I live in a country where the past is part of the present. Not only because films such as “Argentina 1985,” now nominated for an Oscar for best foreign film, recall the trial of the military juntas…
Three waves of global coffee regimes have influenced production landscapes extensively during the past century.
I should say at the outset that I was involved in the “neoliberal” reform described by César Ernesto Abadía-Barrero in his book Health in Ruins: The Capitalist Destruction of Medical Care at a Colombian Maternity Hospital.
Minoritarian Liberalism is a beautiful and troubling ethnography. As an intimate ethnography of life in Rocinha, a Brazilian favela in Rio de Janeiro, this book weaves a beautiful narrative that showcases Moisés Lino e Silva’s talents as a writer.
Harvard architectural historian Patricio del Real’s latest book analyzes the development of the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) between the 1930s and the 1960s, emphasizing the construction of the notion of Latin America from the peculiar perspective offered by architectural and curatorial practices.
Francine Birbragher-Rozencwaig’s slim new volume offers a dip into various topics of modern and contemporary Latin American art aimed at a mass audience unfamiliar with the region’s culture (other than perhaps Salma Hayek’s version of Frida Kahlo).
