Acknowledgements

There are a large number of people whom the editors wish to thank for their support in producing this volume. The book itself emerged from a conference with the same name held in November 2020, and the editors would like to thank all participants whose contributions shaped this book. The event was hosted by the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (then the Institute of Latin American Studies), King’s College London (KCL) and University College London (UCL), with the generous support of the Leverhulme Trust. Special thanks go to Vinicius de Carvalho (KCL) for co-organising the original event and providing invaluable guidance while planning the publication, to Olga Jiménez for all her help organising the conference, and to Linda Newson (CLACS) for her support throughout. The keynote speakers at the original event were Martha Zechmeister CJ, who provides the foreword to this volume and, arguably the pre-eminent historian of liberation theology, Enrique Dussel, who sadly passed away in 2023. The editors thank both for their presentations and their larger bodies of work which were a source of continual inspiration while working on the book. At the University of London Press, special thanks go to Emma Gallon, Julie Willis and Jamie Bowman for their advice and guidance during the publication process, while the anonymous reviewers provided valuable and insightful feedback. The editors also wish to convey their personal thanks to the family of Pablo Roberto Suárez for allowing them to use his artwork Martirologio y gloria de los santos anónimos as the book’s cover, and to the staff of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, especially Julieta Aguiar and Viviana Gil, for their assistance in obtaining this permission and the image. In addition, Pablo Bradbury wishes to thank Andrew Redden for his encouragement and insight and Francisca Torres Cortés for always being helpful and supportive, and Niall H. D. Geraghty wishes to thank Adriana Laura Massidda for her continual support, advice and intellectual engagement with the project, and the Leverhulme Trust for funding the research project from which the original conference and this book emerged. Finally, the editors would like to extend their gratitude to the authors of these chapters for their contributions, as well as their patience and enthusiasm for the volume.