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
Sweetness and Water Power: The SICAE Sugarcane Cooperative and Mayo Struggles for Water, 1944 to 1956 James V. Mestaz Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 1, February 2020, pp 1 – 25 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000944 Published Online on 2 September 2019
Union Busting as Development: Transnationalism, Empire and Kennedy's Secret Labour Programme for Bolivia Thomas C. Field Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 1, February 2020, pp 27 – 51 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000646 Published Online on 10 September 2019
The Revolutionary City: Socialist Urbanisation and Nuclear Modernity in Cienfuegos, Cuba Gustav Cederlöf Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 1, February 2020, pp 53 – 76 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000920 Published Online on 17 September 2019
Contesting the ‘War on Drugs’ in the Andes: US–Bolivian Relations of Power and Control (1989–93) Allan Gillies Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 1, February 2020, pp 77 – 106 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000324 Published Online on 6 May 2019
Women's Rights and Opposition: Explaining the Stunted Rise and Sudden Reversals of Progressive Violence against Women Policies in Contentious Contexts Cheryl O'Brien, Shannon Drysdale Walsh Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 1, February 2020, pp 107 – 131 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000956 Published Online on 11 September 2019
Becoming a Maya Woman: Beauty Pageants at the Intersection of Indigeneity, Gender and Class in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala Elisabet Dueholm Rasch Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 1, February 2020, pp 133 – 156 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000919 Published Online on 10 September 2019
The Politics of Popular Coalitions: Unions and Territorial Social Movements in Post-Neoliberal Latin America (2000–15) Sebastián Etchemendy Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 1, February 2020, pp 157 – 188 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19001007 Published Online on 21 October 2019
Reviews
Ludger Pries and Pablo Yankelevich (eds.), European and Latin American Social Scientists as Refugees, Émigrés and Return-Migrants (London and New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2019), pp. xi + 301, £89.99 hb, £71.50 E-book. Luis Roniger Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 1, February 2020, pp 189 – 191 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X20000036 Published Online on 26 February 2020
Fernando Santos-Granero, Slavery and Utopia: The Wars and Dreams of an Amazonian World Transformer (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2018), pp. xliv + 285, $29.95, pb. Matthew Peter Casey Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 1, February 2020, pp 191 – 193 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X20000048 Published Online on 26 February 2020
Mark W. Lentz, Murder in Mérida: Violence, Factions, and the Law (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2018), pp. xvi + 312, £30.95, pb. Nathaniel Morris Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 1, February 2020, pp 193 – 195 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X2000005X Published Online on 26 February 2020
Antonio Escobar Ohmstede, Romana Falcón Vega and Martín Sánchez Rodríguez (coords.), La desamortización civil desde perspectivas plurales (Mexico City: El Colegio de México, CIESAS, El Colegio de Michoacán, 2017), pp. 551, pb. Timo Schaefer Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 1, February 2020, pp 195 – 197 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X20000061 Published Online on 26 February 2020
Andrew Paxman, Jenkins of Mexico: How a Southern Farm Boy Became a Mexican Magnate (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 544, $35.95; £26.49, hb. Benjamin T. Smith Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 1, February 2020, pp 198 – 199 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X20000073 Published Online on 26 February 2020
Benjamin T. Smith, The Mexican Press and Civil Society 1940–1976: Stories from the Newsroom, Stories from the Street (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2018), pp. xiv + 366, $37.95, pb. Ben Fallaw Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 1, February 2020, pp 200 – 202 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X20000085 Published Online on 26 February 2020
Marcela Ferrari and Virginia Mellado (comps.), La renovación peronista: Organización partidaria, liderazgos y dirigentes, 1893–1991 (Buenos Aires: Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, 2017), pp. 334, pb. Julio César Melon Pirro Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 1, February 2020, pp 202 – 204 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X20000097 Published Online on 26 February 2020
Mathew Rhodes-Purdy, Regime Support Beyond the Balance Sheet: Participation and Policy Performance in Latin America (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018), pp. xi + 268, £75.00, hb. Eduardo Dargent Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 1, February 2020, pp 204 – 206 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X20000103 Published Online on 26 February 2020
Leon Fink and Juan Manuel Palacio (eds.), Labor Justice across the Americas (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2017), pp. vii + 281, £28.99, pb. Joshua Savala Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 1, February 2020, pp 206 – 208 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X20000115 Published Online on 26 February 2020
Jeffery R. Webber, The Last Day of Oppression, and the First Day of the Same: The Politics and Economics of the New Latin American Left (London: Pluto Press, 2017), pp. 327, £16.99, pb. Patrick Clark Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 1, February 2020, pp 208 – 210 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X20000127 Published Online on 26 February 2020
Susan Helen Ellison, Domesticating Democracy: The Politics of Conflict Resolution in Bolivia (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2018), pp. xiii + 281, $99.00, $25.95, hb and pb; £76.00, £19.99, hb and pb. Charlotta Widmark Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 1, February 2020, pp 210 – 212 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X20000139 Published Online on 26 February 2020
John Soluri, Claudia Leal and José Augusto Pádua (eds.), A Living Past: Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2018), pp. xi + 297, $120.00, hb; £85.00, hb. Javier Puente Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 1, February 2020, pp 212 – 214 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X20000140 Published Online on 26 February 2020
Matthew Vitz, A City on a Lake: Urban Political Ecology and the Growth of Mexico City (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2018), pp. xi + 338, $104.95, $27.95,hb and pb; £80.00, £20.99, hb and pb. Alejandro de Coss Corzo Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 1, February 2020, pp 215 – 217 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X20000152 Published Online on 26 February 2020
Marcos Mendoza, The Patagonian Sublime: The Green Economy and Post-Neoliberal Politics (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2018), pp. xiv + 225, $29.95, pb. Mattias Borg Rasmussen Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 1, February 2020, pp 217 – 219 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X20000164 Published Online on 26 February 2020
David S. Dalton, Mestizo Modernity: Race, Technology, and the Body in Postrevolutionary Mexico (Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 2018), pp. x + 236, $84.95, hb. José Ragas Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 1, February 2020, pp 219 – 221 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X20000176 Published Online on 26 February 2020
Sean T. Mitchell, Constellations of Inequality: Space, Race and Utopia in Brazil (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2018), pp. xiii + 255, $30.00, pb. Katerina Hatzikidi Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 1, February 2020, pp 221 – 224 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X20000188 Published Online on 26 February 2020
Rosalynn A. Vega, No Alternative: Childbirth, Citizenship, and Indigenous Culture in Mexico (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2018), pp. xiv + 238, $29.95, pb. Isabel Córdova Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 1, February 2020, pp 224 – 226 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X2000019X Published Online on 26 February 2020
Rebecca G. Martínez, Marked Women: The Cultural Politics of Cervical Cancer in Venezuela (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018), pp. xi + 278, $27.95, pb. Raúl Necochea López Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 1, February 2020, pp 226 – 228 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X20000206 Published Online on 26 February 2020
Tina Hilgers and Laura Macdonald (eds.), Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean: Subnational Structures, Institutions, and Clientelistic Networks (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017), pp. xi + 298, £75.00, hb. Alexandra Abello Colak Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 1, February 2020, pp 228 – 230 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X20000218 Published Online on 26 February 2020
Bruno Manso and Camila Nunes Dias, A guerra: A ascensão do PCC e o mundo do crime no Brasil (São Paulo: Todavia, 2018), pp. 318, E-book. – Gabriel Feltran, Irmãos: Uma história do PCC (São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2018), pp. 284, E-book. Marcos Alan S. V. Ferreira Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 1, February 2020, pp 230 – 232 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X2000022X Published Online on 26 February 2020
Alexander L. Fattal, Guerrilla Marketing: Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Colombia (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2018), pp. xiii + 310, $82.50, $27.50, hb and pb. Teo Ballvé Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 1, February 2020, pp 232 – 234 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X20000231 Published Online on 26 February 2020
Carmelo Mesa-Lago, Voices of Change in Cuba from the Non-State Sector (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), pp. xii + 178, $27.95, pb. Helen Yaffe Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 1, February 2020, pp 235 – 237 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X20000243 Published Online on 26 February 2020
Matthew Hayes, Gringolandia: Lifestyle Migration under Late Capitalism (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2018), pp. 266, $104.00, $26.00, hb and pb. Raúl Lardiés-Bosque Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 1, February 2020, pp 237 – 239 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X20000255 Published Online on 26 February 2020