|9780822968443|Chinese-Peruvian Bonds, Loves, and Friendships|Affective Economies of Migration examines the emotional and sentimental dimensions of the Chinese diaspora in Peru and offers a nuanced analysis of how affective relationships—romantic love, friendship, trust, kinship, and more—were converted into forms of economic capital. Estimates suggest that around five percent of Peruvians have Chinese ancestry as a result of transpacific migration. Challenging conventional historical and literary frameworks, Cuya Gavilano demonstrates how emotions such as love, longing, loss, and hope played a crucial role in enabling social mobility, facilitating community integration, and reshaping the collective trajectory of Chinese Peruvians. Letters, literature, interviews, newspapers, and…

|9780822949275|Chinese-Peruvian Bonds, Loves, and Friendships|Affective Economies of Migration examines the emotional and sentimental dimensions of the Chinese diaspora in Peru and offers a nuanced analysis of how affective relationships—romantic love, friendship, trust, kinship, and more—were converted into forms of economic capital. Estimates suggest that around five percent of Peruvians have Chinese ancestry as a result of transpacific migration. Challenging conventional historical and literary frameworks, Cuya Gavilano demonstrates how emotions such as love, longing, loss, and hope played a crucial role in enabling social mobility, facilitating community integration, and reshaping the collective trajectory of Chinese Peruvians. Letters, literature, interviews, newspapers, and…

|9780822968535|Counterweights to Five Centuries of Eurocentrism| Shortlist, 2025 Architectural Book Award in Architectural Theory To study the built environment of the Americas is to wrestle with an inherent contradiction. While the disciplines of architecture, urban design, landscape, and planning share the fundamental belief that space and place matter, the overwhelming majority of canonical knowledge and the vernacular used to describe these disciplines comes from Europe, a very different continent. With this book, Fernando Luiz Lara discusses several theories of space—drawing on cartography, geography, anthropology, and architecture—and proposes counterweights to five centuries of Eurocentrism. The first part of Spatial Theories for…

|9780822968481|The United States and Paraguay in the Cold War|The Dictator Dilemma tells the story of US bilateral relations with the Alfredo Stroessner dictatorship (1954–1989). Tyvela focuses on how and why that diplomatic relationship changed during the Cold War from cooperation, based on mutual opposition to communism, to conflict, based on clashing expectations concerning democratic reforms and human rights. The policy debates by officials in Washington and in Asunción brought out a tension that has defined US diplomacy for more than a century: how can the United States partner with tyrants while credibly proclaiming to advance a democratic mission in the…

|9780822968467|Cinema-Going in Buenos Aires and Santiago, 1915-1945|Cinema can both reflect the world as it is and offer escape from it. In Modernity at the Movies, Camila Gatica Mizala explores the ideas of reflection versus escapism and examines how modes of understanding the current moment emerged through the practice of going to the movies in Santiago and Buenos Aires between 1915 and 1945. Using cinema and variety magazines published in both cities, she analyzes the technology, architecture, attendance, behavior, language, censorship, and overall experience of cinema-going. Gatica Mizala brings together the perception and reception of cinema as a modern art form,…