the interests of large landowners were threatened.
Latino Life in the UK
LAB partner Latino Life, is 25 years old this year (and its . A Latina-run organization, festival and website, it is a wonderful resource for the UK's thriving Latin American communities, and the rapidly growing and ever more diverse audiences who are inspired by the liveliness and optimism of Latin American culture, especially its music. Latino Life founder Amaranta Wright describes the growth of this phenomenon, since a chance meeting in a salsa club in 2001.
Climate: Indigenous women emerge as leaders
At London Climate Action Week, Indigenous women, especially from Latin America, featured prominently as leaders of their communities and territories
Chile: captive songs
Tony Corden reviews Katia Chornik’s book about the relationship between music, politics, memory, and human rights.
Venezuela: the poetics of displacement
Venezuelan poets in exile tell Piotr Kozak about their experiences of leaving their home country, their conflicted feelings towards it, and the promise and sadness of their lives abroad.
Journalism and the Politics of Memory
Marcos Colón reviews the Cannes and Golden Globe award-winning Brazilian film The Secret Agent, directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho, starring Wagner Moura. The film engages questions of state censorship, political repression, and surveillance not by following a reporter chasing a story, but, this time, by following a man hunted by a system terrified of memory.
