Walter D. Mignolo
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691156095
- eISBN:
- 9781400845064
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691156095.003.0005
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
This chapter discusses South Asian subaltern studies as well as their adaptation by Latin Americanist historian Florencia Mallon and by the Latin American Subaltern Studies Group. It is important to ...
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This chapter discusses South Asian subaltern studies as well as their adaptation by Latin Americanist historian Florencia Mallon and by the Latin American Subaltern Studies Group. It is important to keep in mind the differences between the original projects of South Asian Subaltern Studies Group formulated in terms of querying the “historic failure of the nation to come to its own” and of making clear that, “it is the study of this failure which constitutes the central problematic of the historiography of colonial India.” Although one can say that it is this problematic that engages Mallon's and the Latin American Group's adaptation, in both cases, there is a lack of attention to the fact that Latin America is not a country—like postpartition India—and that the many countries of Latin America obtained their independence at the beginning of the nineteenth century and not in 1947.Less
This chapter discusses South Asian subaltern studies as well as their adaptation by Latin Americanist historian Florencia Mallon and by the Latin American Subaltern Studies Group. It is important to keep in mind the differences between the original projects of South Asian Subaltern Studies Group formulated in terms of querying the “historic failure of the nation to come to its own” and of making clear that, “it is the study of this failure which constitutes the central problematic of the historiography of colonial India.” Although one can say that it is this problematic that engages Mallon's and the Latin American Group's adaptation, in both cases, there is a lack of attention to the fact that Latin America is not a country—like postpartition India—and that the many countries of Latin America obtained their independence at the beginning of the nineteenth century and not in 1947.
Mark Carey
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195396065
- eISBN:
- 9780199775682
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195396065.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
This chapter introduces the subject of Peruvian responses to climate change and ensuing glacier catastrophes from 1941 to the present. In Peru's Cordillera Blanca mountain range, which towers above ...
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This chapter introduces the subject of Peruvian responses to climate change and ensuing glacier catastrophes from 1941 to the present. In Peru's Cordillera Blanca mountain range, which towers above the Callejón de Huaylas valley in the Ancash Department, 25,000 people have died from glacier-related disasters (glacial lake outburst floods and avalanches). The chapter places this study within current historiography on climate history, the history of science and technology, environmental history, Peruvian history, Latin American history, disaster studies, and glacier-society relations both globally and in the Andean region. The chapter then demonstrates why glacier retreat in Peru's Cordillera Blanca mountain range is an ideal case study for understanding long-term human adaptation to climate change, as well as analyzing how science evolves in societal context following climate change and natural disasters. Responses to climate change, which brought scientists and engineers to the Cordillera Blanca, unleashed a process called disaster economics: the use of catastrophes or disaster mitigation programs to promote and empower a range of economic development interests in both the public and private sectors. Climate change triggered historical processes and scientific developments far beyond the immediate disasters caused by melting glaciers.Less
This chapter introduces the subject of Peruvian responses to climate change and ensuing glacier catastrophes from 1941 to the present. In Peru's Cordillera Blanca mountain range, which towers above the Callejón de Huaylas valley in the Ancash Department, 25,000 people have died from glacier-related disasters (glacial lake outburst floods and avalanches). The chapter places this study within current historiography on climate history, the history of science and technology, environmental history, Peruvian history, Latin American history, disaster studies, and glacier-society relations both globally and in the Andean region. The chapter then demonstrates why glacier retreat in Peru's Cordillera Blanca mountain range is an ideal case study for understanding long-term human adaptation to climate change, as well as analyzing how science evolves in societal context following climate change and natural disasters. Responses to climate change, which brought scientists and engineers to the Cordillera Blanca, unleashed a process called disaster economics: the use of catastrophes or disaster mitigation programs to promote and empower a range of economic development interests in both the public and private sectors. Climate change triggered historical processes and scientific developments far beyond the immediate disasters caused by melting glaciers.
Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780226443065
- eISBN:
- 9780226443232
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226443232.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
The introduction explains why the term “Latin America” is politically, morally, and culturally troublesome but nonetheless persists unchallenged. It also reviews the many ways in which intellectuals, ...
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The introduction explains why the term “Latin America” is politically, morally, and culturally troublesome but nonetheless persists unchallenged. It also reviews the many ways in which intellectuals, historians, art-historians, literary scholars, and anthropologists have criticized and yet absorbed the term in the last three decades.Less
The introduction explains why the term “Latin America” is politically, morally, and culturally troublesome but nonetheless persists unchallenged. It also reviews the many ways in which intellectuals, historians, art-historians, literary scholars, and anthropologists have criticized and yet absorbed the term in the last three decades.
Abraham Acosta
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780823257096
- eISBN:
- 9780823261475
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823257096.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
This chapter traces the emergence of postcolonial theory in Latin American studies during the 1990s, a disciplinary shift that sparked a serious and hotly contested debate over the terms and ...
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This chapter traces the emergence of postcolonial theory in Latin American studies during the 1990s, a disciplinary shift that sparked a serious and hotly contested debate over the terms and conditions of intellectual exchange between metropolitan institutions of interpretation in Europe and the United States and those in Latin America. Latin American scholars opposed to this disciplinary trend drew attention to the foundational singularity and irreducibility of Latin American history and identity; asserted the categorical impropriety of drawing from European theoretical models—as well as postcolonial intellectual production from former British colonies—to reflect on Latin America; and appealed to Latin America’s own intellectual tradition as a means to counter and resist what are perceived as homogenizing and subordinating globalized narratives. The chapter returns to these debates in order to trace the political implications and cultural effects of this disciplinary deadlock. It introduces the central thesis and lays the theoretical and critical groundwork for establishing the relation between these larger claims and the claims made in subsequent chapters.Less
This chapter traces the emergence of postcolonial theory in Latin American studies during the 1990s, a disciplinary shift that sparked a serious and hotly contested debate over the terms and conditions of intellectual exchange between metropolitan institutions of interpretation in Europe and the United States and those in Latin America. Latin American scholars opposed to this disciplinary trend drew attention to the foundational singularity and irreducibility of Latin American history and identity; asserted the categorical impropriety of drawing from European theoretical models—as well as postcolonial intellectual production from former British colonies—to reflect on Latin America; and appealed to Latin America’s own intellectual tradition as a means to counter and resist what are perceived as homogenizing and subordinating globalized narratives. The chapter returns to these debates in order to trace the political implications and cultural effects of this disciplinary deadlock. It introduces the central thesis and lays the theoretical and critical groundwork for establishing the relation between these larger claims and the claims made in subsequent chapters.
Ulrike Strasser and Heidi Tinsman
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814758908
- eISBN:
- 9780814759226
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814758908.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This chapter examines world history and historical studies of masculinity through the prism of Latin American Studies. It begins by discussing the materialist and culturalist approaches that drive a ...
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This chapter examines world history and historical studies of masculinity through the prism of Latin American Studies. It begins by discussing the materialist and culturalist approaches that drive a wedge between world historians and scholars of gender and sexuality before considering Latin American history in relation to both world history and transnational cultural studies. It then explores how discussions of gender and sexuality provide inspiration for integrating the changing face of the political economy with a critical aspect of gender history: the shifting nature of masculinity. It argues that we need to focus on the trajectories taken by area fields other than Latin American Studies and find field-specific ways of narrating masculinity as a global history.Less
This chapter examines world history and historical studies of masculinity through the prism of Latin American Studies. It begins by discussing the materialist and culturalist approaches that drive a wedge between world historians and scholars of gender and sexuality before considering Latin American history in relation to both world history and transnational cultural studies. It then explores how discussions of gender and sexuality provide inspiration for integrating the changing face of the political economy with a critical aspect of gender history: the shifting nature of masculinity. It argues that we need to focus on the trajectories taken by area fields other than Latin American Studies and find field-specific ways of narrating masculinity as a global history.
Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780226443065
- eISBN:
- 9780226443232
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226443232.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
Chapter 6 constitutes a detailed criticism of current U.S. Latin Americanism in various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. They examine the current challenges faced by U.S. Latin ...
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Chapter 6 constitutes a detailed criticism of current U.S. Latin Americanism in various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. They examine the current challenges faced by U.S. Latin Americanism, namely: its own insignificance; the “kingdom of the comma” and its arguments; and textbook categories summed up in the model “south of Nogales, Arizona everything is Nogales Sonora,” or in the style of “epistemic otherness” theories that nevertheless respect the commands of the old concept: “Latin America.” The term endures as an unchallenged, almost unconscious assumption, a cultural landscape that serves for the projection of new and old utopias and dystopias.Less
Chapter 6 constitutes a detailed criticism of current U.S. Latin Americanism in various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. They examine the current challenges faced by U.S. Latin Americanism, namely: its own insignificance; the “kingdom of the comma” and its arguments; and textbook categories summed up in the model “south of Nogales, Arizona everything is Nogales Sonora,” or in the style of “epistemic otherness” theories that nevertheless respect the commands of the old concept: “Latin America.” The term endures as an unchallenged, almost unconscious assumption, a cultural landscape that serves for the projection of new and old utopias and dystopias.
Mark Thurner
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813035383
- eISBN:
- 9780813038940
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813035383.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
This book examines how the entity called “Peru” gradually came into being, and how the narratives that defined it evolved over time. It is an account of Peruvian historiography, one that makes a ...
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This book examines how the entity called “Peru” gradually came into being, and how the narratives that defined it evolved over time. It is an account of Peruvian historiography, one that makes a contribution not only to Latin American studies but also to the history of historical thought at large. The book traces the contributions of key historians of Peru, from the colonial period through the present, and teases out the theoretical underpinnings of their approaches. It demonstrates how Peruvian historical thought critiques both European history and Anglophone postcolonial theory. And this book's readings of Peru's most influential historians—from Inca Garcilaso de la Vega to Jorge Basadre—are subtle and powerful. This book examines the development of Peruvian historical thought from its misty colonial origins in the sixteenth century up to the present day. It demonstrates that the concept of “Peru” is both a strange and enlightening invention of the modern colonial imagination—an invention that lives on today as a postcolonial wager on a democratic political future that can only be imagined in its own historicist terms, not those of European or Western history.Less
This book examines how the entity called “Peru” gradually came into being, and how the narratives that defined it evolved over time. It is an account of Peruvian historiography, one that makes a contribution not only to Latin American studies but also to the history of historical thought at large. The book traces the contributions of key historians of Peru, from the colonial period through the present, and teases out the theoretical underpinnings of their approaches. It demonstrates how Peruvian historical thought critiques both European history and Anglophone postcolonial theory. And this book's readings of Peru's most influential historians—from Inca Garcilaso de la Vega to Jorge Basadre—are subtle and powerful. This book examines the development of Peruvian historical thought from its misty colonial origins in the sixteenth century up to the present day. It demonstrates that the concept of “Peru” is both a strange and enlightening invention of the modern colonial imagination—an invention that lives on today as a postcolonial wager on a democratic political future that can only be imagined in its own historicist terms, not those of European or Western history.
Erin Graff Zivin
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780823277674
- eISBN:
- 9780823280643
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823277674.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Language
The impact of Derrida’s work in the U.S. and continental Europe—principally in the disciplines of philosophy, English, French, Comparative Literature, gender and queer studies and postcolonial ...
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The impact of Derrida’s work in the U.S. and continental Europe—principally in the disciplines of philosophy, English, French, Comparative Literature, gender and queer studies and postcolonial studies—has been studied at length, but the significance of his writing for Hispanism has been, until now, overlooked. And yet Derrida developes a terminology and addresses sets of problems in ways that have a direct and distinctive effect on philosophers and literary critics in Spain and Latin America, where his work circulates widely in excellent translation. Problems and themes that resonate distinctively in one way in the European or North American context echo quite differently in Latin America and in Spain: the trace; nationalism and cosmopolitanism; spectrality and hauntology; the relation of subjectivity and truth; the university; disciplinarity; and institutionality. Remarkably, the influence is in a profound sense reciprocal: over the course of his career, Derrida takes up and makes central to his thought the theme of marranismo, the phenomenon of Sephardic crypto-Judaism. Derrida’s marranismo is a means of taking apart traditional accounts of identity; a way for Derrida to reflect on the status of the secret; a philosophical nexus where language, nationalism and truth-telling meet and clash in productive ways; a way of elaborating a critique of modern biopolitics. It is far from being simply and only a marker of his work’s Hispanic identity, but it is also, and irreducibly, that.Less
The impact of Derrida’s work in the U.S. and continental Europe—principally in the disciplines of philosophy, English, French, Comparative Literature, gender and queer studies and postcolonial studies—has been studied at length, but the significance of his writing for Hispanism has been, until now, overlooked. And yet Derrida developes a terminology and addresses sets of problems in ways that have a direct and distinctive effect on philosophers and literary critics in Spain and Latin America, where his work circulates widely in excellent translation. Problems and themes that resonate distinctively in one way in the European or North American context echo quite differently in Latin America and in Spain: the trace; nationalism and cosmopolitanism; spectrality and hauntology; the relation of subjectivity and truth; the university; disciplinarity; and institutionality. Remarkably, the influence is in a profound sense reciprocal: over the course of his career, Derrida takes up and makes central to his thought the theme of marranismo, the phenomenon of Sephardic crypto-Judaism. Derrida’s marranismo is a means of taking apart traditional accounts of identity; a way for Derrida to reflect on the status of the secret; a philosophical nexus where language, nationalism and truth-telling meet and clash in productive ways; a way of elaborating a critique of modern biopolitics. It is far from being simply and only a marker of his work’s Hispanic identity, but it is also, and irreducibly, that.
Juliet Hooker
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190633691
- eISBN:
- 9780190633714
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190633691.003.0006
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics, Political Theory
The conclusion develops the implications of hemispheric juxtaposition for comparative political theory, and for African American studies, Latin American studies, and Latino studies. It explains how a ...
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The conclusion develops the implications of hemispheric juxtaposition for comparative political theory, and for African American studies, Latin American studies, and Latino studies. It explains how a hemispheric intellectual genealogy of racial thought in the Americas transforms our understanding of each of these thinkers: Frederick Douglass, Domingo F. Sarmiento, W. E. B. Du Bois, and José Vasconcelos. It also highlights two key theoretical concepts constitutive of racial thought in the Americas that emerge from the hemispheric analysis in this book: an expanded notion of democratic fugitivity informed by black fugitivity, and the concept of mestizo futurism.Less
The conclusion develops the implications of hemispheric juxtaposition for comparative political theory, and for African American studies, Latin American studies, and Latino studies. It explains how a hemispheric intellectual genealogy of racial thought in the Americas transforms our understanding of each of these thinkers: Frederick Douglass, Domingo F. Sarmiento, W. E. B. Du Bois, and José Vasconcelos. It also highlights two key theoretical concepts constitutive of racial thought in the Americas that emerge from the hemispheric analysis in this book: an expanded notion of democratic fugitivity informed by black fugitivity, and the concept of mestizo futurism.
Jeffrey D. Needell
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780813060675
- eISBN:
- 9780813050942
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813060675.003.0016
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
This introduction to the anthology explains the origin of the 2013 conference from which it derives, pointing to the unusual variety and level of expertise involved, at a time when so many want to ...
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This introduction to the anthology explains the origin of the 2013 conference from which it derives, pointing to the unusual variety and level of expertise involved, at a time when so many want to understand Brazil and so few who try to help can muster the necessary authority. It focuses on the particularly useful way in which the chapters interweave to contextualize and strengthen each other as they all focus on Brazil’s emergence as one of the world’s great powers.Less
This introduction to the anthology explains the origin of the 2013 conference from which it derives, pointing to the unusual variety and level of expertise involved, at a time when so many want to understand Brazil and so few who try to help can muster the necessary authority. It focuses on the particularly useful way in which the chapters interweave to contextualize and strengthen each other as they all focus on Brazil’s emergence as one of the world’s great powers.
Inderjeet Parmar
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231146296
- eISBN:
- 9780231517935
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231146296.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This concluding chapter deduces the recurrence of the idea of the “network” and its diverse effects from the preceding review of foundation programs. Significant globalist consequences of networks ...
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This concluding chapter deduces the recurrence of the idea of the “network” and its diverse effects from the preceding review of foundation programs. Significant globalist consequences of networks include the Kissinger and Salzburg seminars for European elites, and the building of networked academic associations in Asian, African, and Latin American studies—which sometimes prove devastating as well. Some debilitating consequences are prevalent in Nigeria, Indonesia, and Chile, as in each case, the foundation leaders tended to see their societies as real-world laboratories for their technocratic schemes for modernization. Nonetheless, the chapter maintains that these foundation-funded networks have led to the hegemony of a globalist worldview across main political parties and upper state echelons.Less
This concluding chapter deduces the recurrence of the idea of the “network” and its diverse effects from the preceding review of foundation programs. Significant globalist consequences of networks include the Kissinger and Salzburg seminars for European elites, and the building of networked academic associations in Asian, African, and Latin American studies—which sometimes prove devastating as well. Some debilitating consequences are prevalent in Nigeria, Indonesia, and Chile, as in each case, the foundation leaders tended to see their societies as real-world laboratories for their technocratic schemes for modernization. Nonetheless, the chapter maintains that these foundation-funded networks have led to the hegemony of a globalist worldview across main political parties and upper state echelons.
Carolyn Merritt
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780813042190
- eISBN:
- 9780813043029
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813042190.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Dance
This book examines a controversial topic that has yet to be addressed in the literature on Argentine tango, the most recent incarnation of tango nuevo (new tango) dance. Alternately attributed to ...
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This book examines a controversial topic that has yet to be addressed in the literature on Argentine tango, the most recent incarnation of tango nuevo (new tango) dance. Alternately attributed to acrobatic moves, disrespectful kids, electronic music, the influx of foreign bodies and cash into Buenos Aires, and increasing globalization of the contemporary tango community/industry, nuevo and the debates surrounding it illustrate the complexity of cultural politics today. Surveying Argentine and tango history, the book underscores the role of the imagination in the dance's evolution, as well as the presence of elements associated with nuevo-fusion, innovation, and foreign influence-from its origins over a century ago. Testaments of the dance's healing and addictive properties are juxtaposed with portraits of machismo and violence in tango venues old and new to illustrate tango's emotional depth and psychological challenges, while also pointing to questions surrounding the “newness” of nuevo. Highlighting the tensions between evolution and preservation in the survival of cultural phenomena, the book attends to the intersection of culture, economics, and globalization in contemporary tango, where modern yearnings for authentic experience, tourism and heritage programs that commodify and politicize culture, and contemporary efforts to push the boundaries of tango, meet. Throughout, individual voices speak to the romance of tradition and the enduring significance of place in a globalized era. The result is a moving exploration of the continued transformations of a beloved cultural tradition.Less
This book examines a controversial topic that has yet to be addressed in the literature on Argentine tango, the most recent incarnation of tango nuevo (new tango) dance. Alternately attributed to acrobatic moves, disrespectful kids, electronic music, the influx of foreign bodies and cash into Buenos Aires, and increasing globalization of the contemporary tango community/industry, nuevo and the debates surrounding it illustrate the complexity of cultural politics today. Surveying Argentine and tango history, the book underscores the role of the imagination in the dance's evolution, as well as the presence of elements associated with nuevo-fusion, innovation, and foreign influence-from its origins over a century ago. Testaments of the dance's healing and addictive properties are juxtaposed with portraits of machismo and violence in tango venues old and new to illustrate tango's emotional depth and psychological challenges, while also pointing to questions surrounding the “newness” of nuevo. Highlighting the tensions between evolution and preservation in the survival of cultural phenomena, the book attends to the intersection of culture, economics, and globalization in contemporary tango, where modern yearnings for authentic experience, tourism and heritage programs that commodify and politicize culture, and contemporary efforts to push the boundaries of tango, meet. Throughout, individual voices speak to the romance of tradition and the enduring significance of place in a globalized era. The result is a moving exploration of the continued transformations of a beloved cultural tradition.
Pamela S. Nadell and Kate Haulman
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814758908
- eISBN:
- 9780814759226
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814758908.003.0011
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This book examines the intellectual and political production of women's history across time and space. Drawing on insights from scholars, it considers women's and gender history within national, ...
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This book examines the intellectual and political production of women's history across time and space. Drawing on insights from scholars, it considers women's and gender history within national, imperial, and geographic contexts as well as the accomplishments, shortcomings, and future directions of the field. It shows that the writing of women's histories was chronologically deeper than initially thought and driven by wider intellectual, social, political, and economic developments. Furthermore, it explains how historiography on women and gender lends credence to the argument that all history is politics and how relationships of power intersect with politics. Through the prism of Latin American Studies, the book also discusses two distinct and rarely intersecting historiographies: world history and masculinity.Less
This book examines the intellectual and political production of women's history across time and space. Drawing on insights from scholars, it considers women's and gender history within national, imperial, and geographic contexts as well as the accomplishments, shortcomings, and future directions of the field. It shows that the writing of women's histories was chronologically deeper than initially thought and driven by wider intellectual, social, political, and economic developments. Furthermore, it explains how historiography on women and gender lends credence to the argument that all history is politics and how relationships of power intersect with politics. Through the prism of Latin American Studies, the book also discusses two distinct and rarely intersecting historiographies: world history and masculinity.
