This book explores contemporary cultural, historical and geopolitical connections between Latin America and Australia from an interdisciplinary perspective. It seeks to capitalise on scholarly developments and further unsettle the multiple divides created by the North-South axis by focusing on processes of translocal connectivities that link Australia with Latin America. The authors conceptualise the South-South not as a defined geographic space with clear boundaries, but rather as a mobile terrain with multiple, evolving and overlapping translocal processes.

Fernanda Peñaloza is Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies and Chair of the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Sydney. Sarah Walsh is Teaching Fellow in the Department of History at Washington State University, USA.

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Fernanda Peñaloza is Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies and Chair of the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Sydney.

Sarah Walsh is Teaching Fellow in the Department of History at Washington State University, USA.

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Chapter 1 Introduction: Why Australia and Latin America? On mapping connections and its implications for knowledge productionFernanda Peñaloza and Sarah Walsh
Part I: South-South Perspectives and Transpacific Flows
Chapter 2 Decolonising the Exhibitionary Complex: Perspectives on Australian and Latin American art, geopolitics and translocal practice in the Global ContemporaryDavid Corbet
Chapter 3 - La Bestia as transpacific phenomenon: Indigenous peoples' camps, violence, biopolitics, and Agamben's state of exceptionVictoria Grieves-Williams
Chapter 4 Common ground: Connections and tensions between food sovereignty movements in Australia and Latin AmericaAlana Mann
Chapter 5 Rethinking the Chile-Australia Transpacific Relationship in light of Globalisation and Economic ProgressIrene Strodthoff
Part II: Diasporic Connections
Chapter 6 Mavis Robertson, the Chilean New Song tours, and the Latin American cultural explosion in Sydney after 1977Peter Ross
Chapter 7 Latin American Diasporic Writing in the Australian Migrant Magazine TabaréMichael Jacklin
Chapter 8 Sydney's Iberoamerican Plaza and the Limits of MulticulturalismSarah Walsh
Chapter 9 Screening Latin America: The Sydney Latin American Film FestivalFernanda Peñaloza
Part III: Comparative Readings
Chapter 10 Days of the Dead: Australian Encounters with Violence in Contemporary MexicoRobert Mason
Chapter 11 Remembering obedience and dissent: Democratic citizenship and memorials to state violence in Australia and ArgentinaRobin Rodd