Books for Review

AVAILABLE BOOKS — 24 MAR 2025

Africa

Rijke-Epstein, Children of the Soul: The Power of Built Form in Urban Madagascar

Americas

  • A review essay of the Blanc & Freitas and Blanc books [and possibly the Hertzman book] is preferable to three individual reviews.

Amar, ed., Rio as Method: Collective Resistance for a New Generation

Blanc, The Prestes Column: An Interior History of Modern Brazil

Burrows, The Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration

Davidson, Dominican Crossroads: H.C.C. Astwood and the Moral Politics of Race-Making in the Age of Emancipation

Freitas and Blanc, eds., The Interior: Recentering Brazilian History

Gautam et al, Financialization, Austerity, and Inclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean

Hertzman, After Palmares: Diaspora, Inheritance, and the Afterlives of Zumbi

Marinez, Spirals in the Caribbean: Representing Violence and Connection in Haiti and the Dominican Republic

Sosa, Brazil’s Sex Wars

Zeiderman, Artery Racial Ecologies on Colombia’s Magdalena River

Middle East and North Africa

Zayani & Khalil, The Digital Double Bind: Change and Stasis in the Middle East

General

Ayoob, From Regional Security to Global IR: An Intellectual Journey 

If you know of a book published since 2023 about the Global South that is not on the list that you would like to review, please contact the book review editor.