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Latin American Studies
Third World Nationalism January 26, 2021

Latin American Nationalism

Identity in a Globalizing World

James F. Siekmeier

Hosted by Kirk Meighoo
This is a Special Series on Third World Nationalism. In the wake of a rise in nationalism around the world, and its general condemnation by liberals and the left, in …

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Genocide Studies January 22, 2021

Acts of Repair

Justice, Truth, and the Politics of Memory in Argentina

Natasha Zaretsky

Hosted by Jeff Bachman
Acts of Repair: Justice, Truth, and the Politics of Memory in Argentina (Rutgers UP, 2020) explores how ordinary people grapple with political violence in Argentina, a nation home to survivors of …
Caribbean Studies January 20, 2021

Rogue Revolutionaries

The Fight for Legitimacy in the Greater Caribbean

Vanessa Mongey

Hosted by Sharika Crawford
The University of Pennsylvania describes Mongey's work as follows. "When we think of the Age of Revolutions, George Washington, Robespierre, Toussaint Louverture, or Simon Bolivar might come to mind. But Rogue Revolutionaries …
Latino Studies January 20, 2021

The Spiritual Evolution of Margarito Bautista

Mexican Mormon Evangelizer, Polygamist Dissident, and Utopian Founder, 1878-1961

Elisa Pulido

Hosted by David-James Gonzales
The Spiritual Evolution of Margarito Bautista: Mexican Mormon Evangelizer, Polygamist Dissident, and Utopian Founder, 1878-1961 (Oxford University Press, 2020) provides the first full-length biography of a celebrated Latino Mormon leader …
Latin American Studies January 12, 2021

The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean

Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making

Sharika D. Crawford

Hosted by Lisette Varon Carvajal
In The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Makin (University of North Carolina Press 2020), Dr. Sharika Crawford tells the story of Caymanian turtle hunters …
History January 5, 2021

A Different Manifest Destiny

U. S. Southern Identity and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century South America

Claire M. Wolnisty

Hosted by Christine Lamberson
The story of Manifest Destiny and the role of expansion in American slavery is dominated by the history of Western migration. In A Different Manifest Destiny: U.S. Southern Identity and …
Latin American Studies January 4, 2021

Taxing Blackness

Free Afromexican Tribute in Bourbon New Spain

Norah L. A. Gharala

Hosted by Rachel Newman
During the eighteenth century, hundreds of thousands of free descendants of Africans in Mexico faced a highly specific obligation to the Spanish crown, a tax based on their genealogy and …
Ethnographic Marginalia January 4, 2021

Doing Ethnography in Buenos Aires

A Discussion with Javier Auyero

Javier Auyero

Hosted by Alexander Diamond
Today we speak with Javier Auyero, Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, about his 25 years of experience studying marginalized communities in Buenos Aires ethnographically. Javier …
Anthropology December 29, 2020

Stuck with Tourism

Space, Power, and Labor in Contemporary Yucatan

Matilde Córdoba Azcárate

Hosted by Reighan Gillam
The name Cancún brings to mind tourism, resorts, beaches, sun, and fun. In her book, Stuck With Tourism: Space, Power, and Labor in Contemporary Yucatan (University of California Press, 2020), Matilde …
Caribbean Studies December 29, 2020

Blood on the River

A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast

Marjoleine Kars

Hosted by Sharika Crawford
In Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast (New Press, 2020), historian Marjoleine Kars tells the story of a massive eighteenth-century slave rebellion in the Dutch …
African American Studies December 28, 2020

The Haitians

A Decolonial History

Jean Casimir

Hosted by Adam McNeil
In The Haitians: A Decolonial History (UNC Press, 2020), leading Haitian intellectual Jean Casimir argues that the story of Haiti should not begin with the usual image of Saint-Domingue as …
Caribbean Studies December 22, 2020

From the Tricontinental to the Global South

Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity

Anne Garland Mahler

Hosted by Sharika Crawford
In From the Tricontinental to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity (Duke UP, 2018), Anne Garland Mahler traces the history and intellectual legacy of the understudied global justice …
Ethnographic Marginalia December 21, 2020

Fieldwork in Ecuador

A Discussion with Maricarmen Hernandez

Maricarmen Hernandez

Hosted by Alexander Diamond
What is it like to do research in a marginalized community in the shadows of Ecuador’s largest oil refinery? On today’s episode we talk with Maricarmen Hernandez, assistant professor of …
Latin American Studies December 17, 2020

A Living Past

Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America

John Soluri, Pádua José Augusto, Claudia Leal

Hosted by Lisette Varon Carvajal
A Living Past: Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America (Berghahn Books, 2018) is a wonderful collection that seeks to provide a general overview of environmental history within Latin American history …
History December 15, 2020

Ghosts of Sheridan Circle

How a Washington Assassination Brought Pinochet's Terror State to Justice

Alan McPherson

Hosted by Dexter Fergie
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. The assassination was a cruel …
Latin American Studies December 15, 2020

Modernization Dreams, Lusotropical Promises

A Global Studies Perspective on Brazil-Mozambique Development Discourse

Ana Beatriz Ribeiro

Hosted by Candela Marini
What history and motivations make up the discourses we are taught to hold, and spread, as common sense? As a member of Brazil's upper middle class, Ana Beatriz Ribeiro grew …
Environmental Studies December 11, 2020

A Future History of Water

Andrea Ballestero

Hosted by Alejandro Ponce de Leon
We are joined by Dr. Andrea Ballestero, associate Professor of Anthropology and Director Ethnography Studio, at Rice University. We will be talking about her book A Future History of Water …
Latin American Studies December 9, 2020

Creative Transformations

Travels and Translations of Brazil in the Americas

Krista Brune

Hosted by Victoria Lupascu
In Creative Transformations: Travels and Translations of Brazil in the Americas (SUNY Press, 2020), Krista Brune brings together Brazilian fiction, film, journalism, essays, and correspondence from the late nineteenth to …
Latin American Studies December 9, 2020

The Last Good Neighbor

Mexico in the Global Sixties

Eric Zolov

Hosted by Steven Rodriguez
In The Last Good Neighbor: Mexico in the Global Sixties (Duke UP, 2020), Professor Eric Zolov retells the history of 1960s Mexico by focusing on the way that Mexican political leaders …
Gender Studies December 7, 2020

Desired States

Sex, Gender, and Political Culture in Chile

Lessie Jo Frazier

Hosted by Jennifer Davis Cline
Sarah Hines (Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Oklahoma) and James Cane-Carrasco (Associate Professor, Departments of History and International & Area Studies, University of Oklahoma) speak with Lessie Jo …