Drake and Hilbink (2002)

Drake and Hilbink (2002) ‘Latin American Studies.’

Citation: Drake, Paul W. and Hilbink, Lisa (2002) ‘Latin American Studies: Theory and Practice’ in Szanton, David (Ed.) The Politics of Knowledge: Area Studies and the Disciplines, University of California International and Area Studies Digital Collection, http://repositories.cdlib.org/uciaspubs/editedvolumes/3/2.

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Drake and Hilbink (2002:1): note that area studies are “suffering from a decline in intellectual and material support.”

Drake and Hilbink (2002:2): “Latin American studies is something that North Americans do with Latin Americans, not to Latin Americans. Indeed, much of the knowledge production about the region has always come from the Latin Americans. This is as it should be, since the internationalization of knowledge production through dialogue with researchers around the globe is today a keystone of not only the social sciences and humanities but also the natural sciences and all scholarly pursuits. A reciprocal and free flow of questions, ideas, and information is essential to all scientific inquiries, whether in physics or anthropology.”

Drake and Hilbink (2002:21): “Latin American studies still comes under attack, as do most area studies, for”ghettoizing” itself from the disciplines of the North American academy. This is particularly the case within Economics, Political Science, and Sociology, which tend to be the boldest in making universal claims about human behavior based on United States and European observations.” note that historically, few articles on Latin America have appeared in “disciplinary” journals.