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{"title":"Popularizing Autogestión: Punk, Zapatismo, and Anarchist Ethics in Mexico City","authors":"Livia K. Stone","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70010","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jlca.70010","url":null,"abstract":"<p><i>Autogestión</i> (self-management), has been a popular articulation of radical politics since its emergence in the 1960s. This article examines how Mexico City's anarcho-punk scene transformed autogestión in the 1990s from an anarcho-syndicalist principle into a unique ethical practice detached from industrial material production. It was then popularized and made more mainstream through university rock festivals. As these were Zapatista benefit concerts, autogestión became inadvertently attached to Zapatismo and detached from anarchism and punk. This history is a crucial one for understanding the political development of an entire generation of the political left in Mexico City who were young in the 1990s. This article presents materials and oral histories at the intersections of punk and Zapatismo that are broadly relevant to an understanding of Mexican social movements but are not widely known or accessible. It is essential for understanding how autogestión practice and discourse is deployed in the 21st century.</p>","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"30 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jlca.70010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144323685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Racialized and moral-religious politics of migrant acompañamiento: Informal hosting as local care entrepreneurship along migration routes","authors":"Nanneke Winters","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70000","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jlca.70000","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article contributes to understanding contemporary processes of racialization in the Central American migration landscape by looking at the residential reception of increasingly diverse groups of people on the move. Based on research in southern Honduras, it argues that we need to disentangle the racialized and religious politics involved with informal spaces of assistance or acompañamiento in contexts where migrants tend to stay temporarily. Engaging with the notion of acompañamiento through the hosting practices of ordinary citizens shows how racialization gets produced and reinforced in tandem with religious teachings, entrepreneurial considerations, and local migration anxieties. The article concludes that racialization is shaped through the histories and inequalities of place and confirms the intersectional nature of racialization, which incorporates religious identities and hierarchies. Highlighting how the challenges of acompañamiento help attend to shared experiences of injustice and persistent inequalities of human mobility, the article also contributes to broadening migrant trajectory research to the communities that surround migration routes.</p>","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jlca.70000","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143707199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Living the popular solidarity economy as an entrepreneurial bureaucrat: Creating and reinforcing ethical frameworks through middle-class consumption","authors":"Alexander Emile D'Aloia","doi":"10.1111/jlca.12751","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jlca.12751","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines how middle-class bureaucrats in Ecuador create and reinforce particular ethical frameworks through their work, their consumption, and their “side hustles.” Having been tasked with growing and strengthening an alternative economy to capitalism, these government functionaries find it important to engage in productive and consumptive practices to help them experience the correct feelings to be able to promote the Popular Solidarity Economy and avoid being disenchanted bureaucrats. Due to the precarious context in which they work, however, these practices are generally reflective of and idealize entrepreneurial logics. I contribute to an expanding literature on the importance of affect to bureaucrats as well as putting that literature in conversation with authors writing about entrepreneurial self-making. In doing so, I demonstrate how entrepreneurial logics spread into alternative economy space by responding to the very real material and affective needs of government workers in circumstances of precarious employment.</p>","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143707458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Three ways to fail: Journeys through Mapuche Chile By Magnus Course, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2024. 184 pp.","authors":"Piergiorgio Di Giminiani","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70001","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jlca.70001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143707252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Engineering vulnerability: In pursuit of climate adaptation By Sarah E. Vaughn, Durham: Duke University Press. 2022. 272 pp.","authors":"A. J. Faas","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70004","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jlca.70004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143707253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Universos chibchas: Nuevas aproximaciones a la unidad y la diversidad humana del área istmocolombiana. Editado por Juan Camilo Niño Vargas y Stephen Beckerman, Colombia: Ediciones Uniandes. 2024. 375 pp.","authors":"Anna Peñuelas","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70003","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jlca.70003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143707251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Pobrecitos: Determinations of deservingness in the Costa Rican asylum process","authors":"Caitlin E. Fouratt","doi":"10.1111/jlca.12740","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jlca.12740","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines how Costa Rica's asylum process enacts bureaucratic bordering, shaping refugee deservingness through intertwined logics of security and humanitarianism. Based on fieldwork from 2016 to 2022, the analysis focuses on two areas: daily interactions between asylum officials and applicants, and the bureaucratic practices in humanitarian aid distribution. The first case analyzes a form of micro-level bureaucratic bordering in the ways officials draw on racialized understandings of cultural, social, and economic differences to categorize asylum seekers as deserving or undeserving. The second explores how a restructured aid system, with NGOs as filters, erects bureaucratic barriers that complicate access to services for asylum seekers. Both cases demonstrate how deservingness is determined through the interplay of institutions, actors, and procedures, reflecting broader trends of the intersection of security and humanitarianism in migration management, ultimately marginalizing those least equipped to navigate the bureaucratic complexities of the asylum system.</p><p>Este artículo examina cómo el proceso de refugio en Costa Rica representa un proceso del fronterizaje burocrático, determinando el merecimiento de las personas solicitantes de refugio a través de lógicas entrelazadas de seguridad y humanitarismo. Basado en trabajo de campo realizado entre 2016 y 2022, el análisis se centra en dos instancias: las interacciones diarias entre los funcionarios de la Unidad de Refugio y los solicitantes, y las prácticas burocráticas en la distribución de ayuda humanitaria. El primer caso analiza una forma de fronterizaje burocrático a nivel micro en la manera en que los funcionarios se basan en entendimientos racializados de las diferencias culturales, sociales y económicas para categorizar a los solicitantes de refugio como merecedores o no. El segundo explora cómo un sistema de ayuda reestructurado, con las ONG como filtros, erige barreras burocráticas que complican el acceso a los servicios para los solicitantes de refugio. Ambos casos demuestran que el merecimiento se determina a través de la interacción de instituciones, actores y procedimientos. Esto reflejando tendencias más amplias de la intersección entre seguridad y humanitarismo en la gestión migratoria, que en última instancia marginaliza a aquellos menos capacitados para navegar las complejidades burocráticas del sistema.</p>","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143707197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"At a crossroads: Historicizing encounters with new racializations in the Central American and Mexican migratory landscape","authors":"Nanneke Winters,&nbsp;Caitlin E. Fouratt","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70005","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jlca.70005","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This collection explores how contemporary racialization processes shape and are shaped by migration dynamics in the Central American and Mexican context. Marked by histories of migration and displacement, the region has become a critical crossroads for increasingly diverse populations on the move, from journeys of African, Asian, and Caribbean migrants through the region en route North, to dramatic increases in forced migration within Latin America. Drawing on ethnographic research from Costa Rica, southern Honduras, the Mexico-Guatemala border, and Tijuana, Mexico, the contributions examine encounters between migrants and local communities in spaces defined by histories of marginalization, displacement, and nation-building. This introduction underscores racialization as a central lens for understanding the experiences of people on the move, emphasizing how global migration regimes intersect with local inequalities to shape reception, exclusion, and belonging. By historicizing migration discourse and practice, the collection contributes to broader debates on mobility and belonging in the Americas.</p>","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jlca.70005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143707592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Çété méné endan Lalwizyann”: The role of Haiti in representations of Louisiana Creole language and identity","authors":"Nathan A. Wendte","doi":"10.1111/jlca.12752","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jlca.12752","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Misconceptions about the ethnolinguistic relationship between Haiti and Louisiana persist to the present. Central to this debate is whether Louisiana Creole (LC) is a variety of French, an independent language, or a variant of the better-known and more widely spoken Haitian Creole (HC). In this paper, I present data from residents of Louisiana and the greater Gulf South who invoke Haiti in reference to who and what are Creoles. Haiti surfaces in two primary ways: as a site of origin and authentication or as a site of difference and denaturalization. Haiti's indexical value and authenticating potential vary according to a speaker's ethnolinguistic identity. These complexities are particularly important for understanding the history and trajectory of the current reclamation movement for the Louisiana Creole language (aka “Kouri-Vini”).</p>","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jlca.12752","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143707457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Transit as racialized space: Comparing perceptions of refugees along the Mexico–Guatemala border","authors":"Rebecca B. Galemba","doi":"10.1111/jlca.12741","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jlca.12741","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Scholars have attuned to the challenges Central American migrants face along increasingly perilous northward journeys. However, most studies of “transit spaces” are relatively migrant-centric, focusing on the meanings these spaces hold for migrants, or how particular locales are reconfigured in relation to migratory processes. There has been less attention to the meanings such places hold for long-term inhabitants, as well as how they change over time. This article draws on long-term ethnographic fieldwork along the Mexico–Guatemala border to compare how inhabitants perceived migrants and refugees in two different periods: narratives recalling suspicion of Guatemalan refugees in the 1980s and more recent anxieties held toward Central American migrants. Through the comparison, it problematizes how the very conceptualization of transit spaces and migrants in transit serves to uphold larger racial projects of exclusionary nationalism and the “national order of things” where territory, ethno-racial identity, and belonging are assumed to align.</p>","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143707249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}