{"title":"Laura León Llerena. By Reading the Illegible. Indigenous Writing and the Limits of Colonial Hegemony in the Andes, Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, 2003. 264 pp. £54.00 (paperback), ISBN: 978-0-8165-4753-1","authors":"Juan Javier Rivera Andía","doi":"10.1111/blar.70050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70050","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 4","pages":"383-384"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145204791","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":"Itinerant Ideas: Race, Indigeneity and Cross-Border Intellectual Encounters in Latin America (1900–1950). By Joanna Crow, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. xiv + 371 pp. £89.99 (hardcover), £89.99 (paperback), ISBN-10: 3031019512, ISBN-13: 978-3031019517","authors":"Andrea Román-Alfaro","doi":"10.1111/blar.70047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70047","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 4","pages":"387-388"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145204756","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":"Colonial Reckoning: Race and Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Cuba. By Louis A. Perez, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 288 pp. £90.00 (hardcover); £16.51 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1478032007","authors":"Oscar de la Torre","doi":"10.1111/blar.70051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70051","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 4","pages":"389-390"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145204832","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":"Food Studies in Latin American Literatures. Perspectives on the Gastronarrative. By Rocío Del Águila and Vanessa Miseres (eds.), Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2021. xill + 500 pp. £19.78 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-68226-181-1","authors":"Andrea Cadelo","doi":"10.1111/blar.70046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70046","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 4","pages":"381-382"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145204831","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":"Commune or Nothing: Venezuela's Communal Movement and Its Socialist Project. By Chris Gilbert, New York: Monthly Review Press, 2023. 216 pp. £67.00 (hardback); £17.00 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-68590-023-6","authors":"Francis Adams","doi":"10.1111/blar.70049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70049","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 4","pages":"385-386"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145204854","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":"Savages and Citizens: How Indigeneity Shapes the State. By Andrew Canessa and Manuela L. Picq, Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2004. xiv + 219 pp. £69.37 (hardback), ISBN: 978-0-8165-5396-9","authors":"Alex Latta","doi":"10.1111/blar.70048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70048","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 4","pages":"379-380"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145204887","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":"Brazilian Authoritarianism: Past and Present. By Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022. xv + 328 pp. £28.00 (hbk); £18.99 (pbk), ISBN: 978-0-691-21091-9","authors":"Carlos Haag","doi":"10.1111/blar.70053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70053","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 4","pages":"391-392"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145204874","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":"Pink Gold: Women, Shrimp, and Work in Mexico. By María L. Cruz-Torres, Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2023. xix + 342 pp. £90.00h (hbk); £27.99 (pbk), ISBN: 978-1-4773-2802-6","authors":"Giovanny Castillo-Figueroa","doi":"10.1111/blar.70052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70052","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 4","pages":"393-394"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145204882","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":"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}