The Journal of Latin American Geography (JLAG) is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes original geographical and interdisciplinary scholarship on Latin America and the Caribbean and the diaspora from this region. It invites theoretically robust, empirically rich, and/or policy relevant research from across human and environmental geography. The journal accepts manuscripts in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, in order to bring the region’s best scholarship to the broadest possible audience.
JLAG is an independent and not-for-profit journal published by the Conference of Latin American Geography (CLAG), which was established in 1970 to foster geographic education and research on Latin America through publications, conferences, and travel grants. The journal publishes three issues per year, hosted online by Project Muse, and distributed in print by the University of Texas Press.
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Journal of Latin American Geography (JLAG) es una publicación revisada por pares, que publica estudios geográficos e interdisciplinarios originales sobre América Latina y el Caribe, y la diáspora de esta región. La revista invita a la presentación de trabajos de investigación teóricamente sólidos, empíricamente ricos y/o relevantes para la formulación de políticas en el ámbito de la geografía humana y ambiental. La revista acepta manuscritos en inglés, español y portugués, con el fin de hacer llegar los mejores estudios de la región a un público lo más amplio posible.
JLAG es una revista independiente y sin fines de lucro, publicada por la Conferencia de Geografía Latinoamericana (CLAG por sus siglas en inglés), creada en 1970, para fomentar la educación y la investigación geográfica sobre América Latina a través de publicaciones, conferencias y becas de viaje. La revista publica tres números al año, recopilados en línea por Project Muse, y distribuidos en su versión impresa por la University of Texas Press.
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A Journal of Latin American Geography (JLAG) é uma revista científica que publica estudos originais e interdisciplinares sobre a geografia da América Latina, Caribe e suas diásporas. A revista utiliza o processo de revisão por pares e convoca pesquisas teoricamente robustas, empiricamente ricas e/ou relevantes para políticas públicas em geografia humana e ambiental. Aceitam-se manuscritos em português, espanhol e inglês, com o objetivo de tornar o melhor conhecimento produzido na região o mais acessível possível.
A JLAG é uma revista independente e sem fins lucrativos publicada pela Conferência de Geografia Latino Americana (CLAG, em inglês). A CLAG foi criada em 1970 para promover a educação geográfica e a pesquisa sobre a América Latina através de publicações, conferências e bolsas de viagem. A periodicidade de publicação da JLAG é quadrimestral e suas edições podem ser encontradas online no Project Muse ou em versão impressa, na editora University of Texas Press.
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Current Issue: Volume 23, Issue 2 (2022)
Article
Biocultural Landscapes and the Scalability of Biocultural Heritage
Cloe Xochitl Pérez-Valladares and Berenice Farfán-Heredia
Uso comum, terra comum, conflitos comuns: sobre terras de uso comum e a questão agrária / Common Land, Common Use, Common Conflicts: The Common Use of Land and the Agrarian Question
Gustavo F. Olesko Dr.
What Is a Batey? Origins and Trajectories of an Antillean Concept
Julia Kieslinger, Raphael Dohardt, Silke Jansen, and Stefan Kordel
JLAG Perspectives
Building a Global Agenda for Water Security with Insights from Social Infrastructures in Latin America
Amber Wutich
UNBC-Rights Action Experiential Learning in Guatemala 2023: ArcGIS StoryMap on The Global Order, Injustice and Resistance in Guatemala
Catherine Nolin Dr., Mikhaila Carr, Morgan Crosby, Will Hanlon, Cyan LeMoal, Jakob Ostberg, Mackenzie Ostberg, Olivia Pavan, August Reed, Caroline Scott, Tyler Slaney, and Aine Stephen-Conlan
Marañón, the River that Feels: Kukama Indigenous Women Leading the Way in the Struggle Against Environmental Injustices in the Peruvian Amazon
Mirella Pretell Gomero
Book Reviews
Subterranean Matters: Cooperative Mining and Resource Nationalism in Plurinational Bolivia by Andrea Marston (review)
Matthew Himley
“Unseen Things”: Social Difference, Supernatural Beings, and Subterranean Matters (review)
Adrienne Johnson
The Matter of Material History (and Others) (review)
Gisselle Vila Benites
Historical Matters, All the Way Down (review)
Gabriela Valdivia
Spatial Orders, Social Forms: Art and the City in Modern Brazil by Adrian Anagnost (review)
Brian Godfrey
Narcomedia: Latinidad, Popular Culture, and America’s War on Drugs by Jason Ruiz (review)
Laura R. Blume
Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala by Rachel Nolan (review)
Rebecca Clouser
Adrift on an Inland Sea: Misinformation and the Limits of Empire in the Brazilian Backlands by Hal Langfur (review)
Christian Brannstrom
Nationalizing Nature: Iguazu Falls and National Parks at the Brazil-Argentina Border by Frederico Freitas (review)
Audrey Joslin