Mapping South-South Connections

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.

• 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.