Processes of spatialization in the Americas : : configurations and narratives / / edited by Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez and Hannes Warnecke-Berger.

• Superior document: Interamericana (Verlag Peter Lang)
• TeilnehmendeR: Pisarz-Ramirez, Gabriele,; Warnecke-Berger, Hannes,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin : : Peter Lang International Academic Publishers,, [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Interamericana (Verlag Peter Lang)
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (267 pages).

This interdisciplinary volume addresses competing and conflicting configurations and narratives of spatialization in the context of globalization processes. It explores how the Americas were imagined by different actors in different historical periods, and how these imaginations were guided by changing agendas and priorities.

Table of Contents

Introduction -- Spatialization processes in the Americas: configurations and narratives / Hannes Warnecke-Berger and Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez -- Regionalism and Regionalization in Latin America: Drivers and Obstacles / Peter Birle -- Storied Landscapes: Colonial and Transcultural Inscriptions of the Land / Gesa Mackenthun -- Spatiality and Psyche: Surviving the Yukon in Jack London's 'Love of Life' and 'To Build a Fire' / Steffen Wäll -- Regional Homogeneity by Force or by Conviction? Central American Regionalism in a Long-Term Perspective / Thomas Plätze -- Contestation, Hybridization, Criminalization: US-Mexican Borderland Vistas / Josef Raab -- Florida as a Hemispheric Region/ Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez -- Bordering through the Lens of Slavery and Abolition in the United States / Megan Maruschke -- Americanization of Show Business? Shifting Territories of Theatrical Entertainment in North America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century / Antje Dietze -- Salvadoran Transnational Transgressions: Remittances, Rents, and the Struggle over Economic Space / Hannes Warnecke-Berger -- The Post-World War II Resettlement of European Refugees in Venezuela: A Twofold Translation of Migration / Sebastian Huhn and Christoph A. Rass -- List of Figures.