Processes of spatialization in the Americas : configurations and narratives / edited by Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez and Hannes Warnecke-Berger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pisarz-Ramirez, Gabriele, editor.

Warnecke-Berger, Hannes, editor.

Series:

Interamericana (Verlag Peter Lang)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Boundaries.

United States.

Latin America--Boundaries.

Latin America.

North America--Boundaries.

North America.

Archaeology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (267 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Processes of Spatialization in the Americas

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, [2018]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction

Spatialization processes in the Americas: configurations and narratives / Hannes Warnecke-Berger and Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez

Regionalism and Regionalization in Latin America: Drivers and Obstacles / Peter Birle

Storied Landscapes: Colonial and Transcultural Inscriptions of the Land / Gesa Mackenthun

Spatiality and Psyche: Surviving the Yukon in Jack London's 'Love of Life' and 'To Build a Fire' / Steffen Wäll

Regional Homogeneity by Force or by Conviction? Central American Regionalism in a Long-Term Perspective / Thomas Plätze

Contestation, Hybridization, Criminalization: US-Mexican Borderland Vistas / Josef Raab

Florida as a Hemispheric Region/ Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez

Bordering through the Lens of Slavery and Abolition in the United States / Megan Maruschke

Americanization of Show Business? Shifting Territories of Theatrical Entertainment in North America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century / Antje Dietze

Salvadoran Transnational Transgressions: Remittances, Rents, and the Struggle over Economic Space / Hannes Warnecke-Berger

The Post-World War II Resettlement of European Refugees in Venezuela: A Twofold Translation of Migration / Sebastian Huhn and Christoph A. Rass

List of Figures.

Notes:

Description based on print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.