Dr Peter Watt

School of Languages, Arts and Societies

Senior Lecturer

p.watt@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 0544

Jessop West

Full contact details

Dr Peter Watt
School of Languages, Arts and Societies
Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
Sheffield
S3 7RA

Research interests

Peter’s interests include US imperialism in Latin America, Latin American and Iberian music, the media and freedom of expression and social movements in Latin America.

He is interested in supervising research students working on US/Latin American relations, Latin American music and social movements and representations of Latin America in the media.

Publications

Books

Watt P & Zepeda R (2012) Drug War Mexico: Politics, Neoliberalism and Violence in the New Narcoeconomy. Zed Books.

Edited books

Pansters W, Smith B & Watt P (Eds.) (2017) Beyond the Drug War in Mexico: Human rights, the public sphere and justice. London: Routledge.

Journal articles

Watt P (2010) Saving History from Oblivion in Guerrero. MON REV, 61(10), 50-58.
Watt P (2010) Mexico’s Secret Dirty War. Sincronía.
Watt P (2009) The Invisible Tyranny of the Mexican Media: Tlatelolco and Beyond. Sincronía.

Chapters

Watt P & Zepeda R (2014) Perspectives of Decriminalization and Legalization of Illicit Drugs In Rosen J & Zepeda R (Ed.), Cooperation and Drug Policies in the Americas: Trends in the Twenty-First Century (pp. 223-232). Maryland: Lexington Books.
Jones GA & Watt P (2014) Violence and Insecurity in Mexico In West J (Ed.), South America, Central America and the Caribbean 2015 London: Routledge.
Watt P () The Legalization Debate In Zepeda R & Rosen J (Ed.), Cooperation and the War on Drugs: Trends in the 21st Century Lexington Press

Teaching activities

Dr. Peter Watt teaches modules on Latin American history, politics and culture and on Latin American and Iberian music.

You can listen to the latest project completed with his final year students here:

https://open.spotify.com/album/65YXhhEyMRjd1uU5ruzCBC?si=U3qTjrCnRiirwRrTbPlHeg