{"id":864,"date":"2011-10-20T05:57:59","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T05:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcs.org\/archive-2017\/?p=864"},"modified":"2011-10-21T00:30:54","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T00:30:54","slug":"cfp-crossing-boundaries-in-the-americas-mexico-september-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malcs.org\/archive-2017\/2011\/10\/20\/cfp-crossing-boundaries-in-the-americas-mexico-september-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"CFP: Crossing Boundaries in the Americas, Mexico, September 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

CALL FOR PAPERS: \u00c2\u00a0Crossing Boundaries in the Americas:Dynamics of Change in Politics, Culture, and Media<\/strong>
\nGuadalajara, Mexico, September 25 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 27, 2012
\nSecond Bi-Annual Conference of the International Association\u00c2\u00a0of Inter-American Studies<\/p>\n

Mass migration, accelerated urbanization, and the processes of transnational economic integration are profoundly challenging the social and cultural constitution of the Americas in the New Millennium. In view of these dynamics of change, it has been argued that the sovereignty of the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153nation-state\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is an outdated concept. The gradual decline of the geopolitical hegemony of the U.S. is also changing the ways in which influence is negotiated regionally, as new global players from the South\u00e2\u20ac\u201dsuch as Brazil\u00e2\u20ac\u201dare gaining power.<\/p>\n

The political landscape in the Americas is subject to contradictory dynamics. The new Latin American left has entered a phase of consolidation, while\u00e2\u20ac\u201dat the same time\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthere is also a recent shift to the right with a revival of nationalist and fundamentalist discourses in many countries. New social movements affect the political systems across borders and, with the crisis of multiculturalism, the postcolonial legacy with its ethnic or racial boundaries eroding and transforming. The cultural and linguistic contact zones of borderlands and diasporas have become laboratories of hybrid cultures and post- or plurinational citizenship.<\/p>\n

The cultural flows of media industries which traverse the Americas in diverse directions, albeit in an asymmetrical manner, have a deep impact on how people imagine the communities they feel to belong to in North and South, as well as transversally. Although there is still a wide digital gap, especially with regard to Latin America, the global interconnectedness of the World Wide Web is changing the ways in which people participate in local, national, and transnational communities, preserve their cultural roots, and use new forms of expression.<\/p>\n

The second bi-annual conference of the International Association of Inter-American Studies, to be held at the Centro Universitario de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades de la Universidad de Guadalajara in collaboration with the Centro de Investigaci\u00c3\u00b3n sobre Am\u00c3\u00a9rica del Norte de la Universidad Nacional Aut\u00c3\u00b3noma de M\u00c3\u00a9xico, provides a forum for a dialogue across disciplinary and cultural boundaries on all matters related to the dynamics of change in society, politics, economy, culture, and media. Scholars are invited to propose presentations and panels on a wide variety of topics, including:<\/p>\n