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Latin American Studies

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Forecasts

Forecasts

A Story of Weather and Finance at the Edge of Disaster

by Caroline E. Schuster

Illustrated by Enrique Bernardou and David Bueno

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

Bloom Spaces

Reproduction and Tourism on the Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica

by Susan Frohlick

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

Digital Encounters

Envisioning Connectivity in Latin American Cultural Production

Edited by Cecily Raynor and Rhian Lewis

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

Opportunism and Goodwill

Canadian Business Expansion in Colombia, 1867–1979

by Stefano Tijerina

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

The Living Inca Town

Tourist Encounters in the Peruvian Andes

by Karoline Guelke

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

Revolutionary Visions

Jewish Life and Politics in Latin American Film

by Stephanie M. Pridgeon

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

Art of Captivity / Arte del Cautiverio

by Kevin Lewis O'Neill and Benjamin Fogarty-Valenzuela

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

Gringo Love

Stories of Sex Tourism in Brazil

by Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan

Adapted by William Flynn

Illustrated by Debora Santos

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

Dealing with Peace

The Guatemalan Campesino Movement and the Post-Conflict Neoliberal State

by Simon Granovsky-Larsen

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

Human and Environmental Justice in Guatemala

Edited by Stephen Henighan and Candace Johnson

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

Writing by Ear

Clarice Lispector and the Aural Novel

by Marilia Librandi

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

Deeply Rooted in the Present

Heritage, Memory, and Identity in Brazilian Quilombos

by Mary Lorena Kenny

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

Other Diplomacies, Other Ties

Cuba and Canada in the Shadow of the US

Edited by Luis Rene Fernandez Tabio, Cynthia Wright and Lana Wylie

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

Transforming Indigeneity

Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon

by Sarah Shulist

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

Latin American Politics

An Introduction, Second Edition

by David Close

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

The "Greening" of Costa Rica

Women, Peasants, Indigenous Peoples, and the Remaking of Nature

by Ana Isla

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.

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