Beyond the City: Resource Extraction Urbanism in South America
If I had to think of keywords for this intriguing book, they would be “passionate” and “meticulous,” with a third word bringing these two together: “design.” I agreed to review this…
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Challenges of Party-Building in Latin America
I started graduate school in September 1978, around the zenith of authoritarianism in Latin America. After the Argentine military coup in 1976, only three of twenty countries in the…
The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nation and the Archives of Contradiction
This book by Harvard Professor Lorgia Garcia-Peña embarks on an ambitious exploration of the limits of Dominican identity seen through the prism of culture, geography and race…
