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Questioning Spaces of Citizenship in Latin America and the Caribbean
Latin American History Graduate Student Conference
Publicado Quinta, 21 de Novembro de 2013 por Julie Abbou
Resumo
Scholars often invoke citizenship as an analytic frame to understand the history of Latin America and the Caribbean. While the concept can encompass a broad range of topics, this conference will focus on the spaces where individuals and groups come into contact with the institutions and symbols of the state. These spaces may be physical places, institutional settings, discursive realms, or other fora. In this graduate student conference, we will ask how such spaces of citizenship are constructed, delimited, and at times rejected, and how the terms of interaction and negotiation in these spaces are defined and re-defined.
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Rational
Scholars often invoke citizenship as an analytic frame to understand the history of Latin America and the Caribbean. While the concept can encompass a broad range of topics, this conference will focus on the spaces where individuals and groups come into contact with the institutions and symbols of the state. These spaces may be physical places, institutional settings, discursive realms, or other fora. In this graduate student conference, we will ask how such spaces of citizenship are constructed, delimited, and at times rejected, and how the terms of interaction and negotiation in these spaces are defined and re-defined. As historians, we can productively question the boundaries of these spaces, but we should also analyze the ways in which historical subjects themselves have contested citizenship. We will examine the history of how people have demanded rights and made claims to belonging. In addition, we will look at the moments when individuals or groups have been excluded from citizenship, and when citizens and non-citizens have created alternative venues to mobilize and define their identity beyond the reach of Latin American nation-states.
This conference will explore the dynamic, contingent, dialogic, and discursive nature of the state. Therefore, participants are encouraged to reflect from an interdisciplinary perspective on the meaning of citizenship and to problematize the notion of the state, moving away from a static or unified understanding of what the state "is." We will draw attention to the material reality of the state: the places it controls, the resources it commands, the physical power it wields, and the social actors who serve as state agents. We will also explore whether we can speak of a uniquely Latin American form or practice of citizenship that usefully illuminates the continent´s history. Moving away from abstract or normative models, these lines of inquiry support multiple, contextualized notions of citizenship.
Main topics
Conference topics include, but are not limited to:
- Space, individuals, and the state
- Race, ethnicity, and class
- Definitions and languages of citizenship
- Precursors and alternatives to citizenship
- Membership and belonging
- Gender and citizenship
- Generation, age, and citizenship
- Institutions and citizenship
- Extraterritorial citizenship
- Anti-state and anti-nationalist discourses
Our website contains more information on possible topics.
Submission guidelines
We welcome submissions on both the colonial and national periods. Participants from other disciplines who incorporate a historical perspective are invited to submit abstracts as well. Papers can focus on any part of Latin America and the Caribbean, and we also encourage submissions from those with transnational and international projects that touch on the Americas.
Submissions will be processed using an online form available on our website, http://2014citizenshipconference.com/. Abstracts should be limited to 250 words.
We will accept submissions until December 1, 2013.
We will notify acceptances by December 20, 2013. Accepted participants should submit a final version of their papers by March 7, 2014. Further details, and updated information as it becomes available, will be posted on our website.
Please contact the organizers with any questions at 2014CitizenshipConference@gmail.com.
Scientific Responsability
The proposals will be evaluated by a committee of Columbia History Graduate students
Categorias
- História (Categoria principal)
- Sociedade > Ciências políticas > Ciências políticas
- Sociedade > Ciências políticas > História política
- Sociedade > Antropologia > Antropologia política
- Espaços > Américas > América Latina
- Sociedade > Ciências políticas > Movimentos políticos e sociais
- Sociedade > Geografia > Geografia: política, cultura, representações
- Sociedade > História > História social
Locais
- 420 W 118th St
Nova Iorque, Estados Unidos (10027)
Datas
- Domingo, 01 de Dezembro de 2013
Palavras-chave
- Amérique Latine, citoyenneté, contestation, pouvoir, citizenship, power, Latin America
Contactos
- Frida Osorio
courriel : 2014CitizenshipConference [at] gmail [dot] com
Urls de referência
Fonte da informação
- Frida Osorio
courriel : 2014CitizenshipConference [at] gmail [dot] com
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« Questioning Spaces of Citizenship in Latin America and the Caribbean », Chamadas de trabalhos, Calenda, Publicado Quinta, 21 de Novembro de 2013, http://calenda.org/264062
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