Latin American Studies

Revealing how militarized masculinity inextricably intersects with political repression, this book examines the dictatorial regimes of Francisco Franco and Augusto Pinochet to offer arresting examples of the implications of these links.

Absorption Narratives examines how Jewishness intersects with Blackness and Indigeneity across geographical contexts from North, Central, and South America.

Drawing on archives, oral narrative, and ethnographic fieldwork, this graphic novel uncovers the vibrant history of social science research and activism in Latin America.

This book explores key issues affecting the post-NAFTA development and trajectory of North America’s most important economic sector, the automotive industry.

This collection presents a series of autobiographical meditations by Ilan Stavans on how language defines every aspect of our life.

Defining and Defying Borders describes how journals, magazines, and newspapers chart the complex postcolonial relationship between Spain and Latin America during the modernist era.

This creative ethnography explores the surprising entanglements between tourism and reproduction on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica.

Shedding light on historical moments and geographic locations, this book explores coloniality and its legacies in contemporary Mexico.

This collaborative graphic novel explores issues of capitalism and climate change in Paraguay, raising questions about the limits of survival for humans, their food crops, and rural ways of life.

Digital Encounters approaches connectivity as a gravitational centre of contemporary Latin American cultural production.

This comprehensive collection examines how communities across Latin America and the Caribbean are responding in dynamic ways to pressing contemporary challenges.

Opportunism and Goodwill explores the relatively untapped history of Canadian-Colombian relations and the role Canada has played in the modern economic development of the region.

Using an accessible style and innovative visual methods, The Living Inca Town illustrates how tourism can perpetuate and even exacerbate gendered and global inequalities, while also exploring new avenues in which these can be contested.

Revolutionary Visions traces the emergence of a growing corpus of Latin American films that explore the legacy of Jewish encounters with revolutionary political movements in 1960s and 1970s Latin America.

This bilingual photography book investigates the complexities of today’s war on drugs by examining the art and architecture of Guatemala City’s Pentecostal drug rehabilitation centers.

Based on original ethnographic research in Brazil, this rich graphic narrative follows several local women as they negotiate the terms of their intimate relationships with foreign tourists and seek a different life for themselves.