University of Texas Press: Journal of Latin American Geography

JLAG (formerly titled the Yearbook) is a publication of the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers. This annual publishes a collection of articles representing the wide-ranging interests of geographers who research and write on Latin American topics.

2008 JLAG, Vol. 7:1
2007 JLAG, Vol. 6:2
2007 JLAG, Vol. 6:1
2006 JLAG, Vol. 5:2
2006 JLAG, Vol. 5:1
2005 JLAG, Vol. 4:2
2005 JLAG, Vol. 4:1
Archives

2008 JLAG, Vol. 7:1

Malaria, Landscape, and Society in Northwest Argentina in the Early Twentieth Century: Eric D. Carter
Posibles Controles Hidrogeológicos de Impacto Ambiental por la Extracción de Agua Subterránea en Xochimilco, México: Gabriela Angeles-Serrano, María Perevochtchikova, and J. Joel Carrillo-Rivera
Who Will Work the Land? National Integration, Cash Economies, and the Future of Shifting Cultivation in the Honduran Mosquitia: David M. Cochran, Jr.
Market integration, perceived wealth and household consumption of river turtles (Podocnemis spp.) in eastern lowland Bolivia: Kristen Conway-Gómez
Producing "Viable" Landscapes and Livelihoods in Central Veracruz, Mexico: Institutional and Producer Responses to the Coffee Commodity Crisis: Heidi Hausermann and Hallie Eakin
The Mesquite Economy in the Mexican-American Borderlands: Matthew J. Taylor
Explaining Variations in Environmental Activism on the United State-Mexico Border: Basilio Verduzco
Mise en valeur de la Guyane francaise et peuplement blanc: les espoirs decus du baron de Laussat (1819-1823): Jean-Yves Puyo
La Expedición Hidrográfica del Atlas de la América Septentrional, 1792-1805: Luisa Martín-Merás

2007 JLAG, Vol. 6:2

Special Edition: Globalization Linking Scales of Analysis

Globalization and Latin American Geography: Linking Scales of Analysis: Joseph L. Scarpaci and James J. Biles
Persistence of the U.S. - Mexico Border: Expansion of Medical-Tourism amid Trade Liberalization: Gabriel Judkins
Globalization of Food Retailing Guadalajara, Mexico: Changes in Access Equity and Social Engagement: John Harner
Globalization of Food Retailing and Transformation of Supply Networks: Consequences for Small-scale Agricultural Producers in Southeastern Mexico: James J. Biles et al.
Mexican Smallholders Adrift: The Urgent Need for a New Social Contract in Rural Mexico: Nathalie Gravel
Economic Globalization and Bolivia's Regional Divide: Kathleen Schroeder
Beyond the Crisis: Economic globalization and informal work in urban Argentina: Risa Whitson
Resistance and Social Reform in Latin America: Speaking with Joao Pedro Stedile of Brazil's "O Movimiento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra" (the MST): Jeff Garmany and Flávia Bessa Maia

2007 JLAG, Vol. 6:1

Splitting the country: the case of the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua: Luis Sánchez
Intellectual relation between Historical Geography and Latinamericanist Geography: Andrew Sluyter and Kent Mathewson
Fire Ecology and Conservation in the High Tropical Andes: observations from Northern Ecuador: Philip L. Keating
Identifying and Assessing Tropical Montane Forests on the Eastern Flank of the Andes of Ecuador: James Keese, Thomas Mastin, and David Yun
The Forests are Bleeding: How land cover change is creating a new Fire Regime in the Ecuadorian Amazon: Joseph P. Messina and Mark A. Cochrane
Green Neoliberal Space: The Mesoamerican Biological Corridor: Mary Finley-Brook
Spatial Processes in Scalar Context: Development and Security in the Brazilian Amazon: Cynthia Simmons, Marcellus Caldas, Stephan Aldrich, Robert Walker, and Stephen Perz
Socio-spatial segregation in Metropolitan Lima, Peru: Paul A. Peters and Emily H. Skop
El derecho a la ciudad y la cuestión del espacio público: experiencias en la ciudad de Bahía Blanca: Nidia Formiga

2006 JLAG, Vol. 5:2

Actor-Management of Protected Areas and Ecotourism in Mexico: Ludger Brenner and Hubert Job
Cacao, Vanilla and Annatto: Three Production and Exchange Systems in the Southern Maya Lowlands, XII-XVII centuries: Laura Caso Barrera and Marco Aliphat F.
Las bases Prehispánicas de la configuración de la Provincia de Popayán en el período colonial: Marta Herrera Angel
Cash Crops, Smallholder Decision-making and Institutional Interactions in a Closing Frontier: Calakmul, Campeche, Mexico: Eric Keys and Rinku Roy Chowhdury
Invasive Species and Land-use: The Effect of Land Management Practices on Bracken Fern Invasion in the Region of Calakmul, Mexico: Laura C. Schneider
Technological Innovation and the Expansion of Mexico City, 1870-1920: Gustavo G. Garza Merodio
Problem of Access to Land for Bolivian Horticultural Producers in the Transitional Zone of Western Greater Buenos Aires: Andrés Barsky

2006 JLAG, Vol. 5:1

The Metabolization of Dune and Wetlands by the City of Veracruz: Alfred H. Siemens, Patricia Moreno-Casasola, and Clorinda Sarabia Bueno
Paraguay 1975: Thinking Back on the Fieldwork Moment: Daniel W. Gade
Artesania, mobility and the crafting of indigenous identities among Purhepechan women in Mexico: Lise Nelson
Sacred Sustenance: Maize, Storytelling and a Maya Sense of Place: Leah A. Huff
Poblacion, tenencia de tierra, uso del suelo, y deforestacion en el Parque Nacional Sierra de Lacandon: David L. Carr and Alisson F. Barbieri
Mobilizing Indigenous Video: the Mexican Case: Laurel C. Smith

2005 JLAG, Vol. 4:2

Women's Community-Based Organizations, Conservation Projects, and Effective Land Control in Southern Mexico: Claudia Radel
The Historic Center of Morelia: A Case of Successful Negotiation: Luis Felipe Cabrales Barrajas
Conflicts for control of Mapuche-Pehuenche land and natural resources in the Biobio highlands, Chile: Gerardo Azocar, Rodrigo Sanhueza, Mauricio Aguayo, Hugo Romero, and Maria D. Munoz
Critiques du Regionalisme Ouvert a partir de l'economie geographique appliquee au Mercosur: Alexis Saludijan

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Atlas ilustrado de pueblos de indios de la Nueva Espana, 1800: Dorothy Tanck de Estrada, Jose Antonio Alvarez Lobato, and Jorge Luis Miranda

2005 JLAG, Vol. 4:1

Special Issue: Ethnoecology

Introduction: Ethnoecology: Antoinette M. G. A. WinklerPrins and Narciso Barrera-Bassols
Ethnoecology of the Yucatec Maya: Symbolism, Knowledge and Management of Natural Resources: Narciso Barrera-Bassols and Victor M. Toledo
Cultivated Food Plants: Culture and Gendered Spaces of Colonists and the Chachi in Ecuador: Maria Fadiman
The Politics of Ecology: Local Knowledge and Wild Chili Collection in Sonora, Mexico: Eric Perramond
Folk Classification and Capability Assessment of Soils in Two Highland Guatemalan Municipios: Steven J. Rainey
Surviving the City: Urban Home Gardens and the Economy of Affection in the Brazilian Amazon: Antoinette M. G. A. WinklerPrins and Perpetuo S. de Souza

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Mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla) in the Maya Lowlands: Implications for Past Land Use and Environmental Change?: Michael K. Steinberg