Vol 17.1 (Jun. 2024)

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Vol. 17.1 (Jun. 2024)
Visual Narratives: Approaches to Graphic Novels in the Americas

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Frans Weiser, University of Georgia, USA:
“Tudo melhora depois de uma guerra”: Prosthetic Memory and the Graphic Adaptation of Milton Hatoum’s Dois Irmãos
Geoffroy de Laforcade, Norfolk State University,USA
Daniel Stein, University of Siegen, Germany:
Beyond Scarcity and Hardship: Historical and Contemporary Reflections on Cuban Comics
Astrid Haas, Universidad de Bergen, Noruega:
Migración indocumentada y activismo migrante: El artivismo de la narrativa gráfica mexicano-estadounidense
Rafael García Roncalla, Bielefeld University, Germany:
Old perils, old fears: The (still) vulnerable creole body in Selva Misteriosa
Birte Wege, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany:
Burning Down the House: Latin American Comics in the 21st Century, Edited by Laura Cristina Fernández, Amadeo Gandolfo, and Pablo Turnes, Routledge, 2023 (Book Review)

Vol 16.2 (Dec. 2023)

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Vol. 16.2 (Dec. 2023)
Walls and Bridges

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Clara Buitrago Valencia, Universidad de Bielefeld, Alemania:
El impacto del gobierno de Trump en la salud reproductiva de las mujeres en las Américas
Emalee Nelson, University of Texas at Austin, USA:
Defecting Cuba: Diplomacy, Baseball, and the Chase for Democratic Opportunity
Daniel De la Miyar, Texas A&M International University, USA:
A descriptive analysis of the representation of social status through advertisements in Mexican print magazines
Antonio Corona, Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila, Mexico
Brenda A. Muñoz, Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila, Mexico:
Film censorship in Mexico, 1925-1928: the case of Saltillo
Cristiane Guedes, Bielefeld University and University of Guadalajara:
Black noise, police brutality, and city landscapes: Noir aesthetics in Kendrick Lamar’s “Alright”

Vol 16.1 (Jun.2023)

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Vol. 16.1 (Jun. 2023)
Dancing with the World, Magicking Life

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Paola María Marugán Ricart, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana – Xochimilco, México:
Introducción: Bailar con el mundo, estrategias para magiar la vida
Damiana Bregalda, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Brasil:
Cosmocoreografias: políticas do mover e aldear o chão
Benedita Esteves, Universidade Federal do Acre, Brasil
Dinis Zanotto, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil:
Forró: dançar encantos para transfigurar existências seringueiras na Amazônia acreana
Alysson Amancio de Souza, Universidade Regional do Cariri – URCA, Brasil:
Danças interioranas cearenses: construindo outros modos de ser e estar no mundo
Ludmilla Almeida:
Video “Performance Marés”
Thaynã Fabiano do Rosário Vieira, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil:
O corpo que (é) samba: Uma análise da performance do Samba no pé urbano carioca
Oswaldo Enrique Marchionda Vargas, Universidad Nacional Experimental de las Artes, Venezuela:
El swing de los bandoleros
Florencia Firvida Martin, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México:
Prácticas coreográficas como reconfiguraciones de la potencia (desde una sensibilidad feminista)
Caroline Marim, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco/UFPE, Brasil:
Wearing Skins: Sewing Concepts
Laura Vainer De Albuquerque, Universidade Federal Do Rio De Janeiro, Brasil
Felipe Kremer Ribeiro, Universidade Federal Do Rio De Janeiro, Brasil :
Dançar para amar, dançar para aprender: como fala a bailarina?
Ana Kemper, Artista pesquisadora independente
Mariah Miguel, PPGAC – Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil :
Enxertia: Mergulhar no verde de pulmão e olhos abertos
Diego Ballestero, Abteilung Für Altamerikanistik, Bonn Universität, Germany:
(Post-) Colonial Archipelagos. Comparing the Legacies of Spanish Colonialism in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines (Book Review)

Vol 15.1 (Sep. 2022)

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Vol. 15.1 (Sep. 2022)
Entanglements and Interdependencies in the Americas: Perspectives form the Carib – Kalinago – Garifuna People

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Paula Prescod, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, France:
Introducing Entanglements and interdependencies in the Americas: Perspectives from the Carib – Kalinago – Garifuna people
Carlos Agudelo, Chercheur Associé URMIS – Unité de Recherche Migrations et Société, France:
Voyageurs incessants. La saga du peuple garifuna
Paula Prescod, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, France:
Les noms de lieux indigènes à Saint-Vincent : entre traces et effacements
Carlos Roberto Solórzano Membreño, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras:
La didáctica de la interculturalidad en el programa de educación intercultural bilingüe para los pueblos indígenas de Honduras
Ons Barnat, Université du Québec à Montréal:
L’album Laru Beya d’Aurelio, du Honduras au Sénégal en passant par le Belize et le Canada. Réflexions ethnomusicologiques sur les processus créatifs mis en jeu dans la réalisation d’un disque de musique garifuna au début du XXIe siècle
Nicole D. Ramsey, University of Virginia, United States
Melanie Y. White, Georgetown University, United States:
Diasporic Intimacies: Garinagu, Creoles and Multiplicity of Black Indigeneities in Caribbean Central America
Douglas Hamilton, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom:
Book Review The Creole Archipelago. Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean
Cristina Soriano, Villanova University, United States:
Book Review The Creole Archipelago. Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean
Nidhal Tlili, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany:
Book Review Cultures et écritures mineures de « l’exception » dans les Amériques

Vol 14.2 (Nov. 2021)

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Vol. 14.2 (Nov. 2021)
Imaginaries of Home in the Caribbean Diaspora and the Americas

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Miriam Brandel, Bielefeld University, Germany
Wilfried Raussert, Bielefeld University, Germany:
Rethinking Home in the Caribbean Diaspora and the Americas: Introduction
Anne Brüske, University of Regensburg / University of Heidelberg, Germany:
Producing Home in Achy Obejas’ Days of Awe (2001). Homing and Remembering as Diasporic Practices
Cécile Accilien, Kennesaw State University, Georgia, United States:
Searching for Home: Im/migration, Deportation, and Exile in Haitian Popular Cinema
Wilfried Raussert, Bielefeld University, Germany:
“We – the audience with me – are ‘breaking bread together’”: Black Canadian Dub Poets’ Call-and-Response Practices and (Re)Creating Home in the Diaspora
Paola Ravasio, Associated Research Fellow, CIAS Bielefeld, Germany:
Home is Where the Womb Is: Towards a New Consideration of Home in Diaspora
Sigrid Thomsen, University of Vienna, Austria:
Approaching Imaginative Mobilities through Rhythms of the City and the Body in Edwidge Danticat’s “New York Day Women”
Giselle Liza Anatol, University of Kansas, United States:
Transmogrifying Home in Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John and Kacen Callender’s Hurricane Child
Fabio Santos, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany:
Book Review Right-Wing Populism and Gender. European Perspectives and Beyond

Vol. 14.1 (Feb. 2021)

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Technologies and Social Change in the Americas

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Wilfried Raussert, Bielefeld University, Germany
Olaf Kaltmeier, Bielefeld University, Germany
Robert Curley, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico
Mario Rufer, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico
Matti Steinitz, Bielefeld University, Germany:
Technologies and Social Change in the Americas (Introduction)
Paola Ravasio, Associated Research Fellow, CIAS Bielefeld, Germany:
Rail Intertextuality: A Time-Travel Escapade upon the Iron Rails of the Americas
Gigi Adair, Bielefeld University, Germany:
Technologies of Rebellion: technology and the posthuman social in Earl Lovelace’s Is Just a Movie
Rozenn Le Mur, Universidad de Guadalajara, México:
La redefinición del imaginario sobre la indigenidad como acto político de resistencia. El ejemplo del muralismo comunitario en Guadalajara
Francisco Hernández Lomelí, Universidad de Guadalajara, México:
La debilidad inicial de la industria de la televisión
Wilfried Raussert, Bielefeld University, Germany:
Creativity as Collaborative Endeavor with Social Vision: Postmodern Dance, the Creative Body, and Electronically Networked Performance Spaces in the 1960s
Alejandra Sañudo Martín, Universidad de Guadalajara, México
Fabiola Alcalá Anguiano, Universidad de Guadalajara, México:
La representación de la mujer en el cine de ciencia ficción. Estereotipos y arquetipos femeninos en Star Wars
Rodrigo Liceaga, Associated Research Fellow, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana de México :
Internet, Coloniality and Environment: Technology, Economic Commensurability of Diversity, and Ich’el ta muk’
Inés Cornejo, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico
Mario Rufer, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico:
Horizontality in Perspective: Interview with Olaf Kaltmeier and Sarah Corona Berkin

Vol. 13.3 (Dec.2020)

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100th anniversary of the death of Max Weber: Commemoration from the Americas

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Jessé Souza, Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC), São Paulo:
100th anniversary of the death of Max Weber: Commemoration from the Americas (Introduction)
Wolfgang Schluchter, Heidelberg University:
“How Ideas Become Effective in History” Max Weber on Confucianism and Beyond
Hans-Jürgen Burchardt, University of Kassel:
Rethinking the State: How Necessary is a Farewell to Max Weber?
Boike Rehbein, Humboldt University Berlin:
Weber, Understanding and the Charge of Subjectivism
Jessé Souza, Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC), São Paulo:
Max Weber e o “Culturalismo Científico” do Senhor e do Escravo
Marcos Abraao Ribeiro, Instituto Federal Fluminense:
A recepção de Max Weber no pensamento de Fernando Henrique Cardoso e a legitimação intelectual do projeto de reforma do Estado no Brasil
Francisco Colom González, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC):
Patrimonial Liberalism. A Weberian Approach to Early Latin American State-Making
Mostafa Abedinifard, University of British Columbia:
Book review “The Persian Whitman: Beyond a Literary Reception”

Vol. 13.2 (Jul. 2020)

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Cine InterAmericano: (des)conexiones por, en y a través del cine en las Américas

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Yolanda Minerva Campos García, Universidad de Guadalajara
Nelson Camilo Forero Medina, Universidad de Bielefeld
Joachim Michael, Universidad de Bielefeld:
Cine InterAmericano: (des)conexiones por, en y a través del cine en las Américas (Introducción)
Joachim Michael, Universidad de Bielefeld:
El entrelugar interamericano del cine en América Latina
Yolanda Minerva Campos García, Universidad de Guadalajara:
Prácticas de transculturación: adaptación cinematográfica de la novela latinoamericana en el cine de Arturo Ripstein
Álvaro Arturo Fernández Reyes, Universidad de Guadalajara:
La mirada silenciosa. Entre la fábrica de sueños y el cine de lo real en el periodo mudo mexicano.
Tanius Karam, Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México:
Ciudad y Cuerpo desde la violencia del narcotráfico en el cine latinoamericano del siglo XXI
Salvador Velazco, Claremont McKenna College:
Movimiento por la Paz con Justicia y Dignidad: Javier Sicilia en la soledad delotro y El poeta, una poética del dolor y sufrimiento
Nelson Camilo Forero Medina, Bielefeld University:
Film and Memory: The Role of Footage and New Worlds from the Cinema in the Construction of Human Memory
Alina Muñoz Knudsen, Bielefeld University
Wilfried Raussert, Bielefeld University:
Documentary “In Her Own Words: Nuyorican Poet and Activist”
Friederike Bischoff, Bielefeld University
Raphael Vásquez, Bielefeld University :
Documentary “Fragments of Belonging: El alma dividida de Puerto Rico”
Sutanuka Ghosh Roy, The University of Burdwan, West Bengal:
Book Review “Urban Reflections: Photography and Poetry in Dialogue”

Vol. 13.1 (Mar. 2020)

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Heritage-Boom: On Culture and Nature in the Americas

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Olaf Kaltmeier, Bielefeld University
Wilfried Raussert, Bielefeld University:
Heritage-Boom: On Culture and Nature in the Americas (Introduction)
Rosa H. Yáñez Rosales, Universidad de Guadalajara:
Language shift, language reclamation: The case of Nahuatl in Tuxpan, Jalisco, Mexico
Olaf Kaltmeier, Universidad de Bielefeld:
Patrimonio colonial y refeudalización. Giros hacia la derecha en la cultura política en América Latina.
Wilfried Raussert, Bielefeld University:
Culture Heritage and Politics of Reconciliation: Reinventing the Blues in the Narratives of The Delta Blues Museum and the B.B. King Museum
Wilfried Raussert, Bielefeld University
Alina Muñoz Knudsen, Bielefeld University :
Documentary “Sonic Bridges: Son Jarocho in South-North Dialogue”
William Ferris, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill:
Voices of Mississippi Blues
Antoine Acker, University of Zurich:
The Nature of the Brazilian Flag: An Environmental Turn under Military Rule (1964-1985)
Anthony Goebel McDermott, Universidad de Costa Rica
David Chavarría Camacho, Universidad de Costa Rica
Ronny J. Viales Hurtado, Universidad de Costa Rica:
La construcción social de un espacio ‘prístino’: paisajes predominantes e interacciones funcionales en el sistema socio-ambiental Parque Nacional Braulio Carrillo (1881-1987)
Yvonne Laudien, Bielefeld University:
National Parks of the southern Meta/Colombia in Post-acuerdo – A conflict- and actor-oriented analysis of the public debate
Cecilia Lezama Escalante, Universidad de Guadalajara
Alicia Torres Rodríguez, Universidad de Guadalajara:
Las aguas termales de la cuenca Chapala-Santiago:un patrimonio natural en peligro

Vol. 12.2 (Oct. 2019)

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Music & Rights in the Americas

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Mario Dunkel, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg:
“Jazz Embodies Human Rights”: The Politics of UNESCO’s International Jazz Day
Lene Annette Karpp, Freie Universität Berlin:
Queer (-/and) Feminist DIY Practices in Punk and the “Sexual Turn” in Human Rights
Meagan Sylvester, The University of the West Indies:
Popular Music, Identity, Social Change and Human Rights: Responses from Trinidad’s Calypso Music
Yolanda Minerva Campos García, Universidad de Guadalajara:
a Memoria institucional del Festival de Avándaro. Los documentos sobre el festival en el Archivo General de la Nación en México y el Informe Avándaro del gobierno del Estado de México
Terence Kumpf, Technische Universität Dortmund:
Persistent Resistance: The Demand for Collective and Individual Human Rights Action in the Music of Rebel Diaz
Pablo Luis Rivera, Universidad de Puerto Rico / Restauración Cultural & Juan José Vélez Peña, Universidad de Bremen / Restauración Cultural:
Bomba y plena, música afropuertorriqueña y rebeldía social y estética
Paloma Coatlicue Rodríguez Villarruel, Bielefeld University:
Nahua Reggae and Metal: A Comparative Case between LA and Mexico City
Anne Lappert, Bielefeld University:
Book Review: Sonic Politics: Music and Social Movements in the Americas