New Books in Latin American Studies
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Suzana Sawyer, "The Small Matter of Suing Chevron" (Duke UP, 2022)
An interview with Suzana Sawyer
Technocracy Now! Part 2: Exploring Technocracy through Cybernetics
On part #2 of Technocracy Now, we tell stories of cybernetic technocracies.First, we hear the story of Charles A. McClelland, a liberal political scientists who proposed a cybernetic computer system that claimed to predict conflicts before they happened.
Margarita Fajardo, "The World That Latin America Created: The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era" (Harvard UP, 2021)
An interview with Margarita Fajardo
René Provost, "Rebel Courts: The Administration of Justice by Armed Insurgents" (Oxford UP, 2021)
An interview with Ren Provost
Ricardo López-Pedreros, "The Middle Classes in Latin America: Subjectivities, Practices, and Genealogies" (Routledge, 2022)
An interview with Ricardo Lpez-Pedreros
Maria Berbara, "Sacrifice and Conversion in the Early Modern Atlantic World" (Harvard UP, 2022)
An interview with Maria Berbara
Aviva Ben-Ur, "Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society: Suriname in the Atlantic World, 1651-1825" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
An interview with Aviva Ben-Ur
Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas and Mérida M. Rúa, "Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies: A Reader" (NYU Press, 2021)
An interview with Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas and Mrida M. Ra
Peter J. Kalliney, "The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization and Global Literature" (Princeton UP, 2022)
An interview with Peter J. Kalliney
NBN Classic: Niall Geraghty, "The Polyphonic Machine: Capitalism, Political Violence, and Resistance in Contemporary Argentine Literature" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2019)
What options for resistance are left to the author of fiction in a nation structured by totalizing political and economic violence?