Geopolitical Imaginaries in the Americas

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

In scientific and mass media discourses, geopolitical issues are often framed as the inevitable consequence of geographical preconditions. This interdisciplinary panel (Anthropology, History and Political Science) questions this way of conceptualizing Geopolitics and highlights the importance of imaginaries in the processes of constructing, (re-)defining and narrating certain spaces and the identities in relation to it. The panelists aim at discussing Geopolitics not exclusively as strategies and interests of inner political circles but rather as manifold struggles which manifests themselves in political representations, social movements, religion and nature.

Sub Track

• International Relations

Chair

• Laura M Senio Blair, Southwestern University

Individual Presentations

• Spaces and Places of (Im)Possibility and Desire: Transversal Revolutionary Imaginaries in the 20th Century Americas - Eric A Selbin, Southwestern University

• Geopolitical Imaginaries of the Soviet Union in the discourse of Argentine Peronism (1946-55) - Mirko Petersen, University of Bielefeld

• Megaprojects and Geopolitical Imaginaries around Nature in Central America - Anne Tittor, University of Bielefeld

• “Somos el pueblo del avivamiento”: Moral and imagined cartographies in Latino Pentecostalism in Los Angeles - Clara Buitrago Valencia, Universität Bielefeld

Discussant

• Julia Roth, University of Bielefeld