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Latin American Studies Association 2026

May 26, 2026 / Paris, FR

Come find us in the Mare Nostrum Group booth at the 2026 LASA conference!

We're represented this year by our UK partner, Mare Nostrum Group (booth 111), in Paris! Browse new and forthcoming titles in Latin American studies on-site in the exhibit hall or below, or check out our complete list in the field.

Through July 14, 2026, use code LASA26 to save 40% on all books and journal issues when you order on our website. Customers in the UK and Europe can order books with this code from our UK partner, Mare Nostrum Group.

To connect with any of our editors, view their specialties and contact information. To submit a book proposal, consult our online submissions guidelines and submission portal.

Cover of Sanctuary Everywhere features an artistic rendering of a man's head sitting on a rocky ground. Out of his mouth extends a distorted shape resembling the United States. At the top of the shape, in the corners, are two hands extending upwa
Sanctuary Everywhere

The Fugitive Sacred in the Sonoran Desert

Barbara Andrea Sostaita

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Winner of the 2026 Bryce Wood Book Award, LASA

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Biennial Boom

Making Contemporary Art Global

Paloma Checa-Gismero

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Visual Disobedience

Art and Decoloniality in Central America

Kency Cornejo

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Winner of the 2026 ALAA-Arvey Foundation Book Award, ALAA Winner of the 2025 ASAP Book Prize

Cover of The New Kingdom of Granada features patterns from ancient Muisican (pre-Colombian) art, now displayed in the British Museum. The background is a dark red and black pattern featuring geometric shapes, circular motifs, and stylized figures.
The New Kingdom of Granada

The Making and Unmaking of Spain’s Atlantic Empire

Santiago Muñoz-Arbeláez

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Honorable Mention, 2026 Fanny Bandelier/Asunción Lavrin Book Prize in Colonial Latin American History, Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies

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After Palmares

Diaspora, Inheritance, and the Afterlives of Zumbi

Marc A Hertzman

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Winner of the 2026 Roberto Reis Senior Scholar Award, Brazilian Studies Association; Honorable Mention for the 2025 Warren Dean Memorial Prize, CLAH

Cover of Modern Peru features a bold orange background with large text in white and yellow. In the center is a halftone-style image in burnt orange showing groups of people gathered along a road, with soldiers or police standing in the foreground and
Modern Peru

A New History

Paulo Drinot and Alberto Vergara, editors

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The cover of Interrogating the Future of Puerto Rican Studies is a rainbow gradient with navy blue at the top and red at the bottom.
Interrogating the Future of Puerto Rican Studies

Santiago Ortiz, Aurora and Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo, editors

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Latin America in Debate

Indigeneity, Development, Dependency, Populism

Maristella Svampa

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The title is in large white and yellow letters against a background featuring the Puerto Rican flag colors. An illustration of Bad Bunny wearing a yellow outfit and a large straw hat, holding a microphone with yellow lightning bolts emanating from it
P FKN R

How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance

Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau

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Cover of Promises Beyond Memory features a faded image of two people with their eyes closed, flanking another image of a gold altar with a woman's face superimposed on it.
Promises Beyond Memory

Archives, Art, and the Afterlives of Violence in Latin America

Vikki Bell

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Cover of The Absent Stone features a photograph of part of the Piedra de los Tecomates, a large stone monument. The photo shows three holes in the stone in a horizontal line as well as the letters 'EM' and 'D' carved into the stone.
The Absent Stone

Mexican Patrimony and the Aftershocks of State Theft

Sandra Rozental

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Acoustic Colonialism

Acts of Mapuche Interference

Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante

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Speculative Relations

Indigenous Worlding and Repair

Joseph M. Pierce

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Cover of Indigenous Archives features a photograph of two young Mayan women wearing traditional clothing sitting on steps.
Indigenous Archives

The Maya Diaspora and Mobile Cultural Production

Floridalma Boj Lopez

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Cover of The Borders of America features a red tinted photograph taken from ground level of people walking from behind with light shining through. Layered over the feet of one individual on the left is a red and yellow gradient that the title appears
The Borders of America

Migration, Control, and Resistance Across Latin America and the Caribbean

Soledad Álvarez Velasco, Nicholas De Genova, Gustavo Dias, and Eduardo Domenech, editors

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Cover of Clandestinas is red with bold white and yellow type. A historical photo of women behind bars is in the background.
Clandestinas

Women in the Cuban Revolutionary Underground, 1955–1959

Carollee Bengelsdorf

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Cover of The Bajío Revolution features 19th-century artwork by Manuel Serrano that depicts a dusk street scene with people gathered around a vendor cooking food. Women and children receive what appear to be tortillas from a man kneeling by a p
The Bajío Revolution

Remaking Capitalism, Community, and Patriarchy in Mexico, North America, and the World

John Tutino

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Top half of the cover of A Wide Net of Solidarity features bold white text on a black background. Below, a sepia-toned photograph shows a fishing net strung across a sandy landscape, with shadows and scattered footprints in the sand.
A Wide Net of Solidarity

Antiracism and Anti-Imperialism from the Americas to the Globe

Anne Garland Mahler

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The central cover image is a sculpture composed of irregular, interlocking dark wooden panels, some inscribed with words such as “FORTIA,” “ABSTRACTO,” and “CONCRETO.”
The Invention of Order

On the Coloniality of Space

Don Thomas Deere

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Performances of Spiral Time

Leda Maria Martins

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Bêtes Noires

Sorcery as History in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands

Lauren Derby

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Cover of Archival Irruptions features an image of an old handwritten ledger or registry page with rows and columns filled with cursive names and annotations and what appears to be an ink smudge at the bottom.
Archival Irruptions

Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica

Katharine Gerbner

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Decentralizing Knowledges

Essays on Distributed Agency

Leandro Rodriguez Medina and Sandra Harding, editors

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Cover of I’ll Samba Someplace Else features a yellow and orange duotone of a crowd of people walking down a dirt road. The photo overlays a yellow and orange map that is fully visible in the top right corner. A circle appears on the right side,
I’ll Samba Someplace Else

A Spatial History of Race, Ethnicity, and Displacement in São Paulo

Andrew G. Britt

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Cover of Gay Print Culture features an image of a handsome young man with dark hair wearing a blue tank top and a beige hat with its strap around his neck. The background includes green foliage and colorful flowers.
Gay Print Culture

A Transnational History of North America

Juan Carlos Mezo González

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Cover of Strange Tastes features hot pink plastic. Flames appear at the left border and in the top right corner melting the material. The title is aligned left central on the cover in a gradient of white to yellow to white mirroring the flames.
Strange Tastes

Aesthetics and the Public in Latin American and Latinx Feminisms

Monique Roelofs

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Queer Traffic

Sex, Panic, Free Trade

Jennifer Tyburczy

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Cover of Puto: Plays features white fabric with two faces sketched on it in navy blue. The two faces have their eyes closed, noses touching, and tongues entangled as they kiss open mouthed.
Puto

Plays

Ricardo A. Bracho

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Cover of Fernando is a square shape and features an abstract pattern of black and blue kaleidescopic flowers.
Fernando

A Song by ABBA

Kay Dickinson

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Cover of Mediating Modernisms features a thin black line at the top, with a tan block below it. The bottom 3/4 of the book is orange. An untitled abstract multicolor painting by Jacques Zigoma is central to the cover.
Mediating Modernisms

Indigenous Artists, Modernist Mediators, Global Networks

Ruth B. Phillips and Norman Vorano, editors

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Negative Originals

Race and Early Photography in Colombia

Juanita Solano Roa

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Cover of After Caliban features a sculpted chocolate bust by Janine Antoni. The bust has stylized facial features; the nose has been purposefully worn down to mimic erosion. The bust is lit dramatically, casting a strong shadow.
After Caliban

Caribbean Art in a Global Imaginary

Erica Moiah James

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Cover artwork of Transpacific Nonencounters depicts human and insect figures in blue on a background of yellow irregular squares edged in red.
Transpacific Nonencounters

Racial Disconnects Across Twentieth-Century Japan and Mexico

Andrea Mendoza

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Diaspora Without Displacement

The Coloniality and Promise of Capoeira in Senegal

Celina de Sá

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Basketball Trafficking

Stolen Black Panamanian Dreams

Javier Wallace

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Cover photograph on The Business of Racism depicts workers in a sugarcane field under a sky of fluffy clouds. The cut canes fill the bottom half of the image, and the sky the top half.
The Business of Racism

Labor and Environment in Brazil's Racial Capitalism

Ian Carrillo

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Cover of The Climate Trial features a photograph of a person looking out at icy mountains and a bright icy blue lake. The individual wears dark pants, a navy blue jacket, and a tan hat.
The Climate Trial

Law and Justice on a Melting Planet

Noah Walker-Crawford

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The Archive and the Aural City

Sound, Knowledge, and the Politics of Listening

Alejandro L. Madrid

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Geographies of the Ear

The Cultural Politics of Sound in Contemporary Barcelona

Tania Gentic

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Cover of Into the Loop features the book’s title and subtitle repeated in concentric spirals, creating a hypnotic, looping visual effect. The text varies in color—white, red, and teal—against a dark green background.
Into the Loop

An Ethnography of Compulsive Repetition

Samuele Collu

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On the cover of The City of Our Dreaming the title and authors are in a black capsule shape that is slightly offset in the middle, surrounded by a red background. On the left side the words The Alchemy Lecture appear vertically.
The City of Our Dreaming

The Alchemy Lecture

Laleh Khalili, V. Mitch McEwen, Gabriela Leandro Pereira, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

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Cover of Insurgent Visions features a bold, abstract illustration in red, pink, black, and teal tones. Stylized human faces and a human hand overlap with patterned abstract shapes in a collage-like composition.
Insurgent Visions

Feminism, Justice, Solidarity

Chandra Talpade Mohanty

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Hispanic American Historical Review

Lauren H. Derby, Katherine M. Marino, Elizabeth O′Brien, Fernando Pérez-Montesinos, Alexandra Minna Stern, William Summerhill, and Kevin Terraciano, editors

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Ethnohistory

Denise I. Bossy and Robert C. Schwaller, editors

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Recent special issue: "Indigenous Responses to Disease: Ethnohistory inspired by COVID"

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Small Axe

A Caribbean Journal of Criticism

David Scott, editor

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