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Academic and research fields are moved by fads, waves, revolutionaries, paradigm shifts, and turns. They all imply a certain degree of change that alters the conditions of a stable system, producing an imbalance that needs to be addressed by the field itself.
New Approaches to Latin American Studies: Culture and Power offers researchers and students from different theoretical fields an essential, turn-organized overview of the radical transformation of epistemological and methodological assumptions in Latin American Studies from the end of the 1980s to the present. Sixteen chapters written by experts in their respective fields help explain the various ways in which to think about these shifts. Questions posited include:
- Why are turns so crucial?
- How did they alter the shape or direction of the field?
- What new questions, objects, or problems did they contribute?
- What were or are their limitations?
- What did they displace or prevent us from considering?
Among the
turns included are: memory, transnational, popular culture, decolonial, feminism, affect, indigenous studies, transatlantic, ethical, post/hegemony, deconstruction, cultural policy, subalternism, gender and sexuality, performance, and cultural studies.
List of contents
Introduction: Twenty-Five Years of Latin American Studies [Juan Poblete] 1. The Memory Turn [Michael J. Lazzara] 2. The Transnational Turn [Juan Poblete] 3.The Popular Culture Turn [Pablo Alabarces (Translated by Joanna Meadvin)] 4. The Ethical Turn [Erin Graff Zivin] 5. The Subalternist Turn [Gareth Williams] 6. The Cultural Studies Turn [Mabel Moraña (Translated by Robert Cavooris)] 7. The Decolonial Turn [Nelson Maldonado-Torres (Translated by Robert Cavooris)] 8. The Indigenous Studies Turn [Nicole Fabricant and Nancy Postero] 9. The Performance Turn [Angela Marino] 10. Turning to Feminisms [Sonia E. Alvarez and Claudia de Lima Costa] 11. The Turn of Deconstruction [Alberto Moreiras] 12. The Cultural Policy Turn [Ana Wortman (Translated by Juan Poblete)] 13. The Transatlantic Turn [Bécquer Seguín] 14. The Gender and Sexuality Turn [Robert McKee Irwin and Mónica Szurmuk] 15. The Affect Turn [Laura Podalsky] 16. The Posthegemonic Turn [Abraham Acosta]
About the author
Juan Poblete is Professor of Latin/o American Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Literatura chilena del siglo XIX (2003); editor of Critical Latin American and Latino Studies (2003); and coeditor of Andrés Bello (2009), Redrawing The Nation: National Identities in Latin/o American Comics (2009), Desdén al infortunio: Sujeto, comunicación y público en la narrativa de Pedro Lemebel (2010), Sports and Nationalism in Latin America (2015), and Humor in Latin American Cinema (2015).
Summary
New Approaches to Latin American Studies: Culture and Power offers researchers and students from different theoretical fields an essential, turn-organized overview of the radical transformation of epistemological and methodological assumptions in Latin American Studies from the end of the 1980's to the present.
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'New Approaches to Latin American Studies offers an invaluable collective account of the transformations and "turns" that the field of Latin American Studies has experienced in the past twenty-five years. Discussing significant theoretical paradigms and concepts (from cultural studies to memory and ethics to affect and posthegemony), the top-rank scholars contribute, in each individual chapter, to the construction of a comprehensive, sophisticated and rigorous cartography of the field of Latin American Studies.' - Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, author of Screening Neoliberalism and Strategic Occidentalism
