Processes of Spatialization in the Americas: Configurations and Narratives

ISBN-13: 9783631763629 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 272 str.

Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez; Hannes Warnecke-Berger

Opis

This interdisciplinary volume addresses competing and conflicting configurations and narratives of spatialization in the context of globalization processes. It explores how the Americas were imagined by different actors in different historical periods, and how these imaginations were guided by changing agendas and priorities.

Spis treści

Spatialization processes on the American continent - Producing space: the Americas between homogeneity and heterogeneity - Configuring space: borders, frontiers, and the dialectics of inclusion and exclusion - Transgressing space: globalization, mobility, and bordercrossings

O autorze

Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez is Professor of American Studies and Minority Studies at Leipzig University.

Hannes Warnecke-Berger is a Political Scientist and currently Senior Researcher in the Collaborative Research Center «Spatialization Processes under the Global Condition» at Leipzig University.