East Asia, Latin America, and the Decolonization of Transpacific Studies

Zusatztext

By fostering an environment that not only accepts a plurality of views but that actively looks to accommodate analogous, tangential, and even contradicting approaches to the study of our ideas, we seek a double objective. First, we hope to highlight precisely the richness within the idea of the transpacific, avoiding sticking to any particular conception to it while at the same time acknowledging and owning each of our points of enunciation. We believe that the idea of the transpacific needs to be flexible, malleable, an open-source tool that integrates different meanings within its bosom to nurture abundant and varied perspectives. We find different ways of tackling the idea of the transpacific, either by definition or by method. We must avoid mistaking variety with dissonance and always keep in mind that a healthy ecosystem is that which welcomes balance in diversity. Our second objective is part of a constant struggle in the quest towards social and epistemic justice. An imperialist North, tangible in its politics and violence, has discovered, created, and extracted from the South(s). We hereby read, in some chapters gestated in and from parts of these Souths, the voice of the re-existence of those who articulate the struggles for life throughout modernity.

Autorenportrait

Chiara Olivieri holds a PhD in Migration Studies. She is Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Toronto, and member of the Research Group STAND (University of Granada).  Jordi Serrano-Muñoz is currently a lecturer and guest researcher at El Colegio de México and a lecturer at the Open University of Catalonia.  He holds a Ph.D. in the Humanities from the Pompeu Fabra University.      

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