Alternautas

Aims & Scope

Alternautas is a multi-disciplinary journal devoted to counter-balancing mainstream understandings of development in/from Latin America – Abya Yala. Alternautas emerges from a desire to bridge language barriers by bringing Latin American critical development thinking to broader English-speaking audiences. The journal covers a broad range of development issues across regular and special issues. Our focus is the intellectual production stemming from Latin American traditions of thought (dependency theory, Sumak Kawsay, sub-imperialism, neo-extractivism, post-neoliberalism, among others). As this body of work is mainly produced in Spanish or Portuguese, it remains largely inaccessible to Anglophone audiences. Highlighting, connecting, circulating, and reviewing texts and ideas which remain hostage to language barriers are thus the central features of our activity. Revealing or stressing connections and (mutual) influences with other thought traditions and other spaces also falls within the purposes of the journal. The value of Alternautas for its contributors is as a forum for disseminating ideas that do not fit neatly into journals focused on the Anglophone debates between scholars in/from the Global North. We will share the content widely and encourage comments and discussions, providing an outstanding forum for shifting the framing of development debates.

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