Reviews

May 3, 2024
Heather Vrana

Eline van Ommen’s new book presents a nuanced exploration of Sandinista international relations that weaves together impressive archival research.

April 26, 2024
Eric Gettig

Gustav Cederlöf’s book poses challenging questions about energy transition and energy justice from an often-overlooked Caribbean and socialist vantage point.

April 12, 2024
Liliana Torpey

A new collection from Two Lines Press presents 10 translated stories from contemporary Latin American writers that explore the unsettling, unusual, and unspoken.

April 5, 2024
Livia K. Stone

Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra’s edited volume traces the emergence of new, non-state-led forms of public art in Mexico in the age of neoliberalism.

March 29, 2024
Ramón Garibaldo Valdéz

Kristina Shull’s book Detention Empire shines a light on the links between U.S. repressive counterinsurgency abroad and debilitating immigrant detention policies at home.

March 15, 2024
Danny Shaw

Jake Johnston’s carefully investigated Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism and the Battle to Control Haiti sheds light on the geopolitical origins of the paramilitary death squads currently wreaking havoc on Port-au-Prince.

February 16, 2024
Carole Concha Bell

Felipe Gálvez's award-winning film Los Colonos delves into Chile’s brutal settler-colonial past, exposing the consequences of cultural extermination and resonating with Latin America's contemporary Indigenous struggles.

Cover of "After Servitude: Elusive Property and the Ethics of Kinship in Bolivia" by Mareike Winchell. (University of California Press, 2022)
November 3, 2023
Carwil Bjork-James

Mareike Winchell’s ethnography of post-hacienda life in Bolivia’s Ayopaya province reveals the complex afterlives of servitude, but fails to weigh the comparative scale between deference and refusal.

October 27, 2023
Doc M. Billingsley

Victoria Sanford's book is a powerful testimony to the historical roots of routine violence against women in Guatemala, portraying the life, struggles, and personality of human beings who are otherwise lost in dire statistics.

September 10, 2023
Terri Gordon-Zolov and Eric Zolov

Fifty years on from the coup that installed dictatorship and neoliberalism in Chile, protest art from the streets of Santiago underlines the present reverberations of an authoritarian past.

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