Introduction: Conceptualizing Archipelagic Mobilities

Q2 Arts and Humanities Journal of Transnational American Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-28 DOI:10.5070/t814160878
Steffen Wöll, Barbara Gfoellner, G. Pisarz-Ramírez, Alexandra Ganser
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This special forum of JTAS brings together the work of international scholars from the fields of archipelagic American studies, island studies, and mobility studies. It is the result of two thematic workshops in Leipzig, Germany organized by the collaborative research center “Spatialization Processes under the Global Condition” and the Vienna research platform “Mobile Cultures and Societies” that set out to investigate the rela - tionship between transnational studies, archipelagic studies, and mobility studies. In seven articles, an interview, and an exploratory conversation, the twelve contributors open up and navigate new paths of thinking through the intersections of archipel-agicity, mobility, US-American imperialism, and decoloniality. As part of a rising tide of critical voices that express discontent about global neoliberal regimes of im/mobility and their representation, the contributors concurrently identify and answer to contemporary needs of renegotiating spaces, places, identities, and power relations. Archipelagic epistemes, the authors demonstrate across a diverse range of topics, provide a lens through which to critically interrogate traditional binaries of continen-talism and islandness. They challenge colonial discourses of static, self-contained islands and bring into focus the role of im/mobilities and relational entanglements. As Édouard Glissant noted in his conversations with Hans Ulrich Obrist, archi-pelagos “are spaces of relation that recognize all the infinite details of the real . … They open us up to a sea of wandering: to ambiguity, to fragility, to drifting.” 1 The contributions to this special forum operate within that “sea of wandering” as they open into and move across varied literal and figurative archipelagos; they demonstrate how transnational imaginaries and discourses become part of archipelagic formations, both in contexts of imperialism and resistance to its dominant epistemes. Significantly, arch-Wöll
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导言:概念化群岛移动
JTAS的这个特别论坛汇集了来自群岛美国研究、岛屿研究和流动性研究领域的国际学者的工作。这是合作研究中心“全球条件下的空间化进程”和维也纳研究平台“流动文化与社会”在德国莱比锡组织的两次主题研讨会的结果,旨在调查跨国研究、群岛研究和流动性研究之间的关系。在七篇文章、一次采访和一次探索性对话中,十二位撰稿人通过建筑灵活性、流动性、美帝国主义和非殖民化的交叉点,开辟并探索了新的思维路径。作为对全球新自由主义移民制度及其代表性表达不满的批评声音浪潮的一部分,贡献者同时确定并回应了重新谈判空间、地点、身份和权力关系的当代需求。作者在各种各样的主题中展示了群岛认识论,为批判性地质疑大陆主义和岛屿性的传统二元性提供了一个视角。它们挑战了关于静态、独立岛屿的殖民话语,并使人们关注移民和关系纠葛的作用。正如Édouard Glissant在与Hans Ulrich Obrist的对话中所指出的那样,群岛“是一种关系空间,可以识别真实世界的所有无限细节……它们让我们进入了一片流浪的海洋:模糊、脆弱、漂泊。”。“1对这个特别论坛的贡献是在“漫游的海洋”中运作的,因为它们开放并跨越各种文字和比喻的群岛;它们展示了跨国想象和话语是如何成为群岛结构的一部分的,无论是在帝国主义的背景下还是在对其主导认识论的抵制下。值得注意的是,沃尔大主教
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Journal of Transnational American Studies
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