HCIAS Publications and Science Communication
HCIAS Publications and Science Communication is a platform run by the Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies (HCIAS). The HCIAS is an interdisciplinary center of Heidelberg University, Germany, dedicated to research, teaching, and knowledge transfer. Research at the HCIAS contributes to current debates on the social, cultural, ecological, and communicative realities of Ibero-America with diverse perspectives from the humanities and the social sciences. We are committed to making this knowledge accessible to both the scientific community and society at large through academic publications and science communication in multiple formats.
Recent publications by HCIAS Scholars
Inequalities | Transformations | Sustainability
Hernández Westpfahl, R., Lehmann, R. & de Anda Márquez, R. (2026). Nationalizing lithium, negotiating power: A historical-materialist policy analysis of Mexico’s lithium reform. The Extractive Industries and Society, 26, Article 101860. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2026.101860
Schubert, M. N., Portilho, F. & Motta, R. (2026). Ativismos alimentares: diferentes faces e abordagens. In Niederle, P., Portilho, F., Carneiro, M.S., & Marques, P.E.M. (Eds.). Ativismos alimentares e politização da alimentação. (pp. 17-38). Tomo Editorial
Trombini, M.E.*, & Motta, R. (2025). Food politics and activist networks in the city: Reaching places food and policies don’t. Cities, 166, Article 106131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2025.106131
Politics | Communication | Participation
Ecker, A., Meyer T.M., & Plescia, C. (2025). Do voters prefer logrolling to compromise in parliamentary democracies? Electoral Studies, 93, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2024.102889
Porten-Cheé, P., Velásquez, A., & Muddiman, A. (2025). The role of media use in the development of discursive citizenship norms among U.S. Latinx. Information, Communication & Society, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2025.2534722
Language | Communication | Cognition
Loureda, Ó., Teucher, M., Hernández Pérez, C., Cruz Rubio, A., & Gelormini-Lezama, C. (2025). (Re)categorizing lexical encapsulation: an experimental approach. Journal of Pragmatics, 239, 4-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2025.01.017
Valero Fernández, P., Cruz, A., Teucher, M., Recio Fernández, I., & Loureda Lamas, Ó. (2025). Dealing with Idioms: An Eye-Tracking Study of Cognitive Processing on L1, L2 and Heritage Speakers of Spanish. Languages, 10(7), Article 153. https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/10/7/153
Loureda, Ó., & Pardo Abril, N. (Eds.) (2024). Discurso, medios de comunicación y pobreza en clave latinoamericana. Universidad de Sevilla. https://dx.doi.org/10.12795/9788447225484
Migrations | Diversity | Identities
Valero Fernández, P., Loureda, Ó., & Blattner, C. (2026). Family language policies, educational dynamics and Spanish as a heritage language in Germany. Journal of Spanish Language Teaching, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/23247797.2026.2651471
Moreno-Fernández, F. (2025). El español como idioma global. In: M. Díaz-Campos, & J. M. Hernández-Campoy (Eds.), Enciclopedia concisa de los dialectos del español en el mundo (pp. 1056-1063). John Wiley & Sons. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781394349135.ch106
Moreno-Fernández, F., Álvarez Mella, H.*, & Elizondo, M. (2025). Ideologías lingüísticas, bilingüismo y español como lengua de herencia en Europa. Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación, 101, 127-142. https://doi.org/10.5209/clac.100075
Wang, Z. (2025). Remittances as moral battlegrounds: navigating the qualitative meanings of money, power, and intimacy in translocal Chinese families. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2025.2582659
Özdemir, F. et al. [Guevara González, Y.]. (2024). Antecedents and consequences of perceived misrecognition and perceived discrimination in ethnic minorities. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 99, Article 101938, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.101938
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