[csaa-forum] CFP: Latino Studies Journal: special issue "Gone Global? US Latino Studies and Comparative Latinidades: International Lessons and Links"

[Paul Allatson]

Dear colleagues:

I would be grateful if you could circulate this CFP to any interested 
parties,

With thanks
Paul Allatson


Gone Global? US Latino Studies and Comparative Latinidades: 
International Lessons and Links

Call for Papers: Special issue of Latino Studies.

Guest editor Paul Allatson, University of Technology, Sydney. 
Paul.Allatson at uts.edu.au

Deadline for submissions: February 28, 2009.


Since the 1960s millions of Latin Americans have left the Americas, and 
thriving diasporic Latin American families and communities are visible 
in numerous states and continents. Spain has seen the mass arrival of 
Latin Americans since the early 1990s, and Ecuadorians now outnumber 
Moroccans as Spain’s largest immigrant minority. Many of those “new 
Spaniards” have US relatives, and their worldviews span multiple states. 
Such experiences are common in Australia and Canada, where 
intensifications of cultural production, media involvement and community 
organization are occurring under a “Latino” rubric. Latin 
American-origin communities have also emerged in many other western 
European states. Such immigrant trajectories beyond the Americas do not 
replicate the complex case of the USA; yet they are grounded in Spanish 
colonial legacies, the USA’s hemispherical and global power, and the 
international enmeshing of immigrant, exile and refugee routes. The 
field of US Latino Studies is also having widespread international 
influence as scholars look to the USA for Latino-friendly critical 
vocabularies and methodological praxes for means to comprehend the 
globalization of “Latinidades.” These connections raise numerous 
questions about the national and international reach of US Latino 
Studies itself, given the USA’s neo/colonial and global power in 
transmitting notions of “Latinos,” “Hispanics,” and “Latinidades” beyond 
US borders.

This special issue of /Latino Studies/ seeks papers that investigate 
comparatively the links between US Latino Studies and Latino community 
formations outside the USA. Contributors are invited to address the 
following:

· How might critical work on Latino communities and imaginaries outside 
the USA have productive dialogue with contemporary understandings of 
latinidades in the USA, and with US Latino Studies more generally?

· What points of replication and divergence emerge between Latino 
community building in the USA and in other states?

· What are the colonial and neocolonial frameworks that determine how 
terms such as Latino and Hispanic travel, and with what historical 
material consequences for US Latinos and their communitarian struggles 
and aspirations?

· How might we explore in comparative senses US Latino community 
formations and imaginaries and their links and intersections with non-US 
Latino communities?

· What lessons for US Latino Studies can be drawn from latinidades 
emerging beyond the USA?

Latino Studies only accepts submissions of unpublished manuscripts, 
which are not being considered by other publications. Submissions should 
conform to the journal’s “instructions for authors”: 
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/lst/author_instructions.html.

Manuscripts should be submitted in English, in Word format, via 
electronic attachment to Suzanne Oboler, Editor, Latino Studies.E-mail: 
_latstu at jjay.cuny.edu_

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Dr Paul Allatson

Head of International Studies Program,
Senior Lecturer in (US) Latino Studies & Spanish Studies,
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences,
University of Technology Sydney,
PO Box 123, Broadway NSW 2007, Australia.

email: Paul.Allatson at uts.edu.au
tel: 61-2-9514 2014; fax: 61-2-9514 1578; http://www.iis.uts.edu.au

member Transforming Cultures Research Centre

Chair, Editorial Committee: 
PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 
http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/portal
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