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
Radical remembrance
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Tag: Colonialism
Colonisation of the decolonial
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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
Forgotten island
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Puerto Rico’s colonial status made its debt crisis inevitable. Review: Promise Land: The Inside Story of the Puerto Rico Debt Crisis, David Skeel, 2026, Paul Dry Books
Categories: Caribbean, Puerto Rico, United States
Asymmetric wordfare
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Iran’s ties with Latin America have been distorted by US and Israeli narrative terrorism. We review titles about the Islamic Republic’s engagement with other targets of imperialism
Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cuba, Iran, Middle East & North Africa, South America, United States, Venezuela
The territorial turn
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The US attack on Venezuela confirms that imperialism is all about space. Review: The Invention of Order: On the Coloniality of Space, Don Thomas Deere, 2025, Duke University Press
The dialectics of isolation
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Let them eat cake
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Hunger in Mexico’s countryside belies the wealth of its cuisine—and guess who is to blame? México Between Feast and Famine: Food, Corporate Power, and Inequality, Enrique C Ochoa, 2025, University of Arizona Press
Forgotten colonies
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Britain’s footprint in South America is still visible. Small Earthquakes: A Journey Through Lost British History in South America, Shafik Meghji, 2025, Hurst & Co
Categories: Argentina, Brazil, Europe, International, South America, United Kingdom, Uruguay
Knowledge is power
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Imperialism aims to erase indigenous wisdom. Translation and Epistemicide: Racialization of Languages in the Americas, Joshua M Price, 2025, University of Arizona Press
Categories: Colombia, Mexico, North America, Peru, South America, United States
Toiling for the invader
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US imperialism has been built on local labour. The Work of Empire: War, Occupation, and the Making of American Colonialism in Cuba and the Philippines, Justin F Jackson, 2025, University of North Carolina Press
Categories: Caribbean, Cuba, North America, United States