This paper reviews the debates and conflicts that, over the past decades, marked the links between the so-called cultural studies and Latin Americanism. Between common interests, points of convergence, contrasts and antagonisms, the tensions that characterize the two parts of a phrase such as 'Latin American Cultural Studies' served to rethink the field of study, the practices and knowledges and also the ways in which ideas circulate and academic policies are set in a context marked by the diversity of enunciative locus and by the reworking of epistemic categories.
cultural studies; latinamerican studies; theoretical debates