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Processes of Spatialization in the Americas
Configurations and Narratives
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Edited By Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez and Hannes Warnecke-Berger
Where do the Americas begin, and where do they end? What is the relationship between the spatial constructions of «area» and «continent»? How were the Americas imagined by different actors in different historical periods, and how were these imaginations – as continent, nation, region – guided by changing agendas and priorities? This interdisciplinary volume addresses competing and conflicting configurations and narratives of spatialization in the context of globalization processes from the 19th century to the present.
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- Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien, 2018. 269 pp., 6 fig. col., 3 fig. b/w, 2 tables
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- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- About the editors
- About the book
- Citability of the eBook
- Contents
- Series Information
- Notes on Contributors
- Spatialization Processes in the Americas: Configurations and Narratives
- Area Studies and the Americas
- Producing Space: The Americas between Homogeneity and Heterogeneity
- Regionalism and Regionalization in Latin America: Drivers and Obstacles
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Historical Development of Latin American Regionalism
- 2.1 UNASUR
- 2.2 ALBA
- 2.3 CELAC
- 2.4 Pacific Alliance
- 3 Regionalism after the End of the ‘Left Wave’
- 4 Latin American Regionalism: Explanatory Factors
- 4.1 Divergent Development Strategies
- 4.2 Traditional Concepts of Sovereignty
- 4.3 Specifics of Regionalization in Latin America
- 5 Conclusion
- Storied Landscapes: Colonial and Transcultural Inscriptions of the Land
- 1 Introduction
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- Spatiality and Psyche: Surviving the Yukon in Jack London’s “Love of Life” and “To Build a Fire”
- 1 Introduction
- 2 “Love of Life”: Helpless Supermen in the Land of Little Sticks
- 3 “To Build a Fire”: Mind, Body, Death, and Xenogenesis
- 4 Conclusion
- Regional Homogeneity by Force or by Conviction? Central American Regionalism in a Long-Term Perspective
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Waves of Regional Homogeneity in Central America
- 3 The Making of Regional Homogeneity
- 3.1 Central American Federation
- 3.2 The War of Independence—William Walker
- 3.3 The Trinity of Regional Organizations—ODECA, MCCA, and CONDECA
- 4 Central American Heterogeneity as the Rule
- 4.1 Dissolution of the Central American Federation
- 4.2 Regional Heterogeneity in the Long 19th Century
- 4.3 The End of the Regional Trinity
- 5 Conclusion
- Configuring Space: Borders, Frontiers, and the Dialectics of Inclusion and Exclusion
- Contestation, Hybridization, Criminalization: US-Mexican Borderland Vistas
- Florida as a Hemispheric Region
- 1 Introduction
- 2 John James Audubon: Claiming Florida as the Tropical Garden of the United States
- 3 James Fenimore Cooper: The Florida Reef as a Site of Treason
- 4 Joshua Giddings: Florida as a Space of Maroon Resistance
- 5 Conclusion
- Bordering through the Lens of Slavery and Abolition in the United States
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Borderlands and the Geopolitics of Freedom
- 3 Narrating the Borders of Freedom and Slavery
- 4 Mapping the Expansion of Slavery
- 5 Conclusion
- Americanization of Show Business? Shifting Territories of Theatrical Entertainment in North America at the Turn of the 20th Century
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Theatrical Scene in Montreal and Its Integration into North American Theatrical Circuits
- 3 The “Burlesque Wars” and the Role of Montreal
- 4 Conclusion
- Transgressing Space: Globalization, Mobility, and Bordercrossings
- Salvadoran Transnational Transgressions: Remittances, Rents, and the Struggle over Economic Space
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Rent and Economic Space
- 3 Remittances-Led Spaces of Rent
- 4 From Coffee to Remittances: El Salvador’s Economic Transgressions
- 4.1 Stability of Remittances on the Macro Level
- 4.2 Pro-Poor Distribution of Remittances
- 4.3 Volatility of Remittances on the Micro Level
- 5 Political Interventions across Borders: Appropriating Remittances
- 6 The Struggle over Transnational Economic Space: A Conclusion
- The Post–World War II Resettlement of European Refugees in Venezuela: A Twofold Translation of Migration
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Birth of an International Spatial Order of Migration after World War II
- 3 The Translation of the European Refugee “Crisis” into a Motor for Venezuelan Nation Building
- 3.1 Venezuela in the 1940s and 1950s
- 3.2 Translating the Political “Portal of Globalization”
- 4 The Translation of the Resettlement as a Social Space of Migration
- 4.1 The Development of the Resettlement through Space and Time
- 4.2 Analyzing the Social “Portal of Globalization”
- 5 Conclusion
- List of Figures and Tables
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Thomas Plötze
Regional Homogeneity by Force or by Conviction? Central American Regionalism in a Long-Term Perspective
Abstract: This chapter reappraises Central American attempts of creating regional homogeneity in the long run since independence. At a first glance, the colonial, cultural heritage as well as the politico-economic developments make Central America appear as a firmly intertwined region. Traditionally, Central America has been characterized as a regional space par excellence. Looking at concrete historical attempts of regionalism, I argue that incidences of increased regional interaction alternated with periods of fragmentation. Seen from this angle, regional homogeneity has never been a result of a historical ever-growing process. Instead, I argue that regional homogeneity has been made and unmade in security narratives. Results from this chapter suggest that regionalism in Central America has always been inward-looking—either through paving the way for the spatialization of individual state spaces or through preserving the status quo in economic and political terms by suppressing intra-societal resistance in each Central American country.
1Introduction
The question of what defines Central America as a space varies according to the observer’s perspective on this region as a space. In geographic-geological terms, Central America describes an Isthmus. It is the only area in the world that lies between two oceans (the Pacific and the Atlantic) and two (sub-) continents (North and South America) (Hall 5). Culturally, Central America can be defined as a culturally homogenous zone where some of the advanced civilizations had...
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Or login to access all content.- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- About the editors
- About the book
- Citability of the eBook
- Contents
- Series Information
- Notes on Contributors
- Spatialization Processes in the Americas: Configurations and Narratives
- Area Studies and the Americas
- Producing Space: The Americas between Homogeneity and Heterogeneity
- Regionalism and Regionalization in Latin America: Drivers and Obstacles
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Historical Development of Latin American Regionalism
- 2.1 UNASUR
- 2.2 ALBA
- 2.3 CELAC
- 2.4 Pacific Alliance
- 3 Regionalism after the End of the ‘Left Wave’
- 4 Latin American Regionalism: Explanatory Factors
- 4.1 Divergent Development Strategies
- 4.2 Traditional Concepts of Sovereignty
- 4.3 Specifics of Regionalization in Latin America
- 5 Conclusion
- Storied Landscapes: Colonial and Transcultural Inscriptions of the Land
- 1 Introduction
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- Spatiality and Psyche: Surviving the Yukon in Jack London’s “Love of Life” and “To Build a Fire”
- 1 Introduction
- 2 “Love of Life”: Helpless Supermen in the Land of Little Sticks
- 3 “To Build a Fire”: Mind, Body, Death, and Xenogenesis
- 4 Conclusion
- Regional Homogeneity by Force or by Conviction? Central American Regionalism in a Long-Term Perspective
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Waves of Regional Homogeneity in Central America
- 3 The Making of Regional Homogeneity
- 3.1 Central American Federation
- 3.2 The War of Independence—William Walker
- 3.3 The Trinity of Regional Organizations—ODECA, MCCA, and CONDECA
- 4 Central American Heterogeneity as the Rule
- 4.1 Dissolution of the Central American Federation
- 4.2 Regional Heterogeneity in the Long 19th Century
- 4.3 The End of the Regional Trinity
- 5 Conclusion
- Configuring Space: Borders, Frontiers, and the Dialectics of Inclusion and Exclusion
- Contestation, Hybridization, Criminalization: US-Mexican Borderland Vistas
- Florida as a Hemispheric Region
- 1 Introduction
- 2 John James Audubon: Claiming Florida as the Tropical Garden of the United States
- 3 James Fenimore Cooper: The Florida Reef as a Site of Treason
- 4 Joshua Giddings: Florida as a Space of Maroon Resistance
- 5 Conclusion
- Bordering through the Lens of Slavery and Abolition in the United States
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Borderlands and the Geopolitics of Freedom
- 3 Narrating the Borders of Freedom and Slavery
- 4 Mapping the Expansion of Slavery
- 5 Conclusion
- Americanization of Show Business? Shifting Territories of Theatrical Entertainment in North America at the Turn of the 20th Century
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Theatrical Scene in Montreal and Its Integration into North American Theatrical Circuits
- 3 The “Burlesque Wars” and the Role of Montreal
- 4 Conclusion
- Transgressing Space: Globalization, Mobility, and Bordercrossings
- Salvadoran Transnational Transgressions: Remittances, Rents, and the Struggle over Economic Space
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Rent and Economic Space
- 3 Remittances-Led Spaces of Rent
- 4 From Coffee to Remittances: El Salvador’s Economic Transgressions
- 4.1 Stability of Remittances on the Macro Level
- 4.2 Pro-Poor Distribution of Remittances
- 4.3 Volatility of Remittances on the Micro Level
- 5 Political Interventions across Borders: Appropriating Remittances
- 6 The Struggle over Transnational Economic Space: A Conclusion
- The Post–World War II Resettlement of European Refugees in Venezuela: A Twofold Translation of Migration
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Birth of an International Spatial Order of Migration after World War II
- 3 The Translation of the European Refugee “Crisis” into a Motor for Venezuelan Nation Building
- 3.1 Venezuela in the 1940s and 1950s
- 3.2 Translating the Political “Portal of Globalization”
- 4 The Translation of the Resettlement as a Social Space of Migration
- 4.1 The Development of the Resettlement through Space and Time
- 4.2 Analyzing the Social “Portal of Globalization”
- 5 Conclusion
- List of Figures and Tables