ABSTRACT
This text seeks to shift a balance to a small degree, by viewing the world from Latin America rather than from elsewhere. However, a more significant shift is required within political geography to ensure that Latin America is not inserted into political geography analyses as a marginal and peripheral player in a larger capitalist game of geopolitical economy. For Latin Americans, they themselves are central to their perceptions of political and geographical worlds. Their personal political geographies around the home and neighbourhood are not peripheral to Anglo-European constructions of political geography, merely different from them, even in some cases very similar to them. It is by engaging with the differences between political geographies on a global and local basis that a better conceptualisation of power-space relations may be established.
