Skip navigation
    University of Texas Press contacts  
shopping cart
  Find a book. Journals. Information for authors. Booksellers & educators. About UT Press.  
   
 

Journal of Latin American Geography

Editor-in-Chief: David J. Robinson, Syracuse University

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.

2009 JLAG, Vol. 8:2
2009 JLAG, Vol. 8:1
2008 JLAG, Vol. 7:2
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
Archives

2009 JLAG, Vol. 8:2

Remnants of terror: landscapes of fear in post-conflict Guatemala
Rebecca Clouser
Contested terrain: the rise and decline of surveying in New Spain, 1500-1800
Miguel Aguilar-Robledo
Positionality, perception, and possibility in Mexico’s Valle del Mezquital
Richard Hunter
Carib Territory: Indigenous access to land in the Commonwealth of Dominica
Emma G. Mullaney
Water insecurity among the urban poor in the peri-urban zone of Mexico City
Adrian G. Aguilar and Flor M. Lopez
Diverse spatialies of the Latin American and Caribbean Internet
Barney Warf
Specialty maize varieties in Mexico: A case study in market-driven agro-biodiversity conservation
Alder Keleman and Jonathan Hellin
The certification and privatization of indigenous lands in Mexico
Derek Smith, Peter H. Herlihy, John H. Kelly and Aida Ramos Viera

Forum

Indian Adaptations in Flooded Regions of South America
Erland Nordenskiold and William M. Denevan

2009 JLAG, Vol. 8:1

Revisiting a Honduran Landscape Described by Robert West: An Experiment in Repeat Geography
Scott Brady
The spaces of social capital: Livelihood geographies and marine conservation in the Cayos Cochinos Marine Protected Area, Honduras
David Lansing
Un Modelo Descipotivo de la Geografía del Robo en la Zona Metropolitana del Valle de México
Carlos Vilalta
Fragmentación socio-espacial en la Periferia de la Región Metropolitana de Buenos Aires
Sonia Vidal-Koppmann
Urban Landscape Changes in Western Santiago de Chile during the Military Regime (1973-1989)
Jill Stackhouse
Using GIS to Assess Priorities of Infrastructure and Health Needs of Colonias along the United States-Mexico Border
Jean W. Parcher and Delbert G. Humberson
Mapuche Struggles for Land and the Role of Private Protected Areas in Chile
Laura E. Meza

Forum

Jonathan D. Sauer (1918-2008): Perspectives on his Life and Work in Latin America and Beyond
Timothy S. Brothers (et al.)
Partiendo las Manzanas para identificar los Predios: Un caso Merideno
Eligia Calderón-Trejo

2008 JLAG, Vol. 7, No. 2

Nicaraguan Migrants in Costa Rica during the 1990s: Gender Differences and Geographic Expansion
Samuel M. Otterstrom
Mexico's Concrete Block Landscape: A Modern Legacy in the Vernacular
Matthew Fry
Male Transnational Migration and its Linkages to Land-Use Change in a Southern Campeche Ejido
Claudia Radel and Birgit Schmook
Road Networks and Forest Fragmentation in the Amazon: Explanations for Local Differences with Implications for Conservation and Development
Stephen G. Perz, Marcellus Caldas, Robert Walker, Eugenio Arima, Carlos Souza
Garment Maquiladoras in Rural Yucatán: An Environmental Tale
Manuel Navarette
Latin America's Transportation Conundrum
David J. Keeling
Traditional versus New Directions: The First Meeting of the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, 1970
William M. Denevan

Forum

Procesos de Fragmentación y Corredores Biológicos: Una introducción
Carlos Morera, Josep Pintó, and Marilyn Romero

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

back to top

Journals by Title  |  Journals Customer Service  |  Advertising
Permissions Requests  |  Contact Journals  | Contact the Press

Terms of Sale  |  Privacy Policy  |  UT Austin Web Accessibility Guidelines

Copyright © 2003-9 University of Texas Press. All rights reserved.