{"title":"Cuban Tobacco in the Age of Second Slavery. By William A. Morgan, Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2026. x + 274 pp. £135.95 (hardback), £34.95 (paperback), ISBN: 978-0-8203-7689-9","authors":"Jesús Sanjurjo","doi":"10.1111/blar.70116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70116","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148994596","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 Geography of Partnerships in Latin American Climate NGOs and the Limits of South–South Cooperation","authors":"Emiliano Levario Saad","doi":"10.1111/blar.70113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70113","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Post-aid scholarship suggests cooperation among non-state actors in middle-income regions has become less Northern-anchored and more geographically dispersed. At the same time, optimistic readings of polycentric climate governance imply that decentralisation may loosen North–South hierarchies. We test this optimism using a partnership network of 195 climate-focused non-governmental organisations across 21 Latin American and Caribbean countries. We find that slightly over half of all partnerships are domestic, while cross-border ties remain dominated by Global North and multilateral actors. South–South cooperation is secondary and almost entirely regionally bounded, alongside strong domestic embeddedness and limited post-hegemonic Southern diversification.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.70113","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148994085","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}
Vinicius Genaro, Antonio Aledo, José Paulo Peccinini Pinese, Felipe Sáez-Ardura
{"title":"Neoextractivism With Neocolonial Traits: Agribusiness Expansion and Territorial Conflict in Pontal do Paranapanema, Brazil","authors":"Vinicius Genaro, Antonio Aledo, José Paulo Peccinini Pinese, Felipe Sáez-Ardura","doi":"10.1111/blar.70112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70112","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines how the expansion of agribusiness and water infrastructure has reconfigured Pontal do Paranapanema, Brazil, through neoextractivist dynamics with neocolonial traits. Drawing on documentary analysis and socio-environmental indicators, it investigates how transnational capital, state mediation and integration into global commodity markets reorganise the territory. The findings show that these mechanisms concentrate control over land, water and strategic infrastructure whilst externalising socio-environmental costs onto local communities. The article's main contribution lies in distinguishing neoextractivism as a territorial pattern of accumulation from neocolonialism as the power relationship that sustains it.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.70112","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148994204","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 Contention of Care: A Latin American Perspective","authors":"Belén Villegas Plá","doi":"10.1111/blar.70110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70110","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the current global political landscape, characterised by increasing polarisation and a rise in far-right conservative governments, ‘care’ has become a contested field. In particular, the decline in birth rates has catalysed conservative discourse advocating a return to ‘traditional’ values around the world. In contrast, in Latin America, issues related to ‘care’ have become associated with feminist agendas and are closely linked to the progressive reform of social protection systems amidst the region's new ‘left turn’. In this work, I examine how the diffusion of ideas influences and shapes the care agenda in Latin America. Based on an extensive document analysis, the article argues that the role of feminist epistemic communities in the region, the existence of institutionalised intergovernmental mechanisms and the window of opportunity created by the end of the commodities supercycle during a new wave of progressive governments have contributed significantly to the promotion of a feminist and progressive care agenda at the regional level.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.70110","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148942979","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":"Modes of Decolonial and Anti-Racist Intervention in the Art World: Two Cases From Brazil and Argentina","authors":"Peter Wade","doi":"10.1111/blar.70109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70109","url":null,"abstract":"<p>I explore two exhibitions that were curated from a decolonial and anti-racist position by Indigenous Brazilian and non-white working-class Argentine artists: <i>Véxoa: Nós sabemos</i> (Véxoa: We Know) and <i>¿Qué necesitan aprender los museos?</i> (What Do Museums Need to Learn?). I analyse the different articulations—expressions and connections—of these exhibitions and the affordances they provided for anti-racism and decoloniality in art practice. I argue that these affordances were ambivalent, pulling in contradictory directions simultaneously. This allows us to nuance simple distinctions between art that challenges the status quo and art that reproduces it or merely obfuscates its operation.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.70109","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148943489","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}
Fernanda Espinosa-Moreno, María Angélica Tamayo-Plazas, Ivonne Nathalie Gómez-Valenzuela
{"title":"‘Colombia Outside of Colombia’: Historical Trajectories of the Conceptualisation of Exile and the Work of the 2018–2022 Colombia Truth Commission","authors":"Fernanda Espinosa-Moreno, María Angélica Tamayo-Plazas, Ivonne Nathalie Gómez-Valenzuela","doi":"10.1111/blar.70108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70108","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The article analyses the exile work of the 2018–2022 Commission for the Clarification of Truth, Coexistence and Non-Repetition (Comisión para el Esclarecimiento de la Verdad, la Convivencia y la No Repetición<i>—</i>CEV). It situates the CEV's work in relation to earlier official reports, state-led analyses and civil society initiatives in Colombia. It also examines how exile has been conceptualised, rendered visible or marginalised historically across these various frameworks, from the period of bipartisan violence to the CEV's recent work. It focuses on the conceptual and methodological innovations introduced by the CEV, including its transnational approach, the establishment of an international team, and the production of a dedicated volume as part of its Final Report. It argues that the CEV marks a turning point in the recognition of exile and contextualises the Commission's work against the background of previous commissions and reports. It also highlights the challenges that remain in terms of acknowledgement and reparation within national and regional debates on exile in Latin America.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148783837","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":"Framing the Square: Cinematic Procedures and Visual Regimes in Diamela Eltit's Lumpérica","authors":"Denisse Lazo","doi":"10.1111/blar.70107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70107","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines how Diamela Eltit's <i>Lumpérica</i> (1983) constructs a regime of visibility through the spatial organisation of the public square that structures the novel. While criticism has often emphasised the text's linguistic fragmentation and performative dimensions, less attention has been paid to the visual procedures through which perception is organised within the urban scene. The article argues that, in the context of Chilean dictatorship and its reorganisation of public space, the plaza functions as a visual dispositif in which bodies are exposed, positioned and rendered legible under conditions of intensified illumination. Through close reading of scenes structured by cinematic framing, projection and visual correction, the article shows how Eltit turns visibility into a technology of order within the urban space of dictatorship-era Chile.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.70107","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148753243","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":"Tax Cultures and Agrarian Fiscal Disputes: From the 2008 Conflict to Legislative Proposals on Export Duties","authors":"Gabriel Fernando Carini, Héctor Ricardo Lago","doi":"10.1111/blar.70095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70095","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article examines disputes over export duties in Argentina through the analytical lens of tax cultures. Taking the 2008 agrarian conflict as a critical turning point and focusing on its rearticulation in the legislative proposals introduced in 2024, the paper argues that these instances should be understood not as isolated events but as part of a longer-term dispute over the legitimacy, legality, and territorial distribution of fiscal power. Based on a qualitative analysis of legislative, judicial, and discursive sources, the article reconstructs the institutionalisation of the conflict, tracing its shift from territorial protest to parliamentary arenas, and analyzes the legal framework governing export duties, with particular attention to Article 755 of the Customs Code. It also develops a typology of recent legislative initiatives, identifying different variants of a shared tax culture that structures competing approaches to fiscal reform. In this context, Congress emerges as a key arena for the rearticulation of the conflict, where sedimented fiscal grammars are expressed and contested. The article concludes that agrarian taxation, far from being a merely technical issue, constitutes a central field of political and symbolic struggle shaping the relationship between the state, productive actors, and territories.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148617023","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":"Revolutionary Lessons and Adaptations in a Transnational Context: The Guerrilla Experience of Alfaro Vive Carajo","authors":"Jerónimo Ríos","doi":"10.1111/blar.70106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70106","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The following paper analyses, from a transnational perspective, the origins and evolution of the Ecuadorian guerrilla group Alfaro Vive Carajo (1983–1991). As proven by extensive documentary research and in-depth interviews with well-known members of this armed organisation, its revolutionary project cannot be fully understood without also comprehending the influences and adaptations that came from Nicaragua, Colombia and Uruguay from the late 1970s onwards. This highlights the importance of transnational approaches to enrich the study and understanding of a deeply heterogeneous, plural and changing Latin American guerrilla phenomenology, highly dependent on the geopolitical coordinates of the moment.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148534043","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":"Political-Criminal Nexus in Southern Mexico: The Municipal Face of Caciquismo","authors":"Pierre Gaussens","doi":"10.1111/blar.70105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70105","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article seeks to contribute to the study of the criminalisation of politics in Mexico from an ethnographic perspective. Its methodology is based on a case study in the municipality of Ayutla, in the southern state of Guerrero. Fieldwork not only reveals the depth of the Nexus that binds criminals and public officials, but also the central role of the municipal government in the organisation of crime. Based on this ethnographic case, I argue that understanding criminal violence in Mexico requires revisiting the classical study of caciquismo (local political bossism), as a form of exercising political power that has managed to reproduce itself through a criminal mutation. In this sense, the main finding lies in the relevance of the municipality for understanding processes of criminalisation of politics, as a level of government where the dynamics of a grey zone have expanded due to the reproduction within it of a specific mode of governance: caciquismo.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148467085","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}