Mapping Latin America

Mapping Latin America
Title Mapping Latin America PDF eBook
Author Jordana Dym
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Total Pages 360
Release 2011-09-28
Genre History
ISBN 0226618226

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57 studies of individual maps and the cultural environment that they spring from and exemplify, including one pre-Columbian map.

Mapping a New Museum

Mapping a New Museum
Title Mapping a New Museum PDF eBook
Author Laura Osorio Sunnucks
Publisher Routledge
Total Pages 363
Release 2021-12-20
Genre Art
ISBN 1000412512

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Mapping a New Museum seeks to rethink the museum’s role in today’s politically conscious world. Presenting a selection of innovative projects that have taken place in Latin America over the last year, the book begins to map out possibilities for the future of the global museum. The projects featured within the pages of this book were all supported by The Santo Domingo Centre of Excellence for Latin American Research (SDCELAR) at the British Museum (BM), with the aim of making the BM’s Latin American collections meaningful to communities in the region and others worldwide. These projects illustrate how communities manage cultural heritage and, taken together, they suggest that there is also no all-encompassing counter-narrative that can be used to "decolonise" museums. Reflecting on, and experimenting with, the ways that research happens within museum collections, the interdisciplinary collaborations described within these pages have used collections to tell stories that destabilise societal assumptions, whilst also proactively seeking out that which has historically been overlooked. The result is, the book argues, a research environment that challenges intellectual orthodoxy and values critical and alternative forms of knowledge. Mapping a New Museum contains English and Spanish versions of every chapter, which enables the book to put critical stress on the self-referentiality of Anglophone literature in the field of museum anthropology. The book will be essential reading for students, scholars and museum practitioners working around the world.

Mapping Spaces of Translation in Twentieth-Century Latin American Print Culture

Mapping Spaces of Translation in Twentieth-Century Latin American Print Culture
Title Mapping Spaces of Translation in Twentieth-Century Latin American Print Culture PDF eBook
Author María Constanza Guzmán
Publisher Routledge
Total Pages 162
Release 2020-07-14
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1000098176

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This book reflects on translation praxis in 20th century Latin American print culture, tracing the trajectory of linguistic heterogeneity in the region and illuminating collective efforts to counteract the use of translation as a colonial tool and affirm cultural production in Latin America. In investigating the interplay of translation and the Americas as a geopolitical site, Guzmán Martínez unpacks the complex tensions that arise in these “spaces of translation” as embodied in the output of influential publishing houses and periodicals during this time period, looking at translation as both a concept and a set of narrative practices. An exploration of these spaces not only allows for an in-depth analysis of the role of translation in these institutions themselves but also provides a lens through which to uncover linguistic plurality and hybridity past borders of seemingly monolingual ideologies. A concluding chapter looks ahead to the ways in which strategic and critical uses of translation can continue to build on these efforts and contribute toward decolonial narrative practices in translation and enhance cultural production in the Americas in the future. This book will be of particular interest to scholars in translation studies, Latin American studies, and comparative literature.

Mapping South-South Connections

Mapping South-South Connections
Title Mapping South-South Connections PDF eBook
Author Fernanda Peñaloza
Publisher Springer
Total Pages 294
Release 2019-03-15
Genre Political Science
ISBN 331978577X

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This book explores contemporary cultural, historical and geopolitical connections between Latin America and Australia from an interdisciplinary perspective. It seeks to capitalise on scholarly developments and further unsettle the multiple divides created by the North-South axis by focusing on processes of translocal connectivities that link Australia with Latin America. The authors conceptualise the South-South not as a defined geographic space with clear boundaries, but rather as a mobile terrain with multiple, evolving and overlapping translocal processes.

Map Skills - Latin America (ENHANCED eBook)

Map Skills - Latin America (ENHANCED eBook)
Title Map Skills - Latin America (ENHANCED eBook) PDF eBook
Author R. Scott House
Publisher Lorenz Educational Press
Total Pages 42
Release 2010-09-01
Genre Science
ISBN 1429115882

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Explore the varied features of the Latin American nations while reinforcing basic map reading skills. Sixteen student pages and accompanying blackline and full-color maps coordinate to provide a relational study of the elevation, vegetation, products, population, and peoples of Latin America. Full-color maps are provided as transparencies for print books and PowerPoint slides for eBooks. Student pages challenge students to combine maps and additional resources in order to answer questions and make judgments. Question topics follow the Five Themes of Geography as outlined by the National Geographic Society: finding absolute and relative locations on a map, relating physical and human characteristics to an area, understanding human relationships to the environment, tracing movement of peoples and goods throughout an area, and organizing countries and continents into regions for detailed study.

Latin American History, a Teaching Atlas

Latin American History, a Teaching Atlas
Title Latin American History, a Teaching Atlas PDF eBook
Author Cathryn L. Lombardi
Publisher University of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages 192
Release 1983
Genre History
ISBN

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Radical Cartographies

Radical Cartographies
Title Radical Cartographies PDF eBook
Author Bjørn Sletto
Publisher University of Texas Press
Total Pages 257
Release 2020-08-04
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1477320881

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Cartography has a troubled history as a technology of power. The production and distribution of maps, often understood to be ideological representations that support the interests of their developers, have served as tools of colonization, imperialism, and global development, advancing Western notions of space and place at the expense of indigenous peoples and other marginalized communities. But over the past two decades, these marginalized populations have increasingly turned to participatory mapping practices to develop new, innovative maps that reassert local concepts of place and space, thus harnessing the power of cartography in their struggles for justice. In twelve essays written by community leaders, activists, and scholars, Radical Cartographies critically explores the ways in which participatory mapping is being used by indigenous, Afro-descendant, and other traditional groups in Latin America to preserve their territories and cultural identities. Through this pioneering volume, the authors fundamentally rethink the role of maps, with significant lessons for marginalized communities across the globe, and launch a unique dialogue about the radical edge of a new social cartography.