Transnational Humans and Transnationalisms in the Humanities

Crossing Boundaries in the Americas

Max Paul Friedman, Stefan Rinke, Núria Vilanova

• Publisher: UNM Press
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN:
  9780826368720
• Subtopic: Globalisation

This unique anthology from scholars across the humanities and allied fields presents a vivid picture of the state of scholarship on transnationalism today.

Are we living in a transnational world? The 900 percent rise in the use of “transnationalism” in publications since 1995 testifies to a defining phenomenon. International migration has increased two-thirds since 1980, and the global circulation of capital, media, and culture has intensified, provoking nationalist political backlash worldwide.

This collection of studies on exile, social science, indigeneity, gender activism, music and dance, gangs, sex work, narcofiction, and cinema examines how transnational forces influence racial difference, national identity, immigrant exclusion, state power, and cultural expression in the Americas. It explores how the physical and symbolic movement of humans and their artifacts shapes ideas and challenges accepted notions of national and conceptual boundaries among them. By addressing the impact of digital technologies on spatialization, by challenging emerging conventions on transnationalism, and by fostering interdisciplinary exchange, the book enriches our understanding of transnational lives and provides tools for exploring the transnational turn.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction. Transnational Humans and Transnationalisms in the Humanities
• Chapter 1. Overcoming the National: Typologies and Assumptions in Studies of the Transnational
• Chapter 2. Political Exile and the Transnational Turn
• Chapter 3. The Transnational Turn in Hispanic Literary Studies
• Chapter 4. Indigenous Transnationalism: An Enduring Paradox
• Chapter 5. Transnationalism and the History of the Social Sciences in Brazil: Race and Economic Development in the Sociology of Donald Pierson and T. Lynn Smith
• Chapter 6. Translations of the Transnational Americas: Vito Marcantonio Through Harlem and Puerto Rico
• Chapter 7. The Transnational Sphere and Sexual Labor
• Chapter 8. Transnational Genealogies of Performance Against Gender Violence in Argentina and Chile
• Chapter 9. Transnational Intersections: Latin American Feminist Counterpublics and Digital Technology
• Chapter 10. Multilateral Transnationalism: Gang Stories from the Latino Atlantic
• Chapter 11. Transnationalism and the German Diaspora in Latin America: Content, Form, and the Revenge of the Nation-State
• Chapter 12. Ghost Transnationalisms: Embodied Transborder Histories in Music and Dance in the Dominican Republic and the United States
• Chapter 13. “Without an Image, There Is No Story”: The Indigenous and the Transnational Turn in Latin American Cinema and Video
• Chapter 14. Pocket Cinema and the Transnational Turn: Cell Phone Films as Global(ized) Counter-Cinema
• Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index