2007 Annual Meeting, Association
of American Geographers
April 17-21 2007, San Francisco, CA
2154: Race and State Development: Racialization
and the (re)production of Latin American Geographies 2
Wednesday, 4/18/07, from 0:00 AM - 11:40 AM
Description:
In this era of globalization, the simultaneous barrage of neo-liberal
imperatives for state development and the resurgence of indigenous
and Afro-Latin identities raises questions regarding prevailing
interconnections of race and space in Latin America. On the one
hand, elite and popular expressions of national identity, as well
as many state development initiatives, have responded to the revalorization
of indigenous and Afro-Latin citizenship through sanctioning of
a multicultural citizenry. Yet, the promises of racial equality
purported in the displacement of mestizaje by multiculturalism remain
unfulfilled. In many ways, state development initiatives continue
to emphasize racial difference whereby concomitant racial hierarchies
are normalized and form a profound part of a historically rooted
"racialized common sense" (Goldberg 1993); embodied in
a myriad of policies, performances and popular thought in Latin
America. How do globalized approaches to state development continue
to (re) produce the racialization of space in Latin America? This
panel seeks to critically engage the spatialization of race and
the racialization of space in Latin America.
Organizer: Sharlene Mollett - Dartmouth College
Chair: Sharlene Mollett - Dartmouth College
Presenters:
Introduction: Sharlene Mollett - Dartmouth College
Lorena Munoz - University Of Southern California
"Tamales…Elotes…Champurrado:
Transforming Latino Vending 'Street-Scapes' in Los Angeles"
Daniel P O'Connor - University of Richmond
Capitalist Production of 'White' Space in Neoliberal
Nicaragua
Mary Finley-Brook - University of Richmond
Karl H. Offen - University of Oklahoma
Bounding the Commons: A Political Ecology of
Land Demarcation in Northeastern Nicaragua
Discussant: Susan P. Mains - University of the West Indies-Mona
