Sarli E. Mercado & Lori DiPrete Brown The 4W Women in Translation circle (4W WIT) is an engaged research effort that explores the meaning and practice of collective translation, It is inspired by experiences of collaboration related to literature and the arts, gender and wellbeing, and also community, urban sustainability and the environment, in particular, …
Kata Beilin Aruxes are woken up stones, stones that have come to life. They are pieces of ancient temples carved by pre-Hispanic Mayas that contemporary Mayas find while opening new patches of forest for milpa or exploring the areas of cenotes, little yet deep lakes in the Yucatan karst that are sacred. These ancient remains …
Jean Vilbert Jean Vilbert is a master’s candidate (Latin American Studies) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and a lecturer in the UW Department of Political Science. He holds a MIPA and a Master’s in Law and served as a judge in Brazil, where he teaches Constitutional Law. Works Cited Brazil, Chamber of Deputies. Constitution of …
Micah McKay In an essay entitled “Nunca fue tan hermosa la basura,” Spanish philosopher José Luis Pardo makes a simple modification to the famous opening line of Karl Marx’s Capital—“The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as ‘an immense accumulation of commodities’” (41)—in a way that underlines …
Ruth E. Goldstein In Peru’s biodiverse and mineral-rich Amazonian region of Madre de Dios there exists a rush for natural resources: gold, gas, and exotic plants and animals. Triangulated with the borders of Brazil and Bolivia, this southeastern zone of Peru has long been a site for human and environmental extraction. It bears the ironic …
Azucena Castro & Gianfranco Selgas Rizoma: Latin American Laboratory of Art, Ecology, and Science is an emerging environmental humanities web-based platform for dialogue, discussion, and exchange of ideas on issues concerning the relationships between art, ecology, and science in the Latin American context. Rizoma aims to nurture a radical and critical space to speculate and …
Glen Close My current book project is a study of documentary films from Latin America and elsewhere that contain representations of commercial animal slaughter. I propose to read these films in the historical context of the modern industrialization and concealment of livestock farming and meat processing. Over the last two centuries, slaughter and meat processing …
Alberto M. Vargas Many top research universities in the US and elsewhere are becoming leaders in cutting-edge research on psychedelics. The University of Wisconsin–Madison recently launched the Transdisciplinary Center for Research in Psychoactive Substances (TCRPS), aiming to coordinate ongoing research and education in psychedelic compounds, and to promote outreach in this rapidly expanding field. This …
Jack Brown Jalisco es México: así saluda la página oficial de turismo de este estado mexicano al potencial turista, sus letras vestidas de arcoiris, como si procurara convencerlo de que sí, Jalisco es lo más netamente mexicano que jamás existió. Hasta cierto punto tiene razón puesto que el estado presume de ser el origen de …
Germán Corzo Los límites hacen parte de la condición humana, nos han sido culturalmente impuestos desde muchas dimensiones; límites espaciales que definen nacionalidades, biomas, predios; límites temporales, que determinan eras geológicas, épocas, generaciones, modas; límites ideológicos que nos determinan como demócratas, monárquicos, anárquicos y que en política se traducen en ser de centro, de izquierda …