This article examines two tendencies in contemporary Latin American science fiction, drawing on Mark Fisher’s terms Terminator and Avatar. Derived from the eponymous movies, Terminator narratives depict capitalist destruction as inevitable, while Avatar narratives imagine that global collapse can be averted by returning to premodern forms of social organization. Following Fredric Jameson, I interpret both as symbolic acts addressing climate change and the planetary devastation produced by the capitalist management of modernity. Despite their apparent opposition, both assume that modernity and technological development serve only the interests of the current social formation, with its drive for infinite economic expansion and disregard for the planet’s finite resources. Informed by the works of Agustina Bazterrica, Michel Nieva, Erick J. Mota, and Jorge Baradit, I outline a third position, alternative modernity, as theorized by Bolívar Echeverría and akin to Fisher’s postcapitalism, which reimagines technology while preserving modernity’s emancipatory potential—meeting human needs without an antagonistic stance toward nature.

This article aims to analyze the struggle led by the indigenous women of Chiapas in the defense of their rights within the framework of the Zapatista movement. I focus on how, from the visibility of the injustices that Indigenous peoples experienced, women managed to position their voice first within the movement and then outside of it, giving an account of the multiple violences they face. This analysis is based on my experience with the Chiapas Women’s Rights Center, focusing on its School of Human Rights Defenders and Promoters. From this experience I reflect on the contributions of the Zapatista national liberation movement to its thirty years of existence and how women have managed to position their voices and work to access their individual and collective rights.

In the heart of postrevolutionary Mexico, a group of Zapotec student-authors united to publish a newspaper, Neza (“road” or “path”). They wrote and published two manifestos in which they declared their goal: the preservation of the Zapotec spirit. They were inspired by the intellectual and cultural movements of the time, the Vanguardia, Rodó, and Vasconcelos, and merged those with Zapotec cosmology to call for their own continuance and that of their culture. While Zapotec literature of the Isthmus has primarily been read as a literature of nostalgia or considered folklore, this article highlights the way that the Zapotec intellectuals were in conversation with larger Latin American movements of their time and how they merge with Zapotec philosophy. This article argues that early twentieth-century Zapotec intellectuals utilized both Western and Zapotec traditions to (re)think concepts such as the spirit, thus contributing to Zapotec philosophy and ultimately enacting Zapotec futurities.

We provide causal estimates of the effect of Shanghai's key emission unit listings on nearby housing prices. Implemented in 2016, the disclosure policy requires annual public disclosure of designated polluting firms and their pollution information. Using repeated cross-sectional data on Shanghai housing transactions from 2015 to 2022, we apply a heterogeneity-robust staggered difference-in-differences estimator to identify dynamic capitalization effects while addressing treatment heterogeneity, treatment reversibility and time-invariant omitted variables. We find that each additional disclosed key emission unit within 1,000 m reduces nearby housing prices by 1.31 per cent, with larger declines for suburban properties than for properties in the urban core. By examining ongoing industrial pollution under a unified disclosure framework, our findings extend prior U.S. and Chinese studies that focus on legacy contamination or specific pollutants. The results highlight the policy relevance of pollution transparency and inform China's nationwide implementation.

This article examines how Maya Kaqchikel women from Iximulew (Guatemala) conceptualize and respond to gender-based violence through a theater-making praxis rooted in ancestral healing traditions. Focusing on Las Curanderas Teatro as a case study, I theorize performing healing as an embodied practice that integrates theater making with ancestral medicinal knowledge to confront patriarchal violence shaped by the coloniality of gender and the pedagogies of cruelty. I trace this praxis in two interconnected ways: first, through performance, where curanderas and limpias are invoked to address individual and collective wounds; and second, through a theater-making methodology grounded in Indigenous healing systems. This methodology unfolds in three cyclical stages: identification of the wound(s), release and transformation, and restoration of life. Drawing on seven semistructured interviews with Las Curanderas Teatro members and multisited feminist ethnographic research (2019–2020), I argue that performing healing constitutes Indigenous women’s resurgence of cultural memory and spiritual activism—both deeply political. Through embodied ancestral knowledge and collective care, Las Curanderas Teatro advances decolonial feminist interventions that insist on healing a deeply wounded social body produced by intersecting forms of gender-based violence.

This article examines the effectiveness of individual transferable quotas (ITQs) in promoting sustainable resource management within an overlapping generations economy where agricultural producers face credit constraints. The analysis shows that, although ITQs restore the social optimum when markets are complete, their effectiveness breaks down when credit constraints bind. Credit frictions create a wedge between the marginal product of the resource and its effective price, leading constrained agents to underinvest in quotas and generating resource misallocation. As a result, ITQs alone are insufficient to ensure environmental preservation without compromising welfare. The study therefore shows that policies improving credit access, such as loan guarantees, are necessary complements to ITQ systems if sustainable resource management is to be achieved.