Social resistance against mega-development projects has become a well-established feature of Latin American politics. Yet, we know little about the impact of social resistance on national policies and institutions governing existing regimes of extractive development.

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The punitive turn in crime control has radically altered the shape and meaning of citizenship across the Americas. Imprisonment, compulsory drug rehabilitation, and alternative forms of penal control have multiplied, circumscribing citizens’ options for social and political participation while also leading to striking new modes of social, political, and economic membership across the region.

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This Special Collection uses Critical Heritage Studies to examine the spaces and scales of protest against social injustice that occur in the major cities of Latin America.

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How can we account for levels of violence, numbers of internally displaced people and territorial fragmentation in Mexico that are higher than most civil wars? We build on a comparison with civil wars to account for the specificities of the regional configurations of violence in Mexico. We argue that armed actors, far from contesting the existing political institutions and system, conform to the social order to whose reproduction they thus contribute.

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Venezuela faces the worst economic crisis in its recent history, with a deep recession, hyperinflation and scarcity that have skyrocketed poverty levels, triggering a massive migratory outflow.

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Latin America's political economy is currently undergoing profound changes. The natural resource boom that underwrote much of the region's economic growth for a decade and a half has ended. In this new context of economic uncertainty, a new wave of social conflict has emerged, as both popular and elite sectors seek to defend past gains.

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