Culture, Power and Politics

Daniel Mato originally sponsored the proposal to create the Section. It was approved by LASA's Executive Committee, and the Section came into formal existence in 1997.

Board and Founding Members

The first elected board comprised:

Daniel Mato (Universidad Central de Venezuela), Chair; Silvia Hirsch (Trenton College), Treasurer; Sonia Alvarez (UC-Santa Cruz), Mary García Castro (Universidade Federal da Bahia), Lourdes Martínez Echazabal (UC-Santa Cruz) , Mary Louise Pratt (Stanford University), and George Yúdice (NYU), Council Members.

The Section's founding members  were:

1. Alvarez, Sonia
2. Arantes, Antonio
3. Arias, Arturo
4. Bautista, Angélica
5. Boadas, Aura Marina
6. Burton Carvajal, Julianne
7. Cadaval, Olivia
8. Castro Gómez, Santiago
9. Coronil, Fernando
10. Costa, Claudia de Lima
11. Dagnino, Evelina
12. Escobar, Arturo
13. Ferradas, Carmen
14. Ferrandiz, Francisco
15. Franco, Jean
16. Garcia de Leon, Antonio
17. García Castro, Mary
18. Giacalone, Rita
19. Glick Schiller, Nina
20. Graham, Laura
21. Green, Linda Buckley
22. Hale, Charles
23. Hernández, Omar
24. Hirsch, Silvia
25. Ishibashi, Jun
26. Kearney, Michael
27. Lins Ribeiro, Gustavo
28. Lomnitz, Claudio
29. Martínez Echazabal, Lourdes
30. Martini, Stella
31. Mato, Daniel
32. Mignolo, Walter
33. Moreiras, Alberto
34. Mulero Díaz, María Maite
35. Nagengast, Carole
36. Paz Salinas, María Fernanda
37. Phillips, Sharon
38. Pratt, Mary Louise
39. Sansone, Livio
40. Scrugs, T.M.
41. Seligman, Linda
42. Servaes, Jan
43. Shumway, Nicolas
44. Tufte, Thomas
45. Warren, Kay
46. Weiss, Wendy
47. Yúdice, George
48. Zhouri, Andrea
49. Zorn, Elayne