Bielefeld University is offering a new job for Inter-American Studies. You can download the job advertisement on our ‘jobs and fellowships’ page.
The Association’s electronic journal, fiar: Forum for Inter-American Research, launched a new issue: Vol. 3 No. 1 (May 2010) Tracing the Americas
The first Latin American actor to become a superstar, Ramon Novarro was for years one of Hollywood’s top actors. Born Ramón Samaniego to a prominent Mexican family, he arrived in America in 1916, a refugee from civil wars. By the … Continue reading
On the occasion of the bicentennial of Mexican Independence, we are dedicating this Special Issue (Vol 2, No 3) of Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in humanities (ISSN 0975-2935) on Latin American literature and arts, including those of Mexico in … Continue reading
EuropAmerikas beschäftigt sich mit der Gestaltung der transatlantischen Beziehungen, wobei insbesondere auch der Südatlantik in den Blick genommen wird. Jenseits etablierter Formeln vom “alten” Europa und den “neuen” Amerikas wird eine Perspektive entwickelt, welche die Gleichzeitigkeit und gegenseitige Bedingtheit des … Continue reading
Space can best be defined not by looking at borders and territories but, rather, by focussing on movements of crossing and re-crossing. Today, the horizons of traditional Area Studies have to be opened up by innovative TransArea Studies which generate … Continue reading
Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature offers a rich, interdisciplinary treatment of modern black literature and cultural history, showing how debates over Africa in the works of major black writers generated productive models for imagining political agency. Yogita Goyal analyzes … Continue reading
Buy at Amazon.com Buy at Amazon.de Walsh, Catherine, Alvaro Garcia Linera, and Walter Mignolo. Interculturalidad, descolonizacion del estado y del conocimiento/ Interculturality, Descolonization of The State and Knowledge. Ediciones del Signo, 2006.
Provides a detailed treatment of an important topic that has received no scholarly attention: the surprising transformation of indigenous peoples’ movements into viable political parties in the 1990s in four Latin American countries (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela) and their failure … Continue reading
This second edition of a highly acclaimed and interdisciplinary book which quickly established itself as a seminal text in its field investigates the way in which travel writing has constructed an image of the world beyond Europe for European readerships. … Continue reading
