Latin American Research Review: Links to Articles in Vol 54(1)

Happy to pass along the links to what looks like some very interesting new work from the latest issue of the Latin American Research Review.

The Latin American Research Review (LARR) is the academic journal of the Latin American Studies Association. LARR publishes original research and review essays on Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latina/Latino studies. It covers the social sciences and the humanities, including the fields of anthropology, economics, history, literature and cultural studies, political science, and sociology.

The journal reviews and publishes papers in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. All papers, except for book and documentary film review essays, are subject to double-blind peer review.

Vol. 54, No. 1
TABLE OF CONTENTS

Politics and International Relations

The Functions of Letters to the Editor in Reform-Era Cuba
Martin K. Dimitrov

Mexicans and Colombians at Home and Abroad: A Comparative Study of Political Engagement
James A. McCann, Cristina Escobar, Renelinda Arana 

Reflections on Haitian Democracy: Zooming in on a Megaproject in the Hinterland
Yasmine Shamsie​

Sociology

Determinants of Support for Extralegal Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean
José Miguel Cruz, Gema Kloppe-Santamaría

Economics

Los nuevos grupos y sus viejas prácticas en la Argentina reciente (2003–2014): Entre ámbitos privilegiados de acumulación, especulación y monopolios
Joel Rabinovich

Anthropology

El éxito de los nuevos chamanes: Turismo místico en los Andes ecuatorianos
Alberto del Campo Tejedor

Indigenous Communities, Migrant Organizations, and the Ephemeral Nature of Translocality
James Patrick Robson

Literature and Cultural Studies

Anjo Negro: As fundações racistas do Estado no Brasil
Marta Fernández, Vinícius Santiago ​

Sonic Modernity and Decolonizing Countersounds in the Poetry of Urayoán Noel
Samuel Ginsburg

Before the Thaw: The Transnational Routes of Cuban Popular Culture
Albert Sergio Laguna

Special Collection: Societal Responses to Criminal Governance in Latin America

Social Responses to Criminal Governance in Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Kingston, and Medellín
Enrique Desmond Arias ​

Indigenous Resistance to Criminal Governance: Why Regional Ethnic Autonomy Institutions Protect Communities from Narco Rule in Mexico
 Sandra Ley, Shannan Mattiace, Guillermo Trejo

Living in Gang-Controlled Neighborhoods: Impacts on Electoral and Nonelectoral Participation in El Salvador
Abby Córdova​

Collusion and Cynicism at the Urban Margins
Katherine Sobering, Javier Auyero​

Book Review Essays

Nineteenth Century Peru: A German Merchant’s Diary
Christine Hunefeldt

A Cultural Revolution: New Directions in Cuban History, 1952–2013
Anita Casavantes Bradford

New (and a Few Old) Directions in Latin American Visual Cultural Studies
Mary K. Coffey

Ricardo Falla: Genocide, Indigenous Peoples, and the Art of Resistance
Manolo E. Vela Castañeda

Indigenous Peoples, Postcolonial Ontologies, Neoliberal Regimes, and Approaches to Understanding Medical Pluralism in Latin America
Kathleen Musante  

Learning from Latin America’s Informal Sector
Peter M. Ward

The Global Financial Crisis and Latin America
Patrice Franko