{"title":"Hess, Peter (2021) Violent First Contact in Venezuela: Nikolaus Federmann's Indian History, Pennsylvania State University Press (University Park, PA), its:xiii + 136 pp. £11.37pbk.","authors":"Peter S. Linder","doi":"10.1111/blar.13528","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13528","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"42 5","pages":"749-750"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71936838","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}
Ivan Filipe Fernandes, Gustavo Andrey de Almeida Lopes Fernandes, Pedro Ivo Camacho Alves Salvador, Guilherme Antonio de Almeida Lopes Fernandes
{"title":"A Farewell to Arms: Brazilian Politics and Blame Avoidance during the COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"Ivan Filipe Fernandes, Gustavo Andrey de Almeida Lopes Fernandes, Pedro Ivo Camacho Alves Salvador, Guilherme Antonio de Almeida Lopes Fernandes","doi":"10.1111/blar.13527","DOIUrl":"10.1111/blar.13527","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Brazil was one of the countries most affected by COVID-19. Many deaths could have been avoided by implementing severe non-pharmaceutical interventions. Despite support for stay-at-home requirements and masking mandates from subnational authorities, the president actively pushed back against it. What are the consequences of the political pressures against measures to mitigate virus dissemination and the utmost prioritisation of short-term economic consequences? The article demonstrates that the strategies of shifting blame for the subnational authorities on health issues, focusing on the minimisation of economic downturn, worsened COVID-19 results, measured by cases and deaths, in jurisdictions that voted heavily for Bolsonaro.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"43 1","pages":"60-75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136376627","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":"Performing Contested Lands: Conservation and the Conflictive Enactments of Indigenous Territoriality in Lowland Ecuador","authors":"Stine Krøijer","doi":"10.1111/blar.13524","DOIUrl":"10.1111/blar.13524","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Through four tableaux, this article explores the historical efforts of the Siekopai (Secoya) people to claim territorial rights over Pëekë'ya—an area of black water lagoons and flooded forests on the border between Peru and Ecuador—and unfolds their various enactments of land through performative acts of contestation and collaboration. By emulating shamanic thoughts about the wetland as a transition zone between villages and worlds, the tableaux as form represent a rethinking of land as multiple and partially overlapping realities where shifting territorial and conservation management regimes never result in stable environmental subjectivities.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"43 2","pages":"120-131"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.13524","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136212699","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":"Enrique Desmond Arias and Thomas Grisaffi (eds.) (2021) Cocaine: From Coca Fields to the Streets, Duke University Press (Durham, NC), x + 366 pp. $83.96.","authors":"Onur Ağkaya","doi":"10.1111/blar.13518","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13518","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"42 4","pages":"597-598"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50125400","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":"Lowy, Maxine (2022) Latent Memory: Human Rights and Jewish Identity in Chile, University of Wisconsin Press (Madison, WI), xxi + 297 pp. US$79.95 (hbk).","authors":"J. Patrice McSherry","doi":"10.1111/blar.13520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13520","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"42 4","pages":"599-600"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50115862","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":"Arreola, Daniel D. (2021) Postcards from the Baja California Border: Portraying Townscape and Place 1900s–1950s, University of Arizona Press (Tucson, AZ), xix + 365 pp. $50.00 hbk, $50.00 ebk.","authors":"Sarah E.L. Bowskill","doi":"10.1111/blar.13512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13512","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"42 4","pages":"590-591"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50125280","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":"Gledhill, Sabrina (2020) Travessias no Atlântico Negro: reflexões sobre Booker T. Washington e Manuel R. Querino, Editoria Funmilayo Publishing, 254 pp. £33.17 pbk.","authors":"Florence Marfo","doi":"10.1111/blar.13521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13521","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"42 4","pages":"600-601"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50115863","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":"Hans-Jürgen Burchardt and Johanna Leinius (eds.) (2022) (Post-)Colonial Archipelagos: Comparing the Legacies of Spanish Colonialism in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 370 pp. £40.43 pbk, £80.97 hbk.","authors":"Heather Snell","doi":"10.1111/blar.13515","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13515","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"42 4","pages":"593-594"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50115947","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":"Marsilli-Vargas, Xochitl (2022) Genres of Listening: An Ethnography of Psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires, Duke University Press (Durham, NC), 248 pp. US$ 25.95.","authors":"Patricio Simonetto","doi":"10.1111/blar.13517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13517","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"42 4","pages":"596-597"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50125399","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":"Tomich, Dale W., Bivar Marquese, Rafael, Monzte, Reinaldo Funes, and Fornias, Carlos Venegas (2021) Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery: A Visual History of the Plantation in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World, University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill, NC), xii + 161 pp. $95.00 hbk, $29.95 pbk.","authors":"Jack Webb","doi":"10.1111/blar.13514","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13514","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"42 4","pages":"592-593"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50125404","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}