Review of Migrant Struggles in Times of Pandemic and Crisis: A View from the Americas
In a continent marked by multiple overlapping crises, Migrant Struggles in Times of Pandemic and Crisis: A View from the Americas emerges as an urgent and deeply necessary work.
Luchas migrantes en tiempos pandémicos y de crisis: una mirada desde las Américas (Reseña)
En un continente atravesado por múltiples crisis solapadas, Luchas migrantes en tiempos pandémicos y de crisis: una mirada desde las Américas retrata los regímenes fronterizos y las formas de desafiarlos.
Lessons from the Zapatistas: From Armed Insurgency to People’s Autonomy (Review)
A new book summarizes nearly 30 years of Zapatista political activity, tracing the construction of Mayan self-governance, unpacking the insurgency’s “critical theory,” and drawing lessons for the present.
Cuba’s Cosmopolitan Enclaves: Imperialism and Internationalism in Eastern Sugar Towns (Review)
A new book places multiracial sugar workers in Cuba’s northeast at the vanguard of inter-war internationalism, solidarity, and anti-imperialism.
38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England, and a Nazi in Patagonia (Review)
Philipe Sands’ book on the attempts to hold a Nazi leader and Chilean dictator accountable provide lessons for today’s era in which the flouting of international law has become routine.
Rotos corazones: amor y política en los setenta (Review)
Cosse centers the role of love in her study of armed leftist movements in Argentina, unearthing how gender, sexuality, and subjectivity shaped political uprising—and its defeat.
Mexican Watchdogs: The Rise of a Critical Press since the 1980s (Review)
The political and business history of Mexico’s beleaguered critical press, caught between drug traffickers and the state, is the subject of Andrew Paxman’s new book.
The Breach: Iran-Contra and the Assault on American Democracy (Review)
Alan McPherson’s book treats the Iran-Contra affair as a turning point in U.S. history, one which normalized the erosion of key democratic principles and helped birth our current (dis)order.
Driving Terror: Labor, Violence, and Justice in Cold War Argentina (Review)
Karen Robert's book unearths how a deadly collaboration between the Argentine dictatorship and the Ford Motor Company stifled worker dissent.
Postcolonial Rhythms in the Andes
A.Chal’s new track “Pituko” is a creative disruption of postcolonial geographies across Peru, and a blend of old and new genres that creates a unique postcolonial sound.
A Wide Net of Solidarity: Antiracism and Anti-Imperialism from the Americas to the Globe (Review)
Anne Mahler’s history of the Anti-Imperialist League of the Americas recovers the contributions to the study of imperialism made by pre-WWII Latin American thinkers.
Contra el Autoritarismo de la Libertad Financiera (Review)
Verónica Gago and Lucí Cavallero’s book completes a trilogy that takes debt seriously as a feminist problem—one that operates not as a momentary burden but as a lasting mechanism of dispossession.
