Carlos Gardeazábal Bravo
@cgrbravo.bsky.social
Latin American literature & cinema | human rights & memory | Environmental humanities | Politics of affects/ emotions | Assistant Professor at the University of Dayton | Egresado de UConn, UNal., Caro & Cuervo. 👉🏽 https://www.carlosgardeazabalbravo.com
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Book manuscript finished and submitted to the publisher! Hard to express how delighted I am to have just sent off the final draft of my book to my editors at @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. A huge thank you to everyone who offered guidance, support, and inspiration throughout these years.
My book explores how some particular human rights narratives (in literature or film) from Guatemala and Colombia address critical positions on empathy in their plots, characters, and interpretations of historical memory and human rights reports.
“Through counternarratives and regional case studies of the Americas, this edited volume investigates how prohibition, securitization, and regulation intertwine in the production of violence and inequality.”
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-8...
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www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-8...
#openaccess
Drug Assemblages – Policies, Counternarratives, and Local Experiences
A transdisciplinary critique of global drug regimes, exploring how power, policy, and inequality intertwine across the Americas.
www.transcript-verlag.de
February 10, 2026 at 3:12 PM
“Through counternarratives and regional case studies of the Americas, this edited volume investigates how prohibition, securitization, and regulation intertwine in the production of violence and inequality.”
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-8...
#openaccess
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-8...
#openaccess
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Check out my opinion piece at De Los from the Los Angeles Times on Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show as a history lesson.
Essay: Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show will be a history lesson for the ages
Historian Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo hopes Bad Bunny's halftime show will combat "acute ignorance" about Puerto Rico and its ongoing entanglement with the United States.
www.latimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Check out my opinion piece at De Los from the Los Angeles Times on Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show as a history lesson.
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Look around. The case for more, not less, liberal arts education remains stronger than ever.
Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.
Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”
news.wisc.edu
February 9, 2026 at 5:54 AM
Look around. The case for more, not less, liberal arts education remains stronger than ever.
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An entire industry specializing in mediation, peacekeeping, disarmament, and transitional justice has become largely obsolete.
Read @wlacher.bsky.social and
@yguichaoua.bsky.social in our new issue: dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
Read @wlacher.bsky.social and
@yguichaoua.bsky.social in our new issue: dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
The Demise of Conflict Studies - Dissent Magazine
An entire industry specializing in mediation, peacekeeping, disarmament, and transitional justice has become largely obsolete.
dissentmagazine.org
January 23, 2026 at 5:16 PM
An entire industry specializing in mediation, peacekeeping, disarmament, and transitional justice has become largely obsolete.
Read @wlacher.bsky.social and
@yguichaoua.bsky.social in our new issue: dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
Read @wlacher.bsky.social and
@yguichaoua.bsky.social in our new issue: dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
Ana María Reyes’s book, The Politics of Taste: Beatriz González and Cold War Aesthetics, illustrates how González’s art continues to engage with current debates on aesthetics and politics in Colombia and Latin America. #RIP assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c...
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January 13, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Ana María Reyes’s book, The Politics of Taste: Beatriz González and Cold War Aesthetics, illustrates how González’s art continues to engage with current debates on aesthetics and politics in Colombia and Latin America. #RIP assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c...
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A Curated Guide to the U.S. Attack on Venezuela. North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) @nacla-report.bsky.social editors selected several articles from decades of coverage to provide you with the information you need to understand the recent events in Venezuela. nacla.org/a-curated-gu...
A Curated Guide to the U.S. Attack on Venezuela
In this dossier, NACLA offers several pieces to help readers understand the facts about Venezuela’s history and the recent U.S. attack.
nacla.org
January 10, 2026 at 8:43 PM
A Curated Guide to the U.S. Attack on Venezuela. North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) @nacla-report.bsky.social editors selected several articles from decades of coverage to provide you with the information you need to understand the recent events in Venezuela. nacla.org/a-curated-gu...
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Béla Tarr, 1955-2026 🤍
January 6, 2026 at 11:52 AM
Béla Tarr, 1955-2026 🤍
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The new edited volume "Paisajes del subsuelo" examines the dynamics and contradictions of Venezuela as a “modern oil nation,” offering critical perspectives on petromodernity and petroculture as a planetary superstructure.
📖🔗: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
📖🔗: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
January 2, 2026 at 9:34 AM
The new edited volume "Paisajes del subsuelo" examines the dynamics and contradictions of Venezuela as a “modern oil nation,” offering critical perspectives on petromodernity and petroculture as a planetary superstructure.
📖🔗: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
📖🔗: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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¿Fue el caracazo o la debilidad de la democracia elitista? ¿Fue la constitución de 1999 impulsada por Chavez? ¿Fue el petróleo y la maldición de los recursos naturales? Hace unos años con @fdelledonne.bsky.social hicimos episodio s/Venezuela: open.spotify.com/episode/2s6b...
Venezuela: Del Caracazo a Maduro
open.spotify.com
January 4, 2026 at 11:46 AM
¿Fue el caracazo o la debilidad de la democracia elitista? ¿Fue la constitución de 1999 impulsada por Chavez? ¿Fue el petróleo y la maldición de los recursos naturales? Hace unos años con @fdelledonne.bsky.social hicimos episodio s/Venezuela: open.spotify.com/episode/2s6b...
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on this sunday-est of sundays, syllabus-ing for a new term
you're not alone against the oligarch agenda of cognitive deskilling, data capture, surveillance, and bias:
we've got assignment ideas, memes, recommended readings, o' captain speeches, syllabus policies, and so much more against-a-i.com
you're not alone against the oligarch agenda of cognitive deskilling, data capture, surveillance, and bias:
we've got assignment ideas, memes, recommended readings, o' captain speeches, syllabus policies, and so much more against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI -
against-a-i.com
January 4, 2026 at 2:59 PM
on this sunday-est of sundays, syllabus-ing for a new term
you're not alone against the oligarch agenda of cognitive deskilling, data capture, surveillance, and bias:
we've got assignment ideas, memes, recommended readings, o' captain speeches, syllabus policies, and so much more against-a-i.com
you're not alone against the oligarch agenda of cognitive deskilling, data capture, surveillance, and bias:
we've got assignment ideas, memes, recommended readings, o' captain speeches, syllabus policies, and so much more against-a-i.com
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You do not have to be good to be protected by the law, but the reactionary argument is explicitly that the law only protects the good, as defined by them. That argument is worth rejecting over and over again, both domestically and internationally.
People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.
January 3, 2026 at 5:59 PM
You do not have to be good to be protected by the law, but the reactionary argument is explicitly that the law only protects the good, as defined by them. That argument is worth rejecting over and over again, both domestically and internationally.
Reposted by Carlos Gardeazábal Bravo
Wild day to have slept in as a Latin Americanist.
My thoughts are with the people of Venezuela and the rule of law. This is not how to build trust and stability.
My thoughts are with the people of Venezuela and the rule of law. This is not how to build trust and stability.
January 3, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Wild day to have slept in as a Latin Americanist.
My thoughts are with the people of Venezuela and the rule of law. This is not how to build trust and stability.
My thoughts are with the people of Venezuela and the rule of law. This is not how to build trust and stability.
Anoche hicimos un exitoso exorcismo comunitario del 2025.
January 1, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Anoche hicimos un exitoso exorcismo comunitario del 2025.
La pava congona de Andrés Landero en buena compañía para despedir este ajetreado 2025.
December 31, 2025 at 7:22 PM
La pava congona de Andrés Landero en buena compañía para despedir este ajetreado 2025.
El botín de diciembre.
December spoils.
December spoils.
December 28, 2025 at 5:21 PM
El botín de diciembre.
December spoils.
December spoils.
Eduardo Mendieta, In memoriam.
New book review:
Duarte da Silva on Mendieta, Eduardo: _Philosophical Animal: On Zoopoetics and Interspecies Cosmopolitanism, The_. State University of New York Press, 2024. Published by H-Environment.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20065609
Duarte da Silva on Mendieta, Eduardo: _Philosophical Animal: On Zoopoetics and Interspecies Cosmopolitanism, The_. State University of New York Press, 2024. Published by H-Environment.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20065609
Mendieta, Eduardo. The Philosophical Animal: On Zoopoetics and Interspecies Cosmopolitanism. : State University of New York Press, 2024. x + 255 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781438498096. Reviewed by Matheus Duarte da Silva (University of St Andrews) Published on H-Environment (April, 2025) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
networks.h-net.org
December 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Eduardo Mendieta, In memoriam.
Make a Bond movie academic: Never Say Never Again to Alt-ac.
Make a Bond movie academic:
Publish Another Day
Publish Another Day
December 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Make a Bond movie academic: Never Say Never Again to Alt-ac.
Ultra authentic, natural, non-staged, tamales pre-prep pic.
December 24, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Ultra authentic, natural, non-staged, tamales pre-prep pic.
Los mejores libros del 2025 en Colombia. Buen trabajo de los editores de Casa Macondo y su jurado casamacondo.co/la-lista/los...
Los mejores 50 libros de 2025 | La Lista CasaMacondo
La Lista CasaMacondo 2025 reúne los mejores 50 libros del año, elegidos por lectores y librerías de toda Colombia. Ficción, poesía y no ficción destacadas
casamacondo.co
December 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Los mejores libros del 2025 en Colombia. Buen trabajo de los editores de Casa Macondo y su jurado casamacondo.co/la-lista/los...
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Happy winter solstice.
December 22, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Happy winter solstice.
Cristina Rivera Garza comenta “Marciano”, la nueva novela de Nona Fernández www.jornada.com.mx/2025/12/16/o...
La Jornada: Timbre
Marciano
www.jornada.com.mx
December 19, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Cristina Rivera Garza comenta “Marciano”, la nueva novela de Nona Fernández www.jornada.com.mx/2025/12/16/o...
Our new kitten shaped ornament.
December 19, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Our new kitten shaped ornament.
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Un saludo solidario para los colegas y amigos en Brown y Providence.
December 14, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Un saludo solidario para los colegas y amigos en Brown y Providence.