Populist ambitions to ‘reform’ democracy have corporatist antecedents. Review: A Third Path: Corporatism in Brazil and Portugal, Melissa Teixeira, 2024, Princeton University Press
Brazil’s illiberal love affair
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Tag: Ideology
A bad smell in Brazil
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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
Narco-narrative imperialism
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Sex and class
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Working-class morality is shaped by material conditions. Sex and Love in Porfirian Mexico City: A Social History of Working-Class Courtship, Michael Matthews, 2025, University Press of Florida
Categories: Mexico, North America
Nationalism on a plate
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Food in post-revolutionary Mexican art had an ideological flavour. Culinary Palettes: The Visuality of Food in Postrevolutionary Mexican Art, Lesley A Wolff, 2025, 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
Perpetual motion
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Latin American Literature in Transition, 1870–1930, edited by Fernando Degiovanni and Javier Uriarte, 2023, Cambridge University Press
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