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Factory of insanity

by Gavin O'Toole • May 15, 2023

Life is Not Useful, Ailton Krenak, translated by Alex Brostoff and Jamille Pinheiro Dias, 2023, Polity

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A nation incomplete

by Gavin O'Toole • May 29, 2023

Brazil, Joel Wolfe, 2023, Polity

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Explosive uncertainty

by Gavin O'Toole • May 27, 2023

Living on a Time Bomb: Local Negotiations of Oil Extraction in a Mexican Community, Svenja Schöneich, 2023, Berghahn Books

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New views on history

by Gavin O'Toole • May 11, 2023

The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Independence, Marcela Echeverri and Cristina Soriano (eds), 2023, Cambridge University Press

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Monochrome solidarity

by Gavin O'Toole • April 15, 2023

Arise! Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution, Christina Heatherton, University of California Press

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The ethnic Pandora’s Box

by Gavin O'Toole • April 4, 2023

Recognition Politics: Indigenous Rights and Ethnic Conflict in the Andes, Lorenza B Fontana, 2023, Cambridge University Press

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Traces of Home

by Gavin O'Toole • December 17, 2018

Film-maker Colette Ghunim is half Palestinian, half Mexican, and a documentary project exploring her roots finds striking similarities in her parents’ homelands

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Latin America in the era of Trump

by Mickey Brady • December 6, 2018

Sinn Féin MP Mickey Brady knows better than most the damage caused by foreign intervention

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FROM THE ARCHIVE: WOMEN

Gender and the Mexican Revolution

by admin • July 1, 2009

Revolutionary patriarchs prioritised their vision of social revolution over female emancipation

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Muchacha in the maquila

by admin • December 1, 2008

US car giants employed women in Mexico as a stick with which to beat male workers

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And the state invented woman

by admin • October 1, 2008

A new concept of womankind was forged in post-revolutionary Mexico

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A gender united

by admin • February 9, 2007

How Chilean women activists on both left and right employ common strategies

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PODS and VIDS

Those Kennedy comments about Mexico

by Gavin O'Toole • May 15, 2023

PODCAST 6: My View, Those Kennedy comments about Mexico, 15 May 2023

Two books about art

by Gavin O'Toole • April 24, 2023

PODCAST 5: Round up, Dissident Practices and The Political Body, 24 April 2023

Decolonizing American Spanish

by Gavin O'Toole • April 10, 2023

PODCAST 4: Review of Decolonizing American Spanish, Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera

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Jackboot justice

by Gavin O'Toole • February 16, 2018

Chile’s gulag under Pinochet serves as a brutal reminder of what is at stake in a military coup ■ Prisoner of Pinochet: My Year in a Chilean Concentration Camp, Sergio Bitar, translated by Erin Goodman, 2017, University of Wisconsin Press

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