New Books in Latin American Studies

Interview with Scholars of Latin America about their New Books

Society & Culture
History
551
Elisa Pulido, "The Spiritual Evolution of Marga...
An Interview with Elisa Pulido
58 min
552
Vanessa Mongey, "Rogue Revolutionaries: The Fig...
An Interview with Vanessa Mongey
58 min
553
Sharika D. Crawford, "The Last Turtlemen of the...
An interview with Sharika D. Crawford
65 min
554
Claire M. Wolnisty, "A Different Manifest Desti...
An interview with Claire M. Wolnisty
47 min
555
Doing Ethnography in Buenos Aires: A Discussion...
An interview with Javier Auyero
55 min
556
Norah L. A. Gharala, "Taxing Blackness: Free Af...
Interview with Norah L. A. Gharala
45 min
557
Matilde Córdoba Azcárate, "Stuck with Tourism: ...
An interview with Matilde Córdoba Azcárate
69 min
558
Marjoleine Kars, "Blood on the River: A Chronic...
An interview with Marjoleine Kars
42 min
559
Jean Casimir. "The Haitians: A Decolonial Histo...
An interview with Jean Casimir
78 min
560
Anne Garland Mahler, "From the Tricontinental t...
An interview with Anne Garland Mahler
31 min
561
Ethnographic Fieldwork in Ecuador: A Discussion...
An interview with Maricarmen Hernandez
48 min
562
John Soluri and Claudia Leal, "A Living Past: E...
This book seeks to provide a general overview of environmental history within Latin American history...
62 min
563
Ana Beatriz Ribeiro, "Modernization Dreams, Lus...
What history and motivations make up the discourses we are taught to hold, and spread, as common sense?
53 min
564
Alan McPherson, "Ghosts of Sheridan Circle: How...
On September 21, 1976, a car bomb exploded in Washington DC, killing a former Chilean diplomat named Orlando Letelier and his American colleague Ronni Moffitt...
64 min
565
Andrea Ballestero, "A Future History of Water" ...
Ballestero looks at the unexpected ethical and technical entanglements through which experts understand water in Latin America...
56 min
566
Eric Zolov, "The Last Good Neighbor: Mexico in ...
Zolov retells the history of 1960s Mexico by focusing on the way that Mexican political leaders pursued a paradoxical foreign policy agenda...
53 min
567
Krista Brune, "Creative Transformations: Travel...
Brune brings together Brazilian fiction, film, journalism, essays, and correspondence from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries...
89 min
568
Lessie Jo Frazier, "Desired States: Sex, Gender...
Lessie Jo Frazier contends that desire played a central role in the political culture of the modern Chilean state.,,,
72 min
569
Jeppe Mulich, "In a Sea of Empires: Networks an...
Mulich highlights the revolutionary fervor, political turmoil, conflict, and chaos in the Leeward Island region of the Caribbean in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries....
50 min
570
Amalia Leguizamón, "Seeds of Power: Environment...
Leguizamón explores why Argentines largely support GM soy despite the widespread damage it creates...
58 min
571
Julie Gibbings, "Our Time is Now: Race and Mode...
Gibbings offers an ambitious exploration of modernity, history, and time in post-colonial Guatemala..,
48 min
572
Eric Rutkow, "The Longest Line on the Map The U...
Rutkow retraces the fascinating, decades-long history of the attempt to build the world’s longest highway...
49 min
573
Micha Rahder, "An Ecology of Knowledges: Fear, ...
Rahder offers a rich ethnography of knowledge-making practices in Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve, the largest nature reserve in Central America...
55 min
574
Suma Ikeuchi, "Jesus Loves Japan: Return Migrat...
In 1990, the Japanese government introduced the Nikkei-jin (Japanese descendant) visa and since then it has attracted more than 190,000 Nikkei Brazilian nationals to Japan...
76 min
575
Sara Luna, "Love in the Drug War: Selling Sex a...
Sex, drugs, religion, and love are potent combinations in la zona, a regulated prostitution zone in the city of Reynosa, across the border from Hidalgo, Texas...
38 min