Stuart Hall from/in Latin America

Abstract

This article discusses how Hall’s ideas have been taken up readily, rigorously and critically by scholars and intellectuals in Latin America who can be considered trailblazers in the field of Latin American Cultural Studies and those that followed, as well as others who undertake critical work but refuse the Cultural Studies label, and finally others whose work could readily be identified as Cultural Studies but who have not been taken up as such. This analysis leads to the conclusion that it would be simplistic to constrain the discussion of the significance of Hall’s ideas in Latin America to the field of so-called Latin American Cultural Studies; rather this needs to be seen in more complex ways.