Introductory bibliography for UiB LAC conference
We have put together a list of suggested reading on themes relating to Latin America and the Caribbean.
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These recommendations are made in conjunction with the 4-5 September 2023 conference on Latin America and the Caribbean at the University of Bergen.
- The official hashtag for the conference is #uibLAC23
General surveys/introductions
Berryman, Phillip. Latin America at 200: A New Introduction. First edition. Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016. (384 pages)
Chasteen, John Charles. Born in Blood & Fire: A Concise History of Latin America. Fourth edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016. (432 pages)
Clayton, Lawrence A., Michael L. Conniff, and Susan M. Gauss. A New History of Modern Latin America. Third edition. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2017. (712 pages)
Garrard, Virginia, Peter V. N. Henderson, and Bryan McCann. Latin America in the Modern World. Second edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. (560 pages)
Galeano, Eduardo. Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent. 25th anniversary ed. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1997. (360 pages)
Grandin, Greg. Empire’s Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Making of an Imperial Republic. Updated and Expanded. New York: Picador, 2021. (368 pages)
Halperín Donghi, Tulio, and John Charles Chasteen. The Contemporary History of Latin America. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1993. (427 pages)
Meade, Teresa A. A History of Modern Latin America: 1800 to the Present. Third edition. Concise History of the Modern World. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2023. (432 pages)
Munck, Gerardo L., and Juan Pablo Luna. Latin American Politics and Society: A Comparative and Historical Analysis. 1 Edition. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. (658 pages)
Smith, Peter H., and James Naylor Green. Modern Latin America. Ninth edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. (560 pages)
Soluri, John, Claudia Feierabend Baeta Leal, and José Augusto Pádua, eds. A Living Past: Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America. The Environment in History, Volume 13. New York Oxford: Berghahn, 2019. (310 pages)
Some Latin American studies journals
English:
- Latin American Research Review (LARR), est. 1965
- Journal of Latin American Studies, est. 1969
- Latin American Perspectives, est. 1974
- Bulletin of Latin American Research (BLAR), est. 1981
- Latin American Politics and Society, est. 2001
Spanish/Portuguese:
- Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional, est. 1958
- Foro Internacional, est. 1960
- Temas de Nuestra América, Revista de Estudios Latinoamericanos, est. 1984
- Latinoamérica. Revista de Estudios Latinoamericanos, est. 1986
- América Latina Hoy (ALH), est. 1991
Health session
"Inequities in health and health systems in Latin America and the Caribbean". Article collection from International Journal for Equity in Health. Edited by: Pablo Gaitán Rossi, Daniela Rodríguez, Ana Lorena Ruano, and Daniel Maceira.
Suggested readings for UiB 2023 LAC conference as recommended by keynote speakers, moderators, and panelists
Batthyány, Karina. Los desafíos de las ciencias sociales en la coyuntura latinoamericana. Editorial: CLACSO, Biblioteca Masa Crítica. Buenos Aires, 2023.
Bennouna, C., Giraudy, A., Moncada, E., Rios, E., Snyder, R., & Testa, P. (2021). “Pandemic policymaking in presidential federations: Explaining subnational responses to COVID-19 in Brazil, Mexico, and the United States”. Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 51(4), 570-600.
Bossert, Thomas; Blanchet, Nathan; Sheetz, Suzanne; Pinto, Diana M.; Cali, Jonathan; Perez-Cuevas, Ricardo. “Comparative Review of Health System Integration in Selected Countries in Latin America”. Inter-American Development Bank Social Protection and Health Division TECHNICAL NOTE No. IDB-TN-585, January 2014.
Budasoff, Eliezer. “Ernesto Semán: ‘Más que polarización, lo que hay en Argentina es una clara radicalización de la derecha.’” El País, August 22, 2022.
Bull, Benedicte. “Caught in the Crossfire: The Inter-American Development Bank and US–China Rivalry.” Global China Pulse (blog), December 1, 2022.
Climate Studies Group Mona (Eds.). “The State of the Caribbean Climate”. Produced for the Caribbean Development Bank. 2020.
Cobos, Jacquelin E. and Erik G. Søgaard. "Study of geothermal brine reinjection by microcalorimetry and core flooding experiments", Geothermics, Volume 87, 2020.
Cuda, Emilce. Para leer a Francisco: teologia, etica y politica. Buenos Aires: Manantial, 2016.
Dangl, Benjamin. Dancing with dynamite: social movements and states in Latin America. AK Press, 2010.
“Food and Water Insecurity: ‘A Borderless Topic’ : Institute for Policy Research - Northwestern University.” April 27, 2023.
Fuentes, Carlos. La Gran Novela Latinoamericana. Madrid: Alfaguara, 2011.
Galeano Eduardo. Football in Sun and Shadow. Penguin Books 2018.
Galvan, Fernando. “After Brexit: The Challenges of Higher Education in Europe and Latin America”. Europolity, 11.2 (2017), pp. 5-18.
Herrera Anchustegui, Ignacio and Vallejo Piedrahíta, Catalina. “Offshore Wind Licensing in Colombia: A Pioneer in Latin America and the Caribbean” (May 31, 2023). Offshore Wind Licensing – Elgar Energy Law and Practice Series” (Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui and Tina Soliman Hunter (Eds)) – Forthcoming,
Hoffmann, Bert. “Repressed Memory: Rethinking the Impact of Latin America’s Forgotten Pandemics”, European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, (109), 203–211 (June 2020).
Huneeus, Pablo. Nuestra mentalidad económica. 4a.ed. ed. Santiago: Fundación de Estudios Económicos BHC, 1984.
Maceira, Daniel., Brumana, Luisa. & Aleman, Joaquín G. “Reducing the equity gap in child health care and health system reforms in Latin America.” Int J Equity Health 21, 29 (2022).
Marques, Patrick Galey, Julia. “‘They Put a Gun to My Head’: Colombian Anti-Fracking Activist Tells of Ordeal.” Climate Home News, March 4, 2022.
“Millaray Huichalaf: The protectress of the sacred river (La Defensora del Río Sagrado)”. Goethe. (n.d.).
Naciones Unidas Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe. Panorama Social de América Latina y El Caribe: 2022 : La Transformación De La Educación Como Base Para El Desarrollo Sostenible. Naciones Unidas CEPAL 2022.
Robinson, Andy. Gold, Oil, and Avocados: A Recent History of Latin America in Sixteen Commodities. New and Revised edition. Brooklyn, NY: Melville House, 2021.
Schneider, Alejandro (Ed.). América Latina: bajo la sombra de la Guerra Fría. Buenos Aires: Teseo, 2022.
Selgas, Gianfranco. “El secreto de la tierra: Entangled Poetics and the Venezuelan Amazon in Una ojeada al mapa de Venezuela (1939) by Enrique Bernardo Núñez.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, 2023.
Semán, Ernesto. Breve Historia Del Antipopulismo: Los Intentos Por Domesticar a La Argentina Plebeya, de 1810 a Macri. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Siglo Veintiuno Editores, 2021.
Spektor, Matias. “In Defense of the Fence Sitters.” Foreign Affairs, April 18, 2023.
Weintraub, M., Steele, A., Pantoja-Barrios, S., Nygård, H. M., Dahl, M., & Binningsbø, H. M. “Introducing the Mapping Attitudes, Perceptions and Support (MAPS) dataset on the Colombian peace process”. Journal of Peace Research (2023).
Wessel, Lindzi. “A Treasure Hunt for Microbes in Chile’s Atacama Desert.” Knowable Magazine | Annual Reviews, August 26, 2022.
