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Forecasts
A Story of Weather and Finance at the Edge of Disaster
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 9781487542238
Pub Date: February 2023
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.
Bloom Spaces
Reproduction and Tourism on the Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 9780369807519
Pub Date: February 2023
This creative ethnography explores the surprising entanglements between tourism and reproduction on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica.
Digital Encounters
Envisioning Connectivity in Latin American Cultural Production
Price: $80.00
ISBN: 9781487508685
Pub Date: February 2023
Digital Encounters approaches connectivity as a gravitational centre of contemporary Latin American cultural production.
Opportunism and Goodwill
Canadian Business Expansion in Colombia, 1867–1979
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781442646865
Pub Date: April 2021
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.
The Living Inca Town
Tourist Encounters in the Peruvian Andes
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 9781487525668
Pub Date: March 2021
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
Jewish Life and Politics in Latin American Film
Price: $53.00
ISBN: 9781487508142
Pub Date: November 2020
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.
Art of Captivity / Arte del Cautiverio
Price: $30.95
ISBN: 9781487524807
Pub Date: November 2020
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.
Gringo Love
Stories of Sex Tourism in Brazil
Price: $28.95
ISBN: 9781487594527
Pub Date: July 2020
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.
Dealing with Peace
The Guatemalan Campesino Movement and the Post-Conflict Neoliberal State
Price: $70.00
ISBN: 9781487501433
Pub Date: April 2019
Dealing with Peace explores the relationship between the Guatemalan campesino social movement and state agrarian institutions in the period since the end of armed conflict in 1996.
Human and Environmental Justice in Guatemala
Price: $36.95
ISBN: 9781487522971
Pub Date: October 2018
This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the struggle for justice and human rights in the aftermath of armed conflict, and in the context of impunity. Topics include the justice system, foreign mining companies and the environment, democratic transition and cultural responses to the struggle for justice.
Writing by Ear
Clarice Lispector and the Aural Novel
Price: $88.00
ISBN: 9781487502140
Pub Date: July 2018
Writing by Ear examines the explicit articulation of listening-in-writing found in the work of Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector. The terms “writing by ear,” the “aural novel,” and “echopoetics” rethink fiction as a poetics of listening to the world.
Deeply Rooted in the Present
Heritage, Memory, and Identity in Brazilian Quilombos
Price: $32.95
ISBN: 9781442634749
Pub Date: May 2018
Asking what it means to be quilombola (descendants of African slaves) in the twenty-first century, Kenny illustrates how heritage and identity do not simply exist, but are continually being constructed to reflect particular historical circumstances.
Other Diplomacies, Other Ties
Cuba and Canada in the Shadow of the US
Price: $42.95
ISBN: 9781442628311
Pub Date: February 2018
Other Diplomacies, Other Ties explores Cuba-Canada relations following the revolution of 1959 and the major geopolitical and economic transformations that have occurred in recent years.
Transforming Indigeneity
Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon
Price: $36.95
ISBN: 9781487522193
Pub Date: February 2018
Transforming Indigeneity is an examination of the role that language revitalization efforts play in cultural politics in the small city of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, located in the Brazilian Amazon.
Latin American Politics
An Introduction, Second Edition
Price: $61.00
ISBN: 9781442636927
Pub Date: May 2017
Latin American Politics, Second Edition is a thematic introduction to the political systems of all 20 Latin American countries.
The "Greening" of Costa Rica
Women, Peasants, Indigenous Peoples, and the Remaking of Nature
Price: $37.95
ISBN: 9781442626713
Pub Date: February 2015
Drawing on a decade of fieldwork in these communities, Isla exposes the duplicity of a neoliberal model in which the environment is converted into commercial assets, few of whose benefits flow to the local population.

Forecasts
A Story of Weather and Finance at the Edge of Disaster
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 9781487542238
Pub Date: February 2023
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.
Bloom Spaces
Reproduction and Tourism on the Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 9780369807519
Pub Date: February 2023
This creative ethnography explores the surprising entanglements between tourism and reproduction on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica.
Digital Encounters
Envisioning Connectivity in Latin American Cultural Production
Price: $80.00
ISBN: 9781487508685
Pub Date: February 2023
Digital Encounters approaches connectivity as a gravitational centre of contemporary Latin American cultural production.
Opportunism and Goodwill
Canadian Business Expansion in Colombia, 1867–1979
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781442646865
Pub Date: April 2021
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.
The Living Inca Town
Tourist Encounters in the Peruvian Andes
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 9781487525668
Pub Date: March 2021
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
Jewish Life and Politics in Latin American Film
Price: $53.00
ISBN: 9781487508142
Pub Date: November 2020
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.
Art of Captivity / Arte del Cautiverio
Price: $30.95
ISBN: 9781487524807
Pub Date: November 2020
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.
Gringo Love
Stories of Sex Tourism in Brazil
Price: $28.95
ISBN: 9781487594527
Pub Date: July 2020
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.
Dealing with Peace
The Guatemalan Campesino Movement and the Post-Conflict Neoliberal State
Price: $70.00
ISBN: 9781487501433
Pub Date: April 2019
Dealing with Peace explores the relationship between the Guatemalan campesino social movement and state agrarian institutions in the period since the end of armed conflict in 1996.
Human and Environmental Justice in Guatemala
Price: $36.95
ISBN: 9781487522971
Pub Date: October 2018
This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the struggle for justice and human rights in the aftermath of armed conflict, and in the context of impunity. Topics include the justice system, foreign mining companies and the environment, democratic transition and cultural responses to the struggle for justice.
Writing by Ear
Clarice Lispector and the Aural Novel
Price: $88.00
ISBN: 9781487502140
Pub Date: July 2018
Deeply Rooted in the Present
Heritage, Memory, and Identity in Brazilian Quilombos
Price: $32.95
ISBN: 9781442634749
Pub Date: May 2018
Asking what it means to be quilombola (descendants of African slaves) in the twenty-first century, Kenny illustrates how heritage and identity do not simply exist, but are continually being constructed to reflect particular historical circumstances.
Other Diplomacies, Other Ties
Cuba and Canada in the Shadow of the US
Price: $42.95
ISBN: 9781442628311
Pub Date: February 2018
Other Diplomacies, Other Ties explores Cuba-Canada relations following the revolution of 1959 and the major geopolitical and economic transformations that have occurred in recent years.
Transforming Indigeneity
Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon
Price: $36.95
ISBN: 9781487522193
Pub Date: February 2018
Transforming Indigeneity is an examination of the role that language revitalization efforts play in cultural politics in the small city of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, located in the Brazilian Amazon.
Latin American Politics
An Introduction, Second Edition
Price: $61.00
ISBN: 9781442636927
Pub Date: May 2017
The "Greening" of Costa Rica
Women, Peasants, Indigenous Peoples, and the Remaking of Nature
Price: $37.95
ISBN: 9781442626713
Pub Date: February 2015
Drawing on a decade of fieldwork in these communities, Isla exposes the duplicity of a neoliberal model in which the environment is converted into commercial assets, few of whose benefits flow to the local population.