{"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}
{"title":"Political Philosophy Assumptions of Social Programmes for Family Support in Uruguay","authors":"Ana Fascioli, Julián Reyes","doi":"10.1111/blar.70018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70018","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article analyses the philosophical assumptions embedded in the notions of family, as well as in the way the State's relationship with the family is conceptualised, in three social programmes for family support in Uruguay (<i>Centros de Atención a la Infancia y la Família</i> [CAIF], <i>Uruguay Crece Contigo</i> and <i>Cercanías</i>). Using a qualitative research design, the reconstruction of their normative assumptions was carried out through documentary analysis and semi-structured interviews with different actors. It is argued that the philosophical–political perspective present in the three programmes can be linked to egalitarian liberal feminism, thereby showing a certain shift from the traditional way in which a liberal State has related to the family.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 4","pages":"366-378"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145204816","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":"Visualising Lithium Extraction as the Decapitation of Mother Salt in Cartier and Longo's En el nombre del litio (2021)","authors":"Barbara Galindo","doi":"10.1111/blar.70014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70014","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The feature documentary <i>En el nombre del litio</i> (<i>In the Name of Lithium</i>, 2021), directed by Argentine filmmakers Tian Cartier and Martin Longo, portrays the resistance of the Kolla and Atakama Indigenous communities against lithium mining in northwest Argentina. The film evaluates the mining project through a Pachacentric ethical lens, serving as an example of what this article defines as <i>cosmocentric cinema</i>. It exposes the lithium enterprise as a form of <i>ecosocial torture</i>, which can lead to the destruction of the salt flats, symbolically resulting in the ‘decapitation’ of <i>Mother Salt</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 3","pages":"248-262"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144574047","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":"‘Quanto Vale a Sua Vida?’: Individuals' Resistance Under Corporate Repression","authors":"Léa Lebeaupin-Salamon","doi":"10.1111/blar.70017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70017","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In Minas Gerais, Brazil, activists challenging Vale's extractive activities are often portrayed as obstacles to economic progress, while their resistance is criminalised. Paradoxically, as corporate repression intensifies, individual forms of dissent persist and evolve. Through ethnographic research, this article explores how isolated activists navigate an environment marked by surveillance and legal intimidation, resulting in social isolation. It reveals a forced transformation from collective to individual resistance, and from broad anti-extractivism to targeted critiques of corporate practices. These transformations, while fragmenting movements, have engendered more resilient, albeit solitary, forms of activism, challenging narratives of complete corporate hegemony in extractive contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 4","pages":"296-309"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.70017","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145204749","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":"Capturing Extraction: Geology, Photography, Industry and Institutional History in the Bingley Archive","authors":"Rebecca Jarman","doi":"10.1111/blar.70003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70003","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Godfrey Bingley was a British industrialist who took up geology, photography and travel in the 1880s. His photographs are housed at the University of Leeds, where he worked with its Chair of Geology. This article analyses the archive's projection of the imperial geological imaginary that emanated from Britain and extended to the Americas. It argues that these images mediate multitemporal scales, from the deep time of geology to the contractions of industrial development, enabled by the extractivist practices that photographic technology erased from history. It also demonstrates that practices of rephotographing Bingley's collection conjure these erasures as spectres of Empire.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 3","pages":"198-219"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.70003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144573913","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":"Youth Representation in Cabinets in Latin America","authors":"Daniel Stockemer, Francine Pauvif","doi":"10.1111/blar.70011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70011","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Youth face under-representation in political office. In this article, we look at cabinets, the pinnacle of political power. Focusing on Latin and South America, we find that youth's numerical representation is significantly lower in cabinets than in parliament. The age group 35 years or under makes up a mere 3 per cent of cabinet members, and those aged 40 or under constitute 9 per cent of ministers. We also illustrate that despite this strong lack of representation, there is variation in the average age of cabinets and the percentage of young ministers, some of which is explained by the age of the head of the government. Finally, we show that the few ministers that make it to cabinet are distributed relatively equally between high-prestige portfolios, medium-prestige portfolios and low-prestige portfolios.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 4","pages":"353-365"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.70011","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145204868","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":"Kray, Christine A. (2023) Maya-British Conflict at the Edge of the Yucatecan Caste War. University Press of Colorado (Denver), xvi + 239 pp. £79.43 hbk.","authors":"Matthew Restall","doi":"10.1111/blar.70004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 2","pages":"114-115"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143784257","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":"Eunice Rojas (2024) Gringos Get Rich: Anti-Americanism in Chilean Music, University of Alabama Press (Tuscaloosa), 229 pp. xi + 244 pp. £23.06 pbk.","authors":"Hazel Marsh","doi":"10.1111/blar.70009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 2","pages":"124-125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143784259","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}