Processes of Spatialization in the Americas
Configurations and Narratives
Published on 21. December 2018
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-3-631-76362-9 (ISBN)
Description
Where do the Americas begin, and where do they end? What is the relationship between the spatial constructions of «area» and «continent»? How were the Americas imagined by different actors in different historical periods, and how were these imaginations - as continent, nation, region - guided by changing agendas and priorities? This interdisciplinary volume addresses competing and conflicting configurations and narratives of spatialization in the context of globalization processes from the 19th century to the present.
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Persons
Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez is Professor of American Studies and Minority Studies at Leipzig University.
Hannes Warnecke-Berger is a Political Scientist and currently Senior Researcher in the Collaborative Research Center «Spatialization Processes under the Global Condition» at Leipzig University.
Content
Spatialization processes on the American continent - Producing space: the Americas between homogeneity and heterogeneity - Configuring space: borders, frontiers, and the dialectics of inclusion and exclusion - Transgressing space: globalization, mobility, and bordercrossings