Journal of Latin American Studies presents recent research in the field of Latin American studies in development studies, economics, geography, history, politics and international relations, public policy, sociology and social anthropology. Regular features include articles on contemporary themes, short thematic commentaries on key issues, and an extensive section of book reviews.
Research article
Transported Identities: Global Trafficking and Late-Imperial Subjectivity in Cuban Narratives on African Penal Colonies Susan Martin-Márquez Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 1, February 2019, pp 1 – 30 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000676 Published Online on 8 August 2018
Photographic Encounters: Martín Chambi, Indigeneity and Chile–Peru Relations in the Early Twentieth Century Joanna Crow Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 1, February 2019, pp 31 – 58 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000342 Published Online on 27 July 2018
Public Opinion and Modernity in Venezuela's Anti-Corruption Trials, 1945–8 Doug Yarrington Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 1, February 2019, pp 59 – 83
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000640 Published Online on 30 July 2018 La Visita: Prisons and Survival in Guatemala Anthony W. Fontes, Kevin L. O'Neill Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 1, February 2019, pp 85 – 107 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000731 Published Online on 17 September 2018
Violence, Ideology and Counterrevolution: Landowners and Agrarian Reform in Cautín Province, Chile, 1967–73 Daniel Carter Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 1, February 2019, pp 109 – 135 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000652 Published Online on 21 September 2018
How Policy Fields Are Born: The Rise of Democratic Security in Argentina Guillermina Seri, Mary Rose Kubal Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 1, February 2019, pp 137 – 161 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000354 Published Online on 6 June 2018
Commentary
Ending the US Embargo of Cuba: International Law in Dispute Nigel D. White Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 1, February 2019, pp 163 – 186 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000718 Published Online on 13 August 2018
Reviews
R. Evan Ellis, China on the Ground in Latin America: Challenges for the Chinese and Impacts on the Region (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. xiii + 320, £72.00, hb. – Kevin P. Gallagher, The China Triangle: Latin America's China Boom and the Fate of the Washington Consensus (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. xvii + 232, £18.99; $27.95, hb. – Margaret Myers and Carol Wise (eds.), The Political Economy of China–Latin America Relations in the New Millennium: Brave New World (New York and London: Routledge, 2017), pp. vii + 293, £29.99, pb. – Yanran Xu, China's Strategic Partnerships in Latin America: Case Studies of China's Oil Diplomacy in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela, 1991–2015 (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017), pp. ix + 157, £52.95, hb. Rhys Jenkins Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 1, February 2019, pp 187 – 191 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000014 Published Online on 5 March 2019
Leonardo Avritzer, The Two Faces of Institutional Innovation: Promises and Limits of Democratic Participation in Latin America (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2017), pp. 192, £65.00, hb; $40.00, E-book. David Lehmann Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 1, February 2019, pp 191 – 193 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000026 Published Online on 5 March 2019
Gisela Zaremberg, Valeria Guarneros-Meza and Adrián Gurza Lavalle (eds.), Intermediation and Representation in Latin America: Actors and Roles beyond Elections (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), pp. xix + 211, £86.00, hb, £67.99, E-book. Brian Wampler Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 1, February 2019, pp 193 – 195 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000038 Published Online on 5 March 2019
Kent Eaton, Territory and Ideology in Latin America: Policy Conflicts between National and Subnational Governments (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. xviii + 211, £60.00, hb. Alberto Vergara Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 1, February 2019, pp 196 – 198 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X1900004X Published Online on 5 March 2019
Tom Angotti (ed.), Urban Latin America: Inequalities and Neoliberal Reforms (Lanham, MD, and London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2017), pp. vi + 299, £23.95, pb. Matthew A. Richmond Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 1, February 2019, pp 198 – 200 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000051 Published Online on 5 March 2019
Vânia Penha-Lopes, Confronting Affirmative Action in Brazil: University Quota Students and the Quest for Racial Justice (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017), pp. xii + 175, £60.00, hb. André Cicalo Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 1, February 2019, pp 201 – 203 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000063 Published Online on 5 March 2019
Danielle Pilar Clealand, The Power of Race in Cuba: Racial Ideology and Black Consciousness during the Revolution (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. xi + 255, £64.00, £19.99, pb. Jennifer Lambe Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 1, February 2019, pp 203 – 204 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000075 Published Online on 5 March 2019
María Eugenia Ulfe and Rocío Trinidad (eds.), En busca de reconocimiento: Reflexiones desde el Perú diverso (Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2017), pp. 300, pb. Jelke Boesten Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 1, February 2019, pp 205 – 206 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000087 Published Online on 5 March 2019
Heather Vrana (ed.), Anti-Colonial Texts from Central American Student Movements, 1929–1983 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), pp. xviii + 296, £29.99, pb. Eline van Ommen Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 1, February 2019, pp 207 – 209 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000099 Published Online on 5 March 2019
Tore C. Olsson, Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the US and Mexican Countryside (Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2017), pp. xiv + 277, $35.00; £27.95, hb. Alan Knight Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 1, February 2019, pp 209 – 211 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000105 Published Online on 5 March 2019
Águeda Venegas de la Torre, Los avatares de la administración de justicia en Zacatecas, 1812–1835 (Mexico City: Instituto Mora and Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, 2016), pp. 239, pb. Timo Schaefer Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 1, February 2019, pp 212 – 214 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000117 Published Online on 5 March 2019
Assad Shoman, Guatemala's Claim to Belize: The Definitive History (Belize City: Image Factory Art Foundation, 2018), pp. xxxiv + 447, $15.00, pb. Victor Bulmer-Thomas Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 1, February 2019, pp 214 – 216 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000129 Published Online on 5 March 2019
Lila Caimari, While the City Sleeps: A History of Pistoleros, Policemen, and the Crime Beat in Buenos Aires before Perón (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2017), pp. ix + 229, $29.95, £24.95, pb. Eduardo Elena Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 1, February 2019, pp 216 – 218 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000130 Published Online on 5 March 2019
Ezequiel Adamovsky and Esteban Buch, La marchita, el escudo y el bombo: Una historia cultural de los emblemas del peronismo, de Perón a Cristina Kirchner (Buenos Aires: Grupo Planeta, 2016), pp. 367, pb. Ernesto Semán Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 1, February 2019, pp 218 – 220 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000142 Published Online on 5 March 2019
Stephen C. Cote, Oil and Nation: A History of Bolivia's Petroleum Sector (Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Press, 2016), pp. xxiii + 200, $79.99, $26.99, pb. Elena McGrath Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 1, February 2019, pp 220 – 222 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000154 Published Online on 5 March 2019
Lawrence C. Heilman, USAID in Bolivia: Partner or Patrón? (Boulder, CO, and London: First Forum Press, 2017), pp. xiii + 325, £88.95, hb. Kevin A. Young Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 1, February 2019, pp 222 – 224 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000166 Published Online on 5 March 2019
Alfredo Villar (ed.), Búmm! Historieta y humor gráfico en el Perú, 1978–1992 (Lima: Reservoir Books, 2016), hb. Natalia Sobrevilla Perea Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 1, February 2019, pp 224 – 226 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000178 Published Online on 5 March 2019
Raúl Asensio, El apóstol de los Andes: El culto a Túpac Amaru durante la revolución Velasquista (1968–1975) (Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 2017), pp. xi + 347, $21.50, pb. Charles F. Walker Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 1, February 2019, pp 226 – 227 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X1900018X Published Online on 5 March 2019
Myrna Ivonne Wallace Fuentes, Most Scandalous Woman: Magda Portal and the Dream of Revolution in Peru (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2017), pp. xiii + 361, $34.95, hb. Geneviève Dorais Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 1, February 2019, pp 228 – 230 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000191 Published Online on 5 March 2019
Dennis Gilbert, The Oligarchy and the Old Regime in Latin America, 1880–1970 (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2017), pp. x + 292, £19.95, pb. Thomas C. Wright Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 1, February 2019, pp 230 – 233 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000208 Published Online on 5 March 2019
Linda A. Newson, Making Medicines in Early Colonial Lima, Peru: Apothecaries, Science, and Society (Leiden: Brill, 2017), pp. xiv + 346, €114.00; $131.00, hb. Hugh Cagle Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 1, February 2019, pp 233 – 235 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X1900021X Published Online on 5 March 2019
Gary Urton, Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2017), pp. xvii + 293, $27.95, pb. Christopher Heaney Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 1, February 2019, pp 235 – 237 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000221 Published Online on 5 March 2019
Jennifer P. Mathews and Thomas H. Guderjan, The Value of Things: Prehistoric to Contemporary Commodities in the Maya Region (Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2017), pp. vi + 309, $65.00, hb. Scott R. Hutson Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 1, February 2019, pp 238 – 240 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000233 Published Online on 5 March 2019
Paul Valentine, Stephen Beckerman and Catherine Alès (eds.), The Anthropology of Marriage in Lowland South America: Bending and Breaking the Rules (Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 2017), pp. 307, $89.95, hb. Vanessa Grotti Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 1, February 2019, pp 240 – 242 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000245 Published Online on 5 March 2019