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.

Colonial Debts
The Case of Puerto Rico
Authors: Rocío Zambrana
Language: English
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The Charismatic Gymnasium
Breath, Media, and Religious Revivalism in Contemporary Brazil
Authors: Maria José de Abreu
Language: English
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Paper Trails
Migrants, Documents, and Legal Insecurity
Authors: Sarah B. Horton and Josiah Heyman editors
Language: English
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Manufacturing Celebrity
Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood
Authors: Vanessa Díaz
Language: English
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Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism
Authors: Samantha A. Noël
Language: English
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Island Futures
Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene
Authors: Mimi Sheller
Language: English
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The Government of Beans
Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops
Authors: Kregg Hetherington
Language: English
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An Ecology of Knowledges
Fear, Love, and Technoscience in Guatemalan Forest Conservation
Authors: Micha Rahder
Language: English
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The Cuban Hustle
Culture, Politics, Everyday Life
Authors: Sujatha Fernandes
Language: English
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Youth Power in Precarious Times
Reimagining Civic Participation
Authors: Melissa Brough
Language: English
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We Are Not Dreamers editors Leisy J. Abrego and Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales discuss the book's intervention with contributors Katy Joseline Maldonado Dominguez, Maria Liliana Ramirez, and Carolina Valdivia, especially their collective critique of the "DREAMer narrative," the ethics of producing a book by and about Undocumented and formerly-Undocumented people, and the importance of community. Plus, meet all of the contributors in this brief video.

Gastón Gordillo, Professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, talks with Kregg Hetherington, author of The Government of Beans: Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops, and Amalia Leguizamón, author of Seeds of Power: Environmental Injustice and Genetically Modified Soybeans in Argentina, about soybeans in Paraguay and Argentina and the relationship to governance, power, the environment, and social justice.

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.

Senior Executive Editor Ken Wissoker talks with Vanessa Díaz about her new book, Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood, and about her experiences as a celebrity journalist, the impact of #MeToo and #OscarsSoWhite, and the lives of paparazzo.

Jocelyn Olcott, Professor of History and International Comparative Studies and Director of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University, talks with Vanessa Freije about her book, Citizens of Scandal: Journalism, Secrecy, and the Politics of Reckoning in Mexico, and about finding an archive for studying the creation of scandals and the role that scandals have in imagining a shared common sense.