South by Midwest International Conference
Latin American Studies is proud to present the "South by Midwest" series, co-edited by Washington University and Iberoamericana Vervuert. These series publishes the articles from the South by Midwest International Conference, which gathers top scholars in Latin American Studies at our campus.
Frontera Liquidas/ Liquid Borders
October 2019
The V South by Midwest International Conference titled Liquid Borders / Fronteras líquidas constitutes an attempt to analyze, from transdisciplinary perspectives, the issue of migration, in its multiple manifestations: political and economic exiles, “sexiles,” diasporas, forced displacements, and other forms of collective mobilizations across national and regional borders. All of these practices result in the formation of new forms of individual and collective subjectivity where uprooting, de/re/territorialization and the horizons of post-nationalism reveal a world in profound and accelerated process of transformation. At the same time, the repressive measures against immigration and the dehumanized strategies for the criminalization and victimization of migrants must be seriously scrutinized, both through the study of concrete cases and through the elaboration of new categories and models of interpretation that could shed light on the issue of migration from conceptual, ethic, philosophical, political, and symbolic — representational — perspectives.
Books from the Series
El lenguaje de las emociones; Afecto y cultura en América Latina
Migración y frontera; experiencias culturales en la literatura peruana del siglo XX
Heridas abiertas; Biopolítica y representación en América Latina
