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
Slapstick Diplomacy: Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator and Latin American Theatres of War WILLIE HIATT Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 4, November 2018, pp 777 – 803 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000366 Published Online on 18 June 2018
Writing Bahian Identity: Crafting New Narratives of Blackness in Salvador, Brazil, 1940s–1950s ANADELIA A. ROMO Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 4, November 2018, pp 805 – 832 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000330 Published Online on 22 May 2018
New Punitiveness on the Move: How the US Prison Model and Penal Policy Arrived in Colombia JULIE DE DARDEL, OLA SÖDERSTRÖM Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 4, November 2018, pp 833 – 860 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000664 Published Online on 1 October 2018
‘The Terror and Scourge of the Barrio’: Representations of Youth Crime and Policing on Nicaraguan Television News JULIENNE WEEGELS Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 4, November 2018, pp 861 – 887 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000317 Published Online on 20 April 2018
Why New Parties Split: The Schism of Peru's United Left in Comparative Perspective BRANDON VAN DYCK Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 4, November 2018, pp 889 – 918 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000251 Published Online on 9 March 2018
The Rise of the Brazilian Cotton Trade in Britain during the Industrial Revolution THALES A. ZAMBERLAN PEREIRA Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 4, November 2018, pp 919 – 949 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000329 Published Online on 29 April 2018
Paradoxes of the Museification of the Past in Nineteenth-Century Chile: The Case of the Coloniaje Exhibition of 1873 PAULINA FABA Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 4, November 2018, pp 951 – 975 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000305 Published Online on 10 April 2018
Reviews
Marc Becker, Twentieth-Century Latin American Revolutions (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017), pp. viii + 261, £19.95, pb DIRK KRUIJT Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 4, November 2018, pp 977 – 978 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000779 Published Online on 27 November 2018
Raanan Rein, Stefan Rinke and Nadia Zysman (eds.), The New Ethnic Studies in Latin America (Leiden: Brill, 2017), pp. xii + 203, €72.00; $83.00, hb LILY PEARL BALLOFFET Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 4, November 2018, pp 978 – 980 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000780 Published Online on 27 November 2018
Francisco Ferreira with Billie Jean Isbell (eds.), A Return to the Village: Community Ethnographies and the Study of Andean Culture in Perspective (London: Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London, 2016), pp. xiii + 301, £25.00, pb JESSACA LEINAWEAVER Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 4, November 2018, pp 980 – 982 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000792 Published Online on 27 November 2018
Sian Lazar, The Social Life of Politics: Ethics, Kinship, and Union Activism in Argentina (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017), pp. xi + 243, £23.99, pb SEBASTIÁN ETCHEMENDY Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 4, November 2018, pp 982 – 984 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000809 Published Online on 27 November 2018
Aldo Civico, The Para-State: An Ethnography of Colombia's Death Squads (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2016), pp. xxiii + 236, £22.95, pb ANNETTE IDLER Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 4, November 2018, pp 984 – 986 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000810 Published Online on 27 November 2018
Miriam Seemann, Water Security, Justice and the Politics of Water Rights in Peru and Bolivia (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), pp. xviii + 226, £13.60, hb MATTIAS BORG RASMUSSEN Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 4, November 2018, pp 986 – 988 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000822 Published Online on 27 November 2018
Christen A. Smith, Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence, and Performance in Brazil (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2016), pp. xiv + 261. $95.00, $26.00 pb KIA LILLY CALDWELL Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 4, November 2018, pp 988 – 990 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000834 Published Online on 27 November 2018
Colin Clarke, Race, Class, and the Politics of Decolonization: Jamaica Journals, 1961 and 1968 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), pp. xvii + 218, £68.00, hb WILLIAM TANTAM Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 4, November 2018, pp 990 – 992 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000846 Published Online on 27 November 2018
David Wheat, Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570–1640 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2016), pp. xix + 332, $45.00, hb ROBERT C. SCHWALLER Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 4, November 2018, pp 992 – 994 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000858 Published Online on 27 November 2018
Mónica Ricketts, Who Should Rule? Men of Arms, the Republic of Letters, and the Fall of the Spanish Empire (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. xii + 314, $74.00, hb NATALIA SOBREVILLA PEREA Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 4, November 2018, pp 994 – 995 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X1800086X Published Online on 27 November 2018
Carlos Contreras and Luis Miguel Glave (eds.), La independencia del Perú: ¿Concedida, conseguida, concebida? (Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos,2015), pp. 491, pb, and Colectivo por el Bicentenario de la Revolución del Cusco, El Cusco insurrecto: La revolución de 1814 doscientos años después (Lima: Ministerio de Cultura; Dirección Desconcentrada de Cultura de Cusco, Subdirección de Industrias Culturales y Artes; Fondo Editorial, 2016), pp. 314, pb SILVIA ESCANILLA HUERTA Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 4, November 2018, pp 995 – 998 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000871 Published Online on 27 November 2018
Ulrich Mücke (ed.), The Diary of Heinrich Witt (Leiden: Brill, 2016), 10 volumes, £1,077.35 pb; €1,099.00; $1,423.00 E-book NILS JACOBSEN Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 4, November 2018, pp 998 – 1001 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000883 Published Online on 27 November 2018
Alberto Harambour, Un viaje a las colonias: Memorias y diario de un ovejero escocés en Malvinas, Patagonia y Tierra del Fuego (1878–1898) (Santiago de Chile: Ediciones de la Dirección de Bibliotecas, Archivos y Museos and Centro de Investigaciones Diego Barros Arana, 2016), pp. 176, pb PATIENCE A. SCHELL Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 4, November 2018, pp 1001 – 1002 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000895 Published Online on 27 November 2018
Fausta Gantús (ed.), Elecciones en el México del siglo XIX: Las prácticas, Vols.1 and 2 (México City: Instituto Mora and Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología with Tribunal Electoral del Distrito Federal, 2016), pp. 440 + 3190, pb TIMO SCHAEFER Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 4, November 2018, pp 1003 – 1004 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000901 Published Online on 27 November 2018
John M. Belohlavek, Patriots, Prostitutes, and Spies: Women and the Mexican–American War (Charlottesville, VA, and London: University of Virginia Press, 2017), pp. ix + 306, £46.95, pb ALYS D. BEVERTON Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 4, November 2018, pp 1004 – 1006 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000913 Published Online on 27 November 2018
Amelia M. Kiddle, Mexico's Relations with Latin America during the Cárdenas Era (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2016), pp. xvii + 307, £59.50, hb WILLIAM A. BOOTH Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 4, November 2018, pp 1006 – 1008 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000925 Published Online on 27 November 2018
Jennifer L. Lambe, Madhouse: Psychiatry and Politics in Cuban History (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2017), pp. xiv + 324, $90.00, $32.95 pb, $29.99 E-book CRISTIANA FACCHINETTI Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 4, November 2018, pp 1008 – 1010 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000937 Published Online on 27 November 2018
Carlos M. Herrera, ¿Adiós al proletariado? El Partido Socialista bajo el peronismo (1945–1955) (Buenos Aires: Imago Mundi, 2016), pp. xxvi + 260, pb JORGE A. NÁLLIM Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 4, November 2018, pp 1010 – 1012 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000949 Published Online on 27 November 2018
Patricio Simonetto, Entre la injuria y la revolución: El Frente de Liberación Homosexual, Argentina, 1967–1976 (Buenos Aires: Universidad de Quilmes, 2017), pp. 195, pb ERNESTO SEMÁN Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 4, November 2018, pp 1012 – 1014 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000950 Published Online on 27 November 2018
Verónica Ada Abrego, Erinnerung und Intersektionalität. Frauen als Opfer der argentinischen Staatsrepression (1975–1983) (Bielefeld: Transcript, 2016), pp. 554, €49.99, pb CRISTIAN ALVARADO LEYTON Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 4, November 2018, pp 1014 – 1016 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000962 Published Online on 27 November 2018
Lucas Bilbao and Ariel Lede, Profeta del genocidio: El Vicariato castrense y los diarios del obispo Bonamín en la última dictadura (Buenos Aires: Sudamericana, 2016), pp. 495, pb JUAN GRIGERA Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 4, November 2018, pp 1016 – 1019 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000974 Published Online on 27 November 2018
Cara Levey, Fragile Memory, Shifting Impunity: Commemoration and Contestation in Post-Dictatorship Argentina and Uruguay (Oxford and Bern, Peter Lang, 2016), pp. xi + 295, €52.60; £42.00; $68.95 pb and E-book DANIEL WILLIS Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 4, November 2018, pp 1019 – 1021 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000986 Published Online on 27 November 2018
Richard Cándida Smith, Improvised Continent: Pan-Americanism and Cultural Exchange (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017), pp. viii + 342, $45.00; £37.00, hb PATRICK IBER Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 4, November 2018, pp 1021 – 1023 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000998 Published Online on 27 November 2018
Morgan James Luker, The Tango Machine: Musical Culture in the Age of Expediency (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2016), pp. xiv + 218, £30.00; £21.00, pb FIORELLA MONTERO-DIAZ Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 4, November 2018, pp 1023 – 1025 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18001001 Published Online on 27 November 2018