Journal of Latin American Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Latin American Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Authoritarian Inheritance, Political Conflict and Conservative Party Institutionalisation: The Cases of Chile and Brazil11
Cassia Roth, A Miscarriage of Justice: Women's Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020), pp. xv + 359, £25.99, pb.10
Elisabeth Jay Friedman (ed.), Seeking Rights from the Left: Gender, Sexuality, and the Latin American Pink Tide (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2019), pp. xiv + 330, $104.95 hb, $27.956
Cuba, Soviet Oil, and the Sanctions that Never Were: An Archival Investigation of Socialist Relations5
Benjamin A. Cowan, Moral Majorities across the Americas: Brazil, the United States and the Creation of the Religious Right (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2021), pp. 304, $95.00 4
Javier Auyero (ed.), Portraits of Persistence: Inequality and Hope in Latin America University of Texas Press, 2024, pp. 2744
Jack Webb, Roderick Westmaas, María del Pilar Kaladeen and William Tantam (eds.), Memory, Migration and (De)Colonisation in the Caribbean and Beyond (London: University of London Press, Institute of L4
Brooke Larson, The Lettered Indian: Race, Nation, and Indigenous Education in Twentieth-Century Bolivia Duke University Press, 2024, pp. xiv + 4804
Kimberly Theidon, Legacies of War: Violence, Ecologies, and Kin (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2022), pp. 128, $22.95 pb.4
Financing a Revolution: The Impact of Bolívar's British Networks in the Independence of Colombia4
Elizabeth Shesko, Conscript Nation: Coercion and Citizenship in the Bolivian Barracks University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020, vii + 252 pp.3
Carmelo Mesa-Lago, Evaluation of Four Decades of Pension Privatization in Latin America, 1980−2020: Promises and Reality (Mexico City: Fundación Friedrich Ebert, 2021), pp. 204, pb and E-book.3
The Intersection of Brazil's Racial Ideology and African Foreign Policy: The Geisel Administration at the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC’77)3
Helen Yaffe, We Are Cuba! How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World Yale University Press, 2020, vii + 363 pp.3
Daniel Ozarow, The Mobilization and Demobilization of Middle-Class Revolt: Comparative Insights from Argentina (New York and London: Routledge, 2019, xiv + 271 pp.2
Robert I. Rotberg (ed.), Corruption in Latin America: How Politicians and Corporations Steal from Citizens (New York: Springer International, 2019), pp. xiv + 320, $139.99 hb; E-book.2
Erika Robb Larkins, The Sensation of Security: Private Guards and Social Order in Brazil Cornell University Press, 2023, pp. viii + 1892
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Micha Rahder, An Ecology of Knowledges: Fear, Love, and Technoscience in Guatemalan Forest Conservation (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2020), pp. 316, $27.95, pb.2
Ioan Grillo, Blood Gun Money: How America Arms Gangs and Cartels (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021), pp. 400, £14.99, pb.2
Mestizo Urbanism: Enduring Racial Intersections in Latin American Cities2
Eveline Dürr and Juliane Müller (eds.), The Popular Economy in Latin America: Informality, Materiality, and Gender in Commerce (Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2019), pp. ix + 204, £60.00 hb.2
Diego Armus (ed.), Sanadores, parteras, curanderos y médicas: Las artes de curar en la Argentina moderna Fondo de Cultura Económica de Argentina, 2022, 376 pp.2
Lynnette Arnold, Living Together across Borders: Communicative Care in Transnational Salvadoran Families Oxford University Press, 2024, pp. 2481
David Johnson Lee, The Ends of Modernization: Nicaragua and the United States in the Cold War Era (Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press, 2021), pp. 270, $54.95 hb, $35.99 E-book1
Fernando Teixeira da Silva, Workers before the Court: Conflicts and Labor Justice in the Context of the 1964 Coup d'Etat in Brazil (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2019), pp. xxviii + 263, £1
Christina Heatherton, Arise! Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution University of California Press, 2022, pp. x + 3111
Patricio Simonetto, El dinero no es todo: Compra y venta de sexo en la Argentina del siglo XX (Buenos Aires: Editorial Biblos, 2019), pp. 244, $23.97 pb.1
Paulina L. Alberto, Black Legend: The Many Lives of Raúl Grigera and the Power of Racial Storytelling in Argentina (Cambridge and New York, 2022), pp. 510, £25.00 hb; $29.95 hb; E-book.1
Steve Ellner (ed.), Latin America's Pink Tide: Breakthroughs and Shortcomings (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2020), pp. vi + 355, £24.95 pb.1
Jessica K. Taft, The Kids are in Charge: Activism and Power in Peru's Movement of Working Children (New York: New York University Press, 2019), pp. vii + 261, £74.00; £23.99, pb.1
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Fabián A. Borges, Human Capital versus Basic Income: Ideology and Models of Anti-Poverty Programs in Latin America University of Michigan Press, 2023, pp. xviii + 2701
Erynn Masi de Casanova, Dust and Dignity: Domestic Employment in Contemporary Ecuador (Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press, 2019), pp. xi + 174, £20.99 pb.1
Agnes Gehbald, A Colonial Book Market: Peruvian Print Culture in the Age of the Enlightenment Cambridge University Press, 2023, pp. xxii + 3741
John Tofik Karam, Manifold Destiny: Arabs at an American Crossroads of Exceptional Rule (Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2021), pp. 334, $39.90 pb.1
Childhood, Love and Politics: The Montonero ‘Nursery’ in Cuba during the Cold War1
Sebastian Alvarez, Mexican Banks and Foreign Finance: From Internationalization to Financial Crisis, 1973–1982 (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), pp. 231, £59.99 pb.1
Gregory Makoff, Default: The Landmark Court Battle over Argentina's $100 Billion Debt Restructuring Georgetown University Press, 2024, pp. xi + 401.1
David Lehmann, After the Decolonial: Ethnicity, Gender and Social Justice in Latin America Polity, 2022, pp. xiv + 2231
Mariela Noles Cotito (ed.), Reflexiones sobre el Perú: Más allá del Bicentenario Fondo Editorial, Universidad del Pacífico, 2022, pp. 4681
David S. Dalton and Douglas J. Weatherford (eds.), Healthcare in Latin America: History, Society, Culture (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2022), 317 pp.1
Matthew M. Taylor, Decadent Developmentalism: The Political Economy of Democratic Brazil Cambridge University Press, 2020, pp. xvii + 3401
Lindsay Mayka, Building Participatory Institutions in Latin America: Reform Coalitions and Institutional Change (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. xviii + 304, £75.00 hb.1
Lorenza B. Fontana, Recognition Politics: Indigenous Rights and Ethnic Conflict in the Andes Cambridge University Press, 2023, pp. xix + 2421
Nina Lakhani, Who Killed Berta Cáceres? Dams, Death Squads and an Indigenous Defender's Battle for the Planet (London: Verso, 2020), pp. 336, £18.99 pb.0
Susana Sosenski, Robachicos: Historia del secuestro infantil en México (1900–1960) (Mexico City: Grano de Sal/UNAM, 2021), pp. 277, 330 pesos, pb.0
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Teresa A. Velásquez, Pachamama Politics: Campesino Water Defenders and the Anti-Mining Movement in Andean Ecuador University of Arizona Press, 2022, xx + 264 pp.0
Growing Up Indio during the Mexican Miracle: Childhood, Race and the Politics of Memory0
Mauro José Caraccioli, Writing the New World: The Politics of Natural History in the Early Spanish Empire (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2021), pp. 212, $80.00, hb, $28.00, pb.0
Courtney J. Campbell, Region Out of Place: The Brazilian Northeast and the World, 1924–1968 University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022, pp. ix + 301 pp.0
Sarah Walsh, The Religion of Life: Eugenics, Race, and Catholicism in Chile University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022, pp. x + 2340
Julia A. Flagg, Aiming for Net Zero: Costa Rica's Green Elite and the Struggle to Mitigate Climate Change MIT Press, 2024, pp. xv +2400
Manuel Balán and Françoise Montambeault (eds.), Legacies of the Left Turn in Latin America: The Promise of Inclusive Citizenship University of Notre Dame Press, 2020, pp. xxvii + 4430
María Pia López, Not One Less: Mourning, Disobedience and Desire (London: Polity Press, 2020), pp. 180, £50.00; £15.99, pb; E-book.0
Harnessing ‘Wasted’ Waters: Conservation, Hydropower and the Origins of Chile's National Electrification Plan0
Noah Oehri, Landscapes of Liberation: Mission and Development in Peru's Southern Highlands, 1958–1988 Leuven University Press, 2023, pp. 2310
Pascal Lupien, Indigenous Civil Society in Latin America: Collective Action in the Digital Age University of North Carolina Press, 2023, pp. xii + 3720
Rachel A. Schwartz, Undermining the State from Within: The Institutional Legacies of Civil War in Central America Cambridge University Press, 2023, pp. xxii + 3100
Guillermo Trejo and Sandra Ley, Votes, Drugs, and Violence: The Political Logic of Criminal Wars in Mexico (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 350, £79.99 hb, £26.99 pb.0
Margaret Chowning, Catholic Women and Mexican Politics, 1750–1940 Princeton University Press, 2023, xiv + 362 pp.0
Making Sense of Electoral Violence: The Narrative Frame of Organised Crime in Mexico0
Jérôme Sgard, The Debt Crisis of the 1980s: Law and Political Economy Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023, xii + 341 pp0
Celeste González de Bustamante and Jeannine E. Relly, Surviving Mexico: Resistance and Resilience among Journalists in the Twenty-First Century (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2021), pp. 288, 0
Julia J. S. Sarreal, Yerba Mate: The Drink That Shaped a Nation University of California Press, 2023, ix + 375 pp.0
Carmen Kordick, The Saints of Progress: A History of Coffee, Migration, and Costa Rican National Identity (Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2019), pp. xx + 268, $49.95 hb.0
Isabel Story, Soviet Influence on Cuban Culture, 1961–1987: When the Soviets Came to Stay Lexington, 2020, pp. xiii + 3310
Hugo Cerón-Anaya, Privilege at Play: Class, Race, Gender, and Golf in Mexico Oxford University Press, 2019, pp. xii + 2170
Identity, Conflict and Discourse: Understanding Military Contestation in Brazil0
Véronique Boyer, The Amazonian Puzzle: Ethnic Positionings and Social Mobilizations (trans. Precious Brown) Berghahn Books, 2024, pp. xiii + 1310
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Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert, The Three Deaths of Cerro de San Pedro: Four Centuries of Extractivism in a Small Mexican Mining Town University of North Carolina Press, 2022, pp. xvi + 3080
When Does Lethal Repression Fail? Unarmed Militancy and Backfire in Bolivia, 1982–20210
Jessica A. J. Rich, State-Sponsored Activism: Bureaucrats and Social Movements in Democratic Brazil (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. xv + 240, £75.00 hb.0
Healthcare Reform out of Nowhere? Policy Reform and the Lack of Programmatic Commitment in Peru0
Governance Sensitivities and the Politics of Translation: Rethinking the Colonisation of the Shuar of Ecuador's Amazonian South-East0
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Democrats’ Mistakes and the Birth of Authoritarian Rule: Ramón S. Castillo and the Fall of Conservative Democracy in Argentina0
Mining Boom and Contentious Politics across Central America: Elites, Movements and Party Systems0
Funding Policy Research under ‘Distasteful Regimes’: The Ford Foundation and the Social Sciences in Brazil, 1964–710
Mechanised Pits and Artisanal Tunnels: The Incongruences and Complementarities of Mining Investment in the Peruvian Andes0
Guests of the Guerrilla: Integrated Spectacle and Disintegrating Peace, an Ethnographic Analysis of the FARC's Tenth (and Final?) Guerrilla Conference0
Piero Gleijeses, America's Road to Empire: Foreign Policy from Independence to World War One (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), vii + 379 pp.0
La Pata de Cabra, Satire and Free Speech in Nineteenth-Century Mexico City0
Paulo Drinot, The Sexual Question: A History of Prostitution in Peru, 1850s–1950s (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 328, £23.99, pb.0
Tenuous Pacts and Multiparty Coalitions: The Politics of Presidential Impeachment in Latin America0
Hugo C. Ikehara-Tsukayama and Juan Carlos Vargas Ruiz (eds.), Global Perspectives on Landscapes of Warfare University Press of Colorado, 2022; Editorial de la Universidad del Magdalena, Santa Marta, p0
Peter Blanchard, Fearful Vassals: Urban Elite Loyalty in the Viceroyalty of Río de la Plata, 1776–1810 University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020, pp. ix + 2850
Carlos Solar, Cybersecurity Governance in Latin America: States, Threats, and Alliances State University of New York Press, 2023, pp. 3520
Tamara Feinstein, The Fate of Peruvian Democracy: Political Violence, Human Rights, and the Legal Left University of Notre Dame Press, 2023, pp. xx + 3400
The Nation on the Corners: The Politics of Street-Naming in Lima during the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century0
Pedro A. G. dos Santos and Farida Jalalzai, Women's Empowerment and Disempowerment in Brazil: The Rise and Fall of President Dilma Rousseff (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2021), pp. 212, 0
When Informality Matters: Participatory Security Reform and Mechanisms of Social Embeddedness in Nezahualcóyotl, Mexico0
Eve Hayes de Kalaf, Legal Identity, Race and Belonging in the Dominican Republic: From Citizen to Foreigner (London and New York: Anthem Press, 2021), pp. 146, £80.00 hb, £19.99 pb; $125.00 hb, $26.990
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David C. LaFevor, Prizefighting and Civilization: A Cultural History of Boxing, Race, and Masculinity in Mexico and Cuba, 1840–1940 University of New Mexico Press, 2020, pp. 2980
Maximo G. Martinez, Sojourners in the Capital of the World: Garifuna Immigrants Fordham University Press, 2023, pp. vii + 2590
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Thomas Fischer, Romy Köhler and Stefan Reith (eds.), Fútbol y sociedad en América Latina (Madrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2021), pp. 506, €44.00 pb.0
Bradley Skopyk, Colonial Cataclysms: Climate, Landscape, and Memory in Mexico's Little Ice Age University of Arizona Press, 2020, pp. xv + 3130
The Cultural Battle for the Chilean Model: Intellectual Elites in Times of Politicisation (2010–17)0
Margarita Fajardo, The World that Latin America Created: The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022), pp. 281, $39.90
Patricia Vilches (ed.), Negotiating Space in Latin America Brill, 2020, 331 pp.0
Julie Gibbings, Our Time Is Now: Race and Modernity in Postcolonial Guatemala (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. xiv + 419, £90.00 hb; E-book.0
Fiona Macaulay, Transforming State Responses to Feminicide: Women's Movements, Law and Criminal Justice Institutions in Brazil (Bingley: Emerald, 2021), pp. 152, £45.00 hb0
Pilar M. Herr, Contested Nation: The Mapuche, Bandits, and State Formation in Nineteenth-Century Chile (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2019), pp. viii + 155, $65.00 hb; E-Book.0
Participatory Democracy, Democratic Education, and Women0
Shawn William Miller, The Street is Ours: Community, the Car, and the Nature of Public Space in Rio de Janeiro Cambridge University Press, 2018, pp. x + 3450
Jeff Garmany and Anthony W. Pereira, Understanding Contemporary Brazil (London and New York: Routledge, 2019), pp. xiii + 239, £29.99, pb.0
Amos Megged, Rituals and Sisterhoods: Single Women's Households in Mexico, 1560–1750 (Louisville, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2020), pp. xiv + 315, $100 hb, $35.95 pb, $29.95 E-book0
Mark Christensen and Matthew Restall, Return to Ixil: Maya Society in an Eighteenth-Century Yucatec Town (Louisville, CO: University of Colorado Press, 2019), pp. xiv + 302, $76.00, hb.0
Jaime M. Pensado, Love and Despair: How Catholic Activism Shaped Politics and the Counterculture in Modern Mexico University of California Press, 2023, pp. xvi + 3570
Gisela Zaremberg and Debora Rezende de Almeida, Feminisms in Latin America: Pro-Choice Nested Networks in Mexico and Brazil Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp. 750
Rocio Gomez, Silver Veins, Dusty Lungs: Mining, Water, and Public Health in Zacatecas, 1835–1946 (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2020), pp. 294, $60.00, $30.00 pb and E-book.0
Salvador Allende and Argentine Military Rule: Domestic Politics, Geopolitical Factors and Transnational Dimensions, 1970–30
Amy C. Offner, Sorting out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019), pp. 400, $39.95, $27.95, pb; £34.0
Andrea Lluch, Martín Monsalve-Zanatti and Marcelo Bucheli (eds.), Historia empresarial en América Latina: Temas, debates y problemas (Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes, and Lima: Universidad del Pacífi0
Manuel R. Cuellar, Choreographing Mexico: Festive Performances and Dancing Histories of a Nation (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2022), 372 pp.0
Christy Thornton, Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2021), pp. 310, $85.00, $29.95, pb and E-book; £70.00, £25.000
Amazonian Atlantic: Cacao, Colonial Expansion and Indigenous Labour in the Portuguese Amazon Region (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries)0
David M. Gitlitz, Living in Silverado: Secret Jews in the Silver Mining Towns of Colonial Mexico University of New Mexico Press, 2019, pp. xii + 3000
Shawn Michael Austin, Colonial Kinship: Guaraní, Spaniards, and Africans in Paraguay University of New Mexico Press, 2020, pp. xvi + 3650
Michelle D. Bonner, Tough on Crime: The Rise of Punitive Populism in Latin America (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019), pp. xi + 204, $40.00, hb.0
The Pluri-Extractivist State: Regional Autonomy and the Limits of Indigenous Representation in Bolivia's Gran Chaco Province0
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Global Mariátegui0
Roosbelinda Cárdenas, Raising Two Fists: Struggles for Black Citizenship in Multicultural Colombia Stanford University Press, 2024, pp. 2740
Communist Disinformation Campaigns and the Latin American Cold War of the 1960s: The Case of the Uruguayan Newspaper Época0
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John Soluri, Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, revised edition 2021), pp. 368, $29.95 pb.0
Jessica Lynn Graham, Shifting the Meaning of Democracy: Race, Politics, and Culture in the United States and Brazil University of California Press, 2019, pp. xxi + 3650
Communication between the Militants of the ‘8 October’ Revolutionary Movement and the Peasants of Brotas de Macaúbas, Bahia, Brazil (1969–71)0
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Louis A. Pérez Jr., Rice in the Time of Sugar: The Political Economy of Food in Cuba (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2019), pp. xiv + 249, $29.95 pb.0
Carlos Marichal, El nacimiento de la banca en América Latina: Finanzas y política en el siglo XIX Colegio de México, 2021, pp. 5080
Family Canon: The Politics of Family during the Last Civic-Military Dictatorship in Argentina, 1976–830
Political Polarisation in Uruguay in the Early 1960s: The Role of Luis Batlle Berres and Lista 150
Narratives of Authoritarianism in Times of Crisis: Democracy and Limitations of Progressive Politics in Plurinational Bolivia0
Anna Cant, Land without Masters: Agrarian Reform and Political Change under Peru's Military Government (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2021), pp. 248, $55.00, hb.0
Sustaining Criminal Governance with Fear: The Use of Extra-lethal Violence to Regulate Community Life0
James Lockhart, Chile, the CIA and the Cold War: A Transatlantic Perspective (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021), pp. 282, £19.99 pb.0
Jihye Kim, From Sweatshop to Fashion Shop: Korean Immigrant Entrepreneurship in the Argentine Garment Industry (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021), 200 pp.0
The Social Dynamics of Violence and Respect: State, Crime and Church in a Brazilian Favela0
Does Voluntary Voting Enhance Partisan Bias? Evidence from Chile0
James Gerber, Border Economies: Cities Bridging the U.S.–Mexico Divide University of Arizona Press, 2024, 311 pp.0
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Sarah Zukerman Daly, Violent Victors: Why Bloodstained Parties Win Postwar Elections Princeton University Press, 2022, pp. vii + 3830
Vanni Pettinà, A Compact History of Latin America's Cold War, translated by Quentin Pope University of North Carolina Press, 2022, pp. xx + 1980
Philip Fehling and Hans-Jürgen Burchardt (eds.), Taxation and Inequality in Latin America: New Perspectives on Political Economy and Tax Regimes Routledge, 2023, 303 pp.0
Confronting the Youngest Revolution: Cuban Anti-Communists and the Global Politics of Youth in the Early 1960s0
Maximilian Viatori and Héctor Bombiella, Coastal Lives: Nature, Capital, and the Struggle for Artisanal Fisheries in Peru (Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2019), pp. 228, $50.00 hb.0
Gilberto Nascimento, O Reino: A história de Edir Macedo e uma radiografia da Igreja Universal (São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2019), pp. 384, $30.59 pb.0
Dictatorships, Coffee and Bananas: The Political Economy of Sovereign Debt in Costa Rica and Nicaragua, 1871−19110
Circulating Political Information in Colombia: Written and Oral Communication Practices in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century0
The Promise and Peril of the Popular: Interpretations of Nineteenth-Century Popular Liberalism in Mexico0
The Resort to Emergency Policing to Control Gang Violence in Jamaica: Making the Exception the Rule0
Ingrid Bleynat, Vendors’ Capitalism: A Political Economy of Public Markets in Mexico City (Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021), 264 pp.0
Noemi Levy-Orlik, Jorge Alonso Bustamante-Torres and Louis-Philippe Rochon (eds.), Capital Movements and Corporate Dominance in Latin America: Reduced Growth and Increased Instability (Cheltenham: Edw0
Glitter and Graffiti: Labour, Expertise and the Feminist Remaking of Mexican National Heritage0
To Celia, on her retirement0
Necrotaboos and Political Afterlives in Social Justice Activism during Mexico's Day of the Dead0
Charisma's Birth from the Bottom Up: Lula, ABC's Metalworkers’ Strikes and the Social History of Brazilian Politics0
The Distributive Impact of the Labour Market and of Cash Transfer Policies during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Latin America0
Juan Carlos Yáñez Andrade, El tiempo domesticado, Chile 1900–1950: Trabajo, cultura y tiempo libre en la configuración de las identidades laborales (Valparaíso: América en Movimiento, 2020), pp. 176, 0
Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui (translated by Molly Geidel), Ch'ixinakax utxiwa: On Practices and Discourses of Decolonization (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2020), pp. 89, £40.00, £12.99 pb; €45.20, €14.70 pb0
Chris Alden and Álvaro Méndez, China and Latin America: Development, Agency and Geopolitics Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2023, pp. 2960
Gabriel Hetland, Democracy on the Ground: Local Politics in Latin America's Left Turn Columbia University Press, 2023, pp. 3070
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Henry A. Dietz, Population Growth, Social Segregation, and Voting Behavior in Lima, Peru, 1940–2016 (Notre Dame, IL: University of Notre Dame Press, 2019), pp. viii + 227, $60.00 hb.0
Alan McPherson, Ghosts of Sheridan Circle: How a Washington Assassination Brought Pinochet's Terror State to Justice (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2019), 382 pp.0
Salvador Salinas, Land, Liberty, and Water: Morelos after Zapata, 1920–1940 (Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2018), pp. xii + 254, $55.00, hb.0
Thomas Ward, Coloniality and the Rise of Liberation Thinking during the Sixteenth Century (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021), pp. 259, €99.00 hb.0
Scott Morgenstern, Jorge Pérez-López and Jerome Branche (eds.), Paths for Cuba: Reforming Communism in Comparative Perspective (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), pp. vi + 400, $340
Claudia Rueda, Students of Revolution: Youth, Protest, and Coalition Building in Somoza-Era Nicaragua (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2019), pp. xii + 291, £45.00 hb.0
Tanalís Padilla, Unintended Lessons of the Revolution: Student Teachers and Political Radicalism in Twentieth-Century Mexico (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2022), pp. 376, $28.95 pb.0
Unlikely Expropriators: Why Right-Wing Parties Implemented Agrarian Reform in Democratic Brazil0
Milton Fernando Gonzalez Rodriguez, Indigeneity in Latin American Cinema Bloomsbury, 2022, pp. x + 3260
Elizabeth Henson, Agrarian Revolt in the Sierra of Chihuahua, 1959–1965 (Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2019), pp. xxv + 269, $55.00, hb.0
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Timothy J. Killeen, A Perfect Storm in the Amazon Wilderness: Success and Failure in the Fight to Save an Ecosystem of Critical Importance to the Planet White Horse Press, 2022, pp. xxiii + 4840
Rachel Nolan, Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala Harvard University Press, 2024, pp. xxiii + 2880
Gabriel Vommaro, Conservatives against the Tide: The Rise of the Argentine PRO in Comparative Perspective Cambridge University Press, 2023, 75 pp.0
Chilean-Style Populism: Carlos Ibáñez's Electoral Support Base0
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Pierre Ostiguy, Francisco Panizza and Benjamin Moffitt (eds.), Populism in Global Perspective: A Performative and Discursive Approach (Abingdon: Routledge, 2021), pp. 324, £120.00, £34.99 pb, £31.49 E0
Can Powerful Dictators Escape ‘The Market as Prison’? The Case of Pension Privatisation in Pinochet's Chile0
Andreas E. Feldmann and Juan Pablo Luna, Criminal Politics and Botched Development in Contemporary Latin America Cambridge University Press, 2023, pp. 890
Gustavo A. Flores-Macías (ed.), The Political Economy of Taxation in Latin America (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. xii + 271, £75.00, hb.0
Mateo Jarquín, The Sandinista Revolution: A Global Latin American History University of North Carolina Press, 2024, pp. xvii + 3140
The Counter-Revolution's Patron: Rafael Trujillo versus Venezuela's Acción Democrática Governments, 1945–80
Rose J. Spalding, Breaking Ground: From Extraction Booms to Mining Bans in Latin America Oxford University Press, 2023, pp. 3080
Walter D. Mignolo and Catherine E. Walsh, On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2018), pp. xii + 291, $99.95, $26.95 pb and E-book; £77.00, £20.0
Gema Kloppe-Santamaría, In the Vortex of Violence: Lynching, Extralegal Justice, and the State in Post-Revolutionary Mexico (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020), pp. xvi + 212, $85.00 h0
Steve Ellner, Ronaldo Munck and Kyla Sankey (eds.), Latin American Social Movements and Progressive Governments: Creative Tensions between Resistance and Convergence Rowman & Littlefield, 2022, pp0
Andrea Martínez Baracs (trans. Hank Heifetz), An Irish Rebel in New Spain: The Tumultuous Life and Tragic Death of William Lamport (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021), pp.0
Javier Auyero and Katherine Sobering, The Ambivalent State: Police–Criminal Collusion at the Urban Margins (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. 240, $29.95, pb.0
Wil G. Pansters (ed.), La Santa Muerte in Mexico: History, Devotion, and Society (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2019), pp. xiv + 230, £70.95 hb.0
Joshua Savala, Beyond Patriotic Phobias: Connections, Cooperation, and Solidarity in the Peruvian-Chilean Pacific World (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2022), 248 pp.0
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