|9780822968443|Chinese-Peruvian Bonds, Loves, and Friendships|Affective Economies of Migration examines the emotional and sentimental dimensions of the Chinese diaspora in Peru and offers a nuanced analysis of how affective relationships—romantic love, friendship, trust, kinship, and more—were converted into forms of economic capital. Estimates suggest that around five percent of Peruvians have Chinese ancestry as a result of transpacific migration. Challenging conventional historical and literary frameworks, Cuya Gavilano demonstrates how emotions such as love, longing, loss, and hope played a crucial role in enabling social mobility, facilitating community integration, and reshaping the collective trajectory of Chinese Peruvians. Letters, literature, interviews, newspapers, and…

|9780822949275|Chinese-Peruvian Bonds, Loves, and Friendships|Affective Economies of Migration examines the emotional and sentimental dimensions of the Chinese diaspora in Peru and offers a nuanced analysis of how affective relationships—romantic love, friendship, trust, kinship, and more—were converted into forms of economic capital. Estimates suggest that around five percent of Peruvians have Chinese ancestry as a result of transpacific migration. Challenging conventional historical and literary frameworks, Cuya Gavilano demonstrates how emotions such as love, longing, loss, and hope played a crucial role in enabling social mobility, facilitating community integration, and reshaping the collective trajectory of Chinese Peruvians. Letters, literature, interviews, newspapers, and…

|9780822968672|Autonomous Politics and the Lettered City Underground|Over the past two decades, Latin America has seen an explosion of experiments with autonomy, as people across the continent express their refusal to be absorbed by the logic and order of neoliberalism. The autonomous movements of the twenty-first century are marked by an unprecedented degree of interconnection, through their use of digital tools and their insistence on the importance of producing knowledge about their practices through strategies of self-representation and grassroots theorization. The Book in Movement explores the reinvention of a specific form of media: the print book. Magalí Rabasa travels through the…

|9780822968108|Cultural and Legal Responses to Gender-Based Violence in Argentina|Ana Forcinito explores how testimonial voices have played a pivotal role in the fight for justice, memory, and gender rights. Through the concept of diffraction, she examines how these voices move through and reshape barriers to construct sonic spaces that connect bodies and create spaces for listening. While Argentina is sometimes regarded as a global leader in human rights, LGBTQIA+ rights, and feminist movements, legal and judicial responses to gender-based violence following the last military dictatorship (1976–1983) were slow to materialize. This book explores these delayed advancements while highlighting the role of…

|9780822949008|Cultural and Legal Responses to Gender-Based Violence in Argentina|Ana Forcinito explores how testimonial voices have played a pivotal role in the fight for justice, memory, and gender rights. Through the concept of diffraction, she examines how these voices move through and reshape barriers to construct sonic spaces that connect bodies and create spaces for listening. While Argentina is sometimes regarded as a global leader in human rights, LGBTQIA+ rights, and feminist movements, legal and judicial responses to gender-based violence following the last military dictatorship (1976–1983) were slow to materialize. This book explores these delayed advancements while highlighting the role of…