LASA2021 / Crisis global, desigualdades y centralidad de la vida

Duke University Press

A not-for-profit scholarly publisher, Duke University Press is best known for publishing in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. The Press publishes approximately 140 books annually and over 50 journals, as well as offering several electronic collections and open-access (OA) publishing initiatives. Our books have won many prestigious Latin American studies awards, including the Bryce Wood Book Award, the Bolton-Johnson Prize in Latin American History, and the Latino/a Studies Section Outstanding Book Award.

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Through June 30, save 40% on all books and journal issues with code LASA21 when you order on our website. Check out our catalog below for new and forthcoming titles, or check out highlights on our website. You can find a complete list of titles in Latin American studies here. All 20th-century volumes (1918–1999) of the Hispanic American Historical Review are available open access. Start reading here.

Abstract Barrios
The Crises of Latinx Visibility in Cities | Winner of the 2021 LASA Best Book Prize, Latino Studies Section
Authors: Johana Londoño
Language: English
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Fencing in Democracy
Border Walls, Necrocitizenship, and the Security State | Winner of the ALLA Book Award, presented by the Association of Latina/Latino Anthropologists
Authors: Miguel Díaz-Barriga and Margaret E. Dorsey
Language: English
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Hispanic American Historical Review
Quarterly Journal
Authors: Martha Few, Zachary Morgan, Matthew Restall, and Amara Solari, editors
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The Surrendered
Reflections by a Son of Shining Path
Authors: José Carlos Agüero, edited and translated by Michael J. Lazzara and Charles F. Walker
Language: English
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¡Presente!
The Politics of Presence
Authors: Diana Taylor
Language: English
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The Sense of Brown
Authors: José Esteban Muñoz, edited by Joshua Chambers-Letson and Tavia Nyong′o
Language: English
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Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora
Authors: Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández
Language: English
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Meridians
feminism, race, transnationalism | Two issues annually
Authors: Ginetta E. B. Candelario, editor
Language: English
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Eros Ideologies
Writings on Art, Spirituality, and the Decolonial | Honorable Mention, 2021 National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Book Award
Authors: Laura E. Pérez
Language: English
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Seeds of Power
Environmental Injustice and Genetically Modified Soybeans in Argentina
Authors: Amalia Leguizamón
Language: English
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Bret Gustafson, author of Bolivia in the Age of Gas and Thea Riofrancos, author of Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador, respond to interview questions from The Baffler, about natural gas and oil extraction in Bolivia and Ecuador and the relationship between leftist governments and environmental activists, the difficulties of creating a non-extractivist socialist state in the context of global capitalism, and their critiques of the concept of the "resource curse." Or, read the transcript on The Baffler website.

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