André Schiffrin

Johan Heilbron

Gustavo Sorá

Martin Doré

Gisèle Sapiro

Elżbieta Skibińska

Ioana Popa

Jean Yves Mollier

Hélène Buzelin

Luc Pinhas

Sophie Nöel

Camille Joseph

Fanny Mazzone

Hervé Serry

Jean-Marc Gouanvic

Marta Pragana Dantas

Las recientes transformaciones que han afectado la cadena de producción del libro se han analizado, en general, desde el punto de vista del proceso de racionalización y de concentración, como causantes de la aceleración del círculo de fusiones-adquisiciones de estos últimos años. Curiosamente, se ha prestado menos atención a las modificaciones sufridas por la configuración de las relaciones espaciales y de la estructura del espacio de la producción editorial. Ahora bien, el comercio del libro es, ante todo, un asunto de territorios, y estos determinan las formas de circulación: zonas lingüísticas, áreas geográficas de distribución, fronteras nacionales que circunscriben espacios jurídicos y políticas públicas, territorios imaginarios que asocian identidades con lugares y crean un horizonte de expectativa.

Las contradicciones de la globalización editorial

Thibaud Boncourt

This volume employs new empirical data to examine the internationalization of the social sciences and humanities (SSH). While the globalization dynamics that have transformed the shape of the world over the last decades has been the subject of a growing number of scientific studies, very few such studies have set out to analyze the globalization of social and human sciences themselves. Arguing against the complacent assumption that Science is ‘international by nature’, this work demonstrates that the growing circulation of scholars and scientific ideas is a complex, contradictory and contested process. Arranged thematically, the chapters in this volume present a coherent exploration of patterns of transnationalization, South-North and East-West exchanges, and transnational regionalization. Further, they offer fresh insight into specific topics including the influence of the Anglo-American research infrastructure and the development of social and human sciences in postcolonial contexts. Featuring contributions from leading international scholars in the field, this work will advance the research agenda and will have interdisciplinary appeal for scholars from across the social sciences.

The Social and Human Sciences in Global Power Relations

This book presents a cultural history of Latin America as seen through a symbolic good and a practice – the book, and the act of publication – two elements that have had an irrefutable power in shaping the modern world. The volume combines multiple theoretical approaches and empirical landscapes with the aim to comprehend how Latin American publishers became the protagonists of a symbolic unification of their continent from the 1930s through the 1970s. The Latin American focus responds to a central point in its history: the effective interdependence of the national cultures of the continent. Americanism, until the 1950s, or Latin Americanism, from the onset of the Cold War, were moral frameworks that guided publishers’ thinking and actions and had concrete effects on the process of regional integration. The illustration of how Latin American publishing markets were articulated opens up broader and comparative questions regarding the ways in which the ideas embodied in books also sought to unify other cultural areas. The intersection of cultural, political and economic themes, as well as the style of writing, makes this book an interest to a wide reading public with historical and sociological sensitivity and global cultural curiosity.

A History of Book Publishing in Contemporary Latin America

Gustavo Sorá

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