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.

Spatial and Discursive Violence in the US Southwest
Authors: Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita
Language: English
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Makers of Democracy
A Transnational History of the Middle Classes in Colombia | Recipient of an Honorable Mention by the Fundación Alejandro Angel Escobar (Colombia)
Authors: A. Ricardo López-Pedreros
Language: English
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Small Axe
A Caribbean Journal of Criticism | Three issues annually
Authors: David Scott, editor
Language: English
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The Jamaica Reader
History, Culture, Politics
Authors: Diana Paton and Matthew J. Smith, editors
Language: English
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The CIA in Ecuador
Authors: Marc Becker
Language: English
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Vital Decomposition
Soil Practitioners and Life Politics | Honorable Mention, 2021 Bryce Wood Book Award, presented by the Latin American Studies Association
Authors: Kristina M. Lyons
Language: English
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Aesthetics of Excess
The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment
Authors: Jillian Hernandez
Language: English
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Bolivia in the Age of Gas
Authors: Bret Gustafson
Language: English
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Citizens of Scandal
Journalism, Secrecy, and the Politics of Reckoning in Mexico
Authors: Vanessa Freije
Language: English
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Another Aesthetics Is Possible
Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War
Authors: Jennifer Ponce de León
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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