ABSTRACT

An essential overview of this blossoming field, The Routledge Companion to Inter-American Studies is the first collection to draw together the diverse approaches and perspectives on the field, highlighting the importance of Inter-American Studies as it is practiced today. Including contributions from canonical figures in the field as well as a younger generation of scholars, reflecting the foundation and emergence of the field and establishing links between older and newer methodologies, this Companion covers:

  • Theoretical reflections
  • Colonial and historical perspectives
  • Cultural and political intersections
  • Border discourses
  • Sites and mobilities
  • Literary and linguistic perspectives
  • Area studies, global studies, and postnational studies
  • Phenomena of transfer, interconnectedness, power asymmetry, and transversality within the Americas.

chapter |12 pages

Introduction

part |2 pages

PART I Key ideas, methods, and developments

part |2 pages

PART II Theory put into practice: comparative, relational, and processual case studies

chapter 22|12 pages

The inter-American documentary

part |2 pages

PART III Power, politics, and asymmetries

chapter 31|13 pages

The ethnographic archive Deborah Dorotinsky