This book builds upon Irina Carlota [Lotti] Silber's nearly 25 years of ethnographic research
centered in Chalatenango, El Salvador, to follow the trajectories—geographic, temporal …

Guatemala is severely polluted with plastic waste, with open burning, illegal dumping, and
leaking landfills causing widespread harms. What actions, this article asks, are local people …

The literature on the recent exponential growth of the extractive industry in Latin America
and beyond has documented the various processes through which this sector has been …

This article describes the evolution of democratic attitudes in Guatemala between 2012 and
2021 and identifies, at the political system level, the contextual factors that have contributed …

After more than a decade of political stability, in 2019 Bolivia suffered a major political crisis
that ended with the resignation of a long-standing President, amidst popular unrest after a …

Recent political economic developments in Guatemala exemplify the broken promises of top-
down “globalization” and “multiculturalism,” which have instead produced “global …

This article explores the social imaginaries surrounding corruption within the Argentinian
justice system, focusing on their gendered aspects. Drawing on ethnographic research, this …

3 and his cabinet over a major corruption scandal (see Flores 2019). But overall, popular
efforts to forge or protect democracy have been met with an iron fist. The 2009 coup against …

On a global scale, NGOs have played an important role in development and addressing
healthcare inequities over the last several decades. Yet in recent years, the work of NGOs is …