Podcasts of Interest to Latin Americanists to January 1
Matilde Córdoba Azcárate – Stuck with Tourism: Space, Power, and Labor in Contemporary Yucatan
https://newbooksnetwork.com/stuck-with-tourism
John Soluri and Claudia Leal – A Living Past: Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America
https://newbooksnetwork.com/a-living-past
Isar Godreau – Scripts of Blackness: Race, Cultural Nationalism, and U.S. Colonialism in Puerto Rico
https://newbooksnetwork.com/scripts-of-blackness
Alan McPherson – Ghosts of Sheridan Circle: How a Washington Assassination Brought Pinochet's Terror State to Justice
https://newbooksnetwork.com/ghosts-of-sheridan-circle
Jean Casimir – The Haitians: A Decolonial History
https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-haitians
Anne Garland Mahler – From the Tricontinental to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity
https://newbooksnetwork.com/from-the-tricontinental-to-the-global-south
For more recent trans-Atlantic concerns, New Books Network also posted an episode on Ana Beatriz Ribeiro’s Modernization Dreams, Lusotropical Promises: A Global Studies Perspective on Brazil-Mozambique Development Discourse.
https://newbooksnetwork.com/modernization-dreams-lusotropical-promises
There is also a conversation with Maricarmen Hernandez regarding her fieldwork in Ecuador: Hernandez tells us about her fieldwork with a heavily contaminated community in the Ecuadorian coastal city of Esmeraldas. She tells us how she gained access to the community and reflects on the relationships she developed while in the field. Many of these relationships were with women who were on the frontlines of political struggles over health effects from contamination and the formalization of land titles. She reflects on why women took leading roles in these struggles, and how her own gender influenced her research. She also talks about how she uses photography as part of her fieldwork, and finally explains what happened when security concerns forced her to leave her field site.
https://newbooksnetwork.com/fieldwork-in-ecuador-a-discussion-with-maricarmen-hernandez
This Day in History Class:
12/17/1790 – Aztec Sun Stone Rediscovered
12/21/1826 Fredonia rebels declare Independence from Mexico
12/23/1972 – Andes Flight Disaster survivors rescued
12/27/1512 – Laws of Burgos
12/29/1996 – Guatemalan Civil War Ended
“Fall of the Mexica.” Part of the History of the Atlantic World. This is a somewhat rambling four-and-a-half-hour account of the Spanish Invasion of Mexico in 1519. The actual narrative does not begin until about minute seven.
https://share.transistor.fm/s/e3cbc0f0
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