A collection of thirty commented poems of contemporary Chilean poet David Rosenmann-Taub, David Rosenmann-Taub: Poems and Commentaries continues Kenneth Gorfkle's exposition of the poet's work in English as well as in his native language. Although critics have widely acclaimed Rosenmann-Taub for the depth and brilliance of his work, the complexity ......
Decolonial Time and the Aesthetics of the Unfinished
In Alfredo Jaar, Florencia San Martin analyzes the work of the prominent Chilean-born artist Alfredo Jaar, whose work challenges the linear and triumphalist temporality of Western modernity, which obscures the violence of colonization and globalization. Instead, San Martin argues that Jaar's work represents decolonial time, exposing the limits of ......
Decolonial Time and the Aesthetics of the Unfinished
In Alfredo Jaar, Florencia San Martin analyzes the work of the prominent Chilean-born artist Alfredo Jaar, whose work challenges the linear and triumphalist temporality of Western modernity, which obscures the violence of colonization and globalization. Instead, San Martin argues that Jaar's work represents decolonial time, exposing the limits of ......
How Spanish and Portuguese colonialism shaped our conception of whiteness A landmark treatment of a pivotal historical question, Reckoning with Race in New Worlds reveals how the empires of Spain and Portugal debated and came to determine who was white and who was not during their colonial era. How did free people with partial Native American, ......
How Spanish and Portuguese colonialism shaped our conception of whiteness A landmark treatment of a pivotal historical question, Reckoning with Race in New Worlds reveals how the empires of Spain and Portugal debated and came to determine who was white and who was not during their colonial era. How did free people with partial Native American, ......
Self-Employment and Job Quality in Latin America and the Caribbean
Drawing on new data and modeling, the report challenges the traditional view of informality as a homogenous and primarily disadvantaged sector and provides a framework for understanding the logic and dynamics of the sector.
To be middle class today connotes a certain prudence when it comes to financial decision-making - steadily building one's nest egg rather than carelessly spending. Constantly enjoined to put their savings to work in shrewd investments, these subjects must constantly guard their class status. In Invested Camilo Leslie contends that these pressures ......
To be middle class today connotes a certain prudence when it comes to financial decision-making - steadily building one's nest egg rather than carelessly spending. Constantly enjoined to put their savings to work in shrewd investments, these subjects must constantly guard their class status. In Invested Camilo Leslie contends that these pressures ......
Arts, Activism, and Transdisciplinary Futures in Latin America and the Latinx Worlds
Reframing traditional conceptions of ecology Ecologies of Resistance brings together fourteen groundbreaking studies on Latin American and Latinx writing, visual and performing arts, film, and activism that propose alternatives to prevailing colonial and neocolonial conceptions of ecology. The contributors question the artificially imposed ......
