Research articles

Amazonian Atlantic: Cacao, Colonial Expansion and Indigenous Labour in the Portuguese Amazon Region (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries)
Rafael Chambouleyron, Karl Heinz Arenz
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 53 / Issue 2, May 2021, pp 221 - 244
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X21000213 Published Online on 9 June 2021

The State's Developmentalist Illusion and the Origins of Illegal Coca Cultivation in Peru's Alto Huallaga Valley (1960–80)
Maritza Paredes, Hernán Manrique
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 53 / Issue 2, May 2021, pp 245 - 267
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X21000225 Published Online on 8 March 2021

A Framework for Analysing Ecological Fiscal Transfers: Case Studies from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
Gracie Verde Selva, Natasha Pauli, Julian Clifton, Milena Kiatkoski Kim
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 53 / Issue 2, May 2021, pp 269 - 296
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X21000018 Published Online on 1 March 2021

On Care for Our Common Home: Ecological Materiality and Sovereignty over the Lempa Transboundary Watershed
Ainhoa Montoya
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 53 / Issue 2, May 2021, pp 297 - 322
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X21000249 Published Online on 29 March 2021

Marxism in the Emergence and Fragmentation of Liberationist Christianity in Argentina
Pablo Bradbury
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 53 / Issue 2, May 2021, pp 323 - 348
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X20001248 Published Online on 25 January 2021

Samuel P. Huntington, Brazilian ‘Decompression’ and Democracy
Anthony W. Pereira
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 53 / Issue 2, May 2021, pp 349 - 371
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X21000250 Published Online on 9 June 2021

La Hora de la Salsa: Nicolás Maduro and the Political Dimensions of Salsa in Venezuela
Sean Bellaviti
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 53 / Issue 2, May 2021, pp 373 - 396
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X21000237 Published Online on 23 March 2021

Reviews
Elena A. Schneider, The Occupation of Havana: War, Trade, and Slavery in the Atlantic World (Chapel Hill, NC: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and University of North Carolina Press, 2018), pp. 360, $39.95 hb.
Jesse Cromwell
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 53 / Issue 2, May 2021, pp 397 - 399
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X21000262 Published Online on 9 June 2021

Walter D. Mignolo and Catherine E. Walsh, On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2018), pp. xii + 291, $99.95, $26.95 pb and E-book; £77.00, £20.99 pb and E-book.
Archie Davies
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 53 / Issue 2, May 2021, pp 399 - 402
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X21000274 Published Online on 9 June 2021

Eduardo Grüner, The Haitian Revolution: Capitalism, Slavery, and Counter-Modernity (Cambridge: Polity, 2019), pp. xix + 252, £55.00, £17.99 hb and pb; $62.20, $20.40 hb and pb.
Jean Max Charles
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 53 / Issue 2, May 2021, pp 402 - 404
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X21000286 Published Online on 9 June 2021

James W. Fuerst, New World Postcolonial: The Political Thought of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), pp. xii + 322.
Fernando Rodríguez-Mansilla
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 53 / Issue 2, May 2021, pp 404 - 406
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X21000298 Published Online on 9 June 2021

Nicola Miller, Republics of Knowledge: Nations of the Future in Latin America (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020), pp. vi + 304, $39.95; £34.00, hb.
David Rock
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 53 / Issue 2, May 2021, pp 406 - 408
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X21000304 Published Online on 9 June 2021

Marian E. Schlotterbeck, Beyond the Vanguard: Everyday Revolutionaries in Allende's Chile (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2018), pp. xiv + 234, $34.95; £27.00, pb.
Felipe Acuña
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 53 / Issue 2, May 2021, pp 409 - 411
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X21000316 Published Online on 9 June 2021

Scott Morgenstern, Jorge Pérez-López and Jerome Branche (eds.), Paths for Cuba: Reforming Communism in Comparative Perspective (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), pp. vi + 400, $34.95, pb.
Anju Reejhsinghani
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 53 / Issue 2, May 2021, pp 411 - 413
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X21000328 Published Online on 9 June 2021

Kathleen M. Millar, Reclaiming the Discarded: Life and Labor on Rio's Garbage Dump (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2018), pp. 248, $99.95, $25.95 hb and pb.
Costanza Ragazzi
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 53 / Issue 2, May 2021, pp 413 - 415
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X2100033X Published Online on 9 June 2021

Paulo Drinot, The Sexual Question: A History of Prostitution in Peru, 1850s–1950s (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 328, £23.99, pb.
Patricio Simonetto
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 53 / Issue 2, May 2021, pp 415 - 417
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X21000341 Published Online on 9 June 2021

Patricio Simonetto, El dinero no es todo: Compra y venta de sexo en la Argentina del siglo XX (Buenos Aires: Editorial Biblos, 2019), pp. 244, $23.97 pb.
Ernesto Semán
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 53 / Issue 2, May 2021, pp 417 - 419
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X21000353 Published Online on 9 June 2021

Guillermo Trejo and Sandra Ley, Votes, Drugs, and Violence: The Political Logic of Criminal Wars in Mexico (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 350, £79.99 hb, £26.99 pb.
Esteban Ruiz Gayol
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 53 / Issue 2, May 2021, pp 419 - 421
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X21000365 Published Online on 9 June 2021

Gema Kloppe-Santamaría, In the Vortex of Violence: Lynching, Extralegal Justice, and the State in Post-Revolutionary Mexico (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020), pp. xvi + 212, $85.00 hb, $34.95 pb and E-book; £70.00 hb, £29.00 pb and E-book.
Andrew Paxman
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 53 / Issue 2, May 2021, pp 421 - 423
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X21000377 Published Online on 9 June 2021

Rocio Gomez, Silver Veins, Dusty Lungs: Mining, Water, and Public Health in Zacatecas, 1835–1946 (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2020), pp. 294, $60.00, $30.00 pb and E-book.
Sarah-Louise J. Dawtry
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 53 / Issue 2, May 2021, pp 424 - 426
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X21000389 Published Online on 9 June 2021

Salvador Salinas, Land, Liberty, and Water: Morelos after Zapata, 1920–1940 (Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2018), pp. xii + 254, $55.00, hb.
Magnus Pharao Hansen
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 53 / Issue 2, May 2021, pp 426 - 428
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X21000390 Published Online on 9 June 2021