Matt Wilde, Polina Golovátina-Mora, Péter Kramer, Laura García Juan
{"title":"Contingent Hope: Everyday Crisis and Future Imaginaries among Venezuelan Migrants in Colombia","authors":"Matt Wilde, Polina Golovátina-Mora, Péter Kramer, Laura García Juan","doi":"10.1111/blar.13617","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13617","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this article, we analyse the experiences of Venezuelan migrants in Colombia by drawing on fieldwork conducted in the cities of Bucaramanga and Medellín between May 2021 and May 2022. We argue that though the situation facing Venezuelan migrants in Colombia is characterised fundamentally by hardship, at the level of everyday experience it is also one shaped by hope. Engaging with recent debates concerning aspiration and care in situations of precarity, we describe this mode of being as <i>contingent hope</i>: as an orientation towards the future premised on the desired improvement of specific circumstances. We contend that the capacity to maintain hope is derived from the strength of kinship ties that stretch across borders and enable emotional investments in the future.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 1","pages":"20-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.13617","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143113708","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":"Technopoetics of the Anthropocene: Rendering Our Present through Echoes in Mexican Bots and Machines","authors":"Francisco Gerardo Tijerina Martínez","doi":"10.1111/blar.13615","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13615","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Anthropocene is marked with a multilayered environmental crisis that requires cultural changes. Although a complex task, the contemporary Mexican artists studied here have explored this issue through literary means. In this paper, I analyse <i>La máquina distópica</i> (The Dystopian Machine) and <i>El mono infinito</i> (The Infinite Monkey) as technopoetical tools to understand the present from a historical perspective. I suggest that the usage of canonical figures such as Amparo Dávila and Ada Lovelace in these pieces provides a critical grounding that tensions the notion of individual authorship and affords a transhistorical and transtemporal approach to an endangered planet.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 3","pages":"161-174"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144574187","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":"Marcy, William L. (2023) Narcostates: Civil War, Crime, and the War on Drugs in Mexico and Central America, Lynne Rienner Publishers (London), viii + 359 pp. $115.00, hbk.","authors":"Onur Ağkaya","doi":"10.1111/blar.13602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13602","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"43 5","pages":"418-419"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142579691","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":"Joaquín Rivaya-Martínez (ed.) 2023 Indigenous Borderlands: Native Agency, Resilience and Power in the Americas, University of Oklahoma Press (Norman), Reviewed by Brenden W. Rensink.","authors":"Brenden W. Rensink","doi":"10.1111/blar.13603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13603","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"43 5","pages":"419-420"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142579692","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":"Mauro P. Porto (2023) Mirrors of Whiteness: Media, Middle-Class Resentment and the Rise of the Far Right in Brazil (Pitt Latin American Series), University of Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, PA), ix + 186 pp. $50.00 hdbk.","authors":"J. Patrice McSherry","doi":"10.1111/blar.13599","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13599","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"43 5","pages":"415-416"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142579568","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":"Marken, Damien B. and M. Charlotte Arnauld (2023) Building an Archaeology of Maya Urbanism: Planning and Flexibility in the American Tropics, University Press of Colorado (Denver, CO), xvi + 476 pp. £100.01 hbk.","authors":"Whittaker Schroder","doi":"10.1111/blar.13600","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13600","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"43 5","pages":"416-417"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142579605","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":"Crabtree, John, Wolff, Jonas, and Francisco Durand (2023) Business Power and the State in the Central Andes: Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru in Comparison, University of Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, PA), x + 265 pp. $55 hbk.","authors":"Andrew Nickson","doi":"10.1111/blar.13605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13605","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"43 5","pages":"422-423"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142579770","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":"Shesko, Elizabeth (2020) Conscript Nation: Coercion and Citizenship in the Bolivian Barracks, University of Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, PA), vii + 252 pp. $45 hbk.","authors":"Allan Gillies","doi":"10.1111/blar.13601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13601","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"43 5","pages":"417-418"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142579606","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":"Bennison, Sarah (2023) The Entablo Manuscript: Water Rituals and Khipu Boards of San Pedro de Casta, Peru, University of Texas Press (Austin, TX), xvii + 279 pp. $45.00 hbk.","authors":"Maria Koulouri","doi":"10.1111/blar.13604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13604","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"43 5","pages":"421-422"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142579628","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":"Mining, Racialisation and the Utopia of Desedimentation in Pedro Castera's Geological Writings","authors":"Jorge Quintana Navarrete","doi":"10.1111/blar.13598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13598","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines the close interrelation between racialisation and mining in Pedro Castera's <i>Las minas y los mineros</i> (1882) and <i>Los maduros</i> (1882). Castera's writings critically render mining as a profit-driven extractive practice that relies on the stratification of inorganic and organic matter across racial lines. Minerals and racialised bodies are conceptualised as inert matter endowed with valued properties in the service of resource extraction. Simultaneously, Castera's ‘El Tildío’ conjures the utopian possibility of destabilising the racial stratification that upholds extractive colonialism and its legacies in the nineteenth century.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 3","pages":"175-185"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144574300","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}