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Papers

(The median citation count of Latin American Research Review is 1. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
New (and a Few Old) Directions in Latin American Visual Cultural Studies	180
The Struggle to Legitimate Political Regimes in Venezuela: From Pérez Jiménez to Maduro	76
Indigenous Communities, Migrant Organizations, and the Ephemeral Nature of Translocality	48
New Waves of Immigration and Departure in Modern Latin America	44
The Act of Listening to “Battered” Women: An Ethnographic Comparison of Police and Emergency Responses in São Paulo, Brazil	44
Racism and Race Mixture in Latin America	40
Swinging Leftward: Public Opinion on Economic and Political Integration in Latin America, 1997–2010	34
Colonialidad múltiple en América Latina: Estructuras de dependencia, relatos de subalternidad	34
Inequality and Inclusion in Latin America	30
Ethos and Pathos in Millennial Brazil	24
The Historian’s Craft: Creating the Past in Colonial Latin America	23
Student Mobilization, Higher Education, and the 2013 Protests in Brazil in Historical Perspective	21
Fiscal Redistribution and Ethnoracial Inequality in Bolivia, Brazil, and Guatemala	21
Political Modernity in Latin America: The Nineteenth Century	19
Progressive Contextualization: Thinking about Extreme Events	18
¿De la disrupción a la institucionalización? El caso del movimiento indígena de Bolivia	17
Race and Rule in the Colonial Andes	16
Reflections on Haitian Democracy: Zooming in on a Megaproject in the Hinterland	16
Report from the Editor (2018)	16
Nuevas perspectivas sobre militancias de alto riesgo: Ciudad de Guatemala, 1980–1985	16
Patriarchy, New Left Post-Neoliberalism, and the Valuing of Care Work: The Labor Conditions of Nicaraguan Nurses under Sandinismo’s “Second Stage”	16
Wallmapu Rising: New Paths in Mapuche Studies	15
Politicized Identities and Social Movements	15
Imagining Latin American Social Science from the Global South: Orlando Fals Borda and Participatory Action Research	14
Progressive Reforms and the Art of the Possible	13

The Functions of Letters to the Editor in Reform-Era Cuba	12
Evaluating the Effect of Homicide Prevention Strategies in São Paulo, Brazil: A Synthetic Control Approach	11
Democracy in Latin America: “Minimalist” in Concept and in Achievement	11
From Indigenous Literatures to Native American and Indigenous Theorists: The Makings of a Grassroots Decoloniality	10
Before the Thaw: The Transnational Routes of Cuban Popular Culture	10
Reading the Affects in the Colonial Americas: The Exteriority of Feeling in Cabeza de Vaca’sNaufragios	10
US-Mexico Relations in an Age of Uncertainty	10
Vulnerable Women in a Thriving Country: An Analysis of Twenty-First-Century Domestic Workers in Peru and Recommendations for Future Research	9
Bribery Cartels: Collusive Corruption in Bolivian Street Markets	9
The Colombia-Israel Nexus: Toward Historical and Analytic Contexts	8
Mexican Anthropology and Inter-American Knowledge	7
Estimation of the Value of Statistical Life in Chile and Extrapolation to Other Latin American Countries	7
Reforming the Relationship between the State and Civil Society in Latin America	7
Plagio y reescritura en Bolivia Construcciones de Sergio di Nucci	6
Here We Are to Build a Nation: Recent Jewish Latin American Documentaries - Hacer patria/To Build a Homeland. Dir. David Blaustein, Prod. Zafra Difusión S.A. and Tornasol Films S.A. Argentina, 2007, 1	6
Los nuevos grupos y sus viejas prácticas en la Argentina reciente (2003–2014): Entre ámbitos privilegiados de acumulación, especulación y monopolios	6
Peru since Independence, a Tortured History	6
The Routinization of Violence in Latin America: Ethnographic Revelations	5
Remittances and Vote Buying	5
Painting the Canvas of the Great Andean Uprising: Recent Research on the Age of Tupac Amaru	5
The Use of Time in Peru: A Scarce and Unvalued Resource in the National Economy	5
Social Responses to Criminal Governance in Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Kingston, and Medellín	5
The Mature Phase: Four Generations of Scholarship on Colonial Mesoamerica and New Spain	5
Pitfalls of Trauma: Revisiting Postdictatorship Cinema from a Semiotic Standpoint	4
The Popular Church and Revolutionary Insurgency in El Salvador	4
Party Systems, Political Competition, and Inequality in Subnational Brazil	4
Transimperial Networks of Slave Trading, Piracy, and Empire Building in the Iberian Atlantic	4
Re-visioning Classic Maya Polities	4
Environment, Urbanization, and Public Health: The Bubonic Plague Epidemic of 1912 in San Juan, Puerto Rico	4
Collusion and Cynicism at the Urban Margins	4
Developing Political Strategies across a New Democratic and State Architecture	4
“Where you from?”: Deportación, identidad y trabajo reciclado en el call center salvadoreño	4
Violence, Peacebuilding, and Democratic Struggles in Central America	3
Missions, Unions, and Indigenous Organization in the Bolivian Amazon: Placing the Formation of an Indigenous Organization in Its Context	3
The Most Desired Positions: Brazilian Female Drug Traffickers in Inferno and Falcão: Mulheres e o tráfico	3
Nineteenth-Century Peru: A German Merchant’s Diary	3
Geography and the Enlightenment: Patriotic Views of the Port City of Havana, 1761–1791	3
Indigenous Resistance to Criminal Governance: Why Regional Ethnic Autonomy Institutions Protect Communities from Narco Rule in Mexico	3
Interrupted Continuities: Transatlantic Relations during and after the Age of Revolutions (1775–1824)	2
Living in Gang-Controlled Neighborhoods: Impacts on Electoral and Nonelectoral Participation in El Salvador	2
Sentenced to Debt: Explaining Student Mobilization in Chile	2
Sustaining Freedom and Second Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Brazil and Cuba	2
A propósito de la unión civil en Chile: Por una jurisprudencia feminista y queer	2
Cambios hasta cierto punto: Segregación residencial y desigualdades económicas en Montevideo (1996–2015)	2
Knowing Your Empire: American Scholars and the Evolution of US–Latin American Studies	2
The Deer and the Donkey: Indigenous Ritual and Survivance in Nicaragua’sEl Güegüense	2
Entonces ¿eso es literatura? Concepciones sobre lo literario en los saraus de poesía de la periferia de São Paulo	2
Rounds de sombra: El boxeo en la crónica deportiva de Tablada, Garibay y Monsiváis	2
Mexicans and Colombians at Home and Abroad: A Comparative Study of Political Engagement	2
Race and Identity across American Borders	2

Translating Diplomacy: President Juan Bosch, Ambassador John Bartlow Martin, and “The Indelible Spot”	2
Narrar a Mariel: Espacialización y heterotopías del exilio cubano en la novelaBoarding Home() de Guillermo Rosales (1946–1993)	1
New Media and Support for Same-Sex Marriage	1
Character Types in Brazilian Reality Shows: Cultural Manifestation of a Media Protagonist Syndrome	1
Contemporary Latin American Inequality: Class Struggle, Decolonization, and the Limits of Liberal Citizenship	1
The Return of International Finance and the Martínez de Hoz Plan in Argentina, 1976–1978	1
El triunfo de la libertad negativa: Discurso parlamentario en Chile acerca de la libertad de expresión	1
Leaving the Devil You Know: Crime Victimization, US Deterrence Policy, and the Emigration Decision in Central America	1
The Legacy of Civil War Dynamics: State Building in Mexico, 1810–1910	1
Teachers, Folklore, and the Crafting ofSerranoCultural Identity in Peru	1
Embodying Blackness in Latin American Religion	1
Place-Based (In)formalization: A Bolivian Marketplace for Consumer Electronics and Global Brands	1
Modernidad, mujeres y agua: Cambios de paradigma en el último siglo del Chile colonial	1
Latin American Critical Epistemologies toward a Biocentric Turn in Communication for Social Change: Communication from a Good Living Perspective	1
Latin American Extractivism and (or after) the Left	1
Report from the Editor (2017)	1
Intimate Political Economies of the Andes	1
Barriers to Egalitarianism: Distributive Tensions in Latin American Federations	1
Brazilian Inequalities in the Global Balance: From Jogo Bonito to Jogo Diplomático	1
“Ele te chamou pra roubar? E tu foi. Tá gostando agora?” Justiça e alteridade em três documentários de Maria Augusta Ramos	1
HowMachismoGot Its Spurs—in English: Social Science, Cold War Imperialism, and the Ethnicization of Hypermasculinity	1
Indigenous Peoples, Postcolonial Ontologies, Neoliberal Regimes, and Approaches to Understanding Medical Pluralism in Latin America	1
A Cultural Revolution: New Directions in Cuban History, 1952–2013	1