Publications
See below a selection of publications produced by EXCELAS members from 2023 to 2025.
Banca, A. (2024). From Savagery. Trans. K. Brown. Inverness: Selkies House
Barros, F.de.V. Lewis, K., Robertson, A.D., Pennington, R.T., Hill, T.C., Matthews, C., Lira-Martins, D., Mazzochini, G.G., Oliveira, R.S., Rowland, L. (2023) Cost-effective restoration for carbon sequestration across Brazil's biomes. Science of the Total Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162600
Brown, K. (2024). 'Pasajeras: A Lockdown Anthology as Female Solidarity Across Borders’. In: Espinoza Carvajal, A. and L. Medina Cordova (eds) Pandemic and Narration: Covid-19 Narratives in Latin America. Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press, 135-153.
Clegg R, Azevedo L, Martinez-Ugarteche MT, Neves D, Kidner C, Hind DJN, Antonelli A, Rowland L, Pennington RT (2025) Plant biogeography of rock outcrops in South American tropical lowlands. Frontiers of Biogeography 18: e145659. https://doi.org/10.21425/fob.18.145659
Cerca, J., Díaz, P.J., Goubert, C., Yang, H., Bieker, V.C., Fernández-Mazuecos, M., Vargas, P., Schley, R., Li, S., Guevara-Andino, J.E. and Petersen, B., 2025. No evidence of transposable element bursts in the Galápagos Scalesia adaptive radiation despite hybridization, diversification and ecological niche shifts. Mobile DNA, 16(1), p.23.
Dine, H., Ardren, T. and Fisher, C. (2023) ‘Vegetative Agency and Social Memory in Houselots of the Ancient Maya’, in M.L. Smith (ed.) The Power of Nature: Agency and the Archaeology of Human-Environmental Dynamics. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, pp. 137–162.
Fishman, R.M., Posada-Carbó, E., Pérez-Liñán, A., Foweraker, J., Peyrou, F. and Cruz Artacho, S. (2023) ‘The history of Spanish democracy under debate’, in Herrera, A. and Acosta, F., Rethinking the History of Democracy in Spain. 1st edn. London: Routledge, pp. 175–211. Available at: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003388616-14.
Freeman, C. (2025) Magic Misoprostol: Reproductive Justice and Abortion Liberation in Latin America. Bristol University Press.
Freeman, C. & Rodríguez, S. (2024) ‘Not Knowing, Silence, and Concealment: Strategic Ignorance in Abortion Practices in Latin America’. International Feminist Journal of Politics 26(3), 633-656
Freeman, C. & Rodríguez, S. (2024) ‘The chemical geographies of misoprostol: Spatializing abortion access from the biochemical to the global’. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 114(1), 123-138
de Gaspi, R.H. and Silva, P.P. da (2024), The Sectoral Politics of Industrial Policy Making in Brazil: A Polanyian Interpretation. Dev Change, 55: 398-428. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12835
Gee, F.C. 'The Emotion of Particular Instants: Raul Ruiz's Literary Style', in Goodman, R.T. (ed.) Film as World Literature. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Hapsari, K.A., Avellaneda, W.J.B., van Maanen, B., Restrepo, J.C., Polanía, J., Castillo, D.J.S., Vargas, L.F.G., Rodríguez-Rodríguez, J.A. and Urrego, D.H., 2024. Structure and carbon stocks of accessible mangroves under different conservation status in the Colombian Caribbean. Forest Ecology and Management, 564, p.121984.
Irmišová, J., Frolík, J., Tříska, J., Vrchotová, N., Garay-Vazquez, J.J., Velička, T., Světlík, I. and Beneš, J. (2025) ‘The first discovery of a vanilla pod in Europe: A multidisciplinary record from the early modern period of the Prague Castle’. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 63(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105099
Irons, R. and K. Brown (2025). 'Introduction: Venezuela, Dispersed: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Venezuelan Migration', Bulletin of Latin American Research, 44(1), 3-5
Larrabure, M., Levy, C., Cameron, M.A., Foweraker, J., Lavinas, L. and Spronk, S.J. (2021) ‘Roundtable: the Latin American state, Pink Tide, and future challenges’, Globalizations, 20(1), pp. 115–131. doi:10.1080/14747731.2021.1925813.
Leyton, D. and Simbürger, E. (2022) ‘Crítica y utopía en los estudios sobre educación en América Latina: en contra de la osificación de la crítica’, Pléyade. Revista de humanidades y ciencias socialesevista de humanidades y ciencias sociales, 30(Julio-Diciembre), pp. 22–43.
Leyton, D. and Sánchez, G. (2024) ‘Beyond (and Alongside) Shameful Attachments: The Lived Experience of Critique Within the Entrepreneurial University’, Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 24(4), pp. 251–262. doi: 10.1177/15327086241236226.
Leyton, D. and Stentiford, L. (2025) ‘Neuroscience, biopolitics and new professional subjectivities in education’, Critical Studies in Education, 00(00), pp. 1–20. doi: 10.1080/17508487.2025.2493835.
Morley, L. and Leyton, D. (2023) Queering higher education: Troubling norms in the global knowledge economy. Routledge.
Nicholls, J.A., Ringelberg, J.J., Dexter, K.G., Oriane, L., Stone, G.N., Coley, P.D., Hughes, C.E., Kursar, T.A., Koenen, E.J.M., Garcia, F., Lemes, M.R., Neves, D.R.M., Endara, M.J., de Lima, H.C., Kidner, C.A., Pennington, R.T. (2025). continuous colonization of the Atlantic coastal rain forests of South America from Amazônia. Proc. R. Soc. B.29220241559 http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.1559
Orlandi, F. (2025). Archaeological Ethnography of Indigenous Heritage Rights: Emergent Realities around the Petroglyph of the ‘Chiqui’in Amaicha del Valle (NW Argentina). Archaeologies, 21(1), 125-151. DOI: 10.1007/s11759-025-09522-2
Orlandi, F. (2025). Fence and friction at Tiwanaku (Bolivia): An archaeological ethnography of heritage, indigeneity and rights. History and Anthropology, 1-21. DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2025.2460829
Orlandi, F. (2023). El enredo patrimonial de Tiwanaku (Bolivia): una aproximación desde la etnografía arqueológica. Confluenze: Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani, 15(2), 545-568. DOI: 10.6092/issn.2036-0967/16368
Reynel, C., Pennington, R.T. (2023) Conceptos sobre biodiversidad y ecología del Perú mostrados en láminas. 70 pp. ISBN 978-612-00-9112-8.
Schley, R.J., Piñeiro, R., Nicholls, J.A., Pezzini, F.F., Farbos, A., Lewis, G.P., Ringelberg, J.J., Kidner, C., Twyford, A.D., Dexter, K.G. and Pennington, R.T., 2025. Rampant Reticulation in a Rapid Radiation of Tropical Trees - Insights from Inga (Fabaceae). Systematic biology, p.syaf027.
Silva, M.E., Ashby, A. and Nascimento, C.M. (2023) 'Social Sustainability in Micro and Small Enterprise Supply Chains: Empirical Insights from the Clothing Industry', Latin American Business Review, 24(1), pp. 1-30.
Silva, P. P. da (2024) ‘The politics of capital mobility in dollarized economies: comparing Ecuador and El Salvador’, Review of International Political Economy, 32(1), pp. 177–201. doi: 10.1080/09692290.2024.2405162.
Silva, P. P. da (2023) ‘Post-Neoliberalism and External Financial Liberalization: Comparing Left-Wing and Right-Wing Populism’, Government and Opposition, 58(3), pp. 535–555. doi:10.1017/gov.2021.50.
Silva, P.P. da (2023). Post-neoliberalism and capital flow management in Latin America: assessing the role of social forces. J Int Relat Dev 26, 30–60 https://doi.org/10.1057/s41268-022-00272-0
Silva, P. P. da, & Bandeira, J. V. V. M. (2023). Center-Left Parties and Developmental Regimes in Latin America: Assessing the Role of Democracy. Latin American Perspectives, 50(6), 87-105. https://doi.org/10.1177/0094582X231153139
Peruffo, L., Cunha, A. M. and Silva, P. P. da (2023) ‘Global Financial Crisis and Capital Flows Management in Brazil: Towards a Polanyian Approach’, Journal of Economic Issues, 57(1), pp. 275–300. doi: 10.1080/00213624.2023.2170142.
Pym, F.C., Franco-Gaviria, F., Espinoza, I.G. and Urrego, D.H., 2023. The timing and ecological consequences of Pleistocene megafaunal decline in the eastern Andes of Colombia. Quaternary Research, 114, pp.1-17.
Wells LH, Dexter KG, Pennington RT, Coutinho ÍAC, Ramos D, Phillips OL, Baker T, Ryan CM (2025) Satellite remote sensing can operationalise the IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology in the biome-diverse north-east of Brazil. Frontiers of Biogeography 18: e145498. https://doi.org/10.21425/fob.18.145498
