Negotiating Borders and Translatinidades through Language, Space and Media

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

This panel explores five distinct ways in which interdisciplinary border scholars grapple with the complex negotiations undertaken in border and Trans-Latino spaces and places. Departing from analysis centered on artistic, performative, linguistic and social media environments, the papers in this panel challenge existing notions of border and Latin@ representation by pushing the geo-political and geo-cultural boundaries of subjectivity, activist practice and agency of particular populations and social groups in order to re-direct academic discourse to a politics of action.

Sub Track

• Migration, Borders and Diasporas

Chair

• Javier D Durán, University of Arizona

Individual Presentations

• The Borders of Visibility: Representing Migration in Visual Art - Anita E Huizar-Hernandez, University of Arizona

• Digital vigilanteism and nativist discourse in the new media - William Costley, Centre College

• Negotiating Border Health: Language and Literacy Practices of Promotoras - Glenn A Martinez, The Ohio State University

• Inter-Latinidad and Performance in Chicago’s Little Village - Lillian D Gorman, University of Arizona

• Brown Lives Matter? Arizona and the case of HB 2281 - Javier D Durán, University of Arizona