220014 Entangled Histories in the Americas (S) (WiSe 2012/2013)

The seminar addresses the historical and current dynamics which constitute the double continent of the Americas as a space of entanglement. Economic interdependencies, migration, transnational social relations, cross-border flows of media and communication as well as political integration processes are the most obvious dimensions of these interconnections between North and South. They point to the importance of critically reflecting and overcoming the traditional cultural, political and scientific imaginaries of space and the necessity of generating new approaches to the field of area studies of the Americas. The seminar deals with the historical conjunctures of these inter-american entanglements from the independence period to the present. We will focus particularly on cross-border dynamics of space, transnational flows, geopolitical imaginaries and the social construction of environment.
IMPORTANT: The seminar must be combined with the course offered by Olaf Kaltmeier under the same title!

Requirements for participation, required level

Das Seminar findet in englischer Sprache statt!

Bibliography

O'Brian, Thomas: Making the Americas. The United States and Latin America from the Age of Revolutions to the Era of Globalization, Albuquerque 2007.
Pike, Frederik B.: The United States and Latin America. Myths and Sterotypes of Civilization and Nature, Austin 1992.
Rinke, Stefan: Lateinamerika und die USA. Eine Geschichte zwischen Räumen - von der Kolonialzeit bis heute, Darmstadt 2012.