Mayka’s new book examines the idea and implementation of participatory institutions, asking the question about when they actually work, and when they do not work, and why this is the case, especially in Latin America...

Dangl demonstrates the ways that Aymara, Quechua, and Guaraní intellectuals, activists, and communities use history as a means of resistance...

Lamana carefully investigates the writings of Indigenous intellectuals of the Andean region during Spanish colonialism...

This dense and surprising ethnography considers the everyday lives of Cubans as they navigate, invent, and strategize ways to sustain what is most important to them...

O’Hara uncovers a vast array of social practices in colonial Mexico that force us to reconsider who owns the future...

In the late 1500s, the mines of Potosí –a mountain in southern Bolivia — produced 60% of the world’s silver...

Alvarez offers an over one-hundred-year history that extends to before the building of a border wall in 1990...

Offner shows how strategies such as self-help housing, for-profit privatized state-functions, and austere social programs were well-trodded decades earlier in the mid-century “mixed economy"...

Wheat argues that the extensive participation of Luso-Africans, Latinized Africans, and free people of color made possible Spain’s colonization of the Caribbean...

How do states use cultural policy?