There is a new addition to Palgrave Macmillan’s Hispanic Urban Studies series. _Urban Memories: The Second Spanish Republic in Madrid’s Public Space, 1979-1992_ by Teresa Pinheiro of the Institute for European Studies, Chemnitz University of Technology
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This time next week at Texas Tech University: both Victor Sierra Matute and Cristina Pardo Porto in the house.

Víctor Sierra Matute looks at the figure and ideological function of the ‘prince of Spanish lyric poetry’ Garcilaso de la Vega to trace how literary canonization is a historically layered process shaped by evolving disciplinary frameworks in RQ vol. 72.3.
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Caglar Erteber's review of Agnese Codebò's'The Slum and the City: Culture and Dissidence in the Villas Miseria of Buenos Aires,' tells the story of how slums matter as spaces that produce new aesthetics and social alliances. Just out in RQ vol. 72.3.
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Hot off the press: Pavel Andrade's review of a new book about the Mexican intelligentsia’s obsession with labor and idleness in their attempts to create a wealthy, independent nation between 1821-1852. Romance Quarterly, vol. 72(3). doi.org/10.1080/0883...

The brilliant Luis Prádanos strikes again: this time proposing a series of tactics for a "pedagogy of degrowth that minimizes the use of unnecessary corporative technologies while discussing the political ecology of technology." An inspiring read for the year ahead. DOI: 10.4324/9781032650159-24

Bárbara Espinosa's ES PA ÑO LA is a great novel about migration, underemployment and domestic labor that WOW -- has an ending that I did not see coming.

Andy Reynolds reviews the book 'Eyes on Amazonia' on the transnational rubber boom by Jessica Carey-Webb in the latest issue of the Romance Quarterly. www.tandfonline.com/share/PZ7CUV...

Read Claudio Fogu's review of 'Neorealist Architecture: Aesthetics of Dwelling in Postwar Italy' by David Escudero in the latest issue of the Romance Quarterly. www.tandfonline.com/share/MHCFEP...

Michael Martínez reviews Bill Nichols' 'The Paradox of Paradise' on the rise of coastal tourism in contemporary Spain on the latest issue of the Romance Quarterly. www.tandfonline.com/share/SQJUAG...

I am, as always, deeply in love with the flashing red lights at the Biblioteca Nacional that tell me my books are ready for pickup.

Join the 'Spatial Politics of Everyday Life' ZOOM roundtable hosted by NYU's King Juan Carlos I Center (KJCC) on Friday, May 9th at 12:00 EST by registering with the QR code in the announcement below. A discussion of recent books by Megan Saltzman, Enric Bou and Susan Larson.

I'm overwhelmed today by this more than 700-pp. volume that reminds me how much Elena Delgado is missed. Co-editor Eduardo Ledesma brilliantly saw this book through to the finish line in difficult times. My contribution on the history of Spanish Cultural Geography here: doi.org/10.4324/9780...

Constant Nieuwenhuys, in a 1961 letter to Yona Friedman: 'What does a utopia involve? Is it utopian to believe more in a revolutionary change in society than in the eternal life of a stagnant economic system?'

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