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
Multiculturalism, Legal Pluralism and Local Government in Colombia: Indigenous Autonomy and Institutional Embeddedness in Karmata Rúa, Antioquia MARCELA VELASCO Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 3, August 2018, pp 517 – 547 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X17001183 Published Online on 25 October 2017
Argentine and Egyptian History Entangled: From Perón to Nasser LILY PEARL BALLOFFET Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 3, August 2018, pp 549 – 577 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X17001171 Published Online on 30 October 2017
Reshaping the Chaco: Migrant Foodways, Place-making, and the Chaco War BEN NOBBS-THIESSEN Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 3, August 2018, pp 579 – 611 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X17001225 Published Online on 27 November 2017
Making a Brazilian New Deal: Oliveira Vianna and the Transnational Sources of Brazil's Corporatist Experiment MELISSA TEIXEIRA Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 3, August 2018, pp 613 – 641 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X17001602 Published Online on 23 January 2018
Women in Uruguayan Communism: Contradictions and Ambiguities, 1920s–1960s GERARDO LEIBNER Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 3, August 2018, pp 643 – 672 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X17001201 Published Online on 30 October 2017
The ‘Franklins of Colombia’: Immigration Schemes and Hemispheric Solidarity in the Making of a Civilised Colombian Nation ERNESTO BASSI Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 3, August 2018, pp 673 – 701 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X17001213 Published Online on 16 November 2017
Paradise for Whom? Conservatism and Progress in the Perception of Rio de Janeiro's Drinking-Water Supply, Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries JORUN POETTERING Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 3, August 2018, pp 703 – 727 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X17001158 Published Online on 28 September 2017
Reviews
Sonia E. Alvarez, Jeffrey W. Rubin, Millie Thayer, Gianpaolo Baiocchi and Agustín Laó-Montes (eds.), Beyond Civil Society: Activism, Participation, and Protest in Latin America (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2017), pp. xvi + 386, $99.95, $28.95 pb and E-book; £83.00, £23.99 pb and E-book MAXINE MOLYNEUX Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 3, August 2018, pp 729 – 731 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000378 Published Online on 8 August 2018
Erin Beck, How Development Projects Persist: Everyday Negotiations with Guatemalan NGOs (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2017), pp. x + 266, £82.00, £21.99 pb; $94.95, $25.95 pb LAZAR KONFORTI Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 3, August 2018, pp 731 – 733 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X1800038X Published Online on 8 August 2018
Lena Lavinas de Morais, The Takeover of Social Policy by Financialization: The Brazilian Paradox (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), pp. xxi + 219, £86.00, £67.99 E-book RUBÉN LO VUOLO Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 3, August 2018, pp 733 – 734 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000391 Published Online on 8 August 2018
Caroline E. Schuster, Social Collateral: Women and Microfinance in Paraguay's Smuggling Economy (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2016), pp. xii + 271, £85.00, £24.95 pb; $70.95, $29.95 pb NANCY C. JURIK Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 3, August 2018, pp 735 – 736 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000408 Published Online on 8 August 2018
Kevin Lewis O'Neill, Secure the Soul: Christian Piety and Gang Prevention in Guatemala (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2015), pp. xi + 288, £16.95, pb CHRIS VAN DER BORGH Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 3, August 2018, pp 736 – 738 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X1800041X Published Online on 8 August 2018
Austin Zeiderman, Endangered City: The Politics of Security and Risk in Bogotá (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2016), pp. xix + 290, £73.00, £19.99 pb KATE MACLEAN Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 3, August 2018, pp 738 – 740 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000421 Published Online on 8 August 2018
Jorge Catalá Carrasco, Paulo Drinot and James Scorer (eds.), Comics and Memory in Latin America (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017), pp. 262, $27.95, pb MARGARITA SAONA Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 3, August 2018, pp 740 – 742 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000433 Published Online on 8 August 2018
Roberta Villalón (ed.), Memory, Truth, and Justice in Contemporary Latin America (Lanham, MD, and London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017), pp. vi + 274, $85.00, $37.00 pb, $35.00 E-book; £24.95, pb GEOFFREY MAGUIRE Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 3, August 2018, pp 742 – 744 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000445 Published Online on 8 August 2018
Luis Roniger, Leonardo Senkman, Saúl Sosnowski and Mario Sznajder, Exile, Diaspora, and Return: Changing Cultural Landscapes in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. ix + 292, £47.99, hb RAANAN REIN Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 3, August 2018, pp 744 – 746 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000457 Published Online on 8 August 2018
John R. Bawden, The Pinochet Generation: The Chilean Military in the Twentieth Century (Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2016), pp. x + 288, $49.95, $49.95 E-book LEITH PASSMORE Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 3, August 2018, pp 746 – 747 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000469 Published Online on 8 August 2018
Leigh Binford, The El Mozote Massacre: Human Rights and Global Implications (Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, 2016), pp. xxii + 377, $34.95, pb JENNY PEARCE Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 3, August 2018, pp 748 – 749 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000470 Published Online on 8 August 2018
Robert A. Karl, Forgotten Peace: Reform, Violence and the Making of Contemporary Colombia (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2017), pp. xv + 321, £70.95, £27.95 pb; $85.00, $34.95 pb MALCOLM DEAS Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 3, August 2018, pp 749 – 751 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000482 Published Online on 8 August 2018
Margaret Randall, Exporting Revolution: Cuba's Global Solidarity (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2017), pp. x + 266, $94.95, $25.95 E-book and pb; £77.00, £20.99 E-book and pb HELEN YAFFE Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 3, August 2018, pp 751 – 753 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000494 Published Online on 8 August 2018
Ernesto Semán, Ambassadors of the Working Class: Argentina's International Labour Activists and Cold War Democracy in the Americas (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2017), pp. xiii + 314, $94.95, $26.95 pb and E-book; £79.00, £21.99 pb and E-book JORGE A. NÁLLIM Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 3, August 2018, pp 753 – 755 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000500 Published Online on 8 August 2018
Luiz Bernardo Pericás, Caio Prado Júnior: Uma biografia política (São Paulo: Boitempo, 2016), pp. 484, £15.50, pb JUAN GRIGERA Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 3, August 2018, pp 755 – 757 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000512 Published Online on 8 August 2018
Randal Sheppard, A Persistent Revolution: History, Nationalism, and Politics in Mexico since 1968 (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2016), pp. xiv + 374, £59.95, hb PAUL GILLINGHAM Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 3, August 2018, pp 757 – 759 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000524 Published Online on 8 August 2018
Joseph U. Lenti, Redeeming the Revolution: The State and Organized Labor in Post-Tlatelolco Mexico (Lincoln, NE, and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2017), pp. xvi + 355, $70.00, $35.00 pb KEVIN J. MIDDLEBROOK Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 3, August 2018, pp 759 – 760 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000536 Published Online on 8 August 2018
Elisabeth Cunin, Administrar los extranjeros: Raza, mestizaje, nación. Migraciones afrobeliceñas en el territorio de Quintana Roo, 1902–1940 (Mexico City: CIESAS, 2014), pp. 292, pb VICTOR BULMER-THOMAS Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 3, August 2018, pp 760 – 761 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000548 Published Online on 8 August 2018
Anna Rose Alexander, City on Fire: Technology, Social Change, and the Hazards of Progress in Mexico City (1860–1910) (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016), pp. x + 224, $26.95, pb WILLIE HIATT Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 3, August 2018, pp 762 – 763 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X1800055X Published Online on 8 August 2018
Mikael D. Wolfe, Watering the Revolution: An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform in Mexico (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2017), pp. xii + 317, $94.95, $26.95 pb and E-book; £79.00, £21.99 pb and E-book. HELGA BAITENMANN Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 3, August 2018, pp 763 – 765 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000561 Published Online on 8 August 2018
Robert W. Wilcox, Cattle in the Backlands: Mato Grosso and the Evolution of Ranching in the Brazilian Tropics (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2017), pp. xviii + 323, $45.00; £39.00, hb SHAWN VAN AUSDAL Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 3, August 2018, pp 765 – 767 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000573 Published Online on 8 August 2018
Eve E. Buckley, Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2017), pp. xiv + 298, $29.95, pb JACOB BLANC Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 3, August 2018, pp 767 – 769 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000585 Published Online on 8 August 2018
Laura Caruso, Embarcados: Los trabajadores marítimos y la vida a bordo: Sindicato, empresas y Estado en el puerto de Buenos Aires, 1889–1921 (Buenos Aires: Ediciones Imago Mundi, 2016), pp. xxxv + 283, pb JOSHUA SAVALA Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 3, August 2018, pp 769 – 770 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000597 Published Online on 8 August 2018
Julyan G. Peard, An American Teacher in Argentina: Mary Gorman's Nineteenth-Century Odyssey from New Mexico to the Pampas (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2016), pp. xi + 285, £49.95, hb RICARDO D. SALVATORE Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 3, August 2018, pp 771 – 773 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000603 Published Online on 8 August 2018
Javier F. León and Helena Simonett (eds.), Views from the South: A Latin American Music Reader (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press in collaboration with the Society for Ethnomusicology, 2016), pp. xi + 449, £28.99, pb JAMES BUTTERWORTH Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 3, August 2018, pp 773 – 775 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000615 Published Online on 8 August 2018
Matthew B. Karush, Musicians in Transit: Argentina and the Globalization of Popular Music (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2017), pp. x + 268, $24.95, pb IGNACIO AGUILÓ Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 3, August 2018, pp 775 – 776 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000627 Published Online on 8 August 2018