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.

Investigates affinities, connections, and tensions between Australia and Latin America within a global context Challenges preconceptions about the apparent lack of connection between Australia and Latin America Explores and assesses the significance of the Global South as an analytical tool for numerous disciplines both within and beyond the confines of Latin American Studies

Autorentext
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.

Inhalt
1 Introduction: Why Australia and Latin America? On mapping connections and its implications for knowledge production.- 2 Decolonising the Exhibitionary Complex: Perspectives on Australian and Latin American art, geopolitics and translocal practice in the Global Contemporary.- 3 - La Bestia as transpacific phenomenon: Indigenous peoples' camps, violence, biopolitics, and Agamben's state of exception.- 4 Common ground: Connections and tensions between food sovereignty movements in Australia and Latin America.- 5 Rethinking the Chile-Australia Transpacific Relationship in light of Globalisation and Economic Progress.- 6 Mavis Robertson, the Chilean New Song tours, and the Latin American cultural explosion in Sydney after 1977.- 7 Latin American Diasporic Writing in the Australian Migrant Magazine Tabaré.- 8 Sydney's Iberoamerican Plaza and the Limits of Multiculturalism.- 9 Screening Latin America: The Sydney Latin American Film Festival.- 10 Days of the Dead: Australian Encounters with Violence in Contemporary Mexico.- 11 Remembering obedience and dissent: Democratic citizenship and memorials to state violence in Australia and Argentina.