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Staging Buenos Aires
How Theater Expanded the Public Sphere and Contributed to Argentina's Democratization. Staging Buenos Aires centers theater as a source of historical inquiry to understand how …
Persistence of Local Caudillos in Latin American
Despite democratization at the national level, local political bosses still govern many municipalities in Latin America. Caudillos and clans often use informal political …
Connecting China, Latin America, and the Caribbean
An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Political, Economic, and Cultural Consequences of China's Influence in Latin America and the Caribbean A long history of migration, trade, and …
Dependency and Crisis in Brazil and Argentina
In the two largest countries in South America, successive waves of structural reforms adopted in the name of development invariably have ended in disappointment. The promise of …
Foucault in Brazil
Philosopher Michel Foucault's cultural criticism crosses disciplines and is well known as an influence on modern conceptions of knowledge and power. Less well known are the five …
Other Border Wars
The Other Border Wars: Conflict and Stasis in Latin American Culture questions bordering as an organizing principle of culture, conflict, and politics. Shannon Dowd argues that …
Science, Religion, and the Protestant Tradition
The story of the "conflict thesis" between science and religion--the notion of perennial conflict or warfare between the two--is part of our modern self-understanding. As the story …
Graft Hybrid
The global triumph of Mendelian genetics in the twentieth century was not a foregone conclusion, thanks to the existence of graft hybrids. These chimeral plants and animals are …
Weak and the Powerful
Panama is a country whose geopolitical importance outweighs its size because of the volume of trade that passes the Central American isthmus through the canal. For nearly a …
Blue Like The Heavens
"e;Aliveness is Gary Gildner's striking quality,"e; Crystal McLean writes in the magazine New Letters, and thise selection of Gary Gildner's previously published poems, …