Reviews from the South American countries
The history of US academics involved in espionage highlights a modern risk. Review: Scientists or Spies? The American Museum of Natural History in World War I Latin America, Roberta Marx Delson, 2026, Springer
Categories: Central America, Mexico, South America, United States
Political turmoil in Bolivia hints at a paradigm shift. Review: Bolivia and the Making of the Global Indigenous Movement: Anthropology, Development and Transnationalism, Juanita Roca-Sánchez, 2025, Routledge
Categories: Bolivia
A Chilean artist shaped by the nightmare of Pinochet subverts colonial time. Review: Alfredo Jaar: Decolonial Time and the Aesthetics of the Unfinished, Florencia San Martín, 2026, Duke University Press
Categories: Chile
Guyana once provided revolutionary hope for African Americans. Review: A Proxy Africa: Guyana, African Americans, and the Radical 1970s, Russell Rickford, 2026, University of North Carolina Press
Categories: Guyana, United States
Art is a way of confronting institutional obstacles to decolonisation. Unmaking to Make: Art as decolonising practice in Latin America’s future, past and present, edited by Alex Ungprateeb Flynn, María Iñigo Clavo, Beatriz Lemos and Florencia Portocarrero, 2026, UCL Press
Categories: Caribbean, Central America, Europe, International, North America, South America
Authoritarian populism in Brazil is both new—and old. Review: The Faces of Authoritarianism and Strategies of Dissent in Contemporary Brazil, edited by Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos and Katerina Hatzikidi, 2025, UCL Press
Categories: Brazil, South America
The Bolsonaro bandwagon continues to reek of malodorous far-right fictions. Review: The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West, AJA Woods, 2026, Verso
Categories: Brazil, United States
The insecurity of campesinos is fuelling violence in Colombia. Review: Governing the Excluded: Rural Livelihoods Beyond Coca in Colombia’s Peace Laboratory, Alex Diamond, 2026, University of Chicago Press
Categories: Colombia, South America
Antonio Dias was the most famous Brazilian pop artist that never was. Review: Borderless Painting as Borderless Art: Antonio Dias between Brazil and Europe, Sérgio B Martins, 2026, University of California Press
