Overview
- Investigates affinities, connections, and tensions between Australia and Latin America within a global context
- Challenges preconceptions about the apparent lack of connection between Australia and Latin America
- Explores and assesses the significance of the Global South as an analytical tool for numerous disciplines both within and beyond the confines of Latin American Studies
Part of the book series: Studies of the Americas (STAM)
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This book explores contemporary cultural, historical and geopolitical connections between Latin America and Australia from an interdisciplinary perspective. It seeks to capitalise on scholarly developments and further unsettle the multiple divides created by the North-South axis by focusing on processes of translocal connectivities that link Australia with Latin America. The authors conceptualise the South-South not as a defined geographic space with clear boundaries, but rather as a mobile terrain with multiple, evolving and overlapping translocal processes.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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South-South Perspectives and Transpacific Flows
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Diasporic Connections
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Reviews
“In this overdue collection, trans-Pacific connections take on new meaning and vibrancy. Divided by language, as well as by an ocean, the peoples of Australia and Latin America yet share postcolonial sensibilities and an ambiguous position in a global order dominated by the North. They share, too, destructive histories of imperial invasion and Indigenous dispossession. Mapping South-South Connections provides new perspectives on a complex relationship.” (Marilyn Lake, Professorial Fellow, School of Philosophy and History, The University of Melbourne, Australia)
“Mapping South-South Connections represents a formidable challenge to the geographies of Latin American Studies, at a watershed moment for the global flows of merchandise, power and cultural capital. Peñaloza and Walsh’s collection is a timely contribution to our rethinking of Latin Americanism in its trans-Pacific reconfigurations.” (Jens Andermann, Professor, New York University, USA)
“This is an inspiring and timely volume on the under-researched field of Australian-Latin American connections. This interdisciplinary collection provides innovative and significant insights into knowledge production, cultural processes and historical linkages across the Southern Hemisphere. It offers an important reading for scholars and students interested in transpacific relationships, past and present.” (Eveline Dürr, Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology, LMU Munich, Germany)
“A book to linger over! A rich collection of studies from present and past. The wealth of links between the two continents will surprise many readers. The authors face hard post-colonial realities, but also give us hopeful stories of cultural creation and social action. This book vividly shows the joy, and the trouble, in making South-South connections.” (Raewyn Connell, author of Southern Theory and Professor Emerita, University of Sydney, Australia)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Fernanda Peñaloza is Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies and Chair of the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Sydney.
Sarah Walsh is Teaching Fellow in the Department of History at Washington State University, USA.
Sarah Walsh is Teaching Fellow in the Department of History at Washington State University, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mapping South-South Connections
Book Subtitle: Australia and Latin America
Editors: Fernanda Peñaloza, Sarah Walsh
Series Title: Studies of the Americas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78577-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-78576-9Published: 26 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-78577-6Published: 15 March 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 294
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: International Relations Theory, Latin American Politics, Regionalism, Cultural Geography, Latin American Culture, Cultural History