Entangled Americas
Project Topics
- Transnational Flows
Transnational Flows
The research group entitled "Transnational Flows" focuses on hemispheric encounter encounters and exchange processes and particularly highlights aspects of medialization and cultural politics at stake. Against the background of the historic geopolitical interconnectedness of the Americas, which has long been characterized by asymmetric conditions since the European conquest as well as the legacy of colonialism and the transnational slave trade, this project line examines trans-American mobility within the changed dynamics of a neo-liberal state of crisis, and accelerating transnational processes of migration, production and communication.
The researchers involved explore which asymmetries and inequalities are generated or amplified in these processes, but also the potential for resistance that cultural and medial artifacts or actions provide under these conditions, and the opportunities to negotiate they reveal beyond narrowly drawn national, identitarian or ethnic boundaries.
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Neue Medien - fortbestehende Ungleichheiten Transamerikanische Politiken von Gender und Race im Cyberspace und Queer-of-Diaspora HipHop
Projektleiter:
- Prof. Dr. Wilfried Raussert
Social Networks and Migratory Routes in Mexico
Projektleiter/Projektleiterin
- Prof. Dr. Heinrich Schäfer
- Prof. Dr. Cornelia Giebeler
Postkoloniale Verortungen und narrative Konstruktion des Bösen in den Amerikas: zur Verräumlichungen einer Kategorie in hispanoamerikanischen "plantation narratives" der Moderne
Projektleiterin:
- Prof. Dr. Kirsten Kramer
Lexikalische Migration über Raum und Zeit: Die Sprache der Jamaikaner in Kanada
- Joseph T. Farquharson
Projektleiterinnen
- Prof. Dr. Barbara Job
- Prof. Dr. Anne Schröder
- Geopolitical Imaginaries
Geopolitical Imaginaries
"Geopolitical Imaginaries" are of particular importance in historical periods in which territorial concepts are challenged, replaced or superimposed with the new. Of particular interest here are the community-building effects of geopolitical imaginaries as well as their strategic use in political disputes surrounding the shaping of the future in the Americas. Taking the example of urban violence, national borders and multinational spaces, these researchers explore how transborder or fluctuating concepts of space are made politically manageable, economically profitable and are culturally processed using geopolitical imaginaries.
Research Group Director
Urbane Gewalt im Andenraum und in den USA im 20. Jahrhundert
- Klaus Weinhauer
Project Coordinator:
- Prof. Dr. Angelika Epple
Die Transnationalisierung der guatemaltekischen Pfingst-Kirchen in den USA
Religiöse Beziehungsverflechtungen in einer stratifizierten Welt
- Clara Buitrago
Project Coordinator:
- Prof. Dr. Dr. Heinrich Wilhelm Schäfer
Die Rolle der Sowjetunion im Diskurs des argentinischen Peronismus (1943-1976)
Versuche der interamerikanischen Neuordnung nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg
- Mirko Petersen
Project Coordinator:
- Prof. Dr. Angelika Epple
Integrative Verwertung einer Grenze?
Die Staatengrenze zwischen den USA und Kanada in der Metropolregion Detroit-Windsor als gemeinsam genutzte lokale ökonomische Ressource
- Paul M. Tyrell
Project Coordinator:
- Prof. Dr. Thomas Welskopp
Emphasizing Identity or Multilateral Cooperation in the Polar Regions
Does Climate Change provoke a Transformation of the Political Relation between the Circumpolar Argentina, Canada, Chile and USA?
- Dorothea Wehrmann
Project Coordinator:
- Prof. Dr. Mathias Albert
- The Social Impact of the Enviornment
The Social Impact of the Environment
The problematic interrelations and links between the environment and social development represent one of the most pressing problems in the Americas. Therefore the focus of this group are, on the one hand, the transnational processes of environmental appropriation and transformation and, on the other hand, the repercussions of natural disasters and the environment on the entangled Americas. To what extent does the environment contribute to the constitution of a transnationally-entangled space--an environment physically altered, constructed and appropriated by the media, law, economy and politics? The individual projects in this group explore the societal perceptions of the relationship between man and nature as well as so-called natural disasters, conflicts over the proliferation of plants and animals within the entangled space of the Americas and how these issues are evaluated from social, political, legal and biological perspectives.
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Sozial-ökologische Konflikte um die Inwertsetzung von Natur in Zentralamerika zwischen Umweltschutz und "green grabbing"
- Anne Tittor
Project Coordinator:
- Prof. Dr. Olaf Kaltmeier
Social and Spatial Interpretations of Hazards in the Caribbean
- Johannes Bohle
Projektleiter:
- Prof. Dr. Olaf Kaltmeier
Perus Umstrittenes Konsultationsgesetz im Kontext von Indigenen Moblisierungen und Ressourcenkonflikten im Amazon
- Riccarda Flemmer
Project Coordinator:
- Prof. Dr. Andreas Fisahn
The Relation Between the Settlement of the Americas and its Influence on the Native Flora
- Alexander Mosena
Project Coordinator:
- Prof. Dr. Wolfram Beyschlag