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Walking Together

Walking Together

Central Americans and Transit Migration Through Mexico

By Alejandra Díaz de León

The University of Arizona Press

Sitting at the intersection of border studies, immigration studies, and Latinx studies, this concise volume shows how Central American migrants in transit through Mexico survive the precarious and unpredictable road by forming different types of social ties, developing trust, and engaging in acts of solidarity. The accessible writing and detailed ethnographic narratives of different associations, ties, and groups that migrants form while in transit weave together theory with empirical observations to highlight and humanize the migrant experience.

Revealing Rebellion in Abiayala

Revealing Rebellion in Abiayala

The Insurgent Poetics of Contemporary Indigenous Literature

By Hannah Burdette

The University of Arizona Press

From the Pan-Maya Movement in Guatemala and the Zapatista uprising in Mexico to the Water and Gas Wars in Bolivia and the Idle No More movement in Canada, the twenty-first century has witnessed a notable surge in Indigenous political action. Meanwhile, numerous authors use fiction and poetry to combat their invisibility and envision alternatives to coloniality. Revealing Rebellion in Abiayala provides a powerful starting point for rethinking inter-American studies through the lens of literature and Indigenous sovereignty.

Foodways of the Ancient Andes

Foodways of the Ancient Andes

Transforming Diet, Cuisine, and Society

Edited by Marta P Alfonso-Durruty and Deborah E Blom

The University of Arizona Press

Exploring the multiple social, ecological, cultural, and ontological dimensions of food in the Andean past, this book offers a diverse set of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches that reveal the richness, sophistication, and ingenuity of Andean peoples. With forty-six contributors from ten countries, the studies presented in this volume employ new analytical methods, integrating different food data and interdisciplinary research to show how food impacts sociopolitical relationships and ontologies that are otherwise invisible in the archaeological record.

Black Women and da ’Rona

Black Women and da ’Rona

Community, Consciousness, and Ethics of Care

Edited by Julia S. Jordan-Zachery and Shamara Wyllie Alhassan

The University of Arizona Press

Deliberately writing against archival erasure and death-driven logics of anti-Blackness, this volume chronicles Black women’s aliveness, ethics of care, and rituals of healing. The nineteen contributors from interdisciplinary fields and diverse backgrounds situate Black women’s multidimensional experiences with COVID-19 and other violences that affect their lives. The stories they tell are connected and interwoven, bound together by anti-Black gendered COVID necropolitics and commitments to creating new spaces for breathing, healing, and wellness.

The Unequal Ocean

The Unequal Ocean

Living with Environmental Change along the Peruvian Coast

By Maximilian Viatori

The University of Arizona Press

Based on a decade of ethnographic and archival research in Peru, this volume reveals how prevailing representations of the ocean obscure racialized disparities and the ways that different people experience the impacts of the climate crisis. The book also addresses expanding scholarly interest in the world’s oceans as sites for thinking about social inequities, environmental politics, and multispecies relationships.

Carbon Sovereignty

Carbon Sovereignty

Coal, Development, and Energy Transition in the Navajo Nation

By Andrew Curley

The University of Arizona Press

This deep dive into the coal industry and the Navajo Nation captures a pivotal moment in the history of energy shift and tribal communities. Geographer Andrew Curley spent more than a decade documenting the rise and fall coal, talking with those affected most by the changes—Diné coal workers, environmental activists, and politicians.

Households on the Mimbres Horizon

Households on the Mimbres Horizon

Excavations at La Gila Encantada, Southwestern New Mexico

By Barbara J. Roth

The University of Arizona Press

This book explores variability in Mimbres Mogollon pithouse sites using a case study from La Gila Encantada to further our understanding of the full range of pithouse occupations in the area. Because the site is away from the major river valleys, the data from excavations at the site provides valuable information on the differences in cultural practices that occurred away from the riverine villages, as well as environmental differences, economic practices, and social constructs.

Border Water

Border Water

The Politics of U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Water Management, 1945–2015

By Stephen P. Mumme

The University of Arizona Press

Border Water places transboundary water management in the frame of the larger binational relationship, offering a comprehensive history of transnational water management between the United States and Mexico. As we move into the next century of transnational water management, this important work offers critical insights into lessons learned and charts a path for the future.

The Carbon Calculation

The Carbon Calculation

Global Climate Policy, Forests, and Transnational Governance in Brazil and Mozambique

By Raquel Rodrigues Machaqueiro

The University of Arizona Press

The Carbon Calculation critically highlights the ways in which politics has reinforced a scientific focus on one possible solution to the problem of climate change—namely those that largely absolve the industrialized world from undertaking politically painful transformations in its own economic model.

Occupying Our Space

Occupying Our Space

The Mestiza Rhetorics of Mexican Women Journalists and Activists, 1875–1942

By Cristina Devereaux Ramírez; Foreword by Jacqueline Jones Royster

The University of Arizona Press

Occupying our Space examines the contributions of Mexican women journalists and writers during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, marked as the zenith of Mexican journalism. Through her analysis of the women’s writings, Cristina D. Ramírez coins the phrase rhetorical puestos, or rhetorical public spaces, meant to create an authentic speaking arena for the women. Allowing the women to speak first, Ramírez deftly reframes the conversation about the rhetorical and intellectual role women played in the shifting political and identity culture in Mexico.

Lotería

Lotería

Nocturnal Sweepstakes

By Elizabeth Torres

The University of Arizona Press

Lotería is a collection of deeply evocative coming-of-age poems that take the reader on a voyage through the intimate experiences of displacement. In this bilingual collection, Colombian American poet Elizabeth Torres threads together the stories of family dynamics and the realities of migration with the archetypes of tarot and the traditional Lotería game, used for centuries as an object of divination and entertainment. Through these themes and images, the poems in Lotería narrate intimate moments in the lives and journeys of migrants, refugees, and all who have been forced into metamorphosis in order to reach the other side of the river.

My Heart Is Bound Up with Them

My Heart Is Bound Up with Them

How Carlos Montezuma Became the Voice of a Generation

By David Martínez

The University of Arizona Press

Centering historically neglected Indigenous voices as its primary source material, author David Martínez shows how Carlos Montezuma’s correspondence and interactions with his family and their community influenced his advocacy—and how his important work in Arizona specifically motivated his work on a national level.

Voluntourism and Multispecies Collaboration

Voluntourism and Multispecies Collaboration

Life, Death, and Conservation in the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef

By Keri Vacanti Brondo

The University of Arizona Press

An ethnographic exploration of the world of conservation voluntourism and relations of care between humans and vulnerable species on the Honduran Bay Island of Utila.

Running After Paradise

Running After Paradise

Hope, Survival, and Activism in Brazil's Atlantic Forest

By Colleen M. Scanlan Lyons

The University of Arizona Press

This book looks at social-environmental activism in one of the world’s most important and threatened tropical forests—Southern Bahia, Brazil. It explores what it means to be in and of a place through the lenses of history, environment, identity, class, and culture. It uncovers not only what separates people but also what brings them together as they struggle and strive to create their individual and collective paradise.

Chicano-Chicana Americana

Chicano-Chicana Americana

Pop Culture Pluralism Starring Anthony Quinn, Katy Jurado, Robert Beltran, and Lupe Ontiveros

By Anthony Macías

The University of Arizona Press

This exciting new cultural history documents how Mexican Americans in twentieth-century film, television, and theater surpassed stereotypes, fought for equal opportunity, and subtly transformed the mainstream American imaginary. Through biographical sketches of underappreciated Mexican American actors, this work sheds new light on our national character and reveals the untold story of a multicentered, polycultural America.

Reading the Illegible

Reading the Illegible

Indigenous Writing and the Limits of Colonial Hegemony in the Andes

By Laura Leon Llerena

The University of Arizona Press

Reading the Illegible weaves together the stories of the peoples, places, objects, and media that surrounded the creation of the anonymous Huarochirí Manuscript (c. 1598–1608) to demonstrate how Andean people endowed the European technology of writing with a new social role in the context of a multimedia society.

Translation and Epistemicide

Translation and Epistemicide

Racialization of Languages in the Americas

By Joshua Martin Price

The University of Arizona Press

From the early colonial period to the War on Terror, translation practices have facilitated colonialism and resulted in epistemicide, or the destruction of Indigenous and subaltern knowledge. This book discusses translation-as-epistemicide in the Americas and providing accounts of decolonial methods of translation.

Lavender Fields

Lavender Fields

Black Women Experiencing Fear, Agency, and Hope in the Time of COVID-19

Edited by Julia S. Jordan-Zachery

The University of Arizona Press

Lavender Fields uses autoethnography to explore how Black girls and women are living with and through COVID-19. It centers their pain, joys, and imaginations for a more just future as we confront all the inequalities that COVID-19 exposes.

Agrarian Revolt in the Sierra of Chihuahua, 1959–1965

Agrarian Revolt in the Sierra of Chihuahua, 1959–1965

By Elizabeth Henson

The University of Arizona Press

The early 1960s are remembered for the emergence of new radical movements. One such protest movement rose in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. With large timbering companies moving in on the forested sierra highlands, campesinos and rancheros did not sit by as their lands and livelihoods were threatened. This is the story of how they organized and demanded agrarian rights—ultimately with deadly consequences.

Sonoran Desert Journeys

Sonoran Desert Journeys

Ecology and Evolution of Its Iconic Species

By Theodore H. Fleming

The University of Arizona Press

This book explores the evolution and natural history of iconic animals and plants of the northern Sonoran Desert through the eyes of a curious naturalist.

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