📚 Article Spotlight | MARLAS Vol. 9, Issue 2
Frances Jaeger reviews Barbara Dröscher’s Telenovelas (2025), exploring how Colombian telenovelas are evolving in the age of streaming 📺
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As debates around labor and economy continue across Latin America, this MARLAS article revisits how delivery workers organized strikes during COVID-19, and what these strikes reveal about platform labor today.
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🎙️ Podcast Spotlight | Episode 1
First episode • Oct 17, 2025 • 18:41
Maria Cecilia Azar speaks with U.S.-Salvadoran poet Janel Pineda about memory, identity, and diaspora poetry.
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📚 Article Spotlight | MARLAS Vol. 9, Issue 2
David Sheinin reviews Arte y deporte en Hispanoamérica (2025), a “gem” exploring sport, identity, gender, and culture across Latin America. ⚽
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📚 Article Spotlight | MARLAS Vol. 9, Issue 2
David Sheinin reviews Arte y deporte en Hispanoamérica (2025), a “gem” exploring sport, identity, gender, and culture across Latin America. ⚽
Read more: marlasjournal.com/articles/10....
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🔎 Throwback Thursday
This MARLAS article examines Tepito in Mexico City, exploring how narcotrafficking influences space, identity, and representation, and how these continue to shape how we understand Latin America today.
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⭐ Article Collection Spotlight: Environment and Natural Resources
From AI-driven water crises to environmental defenders and sustainable development, explore MARLAS research on Latin America’s environmental challenges.
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📚 Article Spotlight | MARLAS Vol. 9, Issue 2
This week, we are highlighting a book review by Rafael Silva Lemos on Designing Brazil by Jurandir Malerba (2025).
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🔍 Throwback Thursday
As conversations around citizenship and belonging continue, we are highlighting an article this week on migration, climate, and interdisciplinary approaches to Latin American studies.
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💡 Kicking off our MARLAS Author Spotlight Series with Luis Roniger.
His work on migration, exile, and citizenship continues to shape conversations on diaspora and transnational identity.
Look for more author spotlights coming soon!
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📚 Article Spotlight | MARLAS Vol. 9, Issue 2
This week, we are highlighting a book review by Vielka Argelis Gutiérrez Domínguez on Mujeres Poetas de Panamá / Women Poets of Panama, 1980–2025.
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🔍 Throwback Thursday!
This article uses film to explore tourism in the Caribbean, focusing on how it connects to gender, power, and economic realities.
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📚 Article Spotlight (Vol. 9, Issue 2)
Raymond Ejikemeuwa reviews Hiding in Plain Sight by Erika Denise Edwards, exploring Afro-Argentine women, race, gender, & law in colonial Argentina.
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🌎 Throwback Thursday
This week, we highlight Jeffrey D. Pugh’s essay on transnational activist networks, exploring how international collaboration can strengthen grassroots nonviolent movements in Latin America.
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⭐ Article Collection Spotlight: James H. Street Prize
This collection showcases the articles and authors honored with the James H. Street Prize for the best peer-reviewed article published in MARLAS.
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This week, we highlight Susan Achury's review of Selective Security in the War on Drugs by Alke Jenss, introducing the concept of “selective security” to explain drug war policies in Colombia and Mexico.
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Revisiting “Politics of Expertise and Blame during COVID-19 Quarantine in Chile” by Kelly Bauer and Claudio A. Villalobos. The article explores leadership during COVID-19, questions still relevant in Chile today.
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This week we’re featuring Carlos Parada Ayala’s introduction to the poetry of Consuelo Hernández, “Entre el ritmo y la herida: musicalidad poética en Consuelo Hernández.”
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🔎 #ThrowbackThursday
Today, we’re revisiting a MARLAS article by Miguel Angel Latouche examining institutional change and authoritarianism in Venezuela’s political system.
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This week, we are featuring the essay, "Can you hear me? Do you see me? Invisible Voices: Women Victims of the Colombian Conflict: A Poetic Multimedia Artwork of Resistance" by Perla Sassón-Henry. The essay can be viewed here: doi.org/10.23870/mar....
#ThrowbackThursday to Osiris Anibal Gómez Velázquez’s article, "Speaking a Motherless Tongue: Translation as Decolonial Praxis in Valeria Luiselli’s Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions".
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This week, we are featuring the article, "Gender Violence on Stage: Exposing Patriarchal Toxins in Two Mexican Plays" by Linda Saborío. The article can be viewed here: doi.org/10.23870/mar....
We’ve refreshed our Collections pages! ✨
Explore over 10 curated collections featuring peer-reviewed scholarship across Latin American and Latino/a/x Studies.
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This week, we are featuring the article “Beyond Political Modernity? Some Impasses of the Postmodern and a Certain Marxist Heritage” by João Macieira.
The article can be viewed here: doi.org/10.23870/mar....
MARLAS is pleased to announce the launch of our new podcast series, Voces de las Américas. Listen and subscribe today on Spotify or your preferred podcast platform!
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This week, we are featuring the article “Direct Violence against Environmental Defenders: Analysis of the Argentine Case from a Subnational Perspective” by Lucas M. Figueroa and Iván Jacobsohn.
The article can be viewed here: doi.org/10.23870/mar....
This week, we feature Jimena Castro Godoy's article, "Rosa de mi corazón”: su desposorio espiritual y la devoción al Niño Jesús. It can be viewed here: doi.org/10.23870/mar....
MARLAS is pleased to welcome Kean University as a co-publishing partner with MACLAS.
MARLAS Enters a New Era of Partnership - Jeffrey Pugh
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CRECE and MARLAS: Building Together - Francis Argote-Freyre
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