Clara Irazabal - Transbordering Latin Americas: Liminal Places, Cultures, and Powers (t)here

This book examines transbordering Latin American sociocultural and spatial conditions across the globe and at different scales, from gendered and racialized individuals to national and transnational organizations. Gathering scholars from the spatial sciencesarchitecture, urban design, urban planning, and geographyas well as sociology, anthropology, history, and economics, the volume explores these transbordering practices of place making and community building across cultural and nation-state borders, examining different agents (individuals, ethnic and cultural groups, NGOs, government agencies) that are engaged in transnational/transborder living and city-making practices, reconceiving notions of state, identity, and citizenship and showing how subjected populations resist, adapt, or coproduce transnational/transborder projects and, in the process, help shape and are shaped as transborder subjects.

Clara Irazbal is Director of the Latin Lab and assistant professor of Urban Planning in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University in the City of New York.

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Transbordering Latin Americas
Liminal Places, Cultures, and Powers (T)Here
Edited by Clara Irazbal

Liminal Places, Cultures, and Powers (T)Here

Edited by Clara Irazbal

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Transbordering Latin Americas: liminal places, cultures, and powers
(t)here / edited by Clara Irazbal.
pages cm. (Routledge research in transnationalism ; 28)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Latin AmericaSocial conditions. 2. Latin AmericaSocial life
and customs. 3. Latin AmericaBoundaries. I. Irazbal, Clara.
HN110.5.A8T727 2013
306.098dc23
2013010215

ISBN13: 978-0-415-84039-2 (hbk)
ISBN13: 978-0-203-76742-9 (ebk)

Typeset in Sabon
by IBT Global.

CLARA IRAZBAL

PART I
Gender and Image Making

STEPHAN LANZ

GERARDO FRANCISCO SANDOVAL AND LUZ HERNNDEZ

YVES PEDRAZZINI

PART II
Tourism and Transnational Planning

MIRIAM CHION

CLARA IRAZBAL AND MACARENA GMEZ-BARRIS

MARISA A. ZAPATA

PART III
Place Making and Ideology

MARCELA TOVAR-RESTREPO

CRISTINA INCLN-VALADEZ

MARA MORENO-CARRANCO

PART IV
Immigrant Ethnoscapes (T)Here

MILENA GMEZ KOPP

FARANAK MIRAFTAB

ERIKA ROSSI

ROSA CERVERA

FIGURES

GRAPHS

I thank the support that the Institute of Latin American Studies and the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University granted to the Latin Lab to host the conference Transnational Latin Americanisms: Liminal Places, Cultures, and Powers (T)Here, held at Columbia University on March 45, 2010 (http://www.youtube.com/user/columbiauniversity/videos?query=Transnational+Latin+Americanisms), from which this book derives. I thank all the speakers and discussants who participated in that conference. While not all their contributions are included in this book, their work was nonetheless instrumental in shaping our reflections here. I am also grateful to the Reed Foundation, for its support to this publication; the able assistance of Alejandro de Castro, program coordinator of the Latin Lab, who took care of most conference logistics; Andrea Marpillero-Colomina, who contributed research, editorial, and managing support to this project, both for the conference and the book; and several graduate students, particularly Milagros Lecuona, Emmanuel Pratt, Lucrecia Montemayor Solano, and Lauren Perez Hoog-kamer, who aided at different tasks and stages of the project. Students and guest speakers in my Transnational Planning and the International Politics of Placemaking seminars provided generous ground to discuss and test out this material. I thank the kind treatment and skillful editing of Jennifer E. Morrow and Max Novick at Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, and Eleanor Chan and her team at IBT Global. Finally, I owe great gratitude to my husband, Gabriel Fumero, my children, Miguel Vicente and Ana Beatriz Irazbal, and my parents, Vicente and Mildred, who support me with their love and prayers, keep me grounded, and give me hope and perspective during the trials of writing and editing.