Book Reviews

A Review of Channeling Knowledges: Water and Afro-Diasporic Spirits in Latinx and Caribbean WorldsWater is a powerful tenet of Afro-diasporic religions that troubles academic disciplines and racial categories that define state, military and geographic borders. Rebeca...

A Review of The Remarkable Reefs of Cuba: Hopeful Stories From the Ocean DoctorIt feels as though work takes up more and more of our lives, expanding into time it never used to touch. As I sat on my couch early on Saturday mornings these past months, my kids beside me...

A Review of  Now We Are in Power: The Politics of a Passive Revolution in Twenty-First Century Bolivia In Now We Are in Power, Angus McNelly provides an incisive examination of Bolivia's complex political trajectory under Evo Morales, analyzing it through the lens of...

A Review of Roots of Resistance: A Story of Gender, Race, and Labor on the North Coast of HondurasOnce home to sprawling banana plantations under the control of U.S. multinationals, the history of the northern coast of Honduras is crucially bound with capitalist...

A Review of Autocracy Rising: How Venezuela Transitioned to AuthoritarianismFew people have written more lucidly about Venezuela’s democratic decline and autocratization over the past 20 years, especially for an English-language audience, as political scientist Javier...

A Review of Stranger in the Desert: A Family StoryYoung adults traveling to find themselves is a tale as old as time. It's not hard to conjure images of historical figures or folk heroes sailing out for adventure, looking for fame, fortune or—perhaps more...

A Review of Reckoning with Harm:  The Toxic Relation of Oil in AmazoniaAmelia Fiske’s ethnography, Reckoning with Harm:  The Toxic Relation of Oil in Amazonia, widens and deepens details of Ecuador’s highly controversial, post-1960s, Amazon oil development. The study...

A Review of When Misfortune Becomes InjusticeTaking care of patients in rural Haiti or in southwest Uganda, say, who are sick from diseases long since vanquished from the United States, in communities that did not get much access to Covid-19 vaccines when they were...