230113 Interdisciplinary Introduction to InterAmerican Studies / Introducción interdisciplinaria a los Estudios InterAmericanos (S) (WiSe 2024/2025)

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InterAmerican Studies are interdisciplinary area studies, which address the American continent as a whole, including the North, the Center and the South, as well as the Caribbean. The focus lies on the plurality and diversity of societies and cultures in the Americas and their history. However, another singular feature of Inter-American Studies is its specific methodology, which explores the interactions and exchanges between regions, societies and cultures in the past and in the present. Clearly, issues of power and violence are prominent, since such entanglements are not necessarily peaceful. Processes of hybridization, transculturation and creolization are constitutive for the Americas, but they are also the consequences of (post-)colonial domination.
First and foremost, the seminar discusses the concept of space, as it underlies area studies. Another priority is to debate the very concept of the object of study: America. Then, the seminar offers an introduction to the approaches of various disciplines (historiography, studies of literature and culture as well as social sciences) that are useful to understand the entanglements in the Americas and with other world regions.

Los Estudios Interamericanos son estudios de área interdisciplinarios que tienen como objeto de investigación el continente americano como un todo, incluyendo el norte, el centro, el sur, además del Caribe. El tema, por consiguiente, son la pluralidad y la diversidad de las sociedades y culturas americanas y su historia. Sin embargo, lo singular de los Estudios Interamericanos es una metodología específica, que enfoca las interacciones y los intercambios entre las regiones, las sociedades y las culturas, en el pasado y en el presente. Evidentemente, las cuestiones de poder son sobresalientes, ya que los entrelazamientos culturales y sociales no son y no han sido necesariamente pacíficos. Sin duda, los procesos de hibridación, transculturación y creolización son constitutivos para las Américas, pero ellos también son consecuencia de las relaciones de dominación (pos)colonial.
Antes que nada, el seminario discute el concepto de espacio, puesto que subyace a los estudios de área. Asimismo, se debate el concepto mismo del objeto de estudio, que es la América. Luego, se ofrece una introducción a propuestas de diversas disciplinas (historiografía, estudios de la literatura y de la cultura y ciencias sociales) que sirven para entender los entrelazamientos interamericanos y los nexos de las Américas con otras regiones del mundo.

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22-M-4.1 Theoriemodul Interdisziplinäres Theorieseminar Graded examination
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23-IAS-M-IAS1_a Interdisciplinary Introduction to InterAmerican Studies / Introducción interdisciplinaria a los Estudios InterAmericanos Interdisciplinary Theory of InterAmerican Studies Student information
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