{"title":"Food Studies in Latin American Literatures. Perspectives on the Gastronarrative. By Rocío Del Águila and Vanessa Miseres (eds.), Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2021. xill + 500 pp. £19.78 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-68226-181-1","authors":"Andrea Cadelo","doi":"10.1111/blar.70046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70046","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 4","pages":"381-382"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145204831","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":"Commune or Nothing: Venezuela's Communal Movement and Its Socialist Project. By Chris Gilbert, New York: Monthly Review Press, 2023. 216 pp. £67.00 (hardback); £17.00 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-68590-023-6","authors":"Francis Adams","doi":"10.1111/blar.70049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70049","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 4","pages":"385-386"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145204854","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":"Nadando contra las corrientes. Lilian Harrison y los cruces a nado en la década de 1920, By Matthew Brown and Pablo Arial Schagagrodsky. Buenos Aires: Prometeo, 2024. xiv + 144 pp. £11.95 (pbk), ISBN: 9789583373398","authors":"Mauro Greco","doi":"10.1111/blar.70054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70054","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145848112","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":"Savages and Citizens: How Indigeneity Shapes the State. By Andrew Canessa and Manuela L. Picq, Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2004. xiv + 219 pp. £69.37 (hardback), ISBN: 978-0-8165-5396-9","authors":"Alex Latta","doi":"10.1111/blar.70048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70048","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 4","pages":"379-380"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145204887","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":"Brazilian Authoritarianism: Past and Present. By Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022. xv + 328 pp. £28.00 (hbk); £18.99 (pbk), ISBN: 978-0-691-21091-9","authors":"Carlos Haag","doi":"10.1111/blar.70053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70053","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 4","pages":"391-392"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145204874","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":"Pink Gold: Women, Shrimp, and Work in Mexico. By María L. Cruz-Torres, Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2023. xix + 342 pp. £90.00h (hbk); £27.99 (pbk), ISBN: 978-1-4773-2802-6","authors":"Giovanny Castillo-Figueroa","doi":"10.1111/blar.70052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70052","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 4","pages":"393-394"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145204882","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":"Does Digital Development Really Deliver on the Promise of Poverty Reduction? Evidence From Argentina","authors":"Bingzi He","doi":"10.1111/blar.70045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70045","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Despite notable advances in digital infrastructure and services, Argentina's digital strategy has marginalised poverty reduction as a core objective. Digital inclusion initiatives have often been politically instrumentalised, prioritising symbolic visibility over structural transformation. Geographic and sectoral asymmetries further constrain the redistributive potential of digital economic development. Through a critical institutionalist lens, this study interrogates how institutional histories, political incentives and policy paradigms shape the poverty-reduction outcomes of digitalisation in Latin America's highly urbanised, middle-income contexts, challenging dominant functionalist and technocratic narratives in digital transformation research.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145852642","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":"Mounting Pressures on the Rule of Law: Governability for Development and Democracy in Latin America, By Behrend Jacqueline and Whitehead Laurence (eds.), London: Routledge, 2025. xii + 305 pp. $152 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-032-79354-2","authors":"Qing Zhang","doi":"10.1111/blar.70044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70044","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145845871","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":"Cultural Crisis and Danny Reveco: On the Cultural Politics of Crime and Street Art in Chile","authors":"Maxwell Woods","doi":"10.1111/blar.70043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70043","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In December 2023, the Valparaíso-based artist, Danny Reveco, opened his exhibition, ‘Language Is Not Sufficient’. A month later, it was the catalyst of a cultural crisis when it was argued that Reveco's works were criminal acts. I recommend that Reveco was principally concerned with how the Chilean State interpellates residents in the national territory according to the ‘good behaviour’ of a proper citizen. Those who do not fulfil that good behaviour are deemed criminals. On the other hand, those cultural authorities who labelled the exhibition as criminal were trying to win a renewed legitimacy for the Chilean State.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145842957","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}
Martín Freigedo, Germán Bidegain, Fabricio Carneiro, Gonzalo Puig
{"title":"Decentralisation in Montevideo: The Effects of Inequality and Party Mobilisation on Electoral Participation at the Territorial Level","authors":"Martín Freigedo, Germán Bidegain, Fabricio Carneiro, Gonzalo Puig","doi":"10.1111/blar.70042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70042","url":null,"abstract":"<p>How can we explain the political participation rate in electoral processes with different logics of representation? To address this question, two mechanisms of citizen participation in Montevideo are compared: conventional elections and participatory institutions. Focusing on territorial inequality, a dual comparison is conducted—both between the two mechanisms and within each one. The first comparison reveals that conventional elections systematically exhibit higher turnout rates than participatory institutions, regardless of the level of territorial development. The internal comparison, however, highlights that partisan factors play a crucial role in explaining differences in turnout within the same territory or within each mechanism. This analysis underscores the importance of institutional design and contextual factors, such as partisan dynamics and territorial disparities, in shaping political participation. By examining these mechanisms, the study provides insights into how varying logics of representation influence citizen engagement in democratic processes.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145848222","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}