About
Hemispheric South/s
Photo: Billie Zangewa. Heart of the Home. 2020.
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The Hemispheric South/s Research Initiative housed at the University of California, Santa Barbara supports an interdisciplinary intellectual community of scholars and students invested in thinking critically about race, ethnicity, nation, culture, and power. Hemispheric methodologies and research demonstrate a particular interest in comparison, interaction, overlap and movement between people, locales, and ideas.
The initiative is especially attentive to the following themes: 1) translocal and transnational affiliations and networks; 2) transnational conflict and cooperation; 3) contested spatial dynamics and registers; 4) alternative histories, futures, and notions of time; 5) bio-politics and race as a crucial feature of southernness; and 6) socio-economic policies and actions intended to alter, extend, or supplant aspects of southernness.
