{"title":"Harvey-Kattou, Liz (2019) Contested Identities in Costa Rica: Constructions of the Tico in Literature and Film, Liverpool University Press (Liverpool, UK), v + 212 pp. £130.00 hbk., £35.00 pbk.","authors":"Jessica A. Fernández de Lara Harada","doi":"10.1111/blar.13547","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13547","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"43 1","pages":"96-97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140145551","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":"Julie Gibbings, Heather Vrana (eds.) (2020) Revisiting the Revolution from Post-Peace Guatemala, University of Texas Press (Austin, TX), ix + 336 pp. $45.00 hbk.","authors":"Walter Little","doi":"10.1111/blar.13546","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13546","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"43 1","pages":"95-96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140145557","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":"Ockier, María Cristina (2020) Fortineras, mujeres en las fronteras. Ejércitos, guerras y género en el siglo XIX. Ediciones Imago Mundi (Buenos Aires), xxvii + 296 pp. £16.77 pbk.","authors":"Catherine Davies","doi":"10.1111/blar.13544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13544","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"43 1","pages":"93-94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140145766","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":"Briggs, Charles L. (2021) Unlearning. Rethinking Poetics, Pandemics, and the Politics of Knowledge, Utah State University Press (Denver, CO), ix + 346 pp. $36.95 pbk.","authors":"Juan Javier Rivera Andía","doi":"10.1111/blar.13545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13545","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"43 1","pages":"94-95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140145556","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":"Mexico's Dirty War: A Reassessment","authors":"Alex Aviña, Benjamin T. Smith","doi":"10.1111/blar.13549","DOIUrl":"10.1111/blar.13549","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Recent scholarship has found that Mexico's dirty war was rooted in existing, but also limited, violent practices established during the 1940s and 1950s. During the 1960s, these limits began to disappear. But it was not until the early 1970s when the state had sufficient capacity to launch counterinsurgency tactics throughout the nation. However, contrary to traditional appreciations of Mexico's dirty war, these tactics were not exclusively used on urban and rural insurgents. They were soon employed by soldiers, secret agents and state cops often in alliance with local landowners and their pistoleros. They focused these violent practices on land invaders, groups aiming at indigenous autonomy, drug traffickers and drug producers. La tibieza ya se acabó, esto es una guerra a muerte (The softly-softly approach is over, this is a war to the death) Durazo Moreno, April 1977.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"43 3","pages":"211-224"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.13549","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140155318","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":"Between the Wizard and the Fire-Eaters: The Last Records of the Illegal Slave Trade to Brazil, 1866–1870","authors":"Celio Antonio Alcantara Silva","doi":"10.1111/blar.13550","DOIUrl":"10.1111/blar.13550","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Following the enactment of the Eusébio de Queirós law under British pressure in 1850, the Brazilian Empire brought an end to the international slave trade. Illicit arrivals continued to occur, but around 1856 the trade was deemed extinct by the Brazilian authorities. This study discusses rumours and potential evidence of illicit trafficking on the brink of the repeal of the <i>Aberdeen Act</i>, which stirred up officials from the Brazilian Empire, as well as diplomats from the United States and the United Kingdom, and suggest a connection with the conclusion of the American Civil War, particularly Confederate emigration, and a racist organisation in the United States.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"43 2","pages":"159-171"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139968982","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":"Ecological Emergency in El Salto and Cosmopolitical Aesthetics in Eugenio Polgovsky's Resurrección (2016)","authors":"Deborah Martin","doi":"10.1111/blar.13538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13538","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines the documentary <i>Resurrección</i> (Eugenio Polgovksy, 2016), which deals with the catastrophic contamination of Jalisco's River Santiago by industrial waste. It discusses the slow violence of environmental poisoning in this region as a form of necropolitics and of wastelanding, and the campaign of collective Un Salto de Vida, who feature prominently in the film, for a clean river. It goes on to explore the heterogenous worlds and uncanny, sensorial aesthetics that characterise the film, arguing that through them, it makes a significant contribution to the search for visual forms through which to represent eco-catastrophe, and the reconfigured relationship between human and non-human required to address it.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"43 1","pages":"76-90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.13538","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140145706","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":"Assessing the Impact of the MAS Regime in Bolivia","authors":"Antonio N. Bojanic","doi":"10.1111/blar.13536","DOIUrl":"10.1111/blar.13536","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study aims to analyse the impact of the Movement towards Socialism (MAS) regime on GDP, income inequality and corruption levels. The empirical findings show that GDP has increased and corruption decreased with the MAS party in power. Income inequality, however, has tended to increase, even though average values for the Gini index during the MAS years have been lower. The difference between counterfactual and actual observations (i.e. treatment effects) was regressed against three key shocks experienced by the Bolivian economy and the findings demonstrate that all these shocks are correlated with the three outcome variables.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"43 2","pages":"172-194"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139596550","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":"Between Co-Management and Responsibilisation: Comparative Perspectives from Two Reservas Comunales in the Peruvian Amazon","authors":"Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti, Giancarlo Rolando","doi":"10.1111/blar.13539","DOIUrl":"10.1111/blar.13539","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Peru introduced co-managed <i>Reservas Comunales</i> (Communal Reserves) as an alternative to the ‘fortress conservation’ approach that characterises other protected areas where Indigenous Peoples tend to be excluded from both the physical space and managerial aspects of conservation regimes. Although these Reserves are lauded internationally as supporting Indigenous Peoples' self-determination, this article examines the challenges that arise from the <i>cogestión</i> (co-management) regime for Indigenous organisations and communities. Focusing on the ‘responsibilisation’ relationships created in the co-management of two Communal Reserves, the article reflects on the different trajectories of this transfer of responsibilities, and the processes through which Indigenous co-management organisations are expected to adopt the government's conservation goals.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"43 2","pages":"104-119"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.13539","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139609399","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}
Ángel E. Páez Moreno, Jairo Lugo-ocando, Viviana Garzón
{"title":"Bringing Down the Scaremongers: Venezuelan Diaspora as a Dog Whistle in Colombia's 2022 Presidential Election","authors":"Ángel E. Páez Moreno, Jairo Lugo-ocando, Viviana Garzón","doi":"10.1111/blar.13540","DOIUrl":"10.1111/blar.13540","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines how the Venezuelan diaspora has been portrayed in the media during the Colombian presidential election of 2022 and how it has influenced voters' preferences there. It examines presidential debates and conversations on X (formerly Twitter), as well as traditional legacy media and digital natives' media material. The authors used a population-based sample of 17,372 articles on the 2022 elections to analyse data from a stratified sample. Our findings point to a potential socio-political turning point away from the social imaginary that had been equating Venezuelan realities with leftist ideologies in Colombia and other parts of Latin America.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"43 1","pages":"46-59"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139421107","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}