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Latin American Studies
August 9, 2021
Fields of Revolution
Agrarian Reform and Rural State Formation in Bolivia, 1935-1964
Carmen Soliz
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Elena McGrath
Fields of Revolution: Agrarian Reform and Rural State Formation in Bolivia, 1935-1964, published in 2021 by the University of Pittsburgh Press is a ground-breaking study of Bolivia’s revolutionary experiment in …
Latin American Studies
August 2, 2021
La Paz's Colonial Specters
Urbanization, Migration, and Indigenous Political Participation, 1900-52
Luis Sierra
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Elena McGrath
La Paz's Colonial Specters: Urbanization, Migration, and Indigenous Political Participation, 1900-52 (Bloomsbury, 2021) explores the urban history of one of Latin America’s most indigenous large cities in the first half …
Latin American Studies
April 23, 2021
Uncertain Citizenship
Everyday Practices of Bolivian Migrants in Chile
Megan Ryburn
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Elena McGrath
Megan Ryburn’s Uncertain Citizenship: Everyday Practices of Bolivian Migrants in Chile (University of California Press, 2018) is a multi-sited ethnography of citizenship practices of Bolivian migrants in Chile. The book asks …
Latin American Studies
November 9, 2020
Our Time is Now
Race and Modernity in Postcolonial Guatemala
Julie Gibbings
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Elena McGrath
Our Time is Now: Race and Modernity in Postcolonial Guatemala (Cambridge University Press, 2020) is an ambitious exploration of modernity, history, and time in post-colonial Guatemala. Set in the Q’eqchi …
Latin American Studies
July 23, 2020
Conscript Nation
Coercion and Citizenship in the Bolivian Barracks
Elizabeth Shesko
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Elena McGrath
Elizabeth Shesko’s Conscript Nation: Coercion and Citizenship in the Bolivian Barracks (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020) is an intimate and rich history of the militarization of Bolivia over the course …
Latin American Studies
June 23, 2020
An Open Secret
The History of Unwanted Pregnancy and Abortion in Modern Bolivia
Natalie Kimball
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Elena McGrath
Natalie Kimball is the author of An Open Secret: The History of Unwanted Pregnancy and Abortion in Modern Bolivia, out this year from Rutgers University Press. An Open Secret argues …
Latin American Studies
June 2, 2020
Mexico in the Time of Cholera
Donald F. Stevens
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Elena McGrath
Donald F. Stevens offers us a portrait of early republican life in his new book, Mexico in the Time of Cholera, published in 2019 by the University of New Mexico …
Latin American Studies
May 28, 2020
Landscape of Migration
Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia's Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present
Ben Nobbs-Thiessen
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Elena McGrath
Landscape of Migration: Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia's Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present (UNC Press, 2020), traces the entwined histories of Andean, Mennonite, and Okinawan migrants to Amazonian …
Latin American Studies
April 23, 2020
Itineraries of Expertise
Science, Technology, and the Environment in Latin America
Andra B. Chastain and Timothy W. Lorek
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Emerging out of a 2016 conference, Andra Chastain and Timothy Lorek have brought together Environmental History, Latin American Studies, and Science and Technology Studies in a single volume that reshapes …
Latin American Studies
April 22, 2020
Before the Flood
The Itaipu Dam and the Visibility of Rural Brazil
Jacob Blanc
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Elena McGrath
Jacob Blanc’s Before the Flood: The Itaipu Dam and the Visibility of Rural Brazil (Duke University Press, 2019) tells the story of the the Itaipu dam, a massive hydroelectric complex …
Latin American Studies
July 23, 2019
Domesticating Democracy
The Politics of Conflict Resolution in Bolivia
Susan Ellison
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Elena McGrath
Susan Ellison’s Domesticating Democracy: The Politics of Conflict Resolution in Bolivia (Duke University Press, 2018) explores the world of foreign-funded alternate dispute resolution (ADR) organizations working in El Alto, Bolivia …
Latin American Studies
July 8, 2019
Now Peru is Mine
The Life and Times of a Campesino Activist
Manuel Llamojha Mitma and Jaymie Patricia Heilman
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Elena McGrath
Now Peru is Mine: The Life and Times of a Campesino Activist (Duke University Press, 2016) tells the remarkable story of a campesino and indigenous political activist whose career spanned …
Latin American Studies
May 30, 2019
The Polyphonic Machine
Capitalism, Political Violence, and Resistance in Contemporary Argentine Literature
Niall Geraghty
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Elena McGrath
What options for resistance are left to the author of fiction in a nation structured by totalizing political and economic violence? This is the question at the heart of Niall …
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