{"title":"Social Class and the Willingness to Have an Opinion and Politically Participate in Peru","authors":"Mauricio Renteria","doi":"10.1111/blar.70023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70023","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper examines how class affects political engagement in the Peruvian context. Drawing from a Bourdieusian approach, this study uses ‘don't know’ (DK) responses on opinion surveys as a measure of the willingness to state a political opinion and its relation to social class, measured by income. The results show that income is inversely correlated with political (DK) responses. Furthermore, political DK rates are associated with forms of political engagement predicted by class, as measured by income. These findings suggest that class shapes a sense of entitlement to participate in politics, and this perceived competence leads to greater involvement in forms of political activity linked to class.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.70023","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145842974","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":"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":"Phantom Limbs: Affect, Haptics and ‘Partes De Mucha Gente’ in Mariana Enriquez's Nuestra Parte De Noche","authors":"Ana María Villaveces Galofre","doi":"10.1111/blar.70022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70022","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In Mariana Enriquez's <i>Nuestra parte de noche</i> (<i>Our Share of Night</i>), the insistence on narrating putrid wounds and hewn limbs seeks to reinvigorate stagnant tropes, to highlight the corporeal cruelty obfuscated by the ghostly. This article explores the association between textures and emotions, specifically questioning what it can lead to when remains and wounds are the main textural components presented to readers. Enriquez, I propose, cleaves together the material violence of jagged detritus and the ghostly undertones of disappearance, mobilising the horrifying possibilities of (re)presenting human remains to generate an affective response to ghosts that, years after dictatorship, are still straining to <i>touch</i> us.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.70022","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145845815","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":"Representing by Getting Citizens to Participate: An Analysis of the Case of the Local Councillors (comuneros) in the City of Buenos Aires","authors":"Rocío Annunziata, Eliana Persky","doi":"10.1111/blar.70024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70024","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The paper examines the participatory strategies promoted by local councillors (known as <i>comuneros</i>) in the City of Buenos Aires, questioning the dichotomy between participation and representation. Based on qualitative research conducted between 2012 and 2023, we argue that <i>comuneros</i> activate different participatory strategies to build their representative role, depending on their political position. Those aligned with the ruling party promote resident participation through institutional avenues, presenting themselves as problem-solvers who respond to local demands. Those in opposition stage conflicts and promote collective activism, presenting themselves as advocates for neighbourhood struggles.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145848178","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}
{"title":"Land and Sea: Maritime Capitalism, Terrestrial Frontiers and Their Literary Mediations in Nineteenth-Century Argentina","authors":"Claudio Aguayo-Borquez","doi":"10.1111/blar.70025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70025","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper grapples with two crucial landscapes of extraction of the Argentine nineteenth century and their mediation through literature: maritime capitalism and primitive accumulation. First, it describes Domingo Faustino Sarmiento's aquatic utopia, focusing on his Americanism, his equation between oceans and plains and the aporias of his Orientalism. Second, this study shows an early displacement towards countryside provincialism in Argentine ideology by analysing José Mármol's novel <i>Amalia</i>. Departing from Etienne Balibar's concept of interior frontiers, this paper shows the emergence of a terrestrial imagination that was crucial for the consolidation of telluric ideologies. This process of ideological displacement coincides with the vanishing frontier and the dissolution of <i>gaucho</i> life within the Argentinian landscape, enabling the emergence of a new contempt for the urban plebs and the proletariat.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 3","pages":"186-197"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144573784","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":"Henson, Bryce. (2024) Emergent Quilombos: Black Life and Hip-Hop in Brazil, University of Texas Press, 280 pp. £21.45 pbk","authors":"Gladys Mitchell-Walthour","doi":"10.1111/blar.70029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70029","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 3","pages":"283-284"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144573785","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":"Brosseder, Claudia (2023) Inka Bird Idiom. Amazonian Feathers in the Andes, University of Pittsburgh Press(Pittsburgh, PA), 378 pp. £42.01 hbk.","authors":"Bat-ami Artzi","doi":"10.1111/blar.70031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70031","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 3","pages":"285-286"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144573966","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}