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This essay reviews the following works:
Brimos: Imigração sírio-libanesa no Brasil e seu caminho até a política. By Diogo Bercito. São Paulo: Fósforo, 2019. Pp. 269. BRL$74.90 paperback. ISBN: 9786589733102.
The Muslims of Latin America and the Caribbean. By Ken Chitwood. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2021. Pp. x + 285. $95.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9781626379480.
Peronism as a Big Tent: The Political Inclusion of Arab Immigrants in Argentina. By Raanan Rein and Ariel Noyjovich. Montréal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022. Pp. xvi + 230. CAD $75.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9780228008828.
Latin American Relations with the Middle East: Foreign Policy in Times of Crisis. Edited by Marta Tawil Kuri and Élodie Brun. New York: Routledge, 2022. Pp. xvii + 283. $160.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9781032206790.
Manifold Destiny: Arabs at an American Crossroads of Exceptional Rule. By John Tofik Karam. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2020. Pp. xv + 315. $39.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780826501325.
Brasil e Oriente Médio: O poder da sociedade civil. Edited by Álvaro Vasconcelos, Arlene Clemesha, and Feliciano de Sá Guimarães. São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Relações Internacionais, 2021. Pp. 189. Open access e-book. ISBN: 9788569229032. https://doi.org/10.11606/9788569229032.

ABSTRACTMore than a decade after the observation that an "interpretive turn" was percolating through political science, there are clear indications of growth in the perceived legitimacy of interpretive scholarship. Both accompanying and contributing to interpretivism's ascent has been the regular staging of Methods Cafés at various conferences in and beyond the discipline. First held at the 2005 meeting of the Western Political Science Association, the Methods Café subsequently landed at the 2006 conference of the American Political Science Association. The Methods Café has become an institutionalized feature of these and other conferences. This reflection looks at the past, present, and future of these events, as well as the key role they have played in making interpretivism visible in the discipline. In particular, I highlight their function as non-hierarchical intellectual spaces that promote teaching, learning, and interpretivist community building. Further, I offer friendly but not uncritical commentary on the successes and limitations of the Methods Café.

The books under review all deal with the same fundamental phenomenon: mobilization against neoliberal policies by South American indigenous groups. These works fall into two groups: those that focus on the Mapuche struggle in Chile, and those that consider anti-neoliberal indigenous mobilization in the region more broadly. Just as literature in the former group fails to draw any linkages between the Mapuche and other South American indigenous struggles, the latter body of literature does not engage with Chile as a case worthy of consideration. This essay delineates the arguments made by scholars from both groups and argues that they must be brought into dialogue with one another in order to develop both a more holistic conceptualization of the Mapuche struggle in Chile and a more complete understanding of indigenous mobilization in the region. Further empirical work is needed on how Mapuche mobilization relates to other indigenous, anti-neoliberal mobilizations in South America. Adapted from the source document.