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International Conference and Summer School of the "BMBF-Research Network for Latin America"

 

Vom 2.- 3. Juli 2012 hat die Dritte Internationale Tagung des Kompetentnetzes Lateinamerika in Bielefeld stattgefunden. Ergebnisse der begleitenden Summer School Media Praxis finden Sie unter folgenden Links: 

On screen (auf spanisch: Videobeitrag, Interviews mit lateinamerikanischen Referenten)

On air (auf deutsch: Audiobeitrag, Radio Bielefeld)

 

 

"Mobilizing Ethnicity - Competing identity politics in the Americas: Past and Present"

 Conference: July 2nd to July 3rd 2012 in Bielefeld

Summer School: June 27th to July 6th 2012 in Bielefeld

 Within the context of the Quincentenary of the European expansion to the Americas in 1492, numerous indigenous groups throughout the continent mobilized to denounce the (post-) colonial legacy of present societies and to express their political, economic and cultural needs. The year 1992 can thus be related to a paradigmatic transition in ethnic identity politics. Traditionally restricted to local or national contexts, ethnic identity politics in the 1990s became much more globally connected, expanding into an increasing range of fields of social practice such as economy, law, academia, ecology and medicine. While social movements from a variety of ethnic backgrounds pushed for institutional change by appealing to the international attention markets, they were joined by a growing diversity of social actors in the re-negotiations of ethnicity and cultural difference in the public space.

Both the Summer School and the International Conference address this prominent role of ethnic identity politics in the ongoing struggle for defining the principles and boundaries of social inclusion and political participation in the Americas with regard to the historical processes and present situations. The aim is to establish a balance of two decades of intensive and conflictive identity politics in the Americas and to identify new tendencies of the strategic use of ethnicity in politics, economics and culture.

Die Anmeldung für die Summer School (inkl. Internationale Tagung) lief bis zum 1. Mai 2012.

Die Anmeldung für 3. Internationale Tagung lief bis zum 3. Juni 2012.

Zeitplan Workshops

Ein Tagungsband ist 2013 erschienen: Bejarano, Eric Javier; Grebe, Marc-André; Grewe, David; Lobensteiner, Nadja (Hg.) (2013) "Movilizando etnicidad. Políticas de identidad en contienda en las Américas: pasado y presente // Mobilizing Ethnicity. Competing Identity Politics in the Americas: Past and Present", Frankfurt a.M. (Iberoamericana/Vervuert).