UF Center for Latin American Studies
Days/times: Tuesdays 11:45 am - 1:40 pm; Thursdays 12:40 - 1:40 pm
Location: Leigh 0207
NO PREREQUISITES OR INSTRUCTOR APPROVAL NEEDED FOR REGISTRATION
Course description
Latin America is interconnected with the rest of the world through its culture and the exchange of goods and services. Globalization has integrated consumption patterns in the region with international trends, while also preserving identity formation processes that shape its social dynamics. This course explores consumption patterns in Latin America and among Latinx communities in the U.S., examining how these practices relate to cultural processes and navigate tensions arising from social inequalities, politics, and environmental challenges. Key consumption sectors such as technology, culture, leisure, music, fashion, food, housing, and transportation will be analyzed. Through case studies and creative methodologies—including netnography, video, cartography, and other visual tools—we will critically assess the social, cultural, environmental, political, and economic implications of consumption in these contexts.
Jairo Baquero-Melo
Assistant Professor, Center for Latin American Studies
392 Grinter Hall
P.O. Box 115530
Gainesville, FL 32611-5530
E-mail: jbaqueromelo@ufl.edu
Tel: 352-392-5235
Research Interests
Environmental justice; Political ecology; Critical agrarian studies; Political economy; Intersectionality; Violence; Peacebuilding; Labor studies
Geographic Expertise
Colombia [Pacific, Amazonian, Andean regions]; Darien region
