The University of Florida Press announces a new book series, “Critical Geographies of Latin America and the Caribbean,” edited by Adam Bledsoe, Joel Correia, Andrea Marston, Aaron Strain, and Joaquín Villanueva and published in partnership with the Conference of Latin American Geography.
This new series will explore Latin America and the Caribbean through the multiple lenses of geography: environment, land, people, culture, history, economy, and politics. The books in this series will conceptualize the region broadly, even working to destabilize Latin America as a political category, but they will share a critical approach that pushes forth new areas of inquiry and analysis.
The series editors invite book proposals and are particularly interested in works that explore how political, economic, social, and ecological structures intersect with race, gender, class, sexuality, and other critical social categories. The confluence of these interactions at various scales will show how the region is defined by ruptures and barriers, but also by rhythms, continuities, and fluidities of time and space that lend to new political possibilities. The editors welcome proposals from those who self-identify as a geographer or engage with the conceptual tools of geography focusing on Latin America and the Caribbean.
Adam Bledsoe is associate professor in the Department of Geography, Environment & Society at the University of Minnesota. Bledsoe’s research interests revolve around how Afro-Diasporic populations analyze and critique dominant political arrangements and seek to create ways of life not defined by anti-Blackness.
Contact: bleds008@umn.edu
Joel Correia is assistant professor in the Human Dimensions of Natural Resources department at Colorado State University and the author of Disrupting the Patrón: Indigenous Land Rights and the Fight for Environmental Justice in Paraguay’s Chaco. Correia’s research interests include environmental and climate justice, political ecologies of conservation and development, Indigenous rights and politics, and de/colonialities.
Contact: joel.correia@colostate.edu
Andrea Marston is assistant professor in the Department of Geography at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and the author of Subterranean Matters: Cooperative Mining and Resource Nationalism in Plurinational Bolivia. Marston’s fields of interest include political ecology, resource extraction, social movements, feminist approaches, Indigenous politics, and science and technology studies.
Contact: andrea.marston@rutgers.edu
Aaron Strain is professor and Baker Ferguson Chair of Politics and Leadership at Whitman College and the author of The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story, among other books. Strain teaches and writes about global food politics, political ecology, ocean worlds, Mexico, immigration, and the U.S.-Mexico border.
Contact: straina@whitman.edu
Joaquín Villanueva is professor in the Department of Environment, Geography, and Earth Sciences at Gustavus Adolphus College. Villanueva’s research explores Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, with particular attention to the historical geographic processes that produce uneven geographical arrangements in the region.
Contact: jvillanu@gustavus.edu
Scholars interested in publishing in the series can send queries to any of the individual series editors. They can also contact Press editor-in-chief Stephanye Hunter at sah@upress.ufl.edu.
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