In Canal Dreamers, Jessica Lepler describes schemes for an Atlantic–Pacific canal from the 1820s, showing how unrealized projects shaped geopolitics and spatial imaginaries. Francisco Javier Bonilla welcomes this yet remains sceptical of the book’s North–South binary. muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...

Agustín Arosteguy finds Lucy Trotter’s The Sound of Welsh Patagonia an innovative ethnography of Y Wladfa, showing how music and sound shape Welsh identity and belonging in Patagonia while engaging with the region’s settler colonial past. muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...

Richard Francaviglia finds that Fabricio Tocco’s Precarious Secrets offers a rich and insightful analysis of the history of the Latin American political thriller, examining the genre in relation to political and social realities on the ground. muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...

Guillermo Williams describes Lucy Taylor’s book, Global Politics of Welsh Patagonia, as a profound, concise, and critical account of the colonization processes that followed the establishment of Welsh settlements in Patagonia in 1865. muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...

The Land of the Lacandón examines Count Bernard de Sainte-Jull de Colmont’s expedition to produce knowledge about the Lacandón. In his review, George Lovell notes how the book’s treatment of de Colmont is measured and thoughtful, neither excusing nor condemning him. muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...

In the Essential Sarmiento, William Acree features Sarmiento in his own words, highlighting his rivalries, opinions, accomplishments, and obsessions. Eric Carter finds that the book provides new access to a pivotal historical figure. muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...

Louis Mancini-Pecnard presents his undergraduate thesis on the role of Pentecoastalism in Brazil. He uses religion and spirituality as analytical lenses to understand how poverty is experienced and development is imagined and articulated from positions of marginality. muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...

Jeremy Slack and Howard Campbell examine how the changing landscape of organized crime in Mexico affects people when they return or are removed to Mexico. The article analyses the factors motivating people to flee and the potential harms and challenges of returning. muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...

In this article Lorena Arias Solano analyses the infrastructural violence of the sugarcane industry in Colombia, analysing how colonial logic is engrained in contemporary plantations, and imposes multiple forms of violence on marginalized populations. muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...

In this article, Meghan Albritton and co-authors examine the social and community health impacts of mining in Guatemala, demonstrating how intersecting social, political and economic conditions produce a syndemic that exacerbates both health and social challenges. muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...

In this article, Cassiano Bragagnolo and Marcellus Caldas explore how policies and regional dynamics have driven the recent expansion of wheat production in the Brazilian Cerrado, highlighting the opportunities and challenges of this development. muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...

Amanda Orozco e Juliana Nunes analisam os processos de regionalização no âmbito do SUS no Brasil, e mostram como a eficácia da regionalização depende não apenas de regulamentações formais, mas também da forma como arranjos territoriais e institucionais se articulam. muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...

@jlatamgeog.bsky.social is proud to announce the publication of the first issue of the year 2026! @jlatamgeog.bsky.social l está orgullosa de anunciar la primera publicación del año 2026! @jlatamgeog.bsky.social sky.social tem orgulho de anunciar a primeira publicação do ano de 2026!

In his review of Favela Resistance: Urban Periphery, Pacification, and the Struggle for Food Sovereignty, Brêtas considers the book as a sensitive but politically engaged analysis of the production, distribution and consumption of food. muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...

Mitchel reviews Ochoa’s México between Feast and Famine, which describes the economic, political and social transformation and historical processes that created the current Mexican food system, which Ochoa calls a landscape of both processed foods and malnutrition. muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...

In Portuguese Jews and New Christians in Colonial Brazil, Marcus traces Portuguese Jewish mobility across the Atlantic. Alves sees it as more than just a contribution to migration studies as it invites us to rethink “place“ as more than rooted in physical topography muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...

Nesta Resenha, Pedrosa analisa livro de Sidney Xu Lu,relato sobre a história da migração japonesa no Brasil sob o conceito de colonialismo colaborativo. A obra conta com análises que constroem a percepção de que migrantes seguiam os interesses de políticas estatais. muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...

Juleen reviews Dawn Rose on a Dead Body by Adèle Blasquez, which claims that violence, although perceived as natural, is deliberately produced, politically induced and rooted in a complex integration with global capitalist logics in Badiraguato. muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...

The issue features a Book Review Forum on Sam Halvorsen’s edited textbook, Latin American Geographies, which attempts to make a range of scholarship from the region accessible to students, with the wider aim of decentering Anglophone narratives of geography. muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...

In this Perspective, Lyall and Rayner outline the characteristics of oligarchic rule under President Daniel Noboa and its implications for environmental politics. muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...

El artículo investiga las relaciones entre la minería, la especulación inmobiliaria, el desarrollo de infraestructuras, y el circuito de valorización de los residuos sólidos urbanos dentre la Región Tolteca y territorios de la Zona Metropolitana de la Ciudad de México muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...

Este artículo aborda el proceso de conmutación de larga distancia (CLD) en la región de Antofagasta, Chile, para examinar las geografías del trabajo en la minería a gran escala. muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...

Based on a survey of 157 workers in southern Peru, this article shows the impact of artisanal and small-scale mining in rural areas, emphasizing the geographic distribution of impacts linked to miners’ mobility and migration. muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...

Melo-Ascencio introduces “coming afloat” to describe how capital and state practices manage dissent and normalize extraction, and uses ethnographic tracing to identify the roles and identities enabled and constrained by norms and practices. muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...

As Chilean copper mining has expanded eight-fold the use of desalinated water, framed as climate adaptation, Odell and Godfrid investigate the conditions that can lead to hydrosocial displacements and associated conflict. muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...

In this article, Pérez Jiménez analyzes the recent expansion of mining frontiers in Mexico, highlighting the growing dominance of open-pit mining and documenting a sharp rise in socioenvironmental conflicts over the past decade. muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...

Celebrating the start of 2026, @jlatamgeog.bsky.social is proud to announce the latest JLAG publication in 2025, issue 24(3). muse.jhu.edu/issue/56094

Tenenbaum highlights that González-Rivera’s book strikes an impressive balance in situating the experiences and events of LGBTQIA+ people in western Nicaragua within the nation’s broader historical context, covering five centuries of historical context. muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...

Francaviglia reviews book Frames of Resistance: The Cinemas of Abya Yala, explaining Abya Yala as a term used by Indigenous Kuna of Colombia and Panama to identify lands beyond their ancestral homeland, highlighting its role in giving recognition to Indigenous films. muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...

Miyares describes how Sullivan’s book presents research uncovering stories of grassroot movements against the imperialist sugar companies, the Cuban government and even fascism in Spain, through a historical geography of the sugar towns of Cuba’s Oriente province. muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...