Mester

On behalf of the Editorial Board of Mester, the academic journal of the graduate students of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California (Los Angeles), I am honored to introduce its forty-ninth issue. Mester XLIX welcomed submissions for articles, essays, interviews and book reviews written in Spanish, Portuguese, and English from transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches related to Human Rights. Mester XLIX also encouraged submissions focused on – but not limited to – Andean and Amazonian perspectives on Ecosocial Human Rights for a Special Topic, underlining the importance of both regions as “intangible zones”1 whose visibility is a prerequisite for the task of devising strategies to meet the current challenges of global warming.