{"title":"Laumann, Lucía (2023) Aída Carballo, maestra: producción gráfica y derroteros institucionales en Buenos Aires en la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Miño y Dávila (Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), 151 pp. $14.00 pbk.","authors":"Ayelen Pagnanelli","doi":"10.1111/blar.70006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 2","pages":"118-119"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143784261","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":"Hoffman, Marcelo (2024) Foucault in Brazil: Dictatorship, Resistance, and Solidarity, University of Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh), xii + 192 pp. $50.00.","authors":"Onur Ağkaya","doi":"10.1111/blar.70007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 2","pages":"120-121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143784262","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":"Kay, Cristóbal (2023) Pensadores Rebeldes, Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales (Santiago de Chile), 195 pp. $26.00 pbk","authors":"Geoff Goodwin","doi":"10.1111/blar.70010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 2","pages":"126-127"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143784293","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":"Jonathan Alderman and Geoff Goodwin (eds.) 2022 The Social and Political Life of Latin American Infrastructures, University of London Press (London), xx + 277 pp. $39.99 pbk.","authors":"Frederik Schulze","doi":"10.1111/blar.70008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 2","pages":"122-123"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143784258","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":"Cruz-Torres, María L. (2023) Pink Gold: Women, Shrimp, and Work in Mexico. University of Texas Press (Austin), xix + 342 pp. £67.17 hbk.","authors":"Rachel K. Brickner","doi":"10.1111/blar.70005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 2","pages":"116-117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143784260","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":"Kamau Brathwaite: Poetry, Materialities and Climate History","authors":"Benjamín Alías","doi":"10.1111/blar.70012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70012","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This work review a selection of poems by Kamau Brathwaite that belong to the anthologies: Islands (1969), The Arrivants (1973), Black and Blues (1976) and The Ancestors (1977). From the viewpoint of contemporary materialism, which encompasses both its transcultural variant and climatic imaginaries, I am approaching the cultural history of extraction in the English Caribbean. This means studying not only the socio-historical dimensions of the subaltern world but also the fractures between colonial history and environmental history. Instead of approaching Kamau's verses symbolically or allegorically, I observe that the author's poems exhibit a series of intertwinings between the human and the non-human within the precariousness of the plantation worker, as well as a material history of crops like sugar or cotton that transcends mere commodity status.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 3","pages":"220-230"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144574121","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":"Exploring the Limits of Indigenous Peoples' Resistance against Coca Cultivation and Drug Trafficking in Peruvian Amazonia","authors":"Hernán Manrique López","doi":"10.1111/blar.13622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13622","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Indigenous lands in Peruvian Amazonia are experiencing a rapid expansion of coca cultivation and drug trafficking. This expansion can be either negotiated or contested, depending on contextual elements. Nonetheless, contesting the expansion of the illicit economies exposes indigenous leaders to great risks. This article examines the expansion of coca cultivation and drug trafficking in Peruvian Amazonia, along with the development of an indigenous repertoire of resistance in Ashaninka and Kakataibo lands. This article explores diverse forms and scales of indigenous resistance, including customary, armed and legal actions both within and beyond indigenous lands. Nonetheless, despite these efforts, most strategies prove unsuccessful. Results suggest that when institutional justice and protection towards indigenous peoples are deficient, resistance comes at an elevated human cost and proves ineffective in halting the expansion of coca cultivation and drug trafficking.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 4","pages":"324-340"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145204857","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":"From ‘Healthy’ Patriotism to the Malvinas Cause: The Argentine Partido Socialista and the National Question","authors":"José Benclowicz","doi":"10.1111/blar.70001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70001","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the early twentieth century, the Argentine Partido Socialista, the main social-democratic party in Latin America, embraced the concept of 'healthy patriotism', based on the social progress of the majority. This paper examines the changes in party identity regarding nationalism in the 1930s by using local sources and global socialism. I argue that the PS underwent significant shifts adopting a 'bourgeois' idea of patriotism, which was strongly contested by the party until then. In this line, it played a prominent role in promoting the Malvinas cause, all of which is connected to broader political transformations of that time</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 2","pages":"61-72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143784256","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":"Dissenting Implementation of Cannabis Policies in Mexico: A Strategy of Outlaw Resistance","authors":"Luis Rivera-Vélez","doi":"10.1111/blar.70000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70000","url":null,"abstract":"<p>When reform fails, activists may resort to visible outlaw actions, risking criminalisation to either increase reform pressure (civil disobedience) or address urgent needs (everyday resistance). This study examines cannabis activism in Mexico, revealing a novel strategy of noncompliance that combines the pursuit of individual benefit with advocacy for policy reform. Through interviews and observations, we describe the characteristics of ‘dissenting implementation’ as a collective process that operationalises a policy despite formal prohibitions. Our findings highlight the motivations behind these extra-legal actions and propose a conceptual framework for understanding their characteristics. The strategy is illustrated by analysing self-regulation in the Mexican cannabis industry.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 4","pages":"310-323"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145204793","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 Leadership Style of Fidel Castro: A Decolonial Perspective","authors":"Denise Baden, Naveena Prakasam, Stephen Wilkinson","doi":"10.1111/blar.13620","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13620","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Leadership theory stands accused of being Western-centric. To address this, we investigate Fidel Castro's leadership through 32 semi-structured interviews with Cuban people. Narratives reveal his decolonial leadership as he led the Cuban Revolution, and then Cuba for over 50 years, resisting Western hegemony. Findings problematise the applicability of conceptions of charismatic–transformational leadership (CTL) to non-Western cultures. Benevolent paternalism emerged as a key additional aspect in the Cuban context. Western critiques of CTL as leader-centric and prone to hero-worship were not seen as problematic in the Cuban sample. We explain this with reference to the unifying effects of Castro's decolonial project.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 2","pages":"73-86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.13620","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143784316","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}