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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- On Writing and Research -- Chapter 1: Translating Sexual and Racial Borders -- Chapter 2: The Meanings around "Loca": Revisiting Language, Space, and Sexuality -- Is "Loca" sort of "Queer"? -- Translocations -- Performing "Queer"/"Latinidad" -- Bisexuals, Machorras, Transfeministas, Fuertes, Locas -- When "Queer Fits" -- Chapter 3: "Latino" and "Queer" as Sites of Translation: Intersections of "Race," Ethnicity, Class, and Sexuality -- On "Latinidad": Estrella's Story -- Trans Conflations of Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Sexuality -- "I Am 'American.' I Am No Different than You" -- They Cannot Know That I Am "Gay" Unless They See My Keychain (No Pueden Saber Si Soy "Gay" a Menos Que Vean Mi Llavero) -- Somos Hermanos. Es Nuestro Himno: Translating the U.S. National Anthem -- Chapter 4: Inserting the "I" in the Fieldwork -- On Being "Native" in Anthropology -- Geography Matters -- "You Are Not White": "Whiteness," Citizenship, and "Latinidad" -- Visibly "Queer" -- Invisible "Mestiza" -- From Home to "Field" and Back: Disrupting the Linearity -- Chapter 5: Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.

A good starting point for revisiting the intersections of language, gender and sexuality is to acknowledge and understand how colonial wounds and legacies play out in our everyday lives. This essay critically addresses the multiple ways in which we are all marked in one way or another by our colonial relations and their intersections. A careful unpacking of mechanisms and linkages is critical for identifying strategies and tactics of struggle that might lead to more equitable present-days characterised by esperanza (hope). Yet a desire to decolonise language and language practices without recognising the lived experience of our own messy and colonial entanglements will never be enough to resignify the systems that hold racial, ethnic, gender, sexual and linguistic inequalities in place. This essay highlights the acts of desbordar (undoing/overflowing), trasto-car (queering) and resentir (feeling again) as alternative strategies that can be used to fracture the architectures of colonialism, starting with our own.

The link between gender and the global border system -- Human mobility : between organized crime, border security and criminalization -- Femicide and feminicide : body geographies -- Legal and illegal markets and the multiple forms of exploitation -- Breaking dichotomies : Links in the mechanisms of illegal markets in Latin America -- Representations in the Latin American press : images, text, the body and social class -- General conclusions -- Recommendations.

Gender and Embodied Geographies in Latin American Borders is the first study of its kind to bring a gender perspective to studies on violence and "illegal markets" in the region. Analyzing the structural problems that create inequality and enable gendered violence in Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and Argentina, the authors offer a critique of the securitization of borders and the criminalization of human mobility, and propose alternatives to reduce violence. Newspaper reports on gender and the variables of violence, human trafficking, people smuggling, missing persons, victims and perpetrators uncover the production and reproduction of discourses and images related to violence. Interviews with strategic actors from non-governmental organizations, academia as well as public policy makers diversify the experiences from the different voices of authority. Gender and Embodied Geographies in Latin American Borders encourages us to continue to question silence, impunity, the restriction of mobility, the dehumanization of securitization policies and the institutionalization of gender violence. A welcomed must read for scholars, researchers, policy makers, and students of gender studies, security studies, and migration.

""The Tropical Silk Road" captures an epochal juncture of two of the world's most transformative processes: the People's Republic of China's rapidly expanding sphere of influence across the global south and the disintegration of the Amazonian, Cerrado, and Andean biomes. The intersection of these two processes took another step in April 2020, when Chinese President Xi Jinping launched a "New Health Silk Road" agenda of aid and investment that would wind through South America, extending the Eurasian-African "Belt and Road Initiative" to the Latin American tropics. How will this new tropical Silk Road shape political alliances, social landscapes, and ecological futures in South America? Through thirty short essays, this volume brings together an impressive array of contributors, from economists, anthropologists, and political scientists to Black, feminist, and Indigenous community organizers, Chinese stakeholders, environmental activists, and local journalists to offer a pathbreaking analysis of China's presence in South America that covers a wide range of topics, including humanitarian aid, agribusiness, and extractive industry-mineral mining, fossil fuel tapping, and port and transport infrastructure. As cracks in the progressive legacy of the Pink Tide and the failures of ecocidal right-wing populisms shape new political economies and geopolitical possibilities, this book provides a grassroots-based account of a post-U.S. centered world order, and an accompanying map of the stakes for South America that highlights emerging voices and forms of resistance."

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This special issue questions translation and its politics of (in)visibilizing certain bodies and geographies, and sheds light on queer and cuir histories that have confronted the imperial gaze, or that remain untranslatable. Part of a larger scholarly and activist project of the Feminist and Cuir/Queer Américas Working Group, the special issue situates the relationships across linguistic and cultural differences as central to a hemispheric queer/cuir dialogue. We have assembled contributions with activists, scholars, and artists working through queer and cuir studies, gender and sexuality studies, intersectional feminisms, decolonial approaches, migration studies, and hemispheric American studies. Published across three journals, GLQ in the United States, Periódicus in Brazil, and El lugar sin límites in Argentina, this special issue homes in on the production, circulation, and transformation of knowledge, and on how knowledge production relates to cultural, disciplinary, or market-based logics.