Entangled Heritages
Relying on the concept of a shared history, this book argues that we can speak of a shared heritage that is common in terms of the basic grammar of heritage and articulated histories, but divided alongside the basic difference between colonizers and colonized. This problematic is also evident in contemporary uses of the past. The last decades were crucial to the emergence of new debates: subcultures, new identities, hidden voices, and multicultural discourse as a kind of new hegemonic platform also involving concepts of heritage and/or memory. Thereby we can observe a proliferation of heritage agents, especially beyond the scope of the nation-state. This volume gets beyond a container-vision of heritage that seeks to construct a diachronic continuity in a given territory. Instead, authors point out the relational character of heritage focusing on transnational and translocal flows and interchanges of ideas, concepts, and practices, as well as on the creation of contact zones where the meaning of heritage is negotiated and contested. Exploring the relevance of the politics of heritage and the uses of memory in the consolidation of these nation-states, as well as in the current disputes over resistances, hidden memories, undermined pasts, or the politics of nostalgia, this book seeks to seize the local/global dimensions around heritage.
Olaf Kaltmeier is Full Professor for Ibero-American History and Director of the Center for InterAmerican Studies at Bielefeld University, Germany.
Mario Rufer is Full Professor-researcher at Universidad Autnoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco, in Mexico City.
InterAmerican Research: Contact, Communication, Conflict
Series Editors: Olaf Kaltmeier, Josef Raab, Wilfried Raussert, Sebastian Thies
The Americas are shaped by a multitude of dynamics which have extensive, conflictive and at times contradictory consequences for society, culture, politics and the environment. These processes are embedded within a history of interdependence and mutual observation between North and South which originates in the conquest and simultaneous invention of America by European colonial powers.
The series will challenge the ways we think about the Americas, in particular, and the concept of area studies, in general. Put simply, the series perceives the Americas as transversally related, chronotopically entangled and multiply interconnected. In its critical positioning at the crossroads of area studies and cultural studies the series aims to push further the postcolonial, postnational, and cross-border turns in recent studies of the Americas toward a model of horizontal dialogue between cultures, areas, and disciplines.
The series pursues the goal to think the Americas different and to explore these phenomena from transregional as well as interdisciplinary perspectives.
Forthcoming title
Mobile and Entangled America(s)
Maryemma Graham, Wilfried Raussert
Entangled Heritages
Postcolonial perspectives on the uses of the past in Latin America
Edited by
Olaf Kaltmeier
(Center for InterAmerican Studies, Bielefeld University)
and
Mario Rufer
(Universidad Autnoma Metropolitana, Xochimilco)
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Names: Kaltmeier, Olaf, 1970 editor, author. | Rufer, Mario, editor, author.
Title: Entangled heritages: postcolonial perspectives on the uses of the past in Latin America / edited by Olaf Kaltmeier and Mario Rufer.
Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016002253| ISBN 9781472475435 (hardback) | ISBN 9781315579849 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Latin America Civilization 21st century. |
Latin America Historiography.
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Contents
Olaf Kaltmeier and Mario Rufer
Olaf Kaltmeier
Sarah Corona Berkin
Gustavo Blzquez
Mara del Carmen de la Peza
Gisela Cnepa
Frida Gorbach
Mara Celina Chocobare
Sandra Rozental
Carolina Crespo
Mario Rufer
Gustavo Blzquez is Researcher at the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), Argentina, and Professor at the Universidad Nacional de Crdoba (UNC).
Gisela Cnepa Koch is Professor for Social Anthropology at the Department of Social Sciences at the Catholic University of Peru.
Mara Celina Chocobare is a PhD student in Social Anthropology at Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina.
Sarah Corona Berkin is Professor for Communication Studies at Universidad de Guadalajara, Mxico.
Carolina Crespo is Researcher at the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), Argentina, and Professor at Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA).
Ma. del Carmen de la Peza is Distinguished Professor at Universidad Autnoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco, in Mexico.
Frida Gorbach is Senior Professor-Researcher at Universidad Autnoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco, in Mexico City.
Olaf Kaltmeier is Full Professor for Ibero-American History and Director of the Center for InterAmerican Studies at Bielefeld University, Germany.
Sandra Rozental is Assistant Professor at Universidad Autnoma Metropolitana-Cuajimalpa, in Mxico City.
Mario Rufer is Full Professor-Researcher at Universidad Autnoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco, in Mexico City.
We are especially grateful to CONACyT in Mexico for funding the project Memorias subalternas y tensiones de la nacin en el sur global. Their support made possible our seminar in Chapala, Mxico, where we started to think about this book. Laura Nava, Luz Mara Quirarte, Erika Ramrez, lvaro Mndez, and Tony Ramrez provided all the administrative support in the whole process. Maai Ortiz and Alberto Navarrete were efficient assistants and sharp intellectual partners. The BMBF-founded Research Network for Latin America Ethnicity, Citizenship, and Belonging facilitated a visiting scholarship of Mario Rufer at Bielefeld University.
