Suggested Books for Review
We would welcome reviews of the works below: in different ways, they deepen our understanding of confluences as encounters and entanglements among places, ideas and forms of knowledge, while engaging central fields of critical inquiry into Latin America and the Caribbean.
These are suggestions, not an exhaustive list. We are also happy to discuss the suitability of any social science or humanities publication relating to Latin America and the Caribbean published within the past two years.
01 Víctor Figueroa: Decolonial Topophilia: Nature, Place, and History in Puerto Rican Poetry. Bucknell University Press, 2026, 254 pp.
02 Astrid Ulloa; Kristina Dietz (eds.): Transformaciones sociales, políticas y ambientales en disputa: Prácticas, estéticas e imaginarios en América Latina. CLACSO and CALAS, 2026.
03 Mark Goodale (ed.): Extracting the Future: Lithium in an Era of Energy Transition. University of California Press, 2025, 304 pp.
04 Ruth E. Goldstein: Life in Traffic: Woman, Plants and Gold Along South Americans Interoceanic Highway. University of California Press, 2026, 342 pp.
05 Kency Cornejo: Visual Disobedience: Art and Decoloniality in Latin America. Duke University Press, 2024, 304 pp.
06 Maristella Svampa: Latin America in Debate: Indigeneity, Development, Dependency, Populism. Duke University Press, 2025, 416 pp.
07 Austin Zeidermann: Artery: Racial Ecologies on Colombians Magdalena River. Duke University Press, 2025.
08 Mario Blaser: For Emplacement: Political Ontology in Two Acts. Duke University Press, 2025, 257 pp.
09 heidi andrea restrepo rhodes: Afterlives of Discovery: Speculative Geographies in the Settler Colonial Imaginary. Duke University Press, 2025, 312 pp.
10 Cecile Bishop: Forms of Blackness: Race and Visibility in the French-Speaking World. Duke University Press, 2026.
11 Monique Roelofs: Strange Tastes: Aesthetics and the Public in Latin American and Latinx Feminisms. Duke University Press, 2026.
12 Noah Walker-Crawford: The Climate Trial: Law and Justice on a Melting Planet. Duke University Press, 2026.
13 Ángel Esteban; Jesús Montoya Juárez (eds.): Buen vivir y giro ecoterritorial en las literaturas de América Latina. Peter Lang, 2026, 436 pp.
14 Bieke Willem; Rebecca Seewald (eds.): Aquatic Environments: Literary Hydropolitics in Latin America. transcript Verlag, 2025, 240 pp.
15 Karlotta Jule Bahnsen: Fashion from Below: Intersectional Inequalities and Transformations in Buenos Aires’ Garment Industry. transcript Verlag, 2026.
16 Daniel S. Cozart: Afro-Peruvian Mestizos: The Invisibility of Blackness in Post-Abolition Peru. University of Alabama Press, 2025.
17 Felipe Fernández: Flows of Violence: Water, Infrastructures, and the State in Buenaventura, Colombia. University of Arizona Press, 2025, 232 pp.
18 Nicolás Campisi; Lucas Mertehikian (eds.): Imagining a New Natural History: Latin American Cultural Production in the Anthropocene. University Press of Florida, 2026, 300 pp.
19 Kevin B. Anderson: The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism. Verso, 2025.
