Critical Geopolitics and Regional (Re)Configurations
This book seeks to develop our understanding of the contemporary geopolitical reconfigurations of two regions of the world system with high cultural affinity and traditional close relations: Latin America and Europe.
Relations between Latin America and Europe have been interpreted generally in the social sciences as synonyms of interstate relations. However, although states remain the most important actor in the geopolitical scene, they have been deeply reconfigured in recent decades, impacted by transnational dynamics, politics and spaces. This book highlights interregional relations and transnational dynamics between Latin America and Europe from a critical geopolitics perspective, promoting a new look for interregional relations which encompasses international cooperation and development, global policies, borders, inequalities and social movements. It brings attention to the relevance of interregionalism in the current geopolitical reconfiguration of the world system but also argues for systematic inclusion of relevant new social actors and imaginaries in this traditional sphere of states. These social actors, particularly social movements and practices of contestation, are developing not only international bonds but a new transnational field, where networks defy traditional territorial orders.
This volume seeks to generate a new discussion among scholars of geopolitics, international relations, social theory and social movement studies by encouraging a development of an interregional and transnational perspective of the two regions.
Heriberto Cairo is a professor in Political Sciences in the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where he has been dean of the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology. He has published extensively in geopolitics, peace and conflict studies and Latin American integration process.
Breno Bringel is a professor at the Institute of Social and Political Studies at the Rio de Janeiro State University, where he coordinates the PhD Program in Sociology. He has published extensively in social movements, transnational activism and Latin American thought.
Routledge Studies in Global and Transnational Politics Series
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The core theme of the series is global connectivities and the implications and outcomes of global and transnational processes in history and in the contemporary world. The series aims to promote greater theoretical innovation and interdisciplinarity in the academic study of global transformations. The understanding of globalization that it employs accords centrality to forms and processes of political, social, cultural and economic connectivity (and disconnectivity) and relations between the global and the local. The series editors see the multidisciplinary exploration of global connectivities as contributing, not only to an understanding of the nature and direction of current global and transnational transformations but also to recasting the intellectual agenda of the social sciences.
The series aims to publish high-quality work by leading and emerging scholars critically engaging with key issues in the study of global and transnational politics. It will comprise research monographs, edited collections and advanced textbooks for scholars, researchers, policy analysts and students.
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Lea Mller-Funk
Critical Geopolitics and Regional (Re)Configurations
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Heriberto Cairo and Breno Bringel
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In memory of David Slater, colleague and friend, who began this travel with us.
There will always be the need for a negotiation of respect and recognition with a critical spirit that helps us avoid essentializations of either positive or negative hue. A meaningful ethics of intersubjectivity would include the right to be critical and different on both sides of any cultural border. And the future can be post-imperial; another world is possible
(David Slater, Geopolitics and the Post-colonial: Rethinking North-South Relations, Oxford, Blackwell Publishing, 2004, p. 233)
Livia Alcantara has a PhD in Sociology from the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Activist and Journalist, she works at Operao Amaznia Nativa (OPAN), the first indigenist organization founded in Brazil.
Manuela Boatc is a professor of Sociology with a focus on macrosociology at the Institut fr Soziologie & Global Studies Programme, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitt Freiburg.
Pedro dos Santos de Borba has a PhD in Political Science from the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro and is a researcher at the Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Polticos (IESP), Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Breno Bringel is a professor of Sociology at the Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Polticos (IESP), Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Gabriela Pinheiro Machado Brochner has a PhD in Political Science and Master in Latin American Studies from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.
Almudena Cabezas-Gonzlez is a lecturer in Political Geography at the Facultad de Ciencias Polticas y Sociologa, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.
Heriberto Cairo is a professor of Political Geography at the Facultad de Ciencias Polticas y Sociologa, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.