Vol 7.2 (July 2014)
The Harlem Renaissance in an Inter-American Perspective
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Astrid Haas, ed., Universität Bielefeld:
Introduction: The Harlem Renaissance in an Inter-American Perspective
Frank Mehring, Radboud University Nijmegen:
Mediating Mexico: Winold Reiss and the Transcultural Dimension of “Harlem” in the 1920s
Astrid Haas, Universität Bielefeld:
Un Continente “de color”: Langston Hughes y América Latina
Tatiana Tagirova-Daley, Elizabeth City State University:
“A Vagabond with a Purpose”: Claude McKay and His International Aspirations
Sandra Becker, Paul Franke & Florian Reschke, Universität Bielefeld:
VIDEO: “The boiled-down juice of human living” – The Anthropological Fieldwork of Zora Neale Hurston
Vol. 7.3 (Dec. 2014)
Theorizing Hemispheric American Studies
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Djelal Kadir, Pennsylvania State University:
Imperial Calculus: E Pluribus Unum
Claudia Sadowski-Smith, Arizona State University:
The Centrality of the Canada-US Border for Hemispheric Studies of the Americas
Walter Mignolo, Duke University:
Decolonial Reflections on Hemispheric Partitions The “Western Hemisphere” in the Colonial Horizon of Modernity and the Irreversible Historical Shift to the “Eastern Hemisphere”
Wilfried Raussert, Bielefeld University:
Mobilizing ‘America/América’: Toward Entangled Americas and a Blueprint for Inter-American ‘Area Studies’
Rebecca Fuchs, University of Mannheim:
Decolonizing the Plantation Machine as the Curse of Coloniality in Caribbean Theory and Fiction
Mirko Petersen, Bielefeld University:
A Dangerous Excess? Rethinking Populism in the Americas
Julia Roth, Bielefeld University:
Decolonizing American Studies: Toward a Politics of Intersectional Entanglements
Olaf Kaltmeier, Bielefeld University:
Inter-American Perspectives for the Rethinking of Area Studies
Markus Heide, Uppsala University & Guillermo Verdecchia, Toronto
Border Issues on Stage Latino-Canadianness, the Americas, and the Representation of Arabs in the Theatre of the Canadian playwright Guillermo Verdecchia, an Interview
Josef Raab, University of Duisburg-Essen
Interamerican Studies: Why and Whither?
Vol. 8.2 (Sep. 2015)
New Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Feminicide at the U.S.-Mexico Border
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Laura Gillman,Virginia Tech & Tobias Jochum, Free University Berlin:
Introduction: New Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Feminicide at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Steven S. Volk, Oberlin College:
The Historiography of Feminicide in Ciudad Juárez: Critical and Revisionist Approaches
Julia E. Monárrez Fragoso, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte Ciudad Juárez, México :
El destino de la humanidad en tiempos inhumanos
Cynthia Bejarano, New Mexico State University:
(Re)Living Femicide through Social Control: The Regulation of Life and Bodies through Fear and (In)Formal Social Control
Tobias Jochum, Free University Berlin:
“The Weight of Words, the Shock of Photos”: Poetic Testimony and Elliptical Imagery in Sergio González Rodríguez’ The Femicide Machine
Aishih Wehbe-Herrera, Independent Scholar:
“A New Landscape of the Possible”: 400 Women, Politics of Representation and Human Rights
Laura Gillman, Virginia Tech :
El destino de la humanidad en tiempos inhumanos
Alice Driver, Independent Researcher :
Risks, Challenges and Ethics of Representing Feminicide: A Comparative Analysis of Sergio González Rodríguez’ Huesos en el desierto and Roberto Bolaño’s 2666
Edward Avila, Minnesota State University, Mankato :
The Maquila Complex: Reification, Disposability, and Resistance in Maquilapolis: City of Factories
Vol. 8.1 (June 2015)
Transcultural Mobility
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Oliver Santín Peña, UNAM:
Las políticas públicas canadienses en materia
de inmigración y refugio bajo el gobierno conservador
de Stephen Harper (2006-2012)
Clara Buitrago, Bielefeld University:
New Strategies on Public Security in Latin America. Community Policing as Organizational Myth
Dorothea Gail, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz:
Identity and In-Betweenness: Hybridity as Transcultural Mobility in the Music of Native American R. Carlos Nakai and his band Jackalope
Yaatsil Guevara, Veracruz/Bielefeld University:
Migración de tránsito y ayuda humanitaria: Apuntes sobre las casas de migrantes en la ruta migratoria del pacífico sur en México
Barbara Job, Bielefeld University and Bettina Kluge, University of Hildesheim:
Multilingual Practices in Identity Construction: Virtual Communities of Immigrants to Quebec
Marcus Hartner, Bielefeld University:
Imagining Transgender on Both Sides of the Atlantic: Reinscriptions of Normativity in Duncan Tucker’s Transamerica and Jackie Kay’s Trumpet
Gonzalo Portocarrera, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Peru:
La ética andino-cristina de los relatos de condenados
Margarita Ramos Godínez and Sara Quintero Ramírez, Universidad de Guadalajara:
Deterritorializadas y deslenguadas, pero heroizadas: Concepción Benavídez, Juana García y Celaya Reyes
Cornelia Giebeler, University of Applied Science Bielefeld:
Niñ@s migrantes en las rutas mexicanas transnacionales. Desafíos para la teoría de la ninez, la política de migración y las identidades políticas
Alina Muñoz, Costa Rica
Video: Desde los márgenes de la marginalidad: Conceptos de “lo centroamericano”
Vol. 11.2 (Sep. 2018)
Encounters in the ‘Game-Over Era’: The Americas in/and Video Games
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Mahshid Mayar, Bielefeld University:
A game (simulation) is a game (interactive technology) is a game
(lifestyle) is a game (live archive): An Introduction
Daniel Giere, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich:
Let’s Play the Boston Tea Party – Exemplary Analysis of Historical
Events in Digital Games
Eugen Pfister, Hochschule der Künste Bern:
“In a world without gold, we might have been heroes!” Cultural
Imaginations of Piracy in Video Games
Stefan Schubert, Leipzig University:
Columbian Nightmare: Narrative, History, and Nationalism in
BioShock Infinite
Mahshid Mayar, Bielefeld University & Stephen Joyce ,Aarhus University:
The Post-Apocalyptic and the Ludic: An Interview with
Dr. Stephen Joyce
Naima Shaheen, Bielefeld University:
Book Review “Cultural Code: Video Games and Latin America”
Leonid Moyzhes, Russian State University for the Humanities:
Book Review “Digital Games as History”
Phillip Penix-Tadsen, University of Delaware:
Afterword: Regional Game Studies and Historical Representation”
Exploring the technical assistance activities of the International Labor Organization in the field of indigenous peoples: Development and Human Rights in the Andean Indian Program (1954-1968)
El papel de la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) ante el encuentro histórico de los derechos humanos y el desarrollo: el enfoque basado en derechos humanos (EBDH)
Janeth Hernández Flores, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México:
Shaping Reproductive Freedom – Family Planning and Human Rights in Cold War Guatemala, 1960s-1970s
Annika Hartmann, University of Bremen/Justus Liebig University Giessen:
Development before Democracy: Inter-American Relations in the long 1950s
Stella Krepp, University of Bern:
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