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Paulo Drinot
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Historiador. Profesor de historia latinoamericana. Marxista-Lennonista.

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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · Nov 7
My article “Global Mariátegui” was published online back in April, but happy to see it that it has now been published as part of the May issue of the Journal of Latin American Studies. Open access too!

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Global Mariátegui | Journal of Latin American Studies | Cambridge Core
Global Mariátegui - Volume 56 Issue 2
www.cambridge.org

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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 2d
📚 Book Launch - Join Professors Paulo Drinot and Alberto Vergara, editors of Modern Peru: A New History
📅 28 January 2026 | 13.00 – 14.30
📍 In-person | 51 Gordon Square
🎤 Explore a sweeping account of Peru’s history with leading scholars
🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
@paulodrinot.bsky.social

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Sam Holley-Kline @sholleykline.bsky.social · 2d
Just out! In this piece, I argue that the United Fruit Company served as a conduit through which political economies of racialized labor were brought to bear on archaeological practice. This one was three years in the making and it's available #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.1017/S001...

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How the United Fruit Company Racialized Archaeological Labor in Guatemala, 1910–1953 | Comparative Studies in Society and History | Cambridge Core
How the United Fruit Company Racialized Archaeological Labor in Guatemala, 1910–1953
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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 2d
Next to Brexit, reducing overseas student numbers is surely one of the stupidest policies a government could devise.

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 3d
‘Terrible’ December student visa numbers branded ‘a disaster’.

Applications at their lowest in four years, raising fresh concerns for university finances.

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‘Terrible’ December student visa numbers branded ‘a disaster’ - Research Professional News
Applications at their lowest in four years, raising fresh concerns for university finances
www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 3d
📢 UCL Institute of the Americas invites Expressions of Interest for:

✅ Wellcome Early Career Award
✅ MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship
✅ Leverhulme Visiting Professorship

📅 Deadline: 27 Feb 2026

🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
Research Fellowships
The UCL Institute of the Americas participates in various visiting and fellowship programmes.
www.ucl.ac.uk

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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 3d
Only a matter of time before teaching on NATO is banned too.
tamu-aaup.bsky.social AAUP Texas A&M-College Station Chapter @tamu-aaup.bsky.social · 5d
From an email to one of our faculty members....

Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 3d
Entrevista con David Tejada sobre mi libro Los años de Leguía, 1919-1930, publicado por el IEP.

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🎙️| Episodio #27 - Los Años de Augusto B. Leguía: 1919-1930 (2024) de Paulo Drinot
YouTube video by Política Peruana con DTR
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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 4d
Hearing Trump will “run” Manchester United.

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AAUP Texas A&M-College Station Chapter @tamu-aaup.bsky.social · 5d
From an email to one of our faculty members....

Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 5d
Entrevista sobre el libro que edité junto con Martín Bergel, La revolución que no fue: Nuevas miradas a la historia del APRA, publicado por el IEP.
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¿Nueva historiografía sobre el APRA?: Entrevista a Paulo Drinot y Martín Bergel sobre su libro «La revolución que no fue» - Libros a mí
Una entrevista a los historiadores Paulo Drinot y Martín Bergel sobre su libro "La revolución que no fue. Nuevas miradas a la historia del APRA". Paulo Drinot y Martín Bergel publican el libro "La rev...
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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 6d
Caliban

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Matheus Duarte @alvesduarte.bsky.social · 6d
I'm hiring 2 postdocs on my Wellcome project "How Did Infectious Diseases Become Wild?: Plague, Yellow Fever, and Disease Ecology in the Brazilian Hinterland (1920-1975)"

Department of Global Health and Social Medicine
King's College
3 years 01/10/26- 30/09/29
Deadline: 01/02/26
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Postdoctoral Research Associate | King's College London
www.kcl.ac.uk

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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 6d
If you’re wondering what the hell is going on, come work it out with us. www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
Graduate Taught
As a student at the UCL Institute of the Americas, you will be taught by world-leading scholars at the cutting edge of research in the humanities and social sciences.
www.ucl.ac.uk

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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 6d
📚 Join us for an insightful discussion with Dr Ryan Cecil Jobson on his recently published book - a historical and ethnographic study of the fraught relationship between fossil fuels and political power in Trinidad and Tobago.
📅 21 Jan 2026 17.30 GMT
💻 Online (Zoom)
🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 8d
A medida que va pasando el día las comparaciones van cambiando: Panamá, Iraq, ahora estamos entrando en República Dominicana, Cuba, Filipinas o Haiti.

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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 8d
Trump just broke what was left of the international system (and the US constitution). Basically acting like a global dictator, unrestrained by any law. News conference upcoming from his lair, Mar a Lago, not the White House to reinforce the point.

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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 11d
Un país descarrilado

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11d
Machu Picchu head-on train crash kills one person and injures dozens
Machu Picchu head-on train crash kills one person and injures dozens
Two trains taking tourists to and from Peru’s famed archaeological site collided, killing a railroad worker Two trains taking tourists to and from Peru’s famed archaeological site of Machu Picchu crashed on Tuesday, killing at least one person and injuring about 30 passengers. The person killed was a railroad worker, according to Jhonathan Castillo Gonzalez, a captain with the Cuzco police department. He told the Associated Press that the railway suspended services along the rail line connecting Machu Picchu with the nearby city of Cuzco after the accident. Continue reading...
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Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery @cslbs.bsky.social · 19d
Job alert! For our latest project, Valuable Lives, we're looking for:
- a Research Fellow (www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...)
- 2 Research Assistants (www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...)

Application deadline: 23 January 2026

Find out more about this exciting project here: www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
Valuable Lives: Black Unfreedom and the Collapse of Slavery in Jamaica
Valuable Lives is a major CSLBS project aimed at creating the first and most comprehensive publicly available database on black lives under British slavery.
www.ucl.ac.uk

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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 19d
Unpopular take but the Trump/Kennedy Centre not so weird if you consider both obsessed with overthrowing a regime in the Caribbean.

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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 20d
BLOG POST: Jacob Bright, a student on our MA Latin American Studies programme, writes about the research for his dissertation.

Jacob's dissertation was awarded the Elsa Goveia prize for the best dissertation on the Caribbean.

Read the post: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/americas-blo...
New blog post: "Policing in the Post-Colonial State: The Politics of Militarised Policing in Jamaica, 1962-1976" by Jacob Bright, written on a pale sage background with a headshot of Jacob Bright.

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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 21d
Another agonising win for Arsenal. Kierkegaard and Unamuno must have been gunners.

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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 24d
Vamos a ver…

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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 24d
Why Chile Voted for Kast: Insights from Experts
José Antonio Kast marks the biggest rightward shift since 1990. Join our expert roundtable:
✅ What drove this dramatic turn?
✅ The issues that shaped the campaign
✅ Impact on Latin America
📅 21 Jan | 13:00 | In-person
🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 27d
BLOG POST: UG student Tom Hindley writes about his takeaways from our recent event reflecting on the 50th anniversary of the official founding meeting of Operation Condor.

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New blog post: "Lessons Learned from Fifty Years of Operation Cóndor" by Tom Hindley, written on a pale sage background with an image of the PlanCondor logo for 50 years after Operation Condor.

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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 29d
Manufacturing coercion?

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Latin American Review of Books @latamrob.bsky.social · Dec 12
Peruvian nation-building has been characterised by unending frustration. Books in brief review: Modern Peru: A New History, Paulo Drinot and Alberto Vergara (eds) @paulodrinot @DukePress #Peru #politics #nationalism #history #LatinAmericanStudies latamrob.substack.com/p/andean-sis...
Andean Sisyphus
Peruvian nation-building has been characterised by unending frustration. Books in brief: Modern Peru: A New History, Paulo Drinot and Alberto Vergara (eds), by Gavin O'Toole
latamrob.substack.com

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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · Dec 9
Madness. A government of dunces.

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Dec 9
Tighter visa rules will cost UK up to £10.8bn on.ft.com/4a1qjR6
Tighter visa rules will cost UK up to £10.8bn
Home Office assessment shows impact of latest changes to immigration regime over next five years
on.ft.com

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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · Dec 9
NEW BLOG POST

In this post, Steve Cushion, Honorary Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of the Americas, and a former PhD student of the department, reflects on his most recent book.

Read the post: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/americas-blog/
New blog post: "Slavery in the British Empire and Its Legacy in the Modern World" by Steve Cushion, written on a pale sage background with an image of the cover of the book with the same title in the centre of the image