AVAILABLE BOOKS – 20 May 2025
Africa
Cinotto, Gastrofascism and Empire: Food in Italian East Africa, 1935-1941
Dovey & Thomas, eds. Contemporary African Screen Worlds
Rijke-Epstein, Children of the Soul: The Power of Built Form in Urban Madagascar
Americas
Amar, ed., Rio as Method: Collective Resistance for a New Generation
Brulotte, Mezcal in Oaxaca: A Craft Spirit for the Global Marketplace
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
Gautam et al, Financialization, Austerity, and Inclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean
Hertzman, After Palmares: Diaspora, Inheritance, and the Afterlives of Zumbi
Lesser, Living and Dying in Sao Paulo
Marinez, Spirals in the Caribbean: Representing Violence and Connection in Haiti and the Dominican Republic
Nading, The Kidney and the Cane: Planetary health and Plantation Labor in Nicaragua
Perez, Queer Engagement: Scandalous Stories from the Twilight of AIDS in Peru
Restrepo, Afterlives of Discovery: Speculative Geographies in the Colonial Settler Imaginary
Sosa, Brazil’s Sex Wars
Middle East and North Africa
Zayani & Khalil, The Digital Double Bind: Change and Stasis in the Middle East
General
Peters, Latin America, China, and Great Power Competition: New Triangular Relationships
If you know of a book published since 2023 about the Global South that you would like to review [that is not on the list], please contact the book review editor.