*Latest article*  Fashion in Bolivia's Cultural Economy Special Issue of International Journal of Cultural Studies: De-Westernising creative labour studies: the informality of creative work from an ex-centric vantage - edited by Ana Alacovska, Ros Gill and Andy Pratt In 2016, New York fashion week featured, for the first time, a designer from Bolivia. Eliana Paco... Continue Reading →

Special Issue of Gender, Place and Culture: Gendering the City - edited by Melissa Butcher and Kate Maclean La Paz, Bolivia, and its neighbouring city, El Alto, have been experiencing patterns of urban accumulation, dispossession and displacement that demonstrate the importance of social, cultural and historical logics to understanding the politics of urban space. A... Continue Reading →

Maclean, K. (2017). Ninguna ciudad común: Lo que la teoría urbana crítica puede aprender de La Paz, Bolivia. Journal de Comunicación Social 5(5), 15-48 Este artículo explora cómo la ciudad de La Paz ha cambiado a raíz del surgimiento de la “chola burguesía” en Bolivia –personas que trabajan en gran parte en el comercio informal... Continue Reading →