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A Note from the Editors

Arturo Escobar’s essay, ‘Latin America at a crossroads: alternative modernizations, post-liberalism, or post-development’, published in January 2010 in this journal (vol 24, no. 1), offered an important ‘conjuncturalist’ reading of some political developments in Latin America. It has elicited many comments, raised many important issues within cultural studies, and opened a number of debates between various analytical paradigms. So we invited a number of scholars of Latin American culture and politics to respond to Escobar’s essay, and we present them to you here.