[Lasa] Fwd: Posting to Ecuadorian Studies Section

[Ramos, Juan G.]

Estimados colegas,

Les comparto la convocatoria que aparece abajo. Podría ser de interés para
algunos de ustedes.

Saludos,

Juan

Juan G. Ramos, Ph.D.
Director, Latin American, Latinx, and Caribbean Studies Program
Associate Professor of Spanish
Department of Spanish
College of the Holy Cross
1 College Street
Worcester, MA 01610
(508) 793-2607
jramos at holycross.edu

Chair of the Ecuadorian Studies Section
<https://lasa.international.pitt.edu/eng/sections/ecuadorian-studies.aspx>
(LASA).

Author of *Sensing Decolonial Aesthetics in Latin American Arts*.
<http://upf.com/book.asp?id=9781683400240> Gainesville: University Press of
Florida, 2018.

Co-editor of *Decolonial Approaches to Latin American Literatures and
Cultures* <http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137603128>. New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.


<jramos at holycross.edu>

<jramos at holycross.edu>


---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Alysa Handelsman <alyhand at umich.edu>
Date: Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 5:42 PM
Subject: Posting to Ecuadorian Studies Section
To: <jramos at holycross.edu>


Estimado Juan,

Espero que este mensaje te encuentre bien.

Estoy organizando un panel para el congreso de antropología (AAA) este
noviembre
y quería pedirte de favor que le pasaras este 'Call For Abstracts' al grupo
de Ecuador.

Mil gracias!  Alysa
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   - *Call for Abstracts *for the AAA/CASCA Annual Meeting in Vancouver: 11/20
   - 11/24/2019:
   https://www.americananthro.org/AttendEvents/landing.aspx?ItemNumber=14722&navItemNumber=566
   - *Panel title:* Learning Race, Contesting Racism: Afro-descendant Youth
   and Racial Politics in Latin America
   - *Abstract Submission Deadline: *This Tuesday! (4/2)
   - *Email Abstracts to*: alyhand at umich.edu & eryn.berger at temple.edu


Dear LASA colleagues,


Eryn and I are looking for a few more presenters to complete a panel on
Afro-descendant children and youth in Latin America. Could you help us by
spreading the word to friends and colleagues who you think might be
interested?


Here is our working abstract:

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Amid shifting racial politics in Latin America, scholarship has explored
the cultural production and ethnicization of blackness (Clarke and Thomas
2006; Restrepo 2006) and collective, (trans)national political organizing
around racial subjectivities (Rahier 2012; Reiter and Simmons 2012).
However, discussion and theory surrounding race in Latin America often
overlook what race means and how race is understood, learned, and imagined
by young people.  Lawrence Hirschfeld reminds us that studying children is
crucial in understanding how learning can and does happen: "anthropology is
premised on a process that children do better than almost all others,
namely, acquire cultural knowledge" (2002:624).

We're looking for panelists whose work explores how Afro-descendant
children and youth understand, experience, and participate in processes of
racialization and resistance.  By analyzing Afro-descendant young people’s
stories, experiences, and activism, our hope is that this panel will
critically consider the place and space of race (and racism) within their
social worlds and across Latin America.  (How) do our theoretical frames
shift when we attempt to understand race and racism through the eyes of
children? How do young people participate in the “project of
decolonization” (Lao-Montes 2007) in Latin America in their neighborhoods,
schools, community organizations, non-profits and NGOs, etc.

We welcome papers from ethnographers, teachers, community organizers, and
others whose work aligns with the spirit of this panel.  We currently have
panelists whose research is based in Ecuador and Argentina. We’ll look
forward to receiving your abstracts. The AAA deadline is close, and we’ll
consider abstracts on a rolling basis.  If possible, please send us your
proposal over the weekend (definitely by Tuesday, 4/2).


Please send abstracts to Alysa M. Handelsman (alyhand at umich.edu) and Eryn
S. Berger (eryn.berger at temple.edu).


Thanks for your interest! We'll look forward to reading your proposals!


Alysa & Eryn
-- 
Alysa María Handelsman, PhD
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