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 Articles
Engineering Value: The Transandine Railway and the ‘Techno-Capital’ State in Chile at the End of the Nineteenth Century Kyle E. Harvey Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 4, November 2020, pp 711–733 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X20000632 Published Online on 3 July 2020
Consumer Culture in Guatemala City during the ‘Season of Luis Mazzantini’, 1905: The Political Economy of Working-Class Consumption Michael D. Kirkpatrick Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 4, November 2020, pp 735–758 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X2000067X Published Online on 13 August 2020
Promoting a ‘Pinochetazo’: The Chilean Dictatorship's Foreign Policy in El Salvador during the Carter Years, 1977–81 Molly Avery Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 4, November 2020, pp 759–784 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X20000966 Published Online on 5 October 2020
Home Security: Drug Rehabilitation Centres, the Devil and Domesticity in Guatemala City Kevin Lewis O'Neill Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 4, November 2020, pp 785–804 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X20000656 Published Online on 15 July 2020
Commentary
The ‘Colombianisation’ of Central America: Misconceptions, Mischaracterisations and the Military-Agroindustrial Complex Teo Ballvé, Kendra McSweeney Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 4, November 2020, pp 805–829 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X20000668 Published Online on 20 July 2020
Reviews
Grace Livingstone, Britain and the Dictatorships of Argentina and Chile, 1973–1982: Foreign Policy, Corporations and Social Movements (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), pp. ix + 280, £79.99, hb, £22.99, pb, £17.99, E-book. Pablo Bradbury Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 4, November 2020, pp 831–833 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X20001030 Published Online on 15 December 2020
Sara Brandellero, Derek Pardue and Georg Wink (eds.), Living (Il)legalities in Brazil: Practices, Narratives, and Institutions in a Country on the Edge (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2020), pp. 196, £120.00; $160.00, hb, £36.99; $48.95, E-book. Jaime Alves Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 4, November 2020, pp 833–836 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X20001042 Published Online on 15 December 2020
Sarah England, Writing Terror on the Bodies of Women: Media Coverage of Violence against Women in Guatemala (Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2018), pp. xiv + 419, $130.00; £100.00, hb. M. Gabriela Torres Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 4, November 2020, pp 837–838 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X20001054 Published Online on 15 December 2020
João H. Costa Vargas, The Denial of Antiblackness: Multiracial Redemption and Black Suffering (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2018), pp. xii + 339, $120.00, hb, $30.00, pb. Alexandre E. Da Costa Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 4, November 2020, pp 838–840 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X20001066 Published Online on 15 December 2020
Guisela Latorre, Democracy on the Wall: Street Art of the Post-Dictatorship Era in Chile (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2019), pp. xvii + 230, $89.95, hb, $29.95, pb. Alba Griffin Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 4, November 2020, pp 841–843 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X20001078 Published Online on 15 December 2020
Casper Jacobsen, Tourism and Indigenous Heritage in Latin America as Observed through Mexico's Magical Village Cuetzalan (London and New York: Routledge, 2019), pp. x + 194, £120.00; $155.00, hb, £36.99; $47.95, pb, £33.29; $47.95, E-book. Lisa Pinley Covert Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 4, November 2020, pp 843–845 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X2000108X Published Online on 15 December 2020
Dana Frank, The Long Honduran Night: Resistance, Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup (Chicago, IL: Haymarket, 2018), pp. 335, $17.95, pb. Lirio Gutiérrez Rivera Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 4, November 2020, pp 845–847 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X20001091 Published Online on 15 December 2020
Alexander S. Dawson, The Peyote Effect: From the Inquisition to the War on Drugs (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2018), pp. x + 245, £70.00; $85.00, hb, £25.00; $29.95, pb. Stacey Schwartzkopf Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 4, November 2020, pp 847–849 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X20001108 Published Online on 15 December 2020
Thomas Grisaffi, Coca Yes, Cocaine No: How Bolivia's Coca Growers Reshaped Democracy (London and Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019), pp. viii + 261, £80.00; $99.95, hb, £19.99; $25.95, pb and E-book. Jonathan Alderman Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 4, November 2020, pp 849–851 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X2000111X Published Online on 15 December 2020
Jorge L. Giovannetti-Torres, Black British Migrants in Cuba: Race, Labor and Empire in the Twentieth-Century Caribbean, 1898–1948 (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018), pp. ix + 305, £75.00; $96.81, hb, £22.99; $29.67, pb. Philip A. Howard Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 4, November 2020, pp 851–853 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X20001121 Published Online on 15 December 2020
Bonnie A. Lucero, Revolutionary Masculinity and Racial Inequality: Gendering War and Politics in Cuba (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2018), pp. xiii + 345, $65.00, hb. Alison Fraunhar Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 4, November 2020, pp 853–856 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X20001133 Published Online on 15 December 2020
Edward Blumenthal, Exile and Nation-State Formation in Argentina and Chile, 1810–1862 (London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), pp. xiii + 366, £59.99; $84.99, hb, £44.99; $59.99, pb, £47.99; $64.99, E-book Luis Roniger Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 4, November 2020, pp 856–858 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X20001145 Published Online on 15 December 2020
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra (ed.), Entangled Empires: The Anglo-Iberian Atlantic, 1500–1830 (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), pp. ix + 330, £45.00; $55.00, hb. Mauricio Onetto Pavez Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 4, November 2020, pp 858–860 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X20001157 Published Online on 15 December 2020
Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra, Touched Bodies: The Performative Turn in Latin American Art (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2019), pp. x + 276, $99.95, hb, $34.95, pb. David Lehmann Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 4, November 2020, pp 860–862 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X20001169 Published Online on 15 December 2020
Leith Passmore, The Wars inside Chile's Barracks: Remembering Military Service under Pinochet (Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2017), pp. vii + 279, $79.95, hb, $21.95, pb. Marian E. Schlotterbeck Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 4, November 2020, pp 863–865 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X20001170 Published Online on 15 December 2020
Nancy Farriss, Tongues of Fire: Language and Evangelization in Colonial Mexico (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. xxi + 409, £64.00; $105.00, hb. David Tavárez Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 4, November 2020, pp 865–867 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X20001182 Published Online on 15 December 2020
Naomi Schiller, Channeling the State: Community Media and Popular Politics in Venezuela (London and Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018), pp. xiv + 275, £83.00; $99.95, hb, £20.99; $26.95, pb and E-book. Nadia Mosquera Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 4, November 2020, pp 867–869 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X20001194 Published Online on 15 December 2020
Eduardo Silva and Federico M. Rossi (eds.), Reshaping the Political Arena in Latin America: From Resisting Neoliberalism to the Second Incorporation (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), pp. 360, $32.95, pb. Alfredo Saad-Filho Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 52 / Issue 4, November 2020, pp 869–871 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X20001200 Published Online on 15 December 2020