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InterAmerican Research: Contact, Communication, Conflict: InterAmerican Research: Contact, Communication, Conflict

About the Book Series

The Americas are shaped by a multitude of dynamics which have extensive, conflictive and at times contradictory consequences for society, culture, politics and the environment. These processes are embedded within a history of interdependence and mutual observation between North and South which originates in the conquest and simultaneous ‘invention’ of America by European colonial powers.

The series will challenge the ways we think about the Americas, in particular, and the concept of area studies, in general. Put simply, the series perceives the Americas as transversally related, chronotopically entangled and multiply interconnected. In its critical positioning at the crossroads of area studies and cultural studies the series aims to push further the postcolonial, postnational, and cross-border turns in recent studies of the Americas toward a model of horizontal dialogue between cultures, areas, and disciplines.

The series pursues the goal to ‘think the Americas different’ and to explore these phenomena from transregional as well as interdisciplinary perspectives.

4 Series Titles


Cuba’s Foreign Policy in Global Solidarity Organizations Towards a Revolutionary World Order

Cuba’s Foreign Policy in Global Solidarity Organizations: Towards a Revolutionary World Order

1st Edition

By Lasse B. Lassen
December 23, 2024

This book analyzes the influence of the Cuban Revolutionary Government on the evolution of the Afro-Asian Peoples’ Solidarity Organization (AAPSO). The author argues that Cuba’s accession to AAPSO and the convocation of two solidarity conferences (1966/1967) in Havana initiated a political shift ...

National Images and United States-Canada Relations

National Images and United States-Canada Relations

1st Edition

By Stephen Brooks
April 02, 2024

This book explores the psychological–cultural dimension of the United States–Canada relationship by analyzing how each country has viewed the other. Drawing on a wide range of data, including primary sources, secondary literature, and survey research, the methodology is historical/analytical, ...

Human Rights in the Americas

Human Rights in the Americas

1st Edition

Edited By María Herrera-Sobek, Francisco Lomelí, Luz Angélica Kirschner
September 26, 2022

This interdisciplinary book explores human rights in the Americas from multiple perspectives and fields. Taking 1492 as a point of departure, the text explores Eurocentric historiographies of human rights and offer a more complete understanding of the genealogy of the human rights discourse and its...

Entangled Heritages Postcolonial Perspectives on the Uses of the Past in Latin America

Entangled Heritages: Postcolonial Perspectives on the Uses of the Past in Latin America

1st Edition

By Olaf Kaltmeier, Mario Rufer
July 29, 2019

Relying on the concept of a shared history, this book argues that we can speak of a shared heritage that is common in terms of the basic grammar of heritage and articulated histories, but divided alongside the basic difference between colonizers and colonized. This problematic is also evident in ...

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