Critical And Comparative Perspectives On American Studies
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Author |
: Faruk Bajraktarević |
Publisher |
: Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 205 |
Release |
: 2016-08-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781443898034 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1443898031 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis Critical and Comparative Perspectives on American Studies by : Faruk Bajraktarević
This volume explores the convergences and divergences of American Studies today, and, more specifically, investigates how this discipline might be approached. Drawing on a wide range of perspectives, the essays brought together here address concerns related to the role and capacity of American Studies in the early 21st century, amidst alarming circumstances of environmental, economic, and educational degradation in a world characterized by a transnational flux of people, money, and cultures. Since its inception in the 1930s, the field of American Studies has been continuously examining its own disciplinary concepts, methodological approaches, and geographic assumptions. This book responds to calls for an open and critical discussion, offering a multifaceted image of the current approaches to American Studies as a complex and rapidly evolving discipline. The authors of the articles included here are academics and junior researchers who share their investigations and perceptions, ranging from linguistics, literature, economic history, Marx’s ideas, social theory, diasporic narratives, memory, trauma, gender issues, and teaching to popular culture-related phenomena and class-passing in ex-Yugoslavia against the background of the American Dream. The diverse and far-ranging representation of texts in this volume reflects the inseparability and confluence of different research interests within the discipline. The book avoids generalization and encourages interdisciplinarity through a number of critical and comparative contributions to this increasingly inclusive field of scholarship, which ensures its relevance in the ongoing debate about the capacity of American Studies to respond to an ever-broadening range of contemporary issues and challenges. Combining theory and practice in their examinations of academic and popular texts and investigations of American and non-American cultural matrices, the articles in this book will be interesting and useful to scholars and students, as well as the general reader.
Author |
: Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera |
Publisher |
: University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages |
: 425 |
Release |
: 2020-04-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780816539529 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0816539529 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis North American Borders in Comparative Perspective by : Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera
The northern and southern borders and borderlands of the United States should have much in common; instead they offer mirror articulations of the complex relationships and engagements between the United States, Mexico, and Canada. In North American Borders in Comparative Perspectiveleading experts provide a contemporary analysis of how globalization and security imperatives have redefined the shared border regions of these three nations. This volume offers a comparative perspective on North American borders and reveals the distinctive nature first of the overportrayed Mexico-U.S. border and then of the largely overlooked Canada-U.S. border. The perspectives on either border are rarely compared. Essays in this volume bring North American borders into comparative focus; the contributors advance the understanding of borders in a variety of theoretical and empirical contexts pertaining to North America with an intense sharing of knowledge, ideas, and perspectives. Adding to the regional analysis of North American borders and borderlands, this book cuts across disciplinary and topical areas to provide a balanced, comparative view of borders. Scholars, policy makers, and practitioners convey perspectives on current research and understanding of the United States’ borders with its immediate neighbors. Developing current border theories, the authors address timely and practical border issues that are significant to our understanding and management of North American borderlands. The future of borders demands a deep understanding of borderlands and borders. This volume is a major step in that direction. Contributors Bruce Agnew Donald K. Alper Alan D. Bersin Christopher Brown Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly Irasema Coronado Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera Michelle Keck Victor Konrad Francisco Lara-Valencia Tony Payan Kathleen Staudt Rick Van Schoik Christopher Wilson
Author |
: Claire F. Fox |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 149 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:254726698 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Critical perspectives and emerging models of inter-American studies by : Claire F. Fox
Author |
: Claire F. Fox |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 149 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1046432323 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Special Issue on "Critical Perspectives and Emerging Models of Inter-American Studies" by : Claire F. Fox
Author |
: Emelio Betances |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 296 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0742555054 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780742555051 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Catholic Church and Power Politics in Latin America by : Emelio Betances
Click here to see a video interview with Emelio Betances. Click here to access the tables referenced in the book. Since the 1960s, the Catholic Church has acted as a mediator during social and political change in many Latin American countries, especially the Dominican Republic, Bolivia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and El Salvador. Although the Catholic clergy was called in during political crises in all five countries, the situation in the Dominican Republic was especially notable because the Church's role as mediator was eventually institutionalized. Because the Dominican state was persistently weak, the Church was able to secure the support of the Balaguer regime (1966-1978) and ensure social and political cohesion and stability. Emelio Betances analyzes the particular circumstances that allowed the Church in the Dominican Republic to accommodate the political and social establishment; the Church offered non-partisan political mediation, rebuilt its ties with the lower echelons of society, and responded to the challenges of the evangelical movement. The author's historical examination of church-state relations in the Dominican Republic leads to important regional comparisons that broaden our understanding of the Catholic Church in the whole of Latin America.
Author |
: Janice A. Radway |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 639 |
Release |
: 2009-03-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781405113519 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1405113510 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Studies by : Janice A. Radway
American Studies is a vigorous, bold account of the changes in the field of American Studies over the last thirty-five years. Through this set of carefully selected key essays by an editorial board of expert scholars, the book demonstrates how changes in the field have produced new genealogies that tell different histories of both America and the study of America. Charts the evolution of American Studies from the end of World War II to the present day by showcasing the best scholarship in this field An introductory essay by the distinguished editorial board highlights developments in the field and places each essay in its historical and theoretical context Explores topics such as American politics, history, culture, race, gender and working life Shows how changing perspectives have enabled older concepts to emerge in a different context
Author |
: Brian T. Edwards |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 350 |
Release |
: 2010-12-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226185088 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226185087 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Globalizing American Studies by : Brian T. Edwards
The discipline of American studies was established in the early days of World War II and drew on the myth of American exceptionalism. Now that the so-called American Century has come to an end, what would a truly globalized version of American studies look like? Brian T. Edwards and Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar offer a new standard for the field’s transnational aspiration with Globalizing American Studies. The essays here offer a comparative, multilingual, or multisited approach to ideas and representations of America. The contributors explore unexpected perspectives on the international circulation of American culture: the traffic of American movies within the British Empire, the reception of the film Gone with the Wind in the Arab world, the parallels between Japanese and American styles of nativism, and new incarnations of American studies itself in the Middle East and South Asia. The essays elicit a forgotten multilateralism long inherent in American history and provide vivid accounts of post–Revolutionary science communities, late-nineteenth century Mexican border crossings, African American internationalism, Cold War womanhood in the United States and Soviet Russia, and the neo-Orientalism of the new obsession with Iran, among others. Bringing together established scholars already associated with the global turn in American studies with contributors who specialize in African studies, East Asian studies, Latin American studies, media studies, anthropology, and other areas, Globalizing American Studies is an original response to an important disciplinary shift in academia.
Author |
: Isabel Durán G.-Rico |
Publisher |
: Transatlantic Aesthetics and Culture |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 303433480X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783034334808 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (0X Downloads) |
Synopsis A Critical Gaze from the Old World by : Isabel Durán G.-Rico
This volume is the product of a joint effort to bring together critical views »from the Old World« on the field of American Studies. All in all, this book provides the critical gaze of the »expert outsider« who is able to offer a somewhat different but complementary point of view, which can only enrich the general appreciation of American Studies.
Author |
: Noam Gidron |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 126 |
Release |
: 2020-12-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108912242 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108912249 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Affective Polarization in Comparative Perspective by : Noam Gidron
American political observers express increasing concern about affective polarization, i.e., partisans' resentment toward political opponents. We advance debates about America's partisan divisions by comparing affective polarization in the US over the past 25 years with affective polarization in 19 other western publics. We conclude that American affective polarization is not extreme in comparative perspective, although Americans' dislike of partisan opponents has increased more rapidly since the mid-1990s than in most other Western publics. We then show that affective polarization is more intense when unemployment and inequality are high; when political elites clash over cultural issues such as immigration and national identity; and in countries with majoritarian electoral institutions. Our findings situate American partisan resentment and hostility in comparative perspective, and illuminate correlates of affective polarization that are difficult to detect when examining the American case in isolation.
Author |
: Paul W. Drake |
Publisher |
: University of Pittsburgh Pre |
Total Pages |
: 340 |
Release |
: 2006-06-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0822972999 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780822972990 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis State and Society in Conflict by : Paul W. Drake
State and Society in Conflict analyzes one of the most volatile regions in Latin America, the Andean states of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. For the last twenty-five years, crises in these five Andean countries have endangered Latin America's democracies and strained their relations with the United States. As these nations struggle to cope with demands from Washington on security policies (emphasizing drugs and terrorism), neoliberal economics, and democratic politics, their resulting domestic travails can be seen in poor economic growth, unequal wealth distribution, mounting social unrest, and escalating political instability. The contributors to this volume examine the histories, politics, and cultures of the Andean nations, and argue that, due to their shared history and modern circumstances, these countries are suffering a shared crisis of deteriorating relations between state and society that is best understood in regional, not purely national, terms. The results, in some cases, have been semi-authoritarian hybrid regimes that lurch from crisis to crisis, often controlled through force, though clinging to a notion of democracy. The solution to these problems—whether through democratic, authoritarian, peaceful, or violent means—will have profound implications for the region and its future relations with the world.