Olaf Kaltmeier

Stefan Rinke

Josef Raab

Mike Foley

Alice Nash

Mario Rufer

The colonial heritage and its renewed aftermaths – expressed in the inter-American experiences of slavery, indigeneity, dependence, and freedom movements, to mention only a few aspects – form a common ground of experience in the Western Hemisphere. The flow of peoples, goods, knowledge and finances have promoted interdependence and integration that cut across borders and link the countries of North and South America together. The nature of this transversally related and multiply interconnected region can only be captured through a transnational, multidisciplinary, and comprehensive approach. The Routledge Handbook to the History and Society of the Americas explores the history and society of the Americas, placing particular emphasis on collective and intertwined experiences. Forty-four chapters cover a range of concepts and dynamics in the Americas from the colonial period until the present century: The shared histories and dynamics of Inter-American relationships are considered through pre-Hispanic empires, colonization, European hegemony, migration, multiculturalism, and political and economic interdependences. Key concepts are selected and explored from different geopolitical, disciplinary, and epistemological perspectives. Highlighting the contested character of key concepts that are usually defined in strict disciplinary terms, the Handbook provides the basis for a better and deeper understanding of inter-American entanglements. This multidisciplinary approach will be of interest to a broad array of academic scholars and students in history, sociology, political science cultural, postcolonial, gender, literary, and globalization studies.

The Routledge Handbook to the History and Society of the Americas

Edgardo Lander

Discussing the civilizatory crisis and processes of refeudalization this volume brings into dialogue two of the most creative approaches, in Olaf Kaltmeier and Edgardo Lander, to rethink capitalism in the 21st century. In Part 1, Olaf Kaltmeier, takes issue with the state of social inequality in the region, highlighting the concentration of wealth within the upper 1% of society in Latin America. Comparing the current economic situation with the ancient regime, the discussion centers around the new phenomena like billionaires as president, increased luxury consumption, an emerging culture of distinction, and the intensification of land and spatial segregation. In Part 2, Lander urgently assesses the current state and political legacy of the "Pink Tide" governments in his essay "Crisis of Civilization." Reviewing the past two decades of the new millennium, Lander critiques the failure of these governments to provide alternatives to extractivism and economic dependencies. Finally, Hans-Jürgen Burchardt connects the arguments through interviews where both authors sum their efforts to open the issues to future dialogue. Refeudalization in Latin America provides an accessible and thought-provoking political diagnosis from the Global South which departs from the oft idiosyncratic and cyclical debates of the Global North to offer new vocabulary for social change. It will interest scholars and students of global studies, sociology, and political science.

Political essays by Olaf Kaltmeier and Edgardo Lander

Refeudalization and the Crisis of Civilization

Relying on the concept of a shared history, this book argues that we can speak of a shared heritage that is common in terms of the basic grammar of heritage and articulated histories, but divided alongside the basic difference between colonizers and colonized. This problematic is also evident in contemporary uses of the past. The last decades were crucial to the emergence of new debates: subcultures, new identities, hidden voices and multicultural discourse as a kind of new hegemonic platform also involving concepts of heritage and/or memory. Thereby we can observe a proliferation of heritage agents, especially beyond the scope of the nation state. This volume gets beyond a container vision of heritage that seeks to construct a diachronical continuity in a given territory. Instead, authors point out the relational character of heritage focusing on transnational and translocal flows and interchanges of ideas, concepts, and practices, as well as on the creation of contact zones where the meaning of heritage is negotiated and contested. Exploring the relevance of the politics of heritage and the uses of memory in the consolidation of these nation states, as well as in the current disputes over resistances, hidden memories, undermined pasts, or the politics of nostalgia, this book seeks to seize the local/global dimensions around heritage.

Postcolonial Perspectives on the Uses of the Past in Latin America

Entangled Heritages

Wilfried Raussert

This volume analyses the narration of the social through music and the seismographic function of music to detect social problems and envision alternatives. Beyond state-driven attempts to link musical production to the official narrative of the nation, mass musical movements emerged during the 20th century that provided countercultural and alternative narratives of the prevailing social context. The Americas contain numerous examples of the strong connection between music and politics; Woody Guthrie’s "This Land is Your Land" envisioned a socialist transformation of the U.S., the Chilean Nueva Canción created a narrative and affective frame for the recognition of popular culture as a central element of the cultural politics of the Chilean way to socialism, and Reggae emerged as a response to British colonialism, drawing inspiration and guidance from the pan-Africanist visions of Marcus Garvey. Providing a significant contribution to the study of music and politics/social movements from an inter-American perspective, this book will appeal to students and scholars of U.S. and Latin American Cultural Studies, Transnational Studies, History and Political Studies, Area Studies, and Music Studies.

Music and Social Movements in the Americas

Sonic Politics

Multiculturalism has shaped identity politics in the Americas over the past decades, as illustrated by politics of recognition, affirmative action, and increasing numbers of internationally recognized cultural productions by members of ethnic minorities. Hinting at postcolonial legacies in political rhetoric and practice multiculturalism has also served as a driving force behind social movements in the Americas. Nevertheless, in current academic discussions and public debates on migration, globalization and identity politics, concepts like new ethnicities, ethnic groupism, creolization, hybridity, mestizaje, diasporas, and "post-ethnicity" articulate positionings that are profoundly changing our understanding of "multiculturalism." Combining theoretical reflections with case studies the aim of this book is to demonstrate the current dynamics of (post-) multicultural politics in the Americas.This book was based on a special issue of Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies.

Multiculturalism and Beyond

The New Dynamics of Identity Politics in the Americas

Julia Roth

Mirko Petersen

This anthology reflects on heritage, utopia, and questions of temporality in light of recent changes in the Americas, that is to say the rise to power of several right-wing governments. The essays argue that the focus of analysis should not simply be on changes of government, but rather on long-term transformations which have an impact on temporal imaginaries in the hemisphere.

Entangled Practices of Heritage and Utopia in the Americas

Cherishing the Past, Envisioning the Future.

Susanne Popp

Michele Barricelli

Lars Deile

Jochen Kemner

Jörg van Norden

Seit einigen Jahren ist Globales Lernen als pädagogische Antwort auf die Globalisierung ein vielzitiertes Konzept. Weltumspannende Transfers und Verflechtungen hat es bereits in früheren Zeiten gegeben. Diese zu entdecken und zu hinterfragen, kann Schülerinnen und Schülern helfen, die Ausprägungen globaler Zusammenhänge in der Gegenwart besser einzuordnen. Doch wie lassen sich globalgeschichtliche Perspektiven für den Geschichtsunterricht konkret greifbar machen?

Konzeptionelle Ueberlegungen zur Unterrichtsmaterialienreihe Wissen um globale Verflechtungen

Globalgeschichtliche Perspektiven und Globales Lernen im Geschichtsunterricht

Eleonora Rohland

Anne Tittor

Daniel Hawkins

This handbook explores the political economy and governance of the Americas, placing particular emphasis on collective and intertwined experiences. Forty-six chapters cover a range of Inter-American key concepts and dynamics. The flow of peoples, goods, resources, knowledge and finances have on the one hand promoted interdependence and integration that cut across borders and link the countries of North and South America (including the Caribbean) together. On the other hand, they have contributed to profound asymmetries between different places. The nature of this transversally related and multiply interconnected hemispheric region can only be captured through a transnational, multidisciplinary and comprehensive approach. This handbook examines the direct and indirect political interventions, geopolitical imaginaries, inequalities, interlinked economic developments and the forms of appropriation of the vast natural resources in the Americas. Expert contributors give a comprehensive overview of the theories, practices and geographies that have shaped the economic dynamics of the region and their impact on both the political and natural landscape. This multidisciplinary approach will be of interest to a broad array of academic scholars and students in history, sociology, geography, economics and political science, as well as cultural, postcolonial, environmental and globalization studies.

The Routledge Handbook to the Political Economy and Governance of the Americas

Stefan Peters

Hans-Jürgen Burchardt

Christina Schnepel

Klimawandel, Artensterben, massive Ressourcenausbeutung, Umweltverschmutzung, der Verbrauch nicht erneuerbarer, aber lebenswichtiger Elemente, all das sind Symptome einer planetarischen Krise, die die Ökosysteme – und damit auch den Menschen – gegenwärtig in ihrer Existenz bedrohen. Trotz ihrer globalen Dimensionen hat diese Krise regional, sozial und politisch sehr unterschiedliche Auswirkungen. Im Band werden die globalen Facetten dieser multiplen Umweltkrisen aus der Perspektive Lateinamerikas betrachtet. Dabei werden – gerade was den mit der Krise zusammenhängenden Konsum angeht – auch die Verflechtungen mit Europa betont. Zugleich diskutieren die Beiträge konkrete Lösungen und kreative Antworten auf die globale ökologische Krise aus lateinamerikanischer Perspektive. Mit Beiträgen von Antoine Acker, Maria Backhouse, Hans-Jürgen Burchardt, Kristina Dietz, Olaf Kaltmeier, Sandra Lassak, Rosa Lehmann, Andrés López-Rivera, Franz Mauelshagen, Stefan Peters, María Cecilia Roa, Eleonora Rohland, Christina Schnepel und Maristella Svampa.

Umweltkonflikte aus lateinamerikanischer Perspektive

Krisenklima

In Argentinien wurden die ersten Nationalparks in Lateinamerika etabliert. Zu denken sind an den Nahuel Huapi, die Iguazu Faelle oder den Perito Moreno-Gletscher. Die Einrichtung dieser Naturschutzgebiete findet in einem transnationalen Verflechtungsraum statt, in dem Ideen, Imaginationen, Menschen, Biota und Artefakte zirkulieren. Dabei wird die argentinische Nationalpark-Idee von unterschiedlichen Ansaetzen beeinflusst, die von der US-amerikanischen Parkpolitik ueber die franzoesische Landschaftsarchitektur und preussische nachhaltige Forstwirtschaft bis hin zu internationalen Debatten zum Naturschutz reichen. Waehrend Nationalparks heute als Hort der Wildnis gelten, ist die zeitgenoessische Interpretation in der ersten Haelfte des 20. Jahrhunderts offener. In Argentinien hat sich eine Position durchgesetzt, die Nationalparks als "echte Instrumente der Kolonialisierung" ansieht. Agrarkolonisation und Vertreibung indigener Voelker, umfassende Programme zur Verstaedterung und Touristifizierung der Landschaft sowie die biologische Kolonisation durch Lachse, Hirsche und Douglasien sind integrale Bestandteile der argentinischen Parkpolitik. In diesem Buch wird deshalb der Zusammenhang zwischen Naturschutz und Kolonisation untersucht und folgende Frage gestellt: Wie funktionieren Nationalparks?

Eine transnationale Verflechtungsgeschichte von Naturschutz und Kolonialisierung in Argentinien

Nationalparks von Nord bis Süd

This volume analyses the narration of the social through music and the seismographic function of music to detect social problems and envision alternatives. Beyond state-driven attempts to link musical production to the official narrative of the nation, mass musical movements emerged during the 20th century that provided countercultural and alternative narratives of the prevailing social context. The Americas contain numerous examples of the strong connection between music and politics; Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land" envisioned a socialist transformation of the U.S., the Chilean Nueva Canción created a narrative and affective frame for the recognition of popular culture as a central element of the cultural politics of the Chilean way to socialism, and Reggae emerged as a response to British colonialism, drawing inspiration and guidance from the pan-Africanist visions of Marcus Garvey. Providing a significant contribution to the study of music and politics/social movements from an inter-American perspective, this book will appeal to students and scholars of U.S. and Latin American Cultural Studies, Transnational Studies, History and Political Studies, Area Studies, and Music Studies. olitics/social movements from an inter-American perspective, this book will appeal to students and scholars of U.S. and Latin American Cultural Studies, Transnational Studies, History and Political Studies, Area Studies, and Music Studies.

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