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Call for Papers: First Biennial Conference of the International Association of Inter-American Studies (IAS) <\/strong><\/p>\n

Transnational Americas: Difference, Belonging, Identitarian Spaces<\/h1>\n

University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
\nNovember 11 – 13, 2010<\/p>\n

National borders and transnational relations have long been of central importance to the Americas. From Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar’s idea of a “gran patria” to Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s “Good Neighbor Policy” and the work of the Organization of American States there is a long history of both theoretical and practical approaches to fostering transnational relationships and forms of cooperation. However, U.S. exceptionalism\/imperialism and isolationist policies throughout the Western Hemisphere have often overshadowed inter-American relations and prevented approaches beyond dichotomies. In recent decades, massive migration movements, the transnational orientation of media along with the rise of New Media and the onset of the Information Age, an inter-American culture industry, the transnationalization of business and economy, trans-border consumer culture, cosmopolitan writers, artists and performers, governmental and non-governmental organizations, as well as transnational alliances like those of the New Indigenous Left have promoted the crossing of multiple borders in the Americas. Yet localist and regionalist tendencies, separatist movements, or gated communities uphold the primacy of smaller entities.
\nTransnational interconnections are simultaneously being intensified and hampered; they are a highly complex (and a highly politicized) matter. In order to explore the intricate dynamics of transnationalism in the Americas, Border and Transborder Studies, Area Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Popular Culture Studies, Urban Studies, Economics, Sociology, Anthropology, Political Science and numerous other academic disciplines have joined literary, cultural and media studies in initiating a lively and fruitful interdisciplinary dialogue on questions of difference, belonging, and identitarian spaces. Those are central to analyzing the impact of transnational developments on individual, communal, and national identities.
\nWith a focus on past and present transnational developments in the Americas, the conference seeks to conceive of the New World beyond the scope of nation states\u2014relationally and transnationally. Considering shared experiences and issues (e.g. indigenous heritage, Black Atlantic, condition of coloniality, history of inequalities, multicultural societies, transnational media and economies, glocal approaches etc.) it seems imperative to think in inter-American terms. With this goal in mind, the conference will address the following issues:<\/p>\n

ACADEMIC APPROACHES:<\/strong>
\n\u2022 theories of national, cultural, regional, communal, individual identity and belonging
\n\u2022 methodologies for analyzing transnationalism (e.g. the “reciprocal method”)
\n\u2022 identity politics (Bourdieu, Wacquant etc.)
\n\u2022 Inter-American Studies as comparative Social\/Area\/Cultural\/Literary\/Media Studies
\n\u2022 Ethnic Studies and ethnic identity in the context of transnationalism<\/p>\n

CONTEXTS AND BACKGROUNDS: <\/strong>
\n\u2022 policies and practices of national and cultural identity and diversity (incl. exceptionalism)
\n\u2022 belonging and citizenship
\n\u2022 the Political Left in Latin America as opportunity or peril
\n\u2022 activities and goals of social movements in favor of or opposed to transnationalism
\n\u2022 human rights in the transnational Americas
\n\u2022 migration
\n\u2022 transnational flows of capital, goods, and labor
\n\u2022 the economic and social impact of transnationalism
\n\u2022 transnational crime, narco-traffic
\n\u2022 changing urban spaces: ghettoization, gated communities, transborder metropolitan areas
\n\u2022 identitarian spaces: diasporic communities, long-distance nationalism, enclaves
\n\u2022 the Caribbean as a special case\/laboratory of transnationalism
\n\u2022 political, economic, social, cultural approaches to internal and national borders
\n\u2022 obstacles to inter-American cooperation<\/p>\n

NEGOTIATIONS: <\/strong>
\n\u2022 negotiations of national (and other) identities in literature, music, the arts, performance
\n\u2022 the geopolitics of knowledge; cultural imperialism; brain drain
\n\u2022 transnational media (policies), New Media
\n\u2022 lifestyles, sexuality, and everyday practices in the context of transnationalism
\n\u2022 transborder feminism
\n\u2022 the continuing impact of coloniality; the postcolonial condition
\n\u2022 processes of creolization, hybridization, mestizaje<\/p>\n

Abstracts for 30-minute papers (in English or in Spanish) or proposals for two-hour panels (usually with three papers per panel, possibly also with a respondent) should be sent to conference[at]interamericanstudies.net<\/a> by June 15, 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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