Environment

Best Book Publication Awards presented by the Environment Section - Premiación al mejor libro, presentada por la sección Ambiente

Best Book of 2024

Andrea Marston (Rutgers University)

Subterranean matters: Cooperative mining and resource nationalism in plurinational Bolivia. Durham and London: Duke University Press

Honorable Mention for Best Book of 2024

Maron Greenleaf (Dartmouth College)

Forest Lost: Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon. Durham and London: Duke University Press

Honorable Mention for Best Book of 2023

Carolyn Fornoff (Cornell University)

Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change. Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University

Press Best Book of 2023

Carolina Sá Carvalho (University of Toronto)

Traces of the Unseen: Photography, Violence, and Modernization in Early Twentieth-Century Latin America, Northwestern University Press, 2023

Honorable Mention for Best Book of 2023

Gisela Heffes (Rice University)

Visualizing Loss in Latin America: Biopolitics, Waste, and the Urban Environment, trans. Grady C. Wray, Palgrave MacMillan, 2023

Honorable Mention for Best Book of 2023

Cindy McCulligh (Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social/ Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS), Guadalajara, Mexico.)

Sewer of Progress: Corporations, Institutionalized Corruption, and the Struggle for the Santiago River, MIT Press, 2023

Best Book of 2022

Sarah T. Hines (University of Oklahoma)

Water for All: Community, Property, and Revolution in Modern Bolivia University of California Press, 2022

Honorable Mention for Best Book of 2022

Amalia Leguizamón (Tulane University)

Las semillas del poder: injusticia ambiental en la Argentina sojera, trad. Gerardo Raúl Losada, UNSAM Edita, 2022

Honorable Mention for Best Book of 2022

Peter Taylor Klein (Bard College)

Flooded: Development, Democracy, and Brazil’s Belo Monte Dam, Rutgers University Press,

2022 Best Article Awards presented by the Environment Section - Premiación al mejor artículo, presentada por la sección Ambiente

Best Publication Award, article 2024

Damian Clavel and Susanna B. Hecht (University of Zurich and University of California, Los Angeles)

“Colonial Exiles: The Tambora Volcanic Explosion, Environmental History, and Swiss Immigration to Nova Friburgo, Brazil, 1815–1821.” Hispanic America Historical Review, vol. 104, no. 4, 2024, pp. 551-586.

Honorable Mentions

Pablo Lapegna, Johana Kunin, and Tomás Palmisano (University of Georgia; IDAES, UNSAM-CONICET and CONICET – Universidad de Buenos Aires)

“Between Regulation and Practice: Situated Pesticide Governance in Argentina.” Studies in Comparative International Development, vol. 59, 2024, pp. 288-312.

Charlotte Rogers (Cornell University)

“A Multispecies Caribbean: The Aesthetics of Ecological Reinvention in Art by Dhara Rivera.” Small Axe, vol. 28, no. 1, 2024, pp. 20-38.

Best Publication Award, article 2022

Gustavo Saes Azenha (Columbia University)

"A Political Ecology of Fetishism in Brazil’s “Discovery Coast”: Crisis, Socioenvironmental Hybridization, and Historical Amnesia in the Frontiers of Global Liberalism,” Global Power and Local Struggles in Developing Countries. Contemporary Perspectives On: Europe and the People without History, by Eric R. Wolf. Paul Stacey (ed.). Brill, 2022.

Annick Benavides (Harvard University)

“Spiritual Mining: Augustinian Images of Extraction in Colonial Peru,” The Art Bulletin, 104:4, 46-69, 2022.