Cuba’s energy revolution has had political consequences. The Low-Carbon Contradiction: Energy Transition, Geopolitics, and the Infrastructural State in Cuba, Gustav Cederlöf, 2023, University of California Press
Tag: Economic history
Taking back the truth
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US meddling in Venezuela has never been in support of ‘democracy’. Corporate Coup: Venezuela and the End of US Empire, Anya Parampil, 2024, OR Books
Categories: North America, South America, United States, Venezuela
Rule of lore
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Mexico’s state has abandoned public security to the myth of a moral crisis. Sovereignty and Extortion: A New State Form in Mexico, Claudio Lomnitz, 2024, Duke University Press
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
The human frontier
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The causes of the US border crisis can be found in America itself. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis, Jonathan Blitzer, 2024, Picador
Categories: Central America, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, United States
Party poopers
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Puerto Rico is prey to its own political system. Puerto Rico: A National History, Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, 2024 Princeton University Press
Categories: Caribbean, North America, Puerto Rico, United States
Revolutionary relics
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Art is influenced by ideology but also what the state lets us see. Visible Ruins: The Politics of Perception and the Legacies of Mexico’s Revolution, Mónica Salas Landa, 2024, University of Texas Press
Categories: Mexico, North America
In harm’s way
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Poisoned soil is only one measure of the damage caused by oil pollution in Ecuador. Reckoning with Harm: The Toxic Relations of Oil in Amazonia, Amelia M Fiske, 2023, University of Texas Press
Categories: Ecuador, South America
The colour of law
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Racialised US laws can explain Puerto Rico’s oppressed status. Making Never-Never Land: Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico, Mónica A Jiménez, 2024, University of North Carolina Press
Categories: Caribbean, North America, Puerto Rico, United States
Sea change
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It’s time to end the invisibility of women in the informal economy. Pink Gold: Women, Shrimp, and Work in Mexico, María L Cruz-Torres, 2023, University of Texas Press
Categories: Mexico, North America
Underground nation
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Mining can unearth insights into Bolivian nationalism. Subterranean Matters: Cooperative Mining and Resource Nationalism in Plurinational Bolivia, Andrea Marston, 2024, Duke University Press
Categories: Bolivia, South America