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Peer Review Week 2024 - Q&A with Bill Booth

Posted by Radical Americas Editorial Office on 2024-09-25

For Peer Review Week 2024 UCL Press spoke with Dr Bill Booth (UCL, London), the co-Editor-in-Chief of Radical Americas. In this Q&A Bill discusses the processes involved in securing reviewer comments, and offers advice to early career researchers on how to get involved in the scholarly publishing community. This Q&A is an insightful read of a function of academic publishing that has [...]

Reconstruyendo la izquierda ecuatoriana en las ruinas de la austeridad neoliberal

Posted by Geoff Goodwin on 2024-07-18

La victoria de Daniel Noboa en la segunda vuelta de las elecciones presidenciales del 15 de octubre de 2023 dejó perplejos a los partidarios del expresidente Rafael Correa. ¿Cómo fue posible que un candidato de derechas, con un programa neoliberal similar al del profundamente impopular presidente saliente, Guillermo Lasso (2021-23), derrote a Luisa González, la candidata de izquierdas del [...]

Rebuilding the Ecuadorian left in the rubble of neoliberal austerity

Posted by Geoff Goodwin on 2024-06-13

Daniel Noboa’s victory in the second round of the presidential elections on 15 October 2023 was perplexing for supporters of the former president, Rafael Correa. How did a right-wing candidate with a similar neoliberal agenda to the deeply unpopular outgoing president, Guillermo Lasso (2021-23) defeat Luisa González, the left-leaning candidate of the correísta party, Revolución [...]