{"title":"The Biopower of Abundance: Towards Agroecological Worldings","authors":"Juan Camilo Cajigas","doi":"10.1111/blar.70041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70041","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines how grassroots agroecological practices, as carried out by small farmers and neorurals in the Cerro Manjui cloud forest of Colombia, hinge on a continuum that connects agricultural techniques, soil health, microorganismic life and forest ecosystems. Drawing on posthumanist scholarship on biopolitics and morphogenesis, the study demonstrates how a biopower of abundance offers an alternative to the hegemonic discourse of development and growth, which is fuelled by agro-industrial economies in Latin America. In rural Colombia, abundance does not necessarily refer to the utopia of freedom and happiness promoted by liberal democratic ideals; on the contrary, it points to flourishing and wellbeing across species. In short, abundance signifies autonomy and resistance against late-capitalist ideologies of scarcity.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 3","pages":"263-273"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.70041","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144574234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Throwing a Stone in the Techno-Artistic Pond (or Some Notes on the Dialogue Between Art, Technology and Living Matters in Latin America)","authors":"Mariela Yeregui","doi":"10.1111/blar.70039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70039","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper argues that paradigms rooted in Western epistemologies of control, extraction and anthropocentrism fail to address Latin America's socio-environmental complexities and cultural pluralities. Analysing contemporary techno-artistic practices, this approach offers a decolonial critique of dominant frameworks and proposes methodologies that reorient art, life and technology towards reciprocity, hybridity and situated knowledge. Focusing on Latin American artists who transcend <i>bioart</i>'s conventional boundaries, the paper highlights practices resisting lab-centric reductionism and engaging with living systems as co-creative partners, destabilising the nature-technology binary and forging new analytical categories grounded in decolonial thought.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 3","pages":"231-247"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144574200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"De/Sedimentation: The Geopoetics of José Watanabe and Soledad Fariña","authors":"Rosa Berbel","doi":"10.1111/blar.70037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70037","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper explores de/sedimentation as both a textual and geological concept through the works of José Watanabe (<i>La piedra alada)</i> and Soledad Fariña (<i>PAC PAC PEC PEC</i>) to examine how literary and material traces accumulate, erode and reemerge within the colonial Anthropocene. Building on Watanabe's engagement with deep time, and non-extractive ways of temporal relating to stones, as well as Fariña's interrogation of the sedimentary layers of history and discourse, this research considers the fundamental interplay between poetry and geology in Latin American writings. Thus, the notion of palimpsest, thematically and formally understood, serves as a critical lens for tracing the entanglement of human and more-than-human histories and voices in times of extinction.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 3","pages":"147-160"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.70037","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144573914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Land of Language, the Language of the Earth","authors":"Gabriela Milone, Franca Maccioni","doi":"10.1111/blar.70033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70033","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper explores the links between language (speech, language, and writing) and land/ earth (geo): can language say land, can land be a language? From the notion of figure, we will postulate literality to analyse the land of language and pathography to explore the language of land. Our study summons a concert of voices and ideas coming from apparently dissimilar theories because it will make of that dissimilarity its major bet: a theoretical twist for a situated thinking that assumes its differences, its traditions, and its translations.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 3","pages":"136-146"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144574058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Afterword","authors":"Mary Louise Pratt","doi":"10.1111/blar.70034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70034","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 3","pages":"274-278"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144574021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction: Convection Currents in Latin American and Caribbean Geo-Aesthetics","authors":"Salomé Lopes Coelho, Alejandro Ponce de Leon","doi":"10.1111/blar.70035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70035","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 3","pages":"132-135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144573846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Palti, Elías (2024) Misplaced Ideas? Political-Intellectual History in Latin America, Oxford University Press (Oxford), xvii + 201 pp. paperback $29.95, hardcover $74.","authors":"Ignacio Veraguas-Caripan","doi":"10.1111/blar.70026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 3","pages":"289-290"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144573295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wiersema, J. B. (2023) The History of a Periphery: Spanish Colonial Cartography from Colombia's Pacific Lowlands, University of Texas Press (Austin), xii + 168 pp. $60.00 cloth","authors":"Linda A. Newson","doi":"10.1111/blar.70028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 3","pages":"279-280"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144573523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Poets, Desirée (2024) Unsettling Brasil: Urban Indigenous and Black Peoples' Resistances to Dependent Settler Capitalism. University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, AL), xvi + 225 pp. $60.00 pbk.","authors":"Tracy Devine Guzmán","doi":"10.1111/blar.70030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70030","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 3","pages":"281-282"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144573311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Victoria I. Lyall (2024) El Mar Caribe: The American Mediterranean. Readings in Latin American Studies (Denver), vii + 187 pp. $29.95 pbk.","authors":"Alejandra Roche Recinos","doi":"10.1111/blar.70027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 3","pages":"287-288"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144573221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}