Criticism and Crisis in the Americas: Society, Nature, Exclusions and Resistance

Call for Papers Crisis IAS Conference Chile October 2-5 2023

Criticism and Crisis in the Americas: Society, Nature, Exclusions and Resistance
VII Biennial Conference of the International Association of Inter-American Studies (IAS)

Santiago and Valparaíso, Chile, October 2-5, 2023

Organizing institutions:
Universidad de Chile, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Universidad de la Frontera

The current planetary crisis, evident in the critical and radically threatened state of biodiversity as well as in the growing waves of migration of peoples who relocate in extremely precarious ways in search of minimum living conditions; the threatening situation that indigenous populations and rural communities live in, given the encroachment of the extractivist industry and the extension of “sacrifice zones”; the condition, mainly of women but also of children and minoritized groups, in the face of advancing networks of necropower; as well as the conceptual, ethical and political problems that arise from the economic and political uses of biomedical developments and new technologies in the use of time, in the workplace and in contemporary everyday life are issues that call us to rethink urgently and in a relational and transversal manner, from and in the Americas, through inter-, transdisciplinary and intersectional approaches, the function, categories, and methodologies that critical thought and theory have developed and can develop to help in the understanding, visibility and emergence of responses that gather the contributions of anticolonial, feminist and ecological epistemes and ontologies, proactive in the face of the global crisis of late capitalism.

All these critical scenarios are not the result of a single phenomenon, nor do they have a single responsible cause. Capitalism occupies a relevant role, but as discussions on the concept of the Anthropocene show, the planet’s depletion could have begun before capitalism’s systematic appearance, even though it has only accelerated the processes of climatic disorder and the destruction of nature. On the other hand, responsibility in the planetary crisis shows the insignificance of individual consumption (whose cumulative impact we have not yet managed to measure) compared to hydraulic fracturing and other forms of extractivism operated by transnational corporations. This crisis forces us to understand different scales (temporal and spatial) to confront it, an approach that is only possible if we leave the traditional disciplinary differences aside.

The traditional modern debates on the relationship between technology and nature have become crucial in the current context of hyper-imbrication of subjectivities in the digitized world. The discussion on heteronomy or human agency in the face of these new technologies, and their relation to acceleration and competency as axes of social relations, call us to rethink the relations between space and time in contemporary subjectivities, but also consider the conditions in which plural worlds that inhabit the world produce resistances or can reimagine the future.

Likewise, the forms taken by the management of the COVID-19 pandemic— characterized as a syndemic, due to the conditions of health inequity in which it has developed (Horton)—through security policies of control and population segmentation, bring to the forefront the discussion on the value of life, the bodies that matter and those that do not for current biopolitical regimes. In addition, they ask us to consider the vulnerability of our individual and common worlds, and should make us reflect on the forms that the exercise of global, regional and local political power will take when confronted with these conditions in the coming decades.

In this sense, we must also reflect on how the situation of extreme vulnerability emerging from the pandemic, from climate change and the deterioration of ecosystems, and the consequences of global inequalities, have activated all kinds of authoritarian discourses and “white apocalyptic visions” (Mitchell and Chaudhury) that dispute the future and planetary politics with fundamentalist and supremacist proposals. Likewise, how, especially in the Americas, social movements that reject the consequences of neoliberalism have reemerged and could be a utopian impulse that rearticulates a new social contract based on other relations between human beings and the planet.

In fact, especially in the inter-American sphere, recent migratory processes and the historical claims and demands of indigenous peoples challenge the present, widely and critically, not only in the need for new forms of coexistence or new legal-political agreements, but also in the demand for a profound sociocultural transformation, with the difficulties implied in carrying them out in the midst of an economic framework that still insists on exploitation and extractivism. It is, in short, about the current interactions we

have among ourselves and with the territory, challenging us to find new epistemologies based on relationality, reciprocity and complementarity, such as “Good Living”.

The Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities at the University of Chile, the PhD program in Literature at the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso and the PhD program in Communication at the University of La Frontera, Temuco (in conjunction with the Austral University of Chile), will convene the VII Biennial Conference of the International Association of Inter-American Studies (IAS): “Criticism and Crisis in the Americas: Society, Nature, Exclusions and Resistance.” The event will take place in different locations at the University of Chile, the Institute of Literatures and Languages of the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso, and the Andrés Bello Campus of the University of La Frontera, Temuco, from Monday, October 2, to Saturday, October 5, 2023. The call gives continuity to previous IAS Biennial conferences that were held at Texas A&M International University, USA, in 2021, and at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, in 2018, and in various universities around the world since the Association’s foundation in 2009, and hopes to collaborate in the promotion of a critical inter-American dialogue.

Presenters are asked to consider issues such as:

  • How do we understand a world that appears to operate on a non-human scale?
  • What is the nature of the current global crisis and what are the main aspects that are expressed and affect the inter-American sphere and in what way?
  • Which inter-American theoretical-critical approaches contribute to the understanding of contemporary crises?
  • What are the critical and resistance movements that emerge in this situation and how are they characterized?
  • What is the impact of transatlantic (and transpacific) history and relations on prevailing discourses on the crises?
  • How are crises represented in languages, aesthetics and media? And topics such as:
  • Conditions imposed by economic crises on the inter-American sphere.
  • Displacement crisis (forced migrations, new regulations; demands on states and inter-American institutions.
  • Climate change and the Anthropocene.
  • New relations in/with nature, e.g. “natureculture” (Haraway), “cosmopolitics” (Stengers), ontological turn.
  • Borders, migrations and displacements.
  • Political transformations, new conservatism, fascism.
  • Reconfigurations of global geopolitics and in the inter-American sphere.
  • Resistance of peoples and subalternities.
  • Reemergence of indigenous knowledge. Relational perspectives and methodologies.
  • Feminisms and dissidences and new imaginings of the crisis and the future.
  • Body, genders and dissident performativities.
  • Counter-informations and counter-discourses as counter-hegemonic strategies.
  • Media, digitalization, algorithmization of life; critical and emancipatory uses of technique and technology.
  • Materialities, circuits and globality.
  • Glocal violences. Ethics and aesthetics in the representation of violence in the Americas.
  • Art, literature and resistance.
  • Human rights and rewritings of memory and the archive. We encourage proposals from various disciplines including sociology, political science, political economy, anthropology, history, literature, linguistics, philosophy, geography, music, and media studies, among others, that address these themes as well as any other theoretical and/or empirical approaches on the study of borders from relevant Inter- American perspectives.

Please send proposals either for individual papers (only one proposal per person) or for

panels (with a chairperson and 3 or 4 presentations) to

Presentations can be delivered in Spanish, English or Portuguese and

should be approximately 15-20 minutes long. The conference will take place in person.

Some of the activities will be shared publicly though digital platforms.

Info@ interamericanstudies.net by

May 15, 2023.

Registration and enrollment information:

Crítica y crisis en las Américas: Sociedad, naturaleza, exclusiones y resistencias (Santiago, Valparaíso/Chile, 2023)

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Convocatoria IAS Nov 2021 Laredo Español

 

LAREDO, TEXAS, USA

 

Debido a la pandemia del Covid-19, el congreso IAS 2020 a realizarse en Texas A&M International University en octubre de 2020 fue pospuesto. El evento se ha reprogramado y se llevará a cabo este año, del 11 al 13 de noviembre de 2021 en forma virtual. Esta es la nueva convocatoria.    

 

Convocatoria

 

Las fronteras entre los Estados-Nación modernos en las Américas siempre han sido porosas y flexibles, con ciudadanos de un país desplazándose a otro, con o sin documentos, para huir de la pobreza, la violencia, la inestabilidad política, los sistemas económicos en crisis o simplemente para buscar mejores empleos. Recientemente, estos cruces fronterizos han aumentado significativamente, mientras que, al mismo tiempo, fuerzas políticas como los movimientos nacionalistas y conservadores en los países receptores han emergido o se han expandido, adoptando tácticas cada vez más confrontacionales (e incluso violentas), situación que se repite en otras regiones del mundo.

 

Las fronteras en las Américas separan pero también permiten contacto y múltiples intercambios entre los diferentes países. Están configuradas para contener y controlar a las personas y los bienes que salen de un país y entran en otro, pero también hacen posible el comercio internacional, el turismo y el comercio. Asimismo, el contacto transfronterizo promueve intercambios culturales y lingüísticos.

 

La migración masiva se ha exacerbado en diferentes partes de las Américas, particularmente en América Central y América del Sur, debido a la violencia extrema, la violación de los derechos humanos y las crisis económicas. Miles de personas han huido de sus países, algunos tratando de llegar a Estados Unidos solicitando ingresar en calidad de refugiados, mientras que otros se han mudado a distintos países de América Latina (por ejemplo, los venezolanos que emigran a Colombia, Brasil, Perú o Ecuador, o los haitianos que emigran a Chile, Brasil, México o Estados Unidos). Las crisis humanitarias están en aumento debido a las condiciones cada vez más duras en las rutas de migración. Mientras tanto, los gobiernos de los países receptores han demostrado una falta general de interés en proteger a los migrantes de la discriminación y la criminalización los cuales a menudo enfrentar múltiples obstáculos para obtener los derechos de asilo y debido proceso, o incluso para recibir un trato digno.

 

Los migrantes capaces de establecerse en otros países generalmente mantienen algunas de sus tradiciones, valores, idioma y costumbres más arraigadas, creando territorios simbólicos y espaciales mientras que por otro lado asimilan o adoptan diversos elementos culturales de sus nuevos hogares.

 

Las fronteras, así, no solo están definidas por patrones de migración documentada o no documentada. Millones de personas que viven permanentemente en los márgenes de sus estados nacionales, interactúan a diario con los ciudadanos de los países vecinos. Además, estos residentes fronterizos tienden frecuentemente a tener más nexos étnicos, lingüísticos y culturales con sus vecinos de diferente nacionalidad, que con sus compatriotas del interior del país dada su distancia geográfica con las partes centrales de sus respectivas naciones. La intensa y fluida interacción social, económica y cultural entre las personas que viven en las zonas fronterizas da lugar a espacios liminales donde coexisten múltiples culturas y subculturas, ya sea produciendo manifestaciones culturales híbridas (como lo sostiene García Canclini) o manteniendo el núcleo de sus costumbres y creencias mientras interactúan en arenas multiculturales complejas (como lo señala Giménez). Todo—lenguaje, religión, literatura, música y medios de comunicación—se ve afectado por esta interacción diaria de fuerzas culturales contrastantes sujetas a sistemas políticos y económicos que con frecuencia estiran en diferentes direcciones.

 

El tema de este congreso, “Muros, Puentes y Fronteras en las Américas” abarca una amplia gama de temas y enfoques, tanto relativos al pasado como al presente, los cuales pretenden enfocar la atención de los académicos que trabajan en estudios Inter-Americanos hacia las complejidades y desafíos políticos, culturales y sociales de las regiones fronterizas de las Américas.

 

Se invita a que los participantes consideren en sus ponencias preguntas como:

 

• ¿Qué tipo de ventajas pueden aportar los enfoques interamericanos para comprender los patrones de migración, los intercambios culturales y económicos, los problemas geográficos y demográficos, así como las divisiones políticas y las conjunciones sobre las fronteras entre los países de las Américas?

• ¿Cómo puede contribuir la investigación académica a la comprensión del papel de las fronteras y los flujos transfronterizos en el contexto regional de las Américas?

• ¿Qué tipo de políticas deben adoptar los gobiernos y las ONGs para promover la paz y los derechos humanos, respetar las diferencias culturales, facilitar los intercambios culturales y económicos y enfrentar la violencia extrema y la trata de personas?

• ¿Cuáles son los procesos distintivos actuales e históricos que inciden en la construcción de fronteras en las Américas?

• ¿Cómo podemos (re) definir las fronteras políticas, geográficas, territoriales, culturales y simbólicas en las Américas?

• ¿Qué podemos aprender al analizar su desarrollo histórico y los entretejidos culturales y sociales que los han caracterizado?

• ¿Cuáles son los rasgos culturales distintivos de las personas que viven en las zonas fronterizas de los estados nacionales?

• ¿Cuáles son las diferencias lingüísticas, sociales y culturales de las regiones fronterizas de las Américas en contraste con sus respectivas culturas nacionales?

• ¿Cómo se han representado los muros divisorios, los puentes y las fronteras en la producción artística y cultural, como la literatura, las películas, la pintura, los dibujos, la música, el teatro, etc.?

 

Buscamos propuestas provenientes de diversas disciplinas—sociología, ciencias políticas, economía política, antropología, historia, literatura, lingüística, filosofía, geografía, música y estudios de medios, entre otros—que aborden estos temas, así como otros enfoques teóricos y / o empíricos que estudien las fronteras desde perspectivas interamericanas relevantes.

 

Favor de enviar las propuestas para ponencias individuales (solo una propuesta por persona) o para paneles (con un coordinador y 3 o 4 participantes) a carlos.lozano@tamiu.edu

a más tardar el 1 de agosto de 2021. Las ponencias se pueden presentar en inglés o español y deben tener una duración aproximada de 10-15 minutos.
 La conferencia se ofrecerá en modalidad online.

 

Se invita encarecidamente a estudiantes doctorales a participar en el congreso.

 

Incluya su nombre, afiliación, el título de su ponencia y/o panel, un resumen (300-400 palabras), hasta 5 palabras clave y direcciones de correo electrónico. Se le notificará a fines de agosto de 2021 si fue aceptada su propuesta.

 

La fecha límite para el envío de resúmenes es el 1 de agosto de 2021.

 

Más información: http://www.interamericanstudies.net/?page_id=6869

 

Institución anfitriona: Texas A&M International University, Departamento de Psicología y Comunicación, Laredo, Texas, EE. UU.

 

Comité organizador (Texas A&M International University): Irma Cantu (LITERATURA), José Cardona (LITERATURA), Ariadne Gonzalez (COMUNICACIÓN), Andrew Hilburn (GEOGRAFÍA), Rogelio Hinojosa (KILLAM LIBRARY), Ju Oak (Jade) Kim (MEDIOS Y CULTURA POPULAR), José Carlos Lozano (ESTUDIOS DE MEDIOS), Aarón Alejandro Olivas (HISTORIA), Arthur Soto Vasquez (MEDIOS Y POLITICA LATINOS), Wolfram F. Schaffler (DESARROLLO ECONÓMICO).

 

Comité del programa: José Carlos Lozano (Universidad Internacional de Texas A&M), Isabel Caldeira (Universidad de Coimbra, Portugal); María Herrera-Sobek (UC Santa Barbara, EUA); Luz Angélica Kirschner (SDSU South Dakota State University, EE. UU.)

 

Registro

Favor de dar clic en la siguiente liga para acceder al sitio de registro donde podrán llenar la forma y enviar su pago:

 

https://secure.touchnet.com/C20208_ustores/web/store_main.jsp?STOREID=86

Se solicita a todos los participantes que se inscriban en el congreso a más tardar el 31 de octubre de 2021. Sólo los ponentes que se hayan registrado antes de esa fecha aparecerán en el programa del congreso. Tenga en cuenta que la fecha límite para beneficiarse de las cuotas de inscripción anticipada es el de 31 de octubre de 2021.

 

Cómo llegar a Laredo, Texas (USA) en avión si desea participar en modalidad presencial:

 

Laredo, Texas, es una ciudad fronteriza (aproximadamente 240,000 habitantes) en la orilla norte del Río Grande, en el sur de Texas, ubicada frente a Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, México.

 

Laredo, Texas, está clasificada como una de las ciudades más seguras de Texas, significativamente por encima de las principales ciudades metropolitanas como Austin, Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth y San Antonio.

Los únicos vuelos directos al aeropuerto de Laredo, Texas son a través de United (desde Houston) y de American (desde Dallas). Primero debe volar a cualquiera de estas dos ciudades de Texas y de ahí tomar una conexión a través de cualquiera de las dos aerolíneas a Laredo. Una vez que llegue al Aeropuerto de Laredo, puede tomar un taxi, un servicio de Uber o de Lyft a su hotel, o, si está disponible, tomar el servicio de transporte de su hotel (las distancias son relativamente cortas desde el aeropuerto hasta los hoteles participantes y desde ellos hasta el campus de Texas A&M International University, TAMIU).

 

Dónde alojarse en Laredo:

 

Al realizar su reserva en cualquiera de los siguientes hoteles, solicite la tarifa especial TAMIU (Texas A&M International University).

 

Hoteles más cercanos al campus de TAMIU y al aeropuerto de Laredo:

 

-Hotel La Quinta Inn & Suites Laredo Airport

http://www.laquintalaredoairport.com/?cid=local_733

 

-Holiday Inn Express & Suites Laredo

https://www.ihg.com/holidayinnexpress/hotels/us/en/laredo/lrdtx/hoteldetail

 

-Motel 6 Laredo Airport

www.motel6.com/Laredo_Airport‎

 

-Staybridge Suites Laredo International Airport

www.staybridge.com/Laredo/Staybridge‎

 

-TownePlace Suites by Marriot Laredo

www.marriott.com/TownePlace/Suites‎

 

Hotel en el centro histórico de Laredo, justo en la frontera entre EE. UU. y México (a 25-30 minutos del campus de TAMIU)

 

-La Posada

http://www.laposada.com/home

 

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Call for papers IAS Nov 2021 Laredo English

 

    LAREDO, TEXAS, USA

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the IAS 2020 conference at Texas A&M International University was postponed. The conference has been rescheduled to take place online in November 11-13, 2021. This is the new call for papers.    

Call for Papers

 

Borders between modern nation/states in the Americas have always been porous and flexible, with nationals moving from one country to another—with or without documents—to flee poverty, violence, political instability, failing economic systems or just to seek better jobs. Recently, these border crossings have significantly increased, while, at the same time political forces such as nationalist and conservative movements in the receiving countries have emerged or expanded, adopting ever more confrontational (and even more violent) tactics, a situation similar to what has been happening in other regions of the world.

 

Borders in the Americas separate but also allow for contact and multiple exchanges between nation states. They are set to contain people and goods from leaving one country and entering another. Yet they also make international trade, tourism, and commerce possible. Likewise, trans-border contact promotes cultural and linguistic exchanges.

 

Mass migration has been exacerbated in different parts of the Americas—particularly Central America and South America—due to extreme violence, the violation of human rights, and economic crises. Thousands of people have fled their countries, some trying to reach the United States requesting entrance as refugees, while others have moved to other Latin American countries (for example, Venezuelans migrating to Colombia, Brazil, Peru, or Ecuador, or Haitians relocating to Chile, Brazil, Mexico or the US). Humanitarian crises are on the rise due to increasingly harsh conditions along the migration routes. Meanwhile, the governments of receiving countries have demonstrated a general lack of interest in protecting migrants from discrimination and criminalization. As such, migrants often struggle to obtain the rights to asylum and due process—or even to be treated with basic dignity.

 

Migrants able to settle in other countries typically maintain some of their most enduring traditions, values, language, and customs, creating symbolic and spatial territories while typically assimilating or adopting varying cultural elements of their new homes.

 

Nevertheless, borders are not only defined by documented or undocumented migration patterns. Millions of people living permanently on the fringes of their nation-states, interact on a daily basis with citizens of the neighboring countries. As well, people who many times are closer to them on ethnic, linguistic, and cultural grounds than fellow countrymen find comfort in these new circumstances even though they are living far away from the original political boundary. The fluid and intense social, economic, and cultural interaction between people living in the borderlands results in liminal spaces where multiple cultures and sub-cultures co-exist either producing hybrid cultural manifestations (as argued by Garcia Canclini) or maintaining the core of their customs and beliefs while interacting in complex multicultural arenas (as pointed out by Giménez). Everything from language, religion, literature, music, and media is impacted by this daily interplay of contrasting cultural forces subject to political and economic systems that frequently pull in different directions.

 

The theme of this conference of the International Association of Inter-American Studies (IAS), “Walls, Bridges, and Borders in the Americas,” encompasses a wide range of topics and approaches to these issues relating to the past as well as to present times, while trying to draw the attention of Inter-American scholars towards the political, cultural, and social complexities and challenges of border regions in the Americas.

 

Presenters are asked to consider questions such as:

 

  • What kind of advantages can Inter American approaches bring to the understanding of migration patterns, cultural and economic exchanges, geographic and demographic issues as well as political divisions and conjunctions about borders between countries in the Americas?
  • How can new research contribute to the understanding of the role of borders and cross-border flows in the regional context of the Americas?
  • What kind of policies should be adopted by governments and NGO’s to promote peace and human rights, to respect cultural differences, to facilitate cultural and economic exchanges, and to confront extreme violence and human trafficking?
  • What are the distinctive processes of border-making in the Americas—past and present?
  • How can we (re)define political, geographical, territorial, cultural, and symbolic borders in the Americas?
  • What can we learn by looking into their historical development and the cultural and social entanglements that have characterized them?
  • What are the distinctive cultural traits of the people living on the fringes of their nation states?
  • What are the linguistic, social, and cultural differences of border regions in the Americas in contrast with their respective national cultures?
  • How have artistic cultural expressions represented walls, bridges, and borders in their cultural production such as literature, films, paintings, drawings, music, theater, and so forth?

 

We encourage proposals from various disciplines including sociology, political science, political economy, anthropology, history, literature, linguistics, philosophy, geography, music, and media studies, among others, that address these themes as well as any other theoretical and/or empirical approaches on the study of borders from relevant Inter American perspectives.

 

Please send proposals either for individual papers (only one proposal per person) or for panels (with a chairperson and 3 or 4 presentations) to carlos.lozano@tamiu.edu by August 1, 2021. Presentations can be delivered in English or Spanish and should be approximately 10-15 minutes in length. The conference will be offered online-only.

 

The participation of doctoral candidates is strongly encouraged.

Please include your name, affiliation, the title of your presentation and/or panel, an abstract (300-400 words), up to 5 keywords, and email address(es). You will be notified by the end of August 2021 whether your proposal has been accepted.

 

The deadline for submission of abstracts is August 1, 2021.

 

 

More information: http://www.interamericanstudies.net/?page_id=6869

 

Host institution: Texas A&M International University, Department of Psychology and Communication, Laredo, Texas, USA

 

Organizing Committee (Texas A&M International University): José Carlos Lozano (MEDIA STUDIES), Irma Cantu (LITERATURE), José Cardona (LITERATURE), Ariadne Gonzalez (COMMUNICATION), Andrew Hilburn (GEOGRAPHY), Rogelio Hinojosa (KILLAM LIBRARY), Ju Oak (Jade) Kim (MEDIA AND POPULAR CULTURE), Aarón Alejandro Olivas (HISTORY), Arthur Soto Vasquez (LATINO MEDIA & POLITICS), Wolfram F. Schaffler (ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT).

 

Program Committee: José Carlos Lozano (Texas A&M International University), Isabel Caldeira (University of Coimbra, Portugal); María Herrera-Sobek (UC Santa Barbara, USA); Luz Angélica Kirschner (SDSU South Dakota State University, USA)

 

Registration

 

Please go to the following site to fill your registration form and send your payment:

 

https://secure.touchnet.com/C20208_ustores/web/store_main.jsp?STOREID=86

 

All presenters are asked to register for the Conference by October 31st, 2021. Only presenters who have registered by that date will appear on the conference program. Please note that the deadline to benefit from early-bird registration fees is October 31st, 2021.

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Dancing with the world, magicking life/Bailar con el mundo, magiar la vida/ Dançar com o mundo, magiar a vida- Call for Submissions

The editors of fiar forum for inter-american research invite scholars to submit articles (in Spanish, Portuguese, and English) for a special issue: Dancing with the world, magicking life/ Bailar con el mundo, magiar la vida/ Dançar com o mundo, magiar a vida guest edited by Dra. Paola María Marugán Ricart (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana – Unidad Xochimilco (UAM-X) Cuidad de Mexico). Below you find the call for submissions in Spanish, Portuguese, and English.

 

Bailar con el mundo, magiar la vida

Presentación

En tiempos de crisis pandémica y civilizatoria, la danza se presenta como un territorio en disputa, un forcejeo incesante por rescatar los vínculos vibrantes entre esta práctica artística y la afirmación de vida. Conexiones éstas que el canon moderno-colonial en danza buscó interrumpir desde su formación europea, siendo las distintas matrices de dominación de la empresa colonial, las claves que permitieron perpetuar dicha ruptura en los contextos de Las Américas y el Caribe. Como expone André Lepecki en Exhausting dance. Performance and the politics of the movement (2006), la modernidad canonizó el cuerpo danzante a través de dos rupturas. Por un lado, la regulación de los códigos de la orchesographie supuso una quiebra de carácter ontológico entre la danza y el mundo como un todo. Esta escritura disciplinar del movimiento redujo la libertad del cuerpo-que-baila a un espacio delimitado (la cuadratura escénica) y una temporalidad domesticada, que generó distanciamiento social entre los ámbitos en los que la danza y la vida eran indistinguibles: rituales de pasaje, celebraciones religiosas, festividades paganas. Posteriormente, la modernidad iluminista trajo consigo la segunda pérdida de la danza: su estatus epistemológico. En la promulgación de los principios fundacionales del sujeto pensante moderno: la auto-determinación, la separabilidad y la secuencialidad, la danza quedó relegada a la mecanización de un cuerpo en movimiento al servicio de la creación disciplinar. Hecho que fortaleció la fractura cartesiana entre razón- emoción, negando así los saberes del cuerpo, en una suerte de exaltación al logocentrismo científico imperante. De ahí que en tiempos de crisis la danza sea un espacio de articulación de los intensos debates políticos, que movimientos feministas, antirracistas, anticoloniales, descoloniales, anticapitalistas y por la defensa del territorio, están tejiendo colectivamente en este continente. ¿Qué significa hacer política por medio de la producción en danza?

Para este número convocamos propuestas teóricas y artísticas (ensayos escritos, narrativas fotográficas y audiovisuales) dedicadas a exponer, sentir y reflexionar sobre el hacer en danza en Las Américas y el Caribe, como una tecnología ancestral que busca producir rupturas emancipatorias con la experiencia occidental. Nos interesan las elaboraciones dedicadas a problematizar el canon moderno-colonial a partir del reconocimiento de la historicidad de otras tradiciones y de asumir dicha práctica como un campo de producción de conocimiento de saberes ancestrales generados desde el cuerpo. Además de ser considerada un catalizador de procesos de cura. ¿Cómo se despliegan esas tecnologías que permiten danzar con el mundo (y no un danzar en el mundo, reproductor de ese distanciamiento ontológico impuesto por la modernidad) y magiar la vida?

Estas rupturas emancipatorias con el proceso de canonización en danza han constituido un terreno de disputa y resignificación de las nociones de cuerpo, espacio y tiempo en la dirección apuntada por Denise Ferreira da Silva (2016) con el principio de no-localidad. Este propone suspender la concepción cartesiana de las coordenadas espacio-temporales, para desde ahí multiplicar, expandir, descontrolar y complejizar sujetos, espacios y prácticas en los procesos de creación dancística. En este sentido surgen algunos interrogantes, ¿quién o quienes bailan cuando una entidad es encarnada a través de la gestualidad corporal en una lógica de no-localidad? ¿A quién pertenece el movimiento del cuerpo que lo produce en un mundo enmarañado? ¿De qué maneras medir la temporalidad de la danza? ¿Es posible reducir el tiempo de la creación a la duración de cada coreografía? ¿Qué narrativas se están produciendo desde la práctica dancística que exceden la linealidad de la historia occidental?

A partir de estas consideraciones presentamos las rutas temáticas para esta edición:

  • Problematizaciones al canon moderno-colonial en danza a partir del reconocimiento de la historicidad de prácticas dancísticas de otras tradiciones;
  • Danza como una práctica de producción de conocimiento y reelaboración de saberes ancestrales;
  • Medio de comunicación con fuerzas y entidades invisibles, reconociendo y fortaleciendo los vínculos entre la vibración del ser y las fuerzas de lo invisible;
  • Disputa de significados: nociones de cuerpo, espacio y tiempo en el hacer dancístico;
  • Ancestralidad, colectividad, espiritualidad y memoria;
  • Reflexiones en torno a la concepción de autoría;
  • Procesos de subjetivación y cuerpos políticos de enunciación;
  • Danza como un catalizador de procesos de cura.

 

Dançar com o mundo, magiar a vida

Apresentação

Em tempos de crise pandêmica e civilizatória a dança apresenta-se enquanto um território em disputa, um forcejo incessante por resgatar os vínculos vibrantes entre essa prática artística e a afirmação de vida. Estas são conexões que o cânone moderno-colonial em dança procurou interromper desde sua formação europeia, sendo as diferentes matrizes de dominação do projeto colonial as chaves que permitiram perpetuar esta ruptura nos contextos das Américas e do Caribe. Segundo André Lepecki em Exhausting dance. Performance and the politics of the movement (2006), a modernidade canonizou o corpo dançante através de duas rupturas. De um lado, a regulação dos códigos da orchesographie traziam uma quebra de caráter ontológico entre a dança e o mundo como um todo. Essa escritura disciplinar do movimento restringiu a liberdade do corpo-que-dança a um espaço delimitado (a quadratura cênica) e a uma temporalidade domesticada que gerou distanciamento social entre os âmbitos nos quais dança e vida eram indistinguíveis: rituais de passagem, celebrações religiosas, festividades pagãs… De outro lado, a modernidade iluminista trouxe consigo a segunda perda da dança: o seu status epistemológico. Na promulgação dos princípios fundacionais do sujeito pensante moderno: a autodeterminação, a separabilidade e a sequencialidade, a dança foi relegada à mecanização de um corpo em movimento a serviço da criação disciplinar. Esse fato fortaleceu a fratura cartesiana entre razão-emoção, negando assim os saberes do corpo, em uma espécie de exaltação do logocentrismo científico imperante. Daí que em tempos de crise a dança seja um espaço de articulação de intensos debates políticos, que movimentos feministas, antirracistas, anticoloniais, descoloniais, anticapitalistas e pela defesa do território estão tecendo coletivamente neste continente. Quais as implicações de fazer política por meio da produção em dança?

Para este número convocamos propostas teóricas e artísticas (ensaios escritos, narrativas fotográficas e audiovisuais) voltadas para expor, sentir e refletir acerca do fazer em dança nas Américas e no Caribe, enquanto uma tecnologia ancestral que busca produzir quebras emancipatórias com a experiência ocidental. Serão bem-vindas elaborações dedicadas à problematização do cânone moderno-colonial a partir do reconhecimento da historicidade de outras tradições e do assumir essa prática como campo de produção de conhecimento de saberes ancestrais gerados desde o corpo. Além desta ser considerada catalizadora de processos de cura. De que maneiras se engendram essas tecnologias que possibilitam dançar com o mundo (ao invés de dançar no mundo, reprodutor desse distanciamento ontológico imposto pela modernidade) e magiar a vida? Estas rupturas emancipatórias com o processo de canonização em dança tem constituído um território de disputa e ressignificação das noções de corpo, espaço e tempo na direção apontada por Denise Ferreira da Silva (2016) com o princípio de não-localidade. Este propõe suspender a concepção cartesiana das coordenadas espaço-temporais para deste modo multiplicar, expandir, descontrolar e complexificar sujeitos, espaços e práticas nos processos de criação da dança. Nesse sentido algumas interrogações surgem: Quem dança quando uma entidade é incorporada através da gestualidade corporal em uma lógica de não-localidade? A quem pertence o movimento do corpo produzido em um mundo emaranhado? De que maneiras medir a temporalidade da dança? É possível reduzir o tempo da criação à duração de cada coreografia? Quais narrativas de um afazer em dança capaz de exceder a linearidade da história ocidental?

A partir destas considerações apresentamos as rotas temáticas para esta edição:

  • Problematizações ao cânone moderno-colonial em dança a partir do reconhecimento da historicidade de práticas dancísticas de outras tradições;
  • Dança enquanto prática de produção de conhecimento e reelaboração de saberes ancestrais;
  • Meio de comunicação com forças e entidades invisíveis – reconhecendo e fortalecendo os vínculos entre a vibração do ser e as forças do invisível;
  • Disputa de significados: noções de corpo, espaço e tempo no fazer da dança;
  • Ancestralidade, coletividade, espiritualidade e memória;
  • Reflexões voltadas para a concepção de autoria;
  • Processos de subjetivação e corpos políticos de enunciação;
  • Dança enquanto um catalizador de processos de cura.

 

Dancing with the world, magicking life

Abstract

In this time of crisis, with our world shaken by a pandemic and civilization itself in danger of collapse, dance presents itself as a field in dispute, as an incessant struggle to rescue the vibrant connections between this artistic practice and the affirmation of life. These are connections that the modern-colonial canon in dance sought to interrupt since its European formation. The different matrices of domination of the colonial project were the foundation stones that allowed the perpetuation of this rupture in the contexts of the Americas and the Caribbean. As André Lepecki argues in Exhausting dance. Performance and the politics of the movement (2006), modernity canonised the dancing body through two ruptures: on the one hand, the regulation of the codes of orchesographie entailed an ontological rupture between dance and the world as a whole. This disciplinary writing of movement reduced the freedom of the body-that-dances to a delimited space (theatrical stage) and a domesticated temporality, which generated social distancing between the spheres in which dance and life were indistinguishable: rites of passage, religious celebrations, pagan festivities…; on the other hand, the Enlightenment brought with it the second loss of dance: its epistemological status. In the promulgation of the founding principles of the modern thinking subject: self- determination, separability and sequentiality, dance was relegated to the mechanisation of a body in movement in the service of disciplinary creation. This fact strengthened the Cartesian fracture between reason and emotion, thus denying the knowledge of the body in a sort of exaltation of the prevailing scientific logocentrism. Hence, in times of crisis, dance is a space of articulating the intense political debates that feminism, anti-racist, anti-colonial, decolonial, anti-capitalist and territorial defence movements are collectively weaving in the Americas and the Caribbean. What does it mean to make politics through dance production?

For this issue we call for theoretical and artistic proposals (written essays, photographic and audiovisual narratives) dedicated to exposing, feeling and reflecting on dance making in the Americas and the Caribbean, as an ancestral technology that seeks to produce emancipatory ruptures from the Western experience. We are interested in the elaborations focused on problematising the modern-colonial canon by recognising the historicity of other traditions and assuming this practice as a field of ancestral knowledge production generated from the body. Also, dancing can be considered a catalyst for healing processes. How are these technologies deployed allowing us to dance with the world (instead dance in the world, as a way of reproducing the ontological distancing imposed by modernity) and magicking life?

These emancipatory ruptures with the process of canonisation in dance have constituted a terrain of dispute and resignification of the notions of body, space and time in the direction showing by Denise Ferreira da Silva (2016) as the principle of non-locality. This proposes a suspension of the Cartesian conception of temporal and spatial coordinates in order to multiply, expand, uncontrol and complexify subjects, spaces and practices in the processes of dance creation. In this sense specific questions arise: who dances when an entity is embodied through bodily gestures in a logic of non-locality? To whom does the movement of the body that practices it belong in an entangled world? In what ways can we measure the temporality of dance? Is it possible to reduce the time of creation to the duration of each choreography? What narratives are being produced by dance practice that exceed the linearity of Western history?

Based on this considerations, we present the thematic pathways for this issue:

  • Problematisations of the modern-colonial canon in dance based on the recognition of the historicity of dance practices from other traditions;
  • Dance as a practice of knowledge production and re-elaboration of ancestral knowledge;
  • Means of communication with unseen forces and entities, recognising and strengthening the links between the vibration of the self and the forces of the unseen;
  • Dispute of meanings: notions of body, space and time in dance making;
  • Ancestry, collectivity, spirituality and memory;
  • Reflections on the concept of authorship;
  • Processes of subjectivation and political body of enunciation (agency);
  • Dance as a catalyst for healing processes.

Guidelines: Authors who wish to contribute to the special issue are invited to send an abstract (maximum 500 words) including the title, author(s), and institutional affiliation to paolamarugan@gmail.com by October 15th, 2022. By November 15th, you will receive information on the acceptance of your abstract. The complete article must be submitted by the end of January 2023 in a maximum of 7.500-10.000 words (MLA style, authors need to use the journal’s MLA style sheet). Submissions can be made in Spanish, English, and Portuguese. The special issue of the FIAR is expected to be published in May 2023.

The forum for inter-american research (fiar) is the official electronic journal of the International Association of Inter-American Studies. It was established by the American Studies Program at Bielefeld University in 2008. We foster a dialogic and interdisciplinary approach to the study of the Americas. fiar is a peer-reviewed online journal. Articles in this journal undergo a double-blind review process and are published in English, Portuguese, and Spanish. We do not charge readers or institutions for full text access. The editorial board consists of a broad range of international scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds. fiar is ASA, EBSCO and MLA registered.

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Call for Submissions- Walls, Bridges, Borders in the Americas

The forum for inter-american research (fiar)

Official electronic journal of the International Association of Inter-American Studies (IAS)

Call for Submissions 

Deadline: Sep. 15, 2022

Walls, Bridges, Borders in the Americas

The electronic journal fiar, the forum for inter-american research invite scholars to submit articles (in English, Spanish o Portuguese) for a special issue: “Walls, Bridges, Borders in the Americas,” edited by José Carlos Lozano.

Borders between modern nation/states in the Americas have always been porous and flexible, with nationals moving from one country to another—with or without documents—to flee poverty, violence, political instability, failing economic systems or just to seek better jobs. Recently, these border crossings have significantly increased, while, at the same time political forces such as nationalist and conservative movements in the receiving countries have emerged or expanded, adopting ever more confrontational (and even more violent) tactics, a situation similar to what has been happening in other regions of the world.

Borders in the Americas separate but also allow for contact and multiple exchanges between nation states. They are set to contain people and goods from leaving one country and entering another. Yet they also make international trade, tourism, and commerce possible. Likewise, trans-border contact promotes cultural and linguistic exchanges.

Mass migration has been exacerbated in different parts of the Americas—particularly Central America and South America—due to extreme violence, the violation of human rights, and economic crises. Thousands of people have fled their countries, some trying to reach the United States requesting entrance as refugees, while others have moved to other Latin American countries (for example, Venezuelans migrating to Colombia, Brazil, Peru, or Ecuador, or Haitians relocating to Chile, Brazil, Mexico or the US). Humanitarian crises are on the rise due to increasingly harsh conditions along the migration routes. Meanwhile, the governments of receiving countries have demonstrated a general lack of interest in protecting migrants from discrimination and criminalization. As such, migrants often struggle to obtain the rights to asylum and due process—or even to be treated with basic dignity.

Migrants able to settle in other countries typically maintain some of their most enduring traditions, values, language, and customs, creating symbolic and spatial territories while typically assimilating or adopting varying cultural elements of their new homes.

Nevertheless, borders are not only defined by documented or undocumented migration patterns. Millions of people living permanently on the fringes of their nation-states, interact on a daily basis with citizens of the neighboring countries. As well, people who many times are closer to them on ethnic, linguistic, and cultural grounds than fellow countrymen find comfort in these new circumstances even though they are living far away from the original political boundary. The fluid and intense social, economic, and cultural interaction between people living in the borderlands results in liminal spaces where multiple cultures and sub-cultures co-exist either producing hybrid cultural manifestations (as argued by Garcia Canclini) or maintaining the core of their customs and beliefs while interacting in complex multicultural arenas (as pointed out by Giménez). Everything from language, religion, literature, music, and media is impacted by this daily interplay of contrasting cultural forces subject to political and economic systems that frequently pull in different directions.

In this special issue, we invite contributions discussing questions about

  • What kind of advantages can Inter American approaches bring to the understanding of migration patterns, cultural and economic exchanges, geographic and demographic issues as well as political divisions and conjunctions about borders between countries in the Americas?
  • How can new research contribute to the understanding of the role of borders and cross-border flows in the regional context of the Americas?
  • What kind of policies should be adopted by governments and NGO’s to promote peace and human rights, to respect cultural differences, to facilitate cultural and economic exchanges, and to confront extreme violence and human trafficking?
  • What are the distinctive processes of border-making in the Americas—past and present?
  • How can we (re)define political, geographical, territorial, cultural, and symbolic borders in the Americas?
  • What can we learn by looking into their historical development and the cultural and social entanglements that have characterized them?
  • What are the distinctive cultural traits of the people living on the fringes of their nation states?
  • What are the linguistic, social, and cultural differences of border regions in the Americas in contrast with their respective national cultures?
  • How have artistic cultural expressions represented walls, bridges, and borders in their cultural production such as literature, films, paintings, drawings, music, theater, and so forth?

Guidelines: Authors who wish to contribute to the special issue are invited to send an abstract (maximum 500 words) including the title, authors and institutional affiliation to carlos.lozano@tamiu.edu by the deadline: September 15th, 2022. By September 30, you will receive information on the acceptance of your abstract. The complete article must be submitted by the end of January 2023 in a maximum of 7.500-10.000 words (MLA style). Submissions can be made in Spanish, English,  and Portuguese. This special issue of the FIAR is expected to be published in October 2023.

 The forum for inter-american research (fiar) is the official electronic journal of the International Association of Inter-American Studies. It was established by the American Studies Program at Bielefeld University in 2008. We foster a dialogic and interdisciplinary approach to the study of the Americas. fiar is a peer-reviewed online journal. Articles in this journal undergo a double-blind review process and are published in English, Portuguese, and Spanish. We do not charge readers or institutions for full text access. The editorial board consists of a broad range of international scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds. fiar is ASA, EBSCO and MLA registered.

Visit us at www.interamerica.de

 

 

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Only presenters who have registered by that date will appear on the conference program. Please note that the deadline to benefit from early-bird registration fees is October 31st, 2021.

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NEWS: “Walls, Bridges, and Borders in the Americas, November 11-13, 2021”, IAS Prize for Best Thesis or Dissertation and IAS Prize for Best Thesis or Dissertation and IAS Prize for Best Essay or Article in Inter-American Studies

“Walls, Bridges, and Borders in the Americas,”

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Sixth Conference of the International Association of Inter-American Studies (IAS), “Walls, Bridges, and Borders in the Americas,” at Texas A&M International University was postponed. The conference has been rescheduled to take place in November 11-13, 2021.

The conference will be offered in a hybrid modality (in-person and online), and participants will be able to choose whether they travel to Laredo and participate in-person (in accordance with the possibilities afforded by the pandemic), or if they prefer to stay at their home countries and cities and be part of the conference in a virtual manner. In the eventuality of the COVID-19 pandemic resurging at the time of the conference, all participations will move online.

Concrete guidelines will be posted in due course.



IAS Prize for Best Thesis or Dissertation and

IAS Prize for Best Essay or Article in Inter-American Studies

Due to the pandemic, the 2020 competition was also postponed. We are now announcing a new deadline for the submissions: June 30, 2021. There are again two awards, one for the best master’s or doctoral thesis and one for the best article or essay in Inter-American Studies completed since December 2018.

Due to the pandemic, the 2020 competition was also postponed. We are now announcing a new deadline for the submissions: June 30, 2021. There are again two awards, one for the best master’s or doctoral thesis and one for the best article or essay in Inter-American Studies completed since December 2018. Submitted work does not yet need to be in print to be considered. Only work in Spanish or in English can be submitted. Each award carries a cash prize of 300 euros (c/330 U.S. dollars).

Contestants who would like to have their work considered will need to join the association. If you would like to do so, please go to http://www.interamericanstudies.net/?page_id=26 (in English) or to http://www.interamericanstudies.net/?page_id=135 (in Spanish).

Please be advised that members with student status may ask for their membership fees to be waived. To ask for a fee waiver, please contact our treasurer, Dr. Astrid Haas at treasurer@interamericanstudies.net with proof of your student status.

1. To submit work to be considered for the award for best master’s or doctoral thesis completed since December 2018, please send your thesis as a WORD and PDF file as well as an abstract of one page or less to the three jury members:

– Francisco Lomeli (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA), Chair, at lomeli@spanport.ucsb.edu

– Graciela Martínez-Zalce (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) at zalce@servidor.unam.mx 

– Antonio Barrenechea (University of Mary Washington) at abarrene@umw.edu 

2. To submit work to be considered for the award for best academic article or essay completed/published since December 2018, please send your article or essay as a WORD and PDF file as well as an abstract of one page or less to the three jury members:

– Luz Angélica Kirschner (South Dakota State University), Chair at Luz.Kirschner@sdstate.edu 

– Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez (University of Leipzig, Germany) at pisarz@server1.rz.uni-leipzig.de

– Emron Esplin (Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, USA) at emronesplin@gmail.com

Members of the IAS Executive Board and of the IAS Advisory Board are not eligible to participate in the prize competitions. The winners of both awards will be announced at the business meeting of the International Association of Inter-American Studies at the VI Biennial Conference of the IAS at Laredo, Texas, November, 2021. Award recipients who are not present at that meeting will receive their award and prize by mail.

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In memoriam Josef Raab (1960 – 2019)

 

It is our sad duty to announce the passing of Josef Raab, the Founding President of the International Association of Inter-American Studies (IAS-EIA). Josef Raab passed away on the 9th of November at the hospital close to his house in Essen, after a long struggle with the serious lung diseases that kept him in hospital intermittently.

 

Josef Raab was Full Professor of American Studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen, where he chaired American Literary and Media Studies since 2004. From 1999-2004 he was Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Bielefeld. Before, from 1993-2000, he was an Assistant Professor of American Studies, Catholic University of Eichstätt and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Texas at Austin (1996-1997). After his undergraduate and graduate studies at the Catholic University of Eichstätt (with studies abroad in Birmingham, London, Bordeaux, and Granada), he completed his post-graduate education at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, returning to the Catholic University of Eichstätt for a post-doctoral degree in 2000.

His research interests included U.S. Latina/o Literature and Culture, Inter-American Relations, Ethnicity, Literature and the Arts, American Film and Televison, having written also about several individual authors, such as Benjamin Franklin, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Bishop, Tony Kushner, August Wilson, and Toni Morrison.

His many academic achievements left a mark in the field he elected as his main research interest: inter-American relations. From his extended publications, aside from numerous articles in journals and book chapters, and just referring to the most recent books, we have the monograph: The Borderlands of Identity in Mexican American Literature (Katholische Universität Eichstätt, 2000), and the volumes he edited or co-edited: Screening the Americas: Narration of Nation in Documentary Film / Narración de la nacion en el cine documental (with Sebastian Thies and Daniela Noll-Opitz). Inter-American Studies | Estudios Interamericanos, vol. 1. Tempe: Bilingual Press & Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2011; Multiculturalism and Beyond: The New Dynamics of Identity Politics in the Americas (with Olaf Kaltmeier and Sebastian Thies). Special issue of Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies 7.2 (2012); Interculturalism in North America: Canada, the United States, Mexico, and Beyond (with Alexander Greiffenstern (Inter-American Studies | Estudios Interamericanos, vol. 8. Tempe: Bilingual Press & Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2013); New World Colors: Ethnicity, Belonging, and Difference in the Americas (Bilingual Press & Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2014); The New Dynamics of Identity Politics in the Americas: Multiculturalism and Beyond (with Olaf Kaltmeier and Sebastian Thies). London & New York: Routledge, 2014; Spaces – Communities – Discourses: Charting Identity and Belonging in the Americas (with Saskia Hertlein). Inter- American Studies/Estudios interamericanos. Trier: WVT/Tempe, AZ: Bilingual Press, 2016); Latin@ Images for the 21st Century: Interethnic Relations and the Politics of Representation in the United States (with Gabriele Pisarz-Ramírez, Sebastian Thies and Gary Francisco Keller). Tempe: Bilingual Press, forthcoming. He also co-edited the book series: Inter-American Perspectives / Perspectivas Interamericanas (with Sebastian Thies). Tempe: Bilingual Review Press & Münster: LIT-Verlag, since 2008; Inter-American Studies | Estudios Interamericanos (with Sebastian Thies and Olaf Kaltmeier). Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier & Tempe, AZ: Bilingual Press, since 2011; and InterAmerican Research: Contact, Communication, Conflict (with Olaf Kaltmeier, Wilfried Raussert and Sebastian Thies). Routledge.

 

From 2009 to 2018 he served as Founding President of the International Association of Inter-American Studies and advanced this international network with passion and vision.

We were very fortunate to enjoy his presence in our last Conference in Coimbra in March 2017, even when he was forced to walk around with an oxygen tank, but without ever ceasing to show his kindness and good mood, the way he always managed to interact with colleagues and friends in spite of several and serious health problems. Unfortunately, we will no longer have him at our side at the next Conference, in Laredo, but that will be our chance to honor him within the academic community he really praised and loved and in which he left his imprint both for his scholarship and his personal characteristics.

 

Life did not always treat Josef gently, but his determination and strong enthusiasm kept him active and supportive all along. He left behind his wife Melissa and three kids. He will not only be remembered with fondness and gratitude by all who knew him personally but referred to in admiration by our academic community. He will be missed by all of us.

 

On behalf of the IAS we respectfully offer our sincere condolences to Josef’s family for the passing of this charming and remarkable man.

 

Isabel Caldeira

On behalf of the International Association of Inter-American Studies

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Seminario Permanente sobre Migración Internacional

Seminario Permanente sobre Migración Internacional Ciclo 2018 Cuarta sesión Institución anfitriona: El Colegio de Michoacán 3 de julio de 2018

Trayectorias de mujeres migrantes centroamericanas que pasan por Guadalajara

La Red de Documentación de las Organizaciones Defensoras de Migrantes (REDODEM 2014, 2015, 2016) ha señalado que en los últimos tres años el número de mujeres migrantes que llegó a las casas y albergues que forman parte de esta red se incrementó en 10%, del total de la población atendida. Mujeres que en su movilidad no sólo enfrentan diferentes tipos de violencias [1][2] (y de los que se da cuenta en los informes de Médicos sin fronteras y en los numeroso estudios realizados en la frontera sur de México), sino que también les ha implicado cambios en su organización familiar, comportamiento, percepción de sí mismas, creencias, sentimientos, estados de salud física y mental.

En un esfuerzo por abonar en la comprensión del fenómeno migratorio femenino, en esta sesión se presenta un acercamiento a cómo se va complejizando la movilidad de las mujeres originarias de tres países de Centroamérica, que se dirigen a Estados Unidos, que se encuentran a “la mitad del camino”, y que llegaron al albergue de FM4, en donde un equipo de investigación pudo ahondar en sus historias de vida personal y familiar, religiosa, comunitaria y económica, conocer la modalidad y las rutas que han transitado para llegar a Guadalajara, los tiempos y condiciones de su traslado, así como las experiencias que han vivido en su desplazamiento forzado.

[1] Entre ellos: robo, asaltos, agresiones sexuales, persecución, asesinatos, trata de personas

[2] Tipos de violencias que solo son similares a lo que se enfrentan durante los conflictos armados ———-

María Eugenia de la O es Investigadora del Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social en la Unidad Occidente en la ciudad de Guadalajara, Jalisco desde 1997. Estudió el Doctorado en Ciencia Social con especialidad en Sociología en El Colegio de México. Fue investigadora adjunta en la Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales de la UNAM y Directora del Departamento de Estudios Culturales y del Programa de Doctorado en Ciencias Sociales de El Colegio de la Frontera Norte. Pertenece al Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI) nivel II. Ha publicado artículos y capítulos de libros sobre mujeres en la industria maquiladora, género y trabajo, jóvenes y precariedad, violencia y frontera norte. Actualmente realiza una investigación sobre los Dreamers mexicanos en Utah, Estados Unidos y sobre la movilidad de población migrante centroamericana por la Zona Metropolitana de Guadalajara. Sus líneas de especialización son: Migración, jóvenes y violencia en la frontera norte, género y trabajo, mujeres en industrias globales.

Rafael Alonso Hernández es Doctor en Ciencias Sociales por el Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social,CIESAS-Occidente y maestro en Ciencias Sociales y Humanísticas por el Centro de Estudios Superiores de México y Centroamérica. Es miembro del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores Nivel 1 y actual Coordinador General de Dignidad y Justicia en el Camino A.C. (FM4 Paso Libre). Asimismo, es el actual Presidente del Consejo Ciudadano del Instituto Nacional de Migración, miembro del Consejo Consultivo del Instituto Jalisciense del Migrante. Sus temas de interés son: Migración internacional (Migración en tránsito por México, solicitantes de refugio y refugiados), migraciones internas (jornaleros indígenas): mercados de trabajo, racismo, etnicidad.

Elizabeth Juárez Cerdi es Doctora en Ciencias Sociales con especialidad en Antropología Social Y Profesora-Investigadora en el Centro de Estudios Antropológicos de El Colegio de Michoacán. Sus líneas de investigación son Prácticas e identidades religiosas en grupos católicos y evangelicos; Migración internacional y género; Migración laboral controlada a Estados Unidos y Canadá.

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