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Javier Cikota

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Teaching Latin American History at Bowdoin College. Borderlands. State Formation. Argentina. Book: Frontier Justice (UNM) coming out march 2025 (https://www.unmpress.com/9780826367518/frontier-justice/) Made in Patagonia, living in Maine

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So giddy to see my book at the #LASA2025 book fair! Thank you @unmpress.bsky.social for featuring it!

26.05.2025 03:24 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
UNM Press will be displaying new titles at the Latin American Studies Association 2025 Conference, including Driving Terror: Labor, Violence, and Justice in Cold War Argentina, by Karen Robert; Cocaine: Criminals, Routes, and Markets, Edited by Sebastián A. Cutrona and Jonathan D. Rosen; Tales from the Sharp End: A Portrait of Chile, by Natascha Scott-Stokes; Otrarse: Ladino Poems, by Juan Gelman, Edited and translated by Ilan Stavans; Frontier Justice: State, Law, and Society in Patagonia, 1880–1940, by Javier Cikota; We Are All Chile: Representations of Difference in Contemporary Chilean Historical Fiction, by Katherine Karr-Cornejo; and Anti-Catholicism in the Mexican Revolution, 1913-1940:,Edited by Jürgen Buchenau and David S. Dalton.

UNM Press will be displaying new titles at the Latin American Studies Association 2025 Conference, including Driving Terror: Labor, Violence, and Justice in Cold War Argentina, by Karen Robert; Cocaine: Criminals, Routes, and Markets, Edited by Sebastián A. Cutrona and Jonathan D. Rosen; Tales from the Sharp End: A Portrait of Chile, by Natascha Scott-Stokes; Otrarse: Ladino Poems, by Juan Gelman, Edited and translated by Ilan Stavans; Frontier Justice: State, Law, and Society in Patagonia, 1880–1940, by Javier Cikota; We Are All Chile: Representations of Difference in Contemporary Chilean Historical Fiction, by Katherine Karr-Cornejo; and Anti-Catholicism in the Mexican Revolution, 1913-1940:,Edited by Jürgen Buchenau and David S. Dalton.

Going to #LASA2025? Pop by Booth 107 to explore our new titles, including the newest in our Diálogos Series, Driving Terror by Karen Robert, and Cocaine, edited by Sebastián A. Cutrona and Jonathan D. Rosen, coming this fall to the Americas in the World Series. Virtual exhibit: tinyurl.com/3a8nravp

22.05.2025 16:35 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
María de Los Ángeles Picone, "Landscaping Patagonia: Spatial History and Nation-Making in Chile and Argentina" (UNC Press, 2025) - New Books Network

I had a wonderful conversation with @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about #LandscapingPatagonia

newbooksnetwork.com/landscaping-...

#History #Skystorians #newbooks #patagonia #chile #argentina @uncpress.bsky.social

Remember you can buy the book from the press at a discount using code 01UNCP30

16.04.2025 12:58 — 👍 5    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy to share my new article, "A Tropical Vienna," which offers a new take on how Brazil became independent. Open access in The Americas! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

25.03.2025 12:14 — 👍 20    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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Maine child care workers to strike Tuesday over proposed cuts to state stipend At least 200 child care workers are planning to leave work and head to Augusta to protest proposed cuts to a program they say has been critical to stabilizing the industry.

Child care workers in Maine are planning to strike Tuesday morning to show their opposition to proposed budget cuts targeting a state stipend program that day care operators say has allowed the industry to stabilize.

04.03.2025 16:56 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Hey @unmpress.bsky.social, look what just arrived at my doorstep!!

You can order now:: unmpress.com/9780826367518/frontier-justice

04.03.2025 17:03 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Hei! Come and work here with us!
4-year, full time PhD in Latin American history.
Application deadline: Jan 12. Hurry up.
All details in link in first comment.
(pic from yesterday night. But you'll be working mostly indoors -:) You can see your future office, at the side of the bridge.)

02.01.2025 12:01 — 👍 22    🔁 14    💬 1    📌 1
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Frontier Justice Frontier Justice looks beyond the lawlessness and violence of frontiers to reveal instead the intricate tapestry of relationships that underpinned the develo...

My book is coming out!!
Frontier Justice, from New Mexico Press (out in March, 2025)
Order here 👇 www.unmpress.com/978082636752...

23.01.2025 15:19 — 👍 13    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Congratulations! Can't wait to read it!

15.01.2025 23:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

To anyone in South Florida, don't miss the chance to see my amazing colleague @margaretboyle.bsky.social discussing her latest book!

13.01.2025 15:46 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

So excited and proud to see these two books out! Felicitaciones @mapicone.bsky.social and Kyle Harvey!

06.01.2025 18:52 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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My baby is here 🥰

Thank you @catehodorowicz.bsky.social and the amazing @uncpress.bsky.social team 💙

#LandscapingPatagonia #FirstBook #LatamHist #EnvHist #Chile #Argentina 🗃️🌿

19.11.2024 22:12 — 👍 156    🔁 30    💬 18    📌 9

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