Project MUSE®: Journal of Latin American Geography - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Journal of Latin American Geography.daily12026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 1 (2002) through current issueLatest Articles: Journal of Latin American GeographyTWOProject MUSE®Journal of Latin American Geography1548-58111545-2476Latest articles in Journal of Latin American Geography. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Japanese Migration to Brazil in the Age of Empires by Sidney Xu Lu (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/977584
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Olivro escrito por Sidney Xu Lu é um interessante relato sobre a história da migração japonesa no Brasil. Lu é um experiente pesquisador sobre migrações japonesas, professor associado à Rice University e nos apresenta um livro que analisa uma robusta documentação que se refere às políticas estatais japonesas sobre a migração para o Brasil no início do século XX. O livro recorre à análise de jornais, publicações, relatos e estudos antropológicos sobre a migração japonesa no Brasil. O autor mobiliza o conceito de colonialismo colaborativo, em que os migrantes seguiriam os interesses das políticas estatais e dariam uso ao território, valorizando, tornando-o útil, civilizando e assimilando as populações indígenas. De
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/240/image/coversmallJapanese Migration to Brazil in the Age of Empires by Sidney Xu Lu (review)2025-12-18text/htmlen-USJapanese Migration to Brazil in the Age of Empires by Sidney Xu Lu (review)2025-12-182025TWOProject MUSE®130022026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002025-12-18Portuguese Jews and New Christians in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822: A New Geography of the Atlantic World by Alan P. Marcus (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/977585
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While alan p. marcus's book is primarily a contribution to migration studies, there is also a subtext that might induce twenty-first century geographers to ask whether a sense of place is always found in physical topography, or whether it can be embodied in individuals and carried anywhere in this material world. His book is subtitled A New Geography of the Atlantic World, not only because it focuses like a LIDAR laser beam on the role played by Portuguese Jews in the development of an Atlantic World from Lisbon to Recife, São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Amsterdam, and New Amsterdam; it also compels us to ask whether Jews, forcibly converted or otherwise, found identity in a place or in a cultural and religious, perhaps
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/240/image/coversmallPortuguese Jews and New Christians in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822: A New Geography of the Atlantic World by Alan P. Marcus (review)2025-12-18text/htmlen-USPortuguese Jews and New Christians in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822: A New Geography of the Atlantic World by Alan P. Marcus (review)2025-12-182025TWOProject MUSE®131912026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002025-12-18Favela Resistance: Urban Periphery, Pacification, and the Struggle for Food Sovereignty by Timo Bartholl et al. (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/977586
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One of the strengths of social inquiry is the power to unravel the multitude of relations and hierarchies concealed in otherwise mundane elements of our everyday lives. These elements, for appearing trivial, become naturalized, preventing deeper questioning of the social and political processes implicated in their production. Food stands as one of these components. In Favela Resistance, it constitutes the crucial question to be addressed, and the social systems and networks implicated in the production, distribution, and consumption of agricultural products are thoroughly analyzed through a sensitive (yet politically engaged) narrative that weaves together different scales, both spatial and temporal.The book
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/240/image/coversmallFavela Resistance: Urban Periphery, Pacification, and the Struggle for Food Sovereignty by Timo Bartholl et al. (review)2025-12-18text/htmlen-USFavela Resistance: Urban Periphery, Pacification, and the Struggle for Food Sovereignty by Timo Bartholl et al. (review)2025-12-182025TWOProject MUSE®104592026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002025-12-18Latin American Geographies ed. by Sam Halvorsen (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/977587
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I was delighted to be invited by the Journal of Latin American Geography to curate a book review forum for Latin American Geographies (2025, Routledge). This was an invaluable opportunity to get some critical feedback from scholars of Latin America, including geographers based in the region.Latin American Geographies is one of the first textbooks written for an English-speaking audience. A key feature of the book is its attempt to make accessible a range of scholarship from the region, for an English speaking and (upper) undergraduate level readership. It takes stock of some key contributions and provides pedagogical tools aimed to support teaching Latin American geographies. In addition, the book provides an entry
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/240/image/coversmallLatin American Geographies ed. by Sam Halvorsen (review)2025-12-18text/htmlen-USLatin American Geographies ed. by Sam Halvorsen (review)2025-12-182025TWOProject MUSE®734132026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002025-12-18Dawn Rose on a Dead Body: Armed Violence and Poppy Farming in Mexico by Adèle Blasquez (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/977588
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In badiraguato, a small city in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, residents say "amaneció un muerto"—"dawn rose on a dead body"—when yet another person is found dead at daybreak. Adèle Blasquez calls it an "odd" phrase; it suggests that dawn itself reveals a body without ever naming a killer, as if violence were a natural force (p. 1). But in Dawn Rose on a Dead Body, Blasquez insists that violence in Badiraguato is not natural at all. It is politically induced and rooted in a complex integration with global capitalist logics.Although trained as an anthropologist, Blasquez makes a significant contribution to geographical scholarship with Dawn Rose on a Dead Body. In it, she examines how space is created and contested
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/240/image/coversmallDawn Rose on a Dead Body: Armed Violence and Poppy Farming in Mexico by Adèle Blasquez (review)2025-12-18text/htmlen-USDawn Rose on a Dead Body: Armed Violence and Poppy Farming in Mexico by Adèle Blasquez (review)2025-12-182025TWOProject MUSE®124442026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002025-12-18México Between Feast and Famine: Food, Corporate Power, and Inequality by Enrique C. Ochoa (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/977589
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Enrique Ochoa's méxico between Feast and Famine describes the economic, political, and social "transformation[s] of Mexico's food system" (p. 13) that has crafted a landscape of both processed foods and malnutrition. The monograph picks up where other works on the modern Mexican food system leave off, including Gálvez's (2018) study on the structural violence embedded in various diet-related illnesses like diabetes and Fitting's investigation (2011) of how genetically modified corn reshaped the social terrain of community, labor, gender, and other aspects of Mexican diet and life.Ochoa describes the historical processes that have created the current Mexican food-scape, highlights the social histories of major
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/240/image/coversmallMéxico Between Feast and Famine: Food, Corporate Power, and Inequality by Enrique C. Ochoa (review)2025-12-18text/htmlen-USMéxico Between Feast and Famine: Food, Corporate Power, and Inequality by Enrique C. Ochoa (review)2025-12-182025TWOProject MUSE®111262026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002025-12-18Critical Geographies of Mining and Extractivism in Latin America
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/977590
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Over the last two decades, geographers have been at the forefront of efforts to document and analyze the socioenvironmental dimensions of mining in Latin America, producing a body of scholarship that includes numerous articles published in the Journal of Latin American Geography (JLAG) (e.g., Albritton et al., 2024; de Souza Santos & Iamamoto, 2019; Dorn & Ruiz Peyré, 2020; Guarneros-Meza & Torres-Wong, 2022; Jakobsen, 2024; LaFevor, 2012; Manriquez-Bucio et al., 2018; Mons, 2023; Pedersen, 2014; Perreault, 2020; Scott, 2012, 2015; Vela-Almeida et al., 2020; Vila Benites & Bebbington, 2020). This expansion of interest in mineral extraction as an area of geographical inquiry has occurred in the context of an
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/240/image/coversmallCritical Geographies of Mining and Extractivism in Latin America2025-12-18text/htmlen-USCritical Geographies of Mining and Extractivism in Latin America2025-12-182025TWOProject MUSE®1031562026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002025-12-18Geografias críticas da mineração e do extrativismo na América Latina
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/977591
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Nas últimas duas décadas, a comunidade geógrafa tem estado na vanguarda dos esforços para documentar e analisar as dimensões socioambientais da mineração na América Latina, produzindo um corpo de estudos que inclui vários artigos publicados na Journal of Latin American Geography (JLAG) (tais como Albritton et al., 2024; de Souza Santos & Iamamoto, 2019; Dorn & Ruiz Peyré, 2020; Guarneros-Meza & Torres-Wong, 2022; Jakobsen, 2024; LaFevor, 2012; Manriquez-Bucio et al., 2018; Mons, 2023; Pedersen, 2014; Perreault, 2020; Scott, 2012, 2015; Vela-Almeida et al., 2020; Vila Benites & Bebbington, 2020). Essa expansão do interesse pela extração mineral como área de investigação geográfica ocorreu no contexto de uma
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/240/image/coversmallGeografias críticas da mineração e do extrativismo na América Latina2025-12-18text/htmlen-USGeografias críticas da mineração e do extrativismo na América Latina2025-12-182025TWOProject MUSE®1059992026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002025-12-18Geografías críticas de la minería y el extractivismo en América Latina
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/977592
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Durante las últimas dos décadas, la comunidad geográfica ha estado a la vanguardia de los esfuerzos por documentar y analizar las dimensiones socioambientales de la minería en América Latina, produciendo un conjunto de estudios que incluye numerosos artículos publicados en la revista Journal of Latin American Geography (JLAG) (por ejemplo, Albritton et al., 2024; de Souza Santos & Iamamoto, 2019; Dorn & Ruiz Peyré, 2020; Guarneros-Meza & Torres-Wong, 2022; Jakobsen, 2024; LaFevor, 2012; Manriquez-Bucio et al., 2018; Mons, 2023; Pedersen, 2014; Perreault, 2020; Scott, 2012, 2015; Vela-Almeida et al., 2020; Vila Benites & Bebbington, 2020). Este aumento del interés por la extracción de minerales como área de
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/240/image/coversmallGeografías críticas de la minería y el extractivismo en América Latina2025-12-18text/htmlen-USGeografías críticas de la minería y el extractivismo en América Latina2025-12-182025TWOProject MUSE®1071372026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002025-12-18El intercambio metabólico ligado a la minería en la Región de Emergencia Sanitaria y Ambiental (RESA) del Valle de Mezquital, México / Metabolic exchange linked to mining in the Health and Environmental Emergency Region (RESA) of the Valle de Mezquital, Mexico
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/977593
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La mañana del 20 de junio de 2022, bajo el sol, las pancartas dejaban ver los reclamos de hartazgo de la población de Atitalaquia ante la indiferencia de las autoridades. Esta era una manifestación más de las múltiples luchas que se libran en la Región Tolteca por un lugar sano y digno donde habitar, y en contra de la devastación ambiental causada principalmente por la minería de materiales para la construcción, particularmente cemento, cal y azulejos, pero también por el despliegue de actividades industriales como la agroindustria, la producción energética, o la urbanización que han ido en aumento por décadas (García Reyes et al., 2024). Los integrantes del "Movimiento no al Basurero" bloquearon la autopista Arco
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/240/image/coversmallEl intercambio metabólico ligado a la minería en la Región de Emergencia Sanitaria y Ambiental (RESA) del Valle de Mezquital, México / Metabolic exchange linked to mining in the Health and Environmental Emergency Region (RESA) of the Valle de Mezquital, Mexico2025-12-18text/htmlen-USEl intercambio metabólico ligado a la minería en la Región de Emergencia Sanitaria y Ambiental (RESA) del Valle de Mezquital, México / Metabolic exchange linked to mining in the Health and Environmental Emergency Region (RESA) of the Valle de Mezquital, Mexico2025-12-182025TWOProject MUSE®1400032026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002025-12-18Geografías del trabajo y reproducción social en la minería: Motivaciones y dilemas de la movilidad laboral en la región de Antofagasta, Chile / Geographies of Work and Social Reproduction in Mining: Motivations and Dilemmas of Mobile Labor in Antofagasta Region, Chile
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/977594
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La minería contemporánea a gran escala se caracteriza por una alta complejidad en su organización socioespacial, ya que articula las actividades de extracción, procesamiento, y refinamiento mediante cadenas logísticas de gran complejidad. Los lugares de extracción son solo una parte de unas cadenas de valor cada vez más complejas en su composición geográfica (Phelps et al., 2015). Por eso, es fundamental analizar la industria minera desde una perspectiva multiescalar y relacional respecto a sus relaciones socioespaciales, pues "la mina no es un objeto sociotécnico, sino un denso territorio de redes de infraestructuras y tecnologías espaciales ampliamente dispersas en el espacio" (Arboleda, 2020, p. 19). Las
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/240/image/coversmallGeografías del trabajo y reproducción social en la minería: Motivaciones y dilemas de la movilidad laboral en la región de Antofagasta, Chile / Geographies of Work and Social Reproduction in Mining: Motivations and Dilemmas of Mobile Labor in Antofagasta Region, Chile2025-12-18text/htmlen-USGeografías del trabajo y reproducción social en la minería: Motivaciones y dilemas de la movilidad laboral en la región de Antofagasta, Chile / Geographies of Work and Social Reproduction in Mining: Motivations and Dilemmas of Mobile Labor in Antofagasta Region, Chile2025-12-182025TWOProject MUSE®1744662026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002025-12-18Governing by Fear: Oligarchy and Environmental Politics in Ecuador
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/977595
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Though Hobbes understood fear to be a reaction to real danger in the world, he also appreciated its theatrical qualities… [The sovereign] had to persuade people, through a necessary but subtle distortion, to fear certain objects over others…In the face of rising drug-related violence, a renewed oligarchy in Ecuador is using fear to extend its political and economic control, shedding the constraints of liberal constitutionalism and neoliberal orthodoxy. In this intervention, we outline the characteristics of oligarchic rule under President Daniel Noboa and consider its implications for environmental politics. Noboa has reframed nearly all political antagonisms in terms of an "internal armed conflict" against
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/240/image/coversmallGoverning by Fear: Oligarchy and Environmental Politics in Ecuador2025-12-18text/htmlen-USGoverning by Fear: Oligarchy and Environmental Politics in Ecuador2025-12-182025TWOProject MUSE®776232026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002025-12-18Miners, Money, and Migration: Economic Geographies of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in Arequipa, Peru
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/977596
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Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is increasingly important in Latin America, as in much of Africa and Asia, and globally it employs an estimated four to five times more people than conventional (large- and medium-scale, formal) mining (Fritz et al., 2017). However, ASM's association with informality, poor working conditions, and environmental damage tarnish its reputation and motivate governments' hostile or arms-length relationships to the sector (Hilson & Maconachie, 2020a; Kaufmann & Cote, 2021; Vila Benites, 2022). As a result, even as ASM is increasingly recognized as an important livelihood in rural areas, it is seldom seriously considered in discussions of regional economies or development. Even basic
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/240/image/coversmallMiners, Money, and Migration: Economic Geographies of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in Arequipa, Peru2025-12-18text/htmlen-USMiners, Money, and Migration: Economic Geographies of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in Arequipa, Peru2025-12-182025TWOProject MUSE®1589982026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002025-12-18When Extractive Subjects Come Afloat: Capitalist Natures and Extractive Orientations from within Colombia's Oldest Copper Mine
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/977597
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In northwestern Colombia, near the border between Antioquia and Chocó, and 20 minutes from the road connecting Quibdó with Medellín, there is a small town called El Carmen de Atrato that is inhabited by white-mestizos. The town's central building is the cathedral, painted in cerulean, slate gray, and dark red, which creates a vivid atmosphere when contrasted with the main square's trees, marble floors, and orange walls. Walking around the park, one can feel the fresh breeze from the surrounding mountains, accompanied by a light fog that moves slowly and steadily. The sensation reminds you that Chocó is one of the rainiest places in the world, and El Carmen is the largest settlement closest to the source of the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/240/image/coversmallWhen Extractive Subjects Come Afloat: Capitalist Natures and Extractive Orientations from within Colombia's Oldest Copper Mine2025-12-18text/htmlen-USWhen Extractive Subjects Come Afloat: Capitalist Natures and Extractive Orientations from within Colombia's Oldest Copper Mine2025-12-182025TWOProject MUSE®1711972026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002025-12-18¿La Gota que Rebalsó el Vaso? Community Acceptance, Uncertainty, and Rejection of Seawater Desalination for the Chilean Mining Industry
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/977598
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On July 29, 2023, members of the Federación de Pescadores Artesanales Bahía Narau (Federation of Artisanal Fishers1 of Narau Bay) marked three months of blockading the construction of the Aconcagua desalination plant. The site is approximately 50 km north of Valparaíso in the Puchuncaví municipality, which, along with the neighboring municipality of Quintero, is home to one of the most polluting industrial complexes in Chile (Gayo et al., 2022; Tironi, 2018). Participants were demonstrating concern over potential impacts on their fishing grounds of the US$1 billion plant, projected to produce 1,000 liters per second (l/s) of processed water (Munita C., 2023). Half the water is intended to supply the Los Bronces
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/240/image/coversmall¿La Gota que Rebalsó el Vaso? Community Acceptance, Uncertainty, and Rejection of Seawater Desalination for the Chilean Mining Industry2025-12-18text/htmlen-US¿La Gota que Rebalsó el Vaso? Community Acceptance, Uncertainty, and Rejection of Seawater Desalination for the Chilean Mining Industry2025-12-182025TWOProject MUSE®2341822026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002025-12-18Mining Frontiers and Policy in Mexico: Deepening Extractivism, Environmental Pressures, and Mining Conflicts
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/977599
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In recent decades, Latin American mining has expanded amid rising global demand, legal liberalization, and technologies such as open-pit mining that exploit low-grade deposits (Delgado Ramos, 2010; Valderrey Villar & Lemus Delgado, 2019). Reflecting reliance on primary export models that favor large-scale extraction (Svampa, 2019), the region attracted foreign direct investment during the commodities boom—especially with the surge in gold prices in 2012—and now with increasing interest in lithium, copper, and rare earths, positioning it as a strategic supplier for the transition to renewable energy (Azamar, 2024).In Mexico, mining has expanded markedly, consolidating its place in the global extractive economy.
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/240/image/coversmallMining Frontiers and Policy in Mexico: Deepening Extractivism, Environmental Pressures, and Mining Conflicts2025-12-18text/htmlen-USMining Frontiers and Policy in Mexico: Deepening Extractivism, Environmental Pressures, and Mining Conflicts2025-12-182025TWOProject MUSE®1742692026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002025-12-18Volume 24 Reviewers
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Meghan J. Albritton, Virginia TechPenelope Anthias, Durham UniversityMartín Arboleda, Universidad Diego PortalesMoises Arce, Tulane UniversityJeremy Baskes, Ohio Wesleyan UniversityEric D. Carter, Macalester CollegeAlejandro Delgado Cruz, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de MéxicoBibiana Duarte Abadia, Wageningen UniversitySandra Maria Fonseca da Costa, Universidade do Vale do ParaíbaMaria Christina Fragkou, Universidad de ChileJulieta Godfrid, Universidad Autónoma de ChileAnna Heikkinen, University of HelsinkiAlex Hidalgo, Texas Christian UniversityGavin M. Hilson, University of SurreyEric M. Hirsch, Franklin & Marshall CollegeJeffrey Hoelle, University of California, Santa BarbaraJessica C. Hope, University of St.
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/240/image/coversmallVolume 24 Reviewers2025-12-18text/htmlen-USVolume 24 Reviewers2025-12-182025TWOProject MUSE®43302026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002025-12-18