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Anthropology
September 30, 2023
Progress in the Balance
Mythologies of Development in Santos, Brazil
Daniel R. Reichman
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Yadong Li
Progress and development have long been important issues in anthropology and social sciences. Based on extensive archives and ethnographic fieldwork, Progress in the Balance: Mythologies of Development in Santos, Brazil …
Latin American Studies
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Latin American Studies
September 22, 2023
Reading the Walls of Bogota
Graffiti, Street Art, and the Urban Imaginary of Violence
Alba Griffin
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Victoria Lupascu
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A cultural imaginary is a structuring space through which collective understandings of cultural and society phenomena are formed, reproduced, and accepted as the norm. Reading the Walls of Bogota: Graffiti …
Interpretive Political and Social Science
September 20, 2023
Rooted Globalism
Arab–Latin American Business Elites and the Politics of Global Imaginaries
Kevin Funk
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Nick Cheesman
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Triumphant capitalism has in our time engendered a new global class that lives and works in a borderless world, beyond the reach of national politics or sovereign power. Or has …
Caribbean Studies
September 17, 2023
Negotiating Relief and Freedom
Responses to Disaster in the British Caribbean, 1812-1907
Oscar Webber
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Miranda Melcher
Negotiating Relief and Freedom: Responses to Disaster in the British Caribbean, 1812-1907 (Manchester University Press, 2023) by Dr. Oscar Webber is an investigation of short- and long-term responses to disaster …
Literary Studies
September 16, 2023
Emergency
Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis
Edgar Garcia
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John Yargo
Today’s guest is Edgar Garcia. Garcia’s new book Emergency: Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis (University of Chicago Press, 2022). Emergency takes nine words—“birds,” “wealth,” “caves,” “television,” …
Latin American Studies
September 15, 2023
Of Light and Struggle
Social Justice, Human Rights, and Accountability in Uruguay
Debbie Sharnak
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Christine Lamberson
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Debbie Sharnak's new book, Of Light and Struggle: Social Justice, Human Rights, and Accountability in Uruguay (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023) is an important and vibrant history of international and …
Literature
September 5, 2023
I Surrender
A Memoir of Chile's Dictatorship, 1975
Kathleen M. Osberger
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G. P. Gottlieb
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Today I talked to Kathleen Osberger about her book I Surrender: A Memoir of Chile's Dictatorship, 1975 (Oribis Books, 2023). In 1975, Kathleen Osberger, who’d just graduated from Notre Dame University …
General History
September 4, 2023
Since Time Immemorial
Native Custom and Law in Colonial Mexico
Yanna Yannakakis
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Joaquín Rivaya-Martínez
In Since Time Immemorial: Native Custom and Law in Colonial Mexico (Duke UP, 2023), Yanna Yannakakis traces the invention of Native custom, a legal category that Indigenous litigants used in disputes …
Latin American Studies
September 3, 2023
Until the Storm Passes
Politicians, Democracy, and the Demise of Brazils Military Dictatorship
Bryan Pitts
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Ari Barbalat
Bryan Pitts' book Until the Storm Passes: Politicians, Democracy, and the Demise of Brazil's Military Dictatorship (U California Press, 2023) reveals how Brazil's 1964-1985 military dictatorship contributed to its own demise …
Disability Studies
September 2, 2023
Madness in Buenos Aires
Patients, Psychiatrists, and the Argentine State, 1880-1983
Jonathan Ablard
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Shu Wan
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Madness in Buenos Aires: Patients, Psychiatrists, and the Argentine State, 1880-1983 (Ohio UP, 2008) examines the interactions between psychiatrists, patients and their families, and the national state in modern Argentina …
Jewish Studies
September 2, 2023
Gente Como Uno
Class, Belonging, and Transnationalism in Jewish Life in Lima
Romina Yalonetzky
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Ari Barbalat
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In Gente Como Uno: Class, Belonging, and Transnationalism in Jewish Life in Lima (Academic Studies Press, 2021), Dr. Romina Yalonetzky introduces readers to a physical microcosm of the intersection between Peruvian and …
Latin American Studies
September 1, 2023
Love and Despair
How Catholic Activism Shaped Politics and the Counterculture in Modern Mexico
Jaime M. Pensado
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Brad Wright
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Love and Despair: How Catholic Activism Shaped Politics and the Counterculture in Modern Mexico (U California Press, 2023) explores the multiple and mostly unknown ways progressive and conservative Catholic actors …
Education
August 30, 2023
Commemorative Literacies and Labors of Justice
Resistance, Reconciliation, and Recovery in Buenos Aires and Beyond
James S. Damico, Loren D. Lybarger, and Edward Brudney
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Madden Gilhooly
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Commemorative Literacies and Labors of Justice: Resistance, Reconciliation, and Recovery in Buenos Aires and Beyond (Routledge, 2021) examines literacy practices of commemoration marking the 40th anniversary of the March 24 …
African American Studies
August 29, 2023
Museums and Atlantic Slavery
Ana Lucia Araujo
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Katrina Anderson
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Ana Lucia Araujo's book Museums and Atlantic Slavery (Routledge, 2021) explores how slavery, the Atlantic slave trade, and enslaved people are represented through words, visual images, artifacts, and audiovisual materials in …
Mexican Studies
August 25, 2023
Arise!
Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution
Christina Heatherton
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Ari Barbalat
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The Mexican Revolution was a global event that catalyzed international radicals in unexpected sites and struggles. Tracing the paths of figures like Black American artist Elizabeth Catlett, Indian anti-colonial activist …
Latin American Studies
August 20, 2023
Circulating Culture
Transnational Cuban Networks of Exchange
Jennifer Cearns
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Katie Coldiron
“In this subtle and beautifully crafted ethnography, Cearns invites us to travel through the many Cuban circuits of exchange that give shape to mutating histories of connection within and between …
Latin American Studies
August 16, 2023
If I Give My Soul
Faith Behind Bars in Rio de Janeiro
Andrew Johnson
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Ethan Fredrick
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Pentecostal Christianity is flourishing inside the prisons of Rio de Janeiro. To find out why, Andrew Johnson dug deep into the prisons themselves. He began by spending two weeks living …
Anthropology
August 11, 2023
Routine Crisis
An Ethnography of Disillusion
Sarah Muir
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Alize Arıcan
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Argentina, once heralded as the future of capitalist progress, has a long history of economic volatility. In 2001–2002, a financial crisis led to its worst economic collapse, precipitating a dramatic …
Latin American Studies
August 6, 2023
Sewer of Progress
Corporations, Institutionalized Corruption, and the Struggle for the Santiago River
Cindy McCulligh
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Brad Wright
For almost two decades, the citizens of Western Mexico have called for a cleanup of the Santiago River, a water source so polluted it emanates an overwhelming acidic stench. Toxic …
Science, Technology, and Society
August 5, 2023
Deep Cut
Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal
Christine Keiner
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Shu Wan
The Atlantic-Pacific Central American sea-level canal is generally regarded as a spectacular failure. However, Deep Cut: Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal (U Georgia Press, 2020) examines the canal …
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