🎙️ 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.
Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/6Dyv...
#MARLAS #Podcast #LatinAmerica #Diaspora #Poetry
¡Es un gusto anunciar la publicación en español de mi libro, El pacto de invisibilidad: redes de gobernanza y seguridad de migrantes en Ecuador, con Editorial Abya-Yala! Estoy muy agradecido a Pryanka Peñafiel-Cevallos por su traducción excelente. abyayala.org.ec/gpd-el-pacto...
💡 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!
#MARLAS #LatinAmericanStudies #AuthorSpotlight
“.. He fought back tears as he explained what was there before: two wooden shelters, an outpost to make cheese, sheds for his equipment. The horse paddock was spared, but the chicken coop was gone.”
@nytimes.com
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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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#LatinAmerica #MARLAS
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....
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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Hot off the presses--the Dec 2025 issue of marlasjournal.bsky.social has been published! Check it out to read about a new podcast, and a new co-publishing partnership with Kean University. Plus dive into fascinating articles and book reviews: marlasjournal.com/31/volume/9/...
The Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies (MARLAS) is an online, diamond-level open access journal published since 2017, covering interdisciplinary Latin American studies, especially in the humanities and arts, social sciences, and history. marlasjournal.com
The June issue of MARLAS was published! Check out the latest issue of the @marlasjournal.bsky.social Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies, including articles, an essay, dossiers, Creation Space, and a book review: marlasjournal.com/30/volume/9/...
Is international law under threat? Read: The War on "Drug Boats" in @globalpolicy.bsky.social
@stacydvandeveer.bsky.social @jpugh00.bsky.social @isanet.bsky.social
In Boston, every day is No Kings Day
Check out my article with Matt Guardino and Kelsey Edmond in PRQ! "Demanding Invisibility: Examining U.S. Attitudes Toward Immigrant Political Engagement" tests my invisibility bargain theory of host society expectations toward migrant political/social behavior in the context of the United States.
Excellent from The New Yorker Radio hour. Fascinating to hear
Hardy Merriman, an expert on civil resistance, talking about protests, boycotts, strikes, and nonviolent approaches—as being effective in the fight against democratic backsliding. #democracy #thenewyorker
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Thrilled that my co-authored piece with Xiuyu li from NYU and Kellee Tsai from Northeastern just came out in Comparative Politics, online first. www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny... You can access the accepted version here 81e63e3e-0cc6-43dc-aa7c-35f441eca471.filesusr.com/ugd/f72a2f_d...
Highly recommend this interview with @chenoweth.bsky.social.
“There’s no…magic number. But there is a theory of change, which is the main function of civil resistance movements is to mobilize with sufficient mass, with sufficient momentum to effectively begin to disrupt the opponent's coalition.”
"The local police arrived to prevent the community from protecting their neighbor from an unlawful kidnapping. They succeeded, and in the process arrested two of the people who tried to stop it." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump is eliminating Wilson Center, a stellar US foreign policy study establishment. Along with it goes the Kennan Institute - one of the best Russia study institutions.
I was fortunate to be a Kennan Fellow in 2017.
Such a loss
A graphic that reads Free Rümeysa Öztürk with a photo of her.
This week, my Somerville constituent Rümeysa Öztürk was abducted in broad daylight by DHS officials and sent to Louisiana to be locked in a detention center. She has not been charged with any crime.
Pete Hegseth must resign or be fired immediately.
This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...
Honored to be the Keynote speaker at @umassamherst.bsky.social for the Massachusetts Land Conservation Conference.
Donald Trump is trying to erase land conservation efforts from history. We won’t let him.
The work these folks do for the environment and our local community is good & honest work.
This is really the whole ball game right now, *particularly* among the institutions that make up civil society.
(my parents definitely had this poster when I was growing up)
BREAKING: DOGE Strong-Armed USIP Security Contractors to Switch Sides talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/break...
Quite a fun moment when the security contractors who had been terminated by the USIP but had switched their allegiances to DOGE entered the property with an unconfiscated key and headed immediately to the gun safe.
