The Routledge Handbook of Afro-Latin American Research (Routledge, 2022), edited by Bernd Reiter and John Antón Sánchez is out and accessible for buy.
Description: This Handbook gives a complete roadmap to the burgeoning space of Afro-Latin American Research.
Afro-Latins as a civilization developed through the interval of slavery, acquiring cultural contributions from Indigenous and European worlds, whereas in the present day they’re enriched by new social configurations derived from up to date migrations from Africa. The essays collected on this quantity communicate to scientific manufacturing that has been promoted within the area from the humanities and social sciences with the goal of understanding the phenomenon of the African diaspora as a particular civilizing ingredient. With contributions from world-leading figures of their fields overseen by an eminent worldwide editorial board, this Handbook options unique, authoritative articles organized in 4 coherent elements:
- Disciplinary Research;
- Downside Targeted Fields;
- Regional and Nation Approaches;
- Pioneers of Afro-Latin American Research.
The Routledge Handbook of Afro-Latin American Research won’t solely function the foremost reference textual content within the space of Afro-Latin American Research however can even present the agenda for future new analysis.
Bernd Reiter is a professor for the division of Classical and Fashionable Languages and Literatures at Texas Tech College. His publications embrace Decolonizing the Social Sciences and the Humanities (2021), Authorized Responsibility and Higher Limits (2020), Establishing the Pluriverse (2018), amongst others. He served because the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Public Coverage, Brazil from 2021 to 2022.
John Antón Sánchez is a specialist in Social Improvement (Universidad del Choco, 2001). He has an MA in Sociology of Tradition (Universidad de Colombia, 2005) and a PhD in Social Sciences (Flacso, 2009). He was previously head of Social Sciences for UNESCO, Andean Area (2020-2011) and dean of Universidad Técnica Luis Vargas Torres de Esmeraldas (2016-2017). He has been a Flacso visitor lecturer on the Chair of the African Diaspora within the Americas; he’s a former professor of Anthropology at Universidad de San Francisco in Quito. His analysis subjects are elated to the African diaspora within the Americas; race, racism, and inequalities; Afro-descendant social motion; concept of the rights of peoples and nationalities; in addition to subjects on Afro-descendant anthropology pertains to ancestral knowledges, religiosity, and therapeutic practices. He’s within the historical past of Sub-Saharan Africa, authorized sociology and the archeology of slavery. On the Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales (IAEN), he’s head of the Chairs on Basic Ideas of Public Service, Idea of the State, and Public Insurance policies.