Vol. 11.3 (Dec. 2018)

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Vol. 11 No. 3 (Dec. 2018):

Double Issue

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The Laws of Extraction– Environmental Rights and Legal Regulations in Struggles over Natural Resources in the Americas
Riccarda Flemmer, German Institute of Global and Area Studies – GIGA, Hamburg:
Introduction: Environmental Rights and Legal Regulations in Struggles over Natural Resources in the Americas
Alonso Burgos Cisneros, Instituto de Estudios Políticos Andinos:
La dinámica política del juego ambiental en el Perú. El caso de la fundición de La Oroya
Carolina Sánchez De Jaegher, University College Roosevelt, the Netherlands:
Saving the planet with green capitalism? Or re-signifying our existence with Mother Earth? The Mapuche-Valdivian case against the wind farm Pililín in the South of Chile
Svenja Schöneich, German Institute of Global and Area Studies – GIGA, Hamburg and Universität Hamburg:
Ambigüedades del Petróleo – Cambios de percepción de riesgo al nivel local por la Reforma Energética Mexicana
Guaraní Alfonzo Guzman, Asamblea del Pueblo Guaraní–APG, Charagua, Bolivia & Almut Schilling-Vacaflor, Universidad de Osnabrück, Alemania/ Asháninka Ruth Buendía (Central Asháninka del Río Ene–CARE), Perú & Riccarda Flemmer, Instituto GIGA Hamburgo, Alemania:
Entrevistas con líderes indígenas: ¿Mecanismos participativos para lograr justicia ambiental y formas democráticas de la gobernanza de recursos naturales?

 

Human Rights and Development in the Americas
Jochen Kemner, Universidad de Kassel:
Introducción: Desarrollo y Derechos Humanos en las Américas. Apuntes para abrir un debate interamericano
Heather Dewey, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
Richard Weiner, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne:
Clashing Views on Modernization and Socio-economic Rights: Mexican Reception of Frank Tannenbaum’s Mexico: The Struggle for Peace and Bread”
Stella Krepp, University of Bern:
Development before Democracy: Inter-American Relations in the long 1950s
Martin Breuer, Bielefeld University:
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)
Annika Hartmann, University of Bremen/Justus Liebig University Giessen:
Shaping Reproductive Freedom – Family Planning and Human Rights in Cold War Guatemala, 1960s-1970s
Janeth Hernández Flores, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México:
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)
Madelaine Caracas, Universidad de Centroamérca y Edith Otero, Universidad de Bielefeld:
Diálogo por Nicaragua

Vol. 1.1 (Jun. 2008)

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Identity Politics in the Americas and Beyond


Ana Cruz García, University College Cork:
A Borderland Consciousness: Una conciencia de mujer in Borderlands/La frontera
Stephen Joyce, Bielefeld University:
The Link and the Chain: The Individual and Communal Self in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee
Madeleine Lyes, Clinton Institute for American Studies, University College Dublin:
Unsettling New York Settlement from the Inside: Maeve Brennan, the Long-Winded Lady, and the Urban Dream of the New Yorker
Sarah-May O’Sullivan, University of Dublin:
The Monstrous-Masculine: Adolescence, Abjection, and the Screen Male in Denys Arcand’s Les Invasions barbares (2003) and Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Amores perros (2000)
Pia Wiegmink, Siegen University:
Turning the Test Beds: Performance Art and Genetic Engineering

Vol. 2.1 (Jan. 2009)

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Remembering and Forgetting: Memory in Images and Texts


Julia Andres, Bielefeld University:
Tú eres mi otro yo – Your Story is my Story. Caramelo: Strands of Memory Woven into a Universal Pattern
Ridvan Askin, University of Freiburg:
Mneme, Anamnesis and Mimesis: The Function of Narrative in Paul Ricœur’s Theory of Memory
Lásló Munteán, University of Budapest, Hungary:
Working Through Ground Zero
Daniela Opitz, Universität Bielefeld:
‘Evitas Montoneras’ – La memoria de la militancia femenina en el cine documental argentino: Montoneros, una historia (1995) de Andrés di Tella
Maryemma Graham:
Toni Morrison: Cultural Memory and the New World Novel

Vol. 2.2 (Oct. 2009)

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“Cornbread and Cuchifritos”: Ethnic Identity Politics, Transnationalization, and Transculturalization in American Urban Popular Music


Martin Butler, Universität Duisburg-Essen:
Sound Tracks: Towards a Topography of Hybridization in US Urban Popular Music
Jürgen E. Grandt, Georgia Institute of Technology:
“And yet I can’t imagine that you want me too”:The Spectacle of Whiteness and the Black Jazz of Art Pepper
Martin Lüthe, Universität Gießen:
“Damn Straight, It’s Called Race!” – Rap and the Transcultural Logic of Race
Christoph Schaub, Columbia University:
Beyond the Hood? Detroit Techno, Underground Resistance, and African American Metropolitan Identity Politics
John Carlos Rowe, University of Southern California:
The Death of Francis Scott Key and Other Elegies: Music and the New American Studies

Vol. 3.1 (May 2010)

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Tracing the Americas


Sebastian Berg, Humboldt University, Berlin:
‘Post-Communism’, Radicalism, and the Intellectual Left: a Comparative Approach
Ken Henriksen, University of Aarhus, Denmark:
The External Creation of Latino Others. Online Discussion Communities and Latino Cultural Citizenship in San Diego.
Jesse Lerner, Pitzer College Claremont, USA:
Día dos de Dante Cerano: sexo, parentesco y video
Nadja Lobensteiner, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico:
La exposición “Mapuche: Semillas de Chile” como “embajada cultural”: Aspectos de un discurso político-cultural chileno
Yulia Kozyrakis, FU Berlin:
Remembering the Future: Ethnic Memory in Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides?
Shannon Dudley, University of Washington: School of Music:
Salsa’s Puerto Rican Roots: The Diasporic Nexus of Santura

Vol. 3.2 (Nov. 2010)

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Cine y Frontera


Miguel J. Hernandez, Madrid, El Colegio de Michoacán, México:
El rostro del otro. El cine documental de tema inmigrante en la frontera México – Estados Unidos
Norma Iglesias-Prieto, Universidad Estatal de San Diego, USA:
Trascendiendo límites: La frontera México-Estados Unidos en el cine
Graciela Martínez-Zalce,Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México:
White Pines, the CBC and Toronto as a border town
Elspeth Kydd:
The Caribbean Diaspora Home Mode in the First Person Documentary
Stephany Slaughter, Alma College, USA:
(In)visibilities, (De)humanizations and Globalizations: The Migrant Body in Border Film of the 2000s

Vol. 4.1 (May 2011)

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The Open Issue


Astrid Haas, Universität Bielefeld:
Canon y Cálculo: Jaime Escalante, Richard Rodriguez y el discurso educativo latino entre asimilación y diferencia cultural
Marius Littschwager, Universität Bielefeld:
Fragmentos de la violencia fronteriza: Una lectura de La muerte me da (Cristina Rivera Garza) y 2666 (Roberto Bolaño)
Kenneth Marcus, University of La Verne, USA:
Heimat and Hybridity: Arnold Schoenberg, Exile, and the Crisis of Modernism
Juan Carlos Silas Casillas, ITESO, Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara, Mexico:
Las universidades interculturales como un mecanismo para elevar el acceso a la educación superior de la población marginada (y de conocimiento) en México
Sophia McClennen, Pennsylvania State University:
Identity as a Political Project in the Americas
Marius Littschwager, Universidad de Bielefeld:
Entrevista a Cristina Rivera Garza