Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
  • ISSN: 0022-216X (Print), 1469-767X (Online)
  • Editors: Dr Néstor Castañeda University College London, UK, Dr Kate Maclean University College London, UK, Dr Thomas Rath University College London, UK, and Dr Lia de Mattos Rocha Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Editorial board
The Journal of Latin American Studies (JLAS) presents recent research in the field of Latin American studies in history, politics and international relations, geography, public policy, sociology, social anthropology, and cognate subjects such as economics. Regular features include current research, short thematic commentaries on key issues, and an extensive section of book reviews.
Submit your paper here

Virtual Special Issue Collection: Gender, Race, and Sexuality

Area Studies « Cambridge Core Blog

  • Manhood, Money and Survival: Rethinking Child Soldiers in Somalia
  • 08 April 2026, Dr Francesca Baldwin
  • Why understanding contemporary youth militancy demands history Al-Shabaab fighters patrolling Afgooye-Mogadishu road (2025) In civil war-era Somalia in the early 1990s, global media headlines about ‘stoned teenagers’ cruising Mogadishu on jeeps mounted with machine guns became synonymous with the construction of Somalia as a ‘chaotic African country’ in which one could be killed for nothing more than ‘the clothes on your back’ (New York Times, 1992).…...

Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press

  • What Is Culture For?
  • 15 April 2026, Chihab El Khachab
  • From The United Arab Republic, 1963 (Cairo: Information Department) When I started researching the Egyptian Ministry of Culture (formerly National Guidance), The post What Is Culture For? first appeared on Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press....