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Editorial Introduction to “Across Cultures: Ibero-America and India”

Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities

Rupkatha Journal in collaboration with Universidad Católica del Maule, Chile and Doon University, India has published this special issue on the theme “Across Cultures: Ibero-America and India”. The volume is edited by faculty from Universidad Católica del Maule, Chile and Doon University, India along with a team of experts from the Rupkatha Journal. This special volume titled “Across Cultures: Ibero-America and India” intends to shed light on the trans-axial South-South history that implicates academic, cultural, intellectual, commercial and political exchanges between India, Spain, Portugal and Latin America. This special issue is an attempt to fill in the existing void in the academic literature on the theme, by exploring the bonds between the two cultures, so distant from each other and yet continuing to contribute towards the process of mutual understanding of their respective societies and thus reinforcing socio-political and cultural relations between these two regions. We pro...

India-América Latina: Relación comercial e inversión

2021

Resumen: Este libro tiene por objetivo analizar la relación comercial y de inversión entre India y América Latina. Para ello se desarrollan trece capítulos donde se analizan las relaciones actuales, se reconocen los vínculos sostenibles, y se presentan las nuevas oportunidades de cooperación entre el país asiático y la región latinoamericana. En este orden, el vínculo comercial y de inversión entre India y América Latina constituye una oportunidad para impulsar encadenamientos productivos mediante el desarrollo de nuevas estrategias de internacionalización empresarial, promover la solidaridad sur-sur asignando un mayor rol a India en el marco de la integración regional latinoamericana, lograr soluciones colaborativas a los problemas locales, diversificar socios comerciales, intercambiar experiencias en el uso de nuevas tecnológicas y promover una mayor inversión en innovación, investigación y desarrollo tecnológico. Aspectos fundamentales para consolidar una relación dinámica que facilite el crecimiento económico en un contexto de fraternidad, libertad y beneficio mutuo. Abstract: The purpose of this book is to analyze the trade and investment relationship between India and Latin America. To this end, thirteen chapters analyze current relations, recognize sustainable links, and present new opportunities for cooperation between the Asian country and the Latin American region. In this order, the trade and investment link between India and Latin America constitutes an opportunity to promote productive linkages through the development of new business internationalization strategies, promote South-South solidarity by assigning a greater role to India in Latin American regional integration, achieve collaborative solutions to local problems, diversify trade partners, exchange experiences in the use of new technologies and promote greater investment in innovation, research and technological development. These are fundamental aspects to consolidate a dynamic relationship that facilitates economic growth in a context of fraternity, freedom and mutual benefit.

Stating space in modern mexico

Political Geography, 2007

This paper critiques the largely Anglophone ''New Cultural History'' (NCH) written on postrevolutionary Mexico, calling for a more robust theoretical and methodological approach to the state than scholars have thus far employed. Earlier trends, each of course inflected with the politics of their times, remained fastened upon the purportedly unified force of Mexican officialdom. Revisionist narratives tended to abstract the state from social and cultural belief and practice. As such, scholars' grasp of social change was weakened by their failure to see politics, culture, and society as interrelated processes. Nevertheless, the closer examination of popular culture stressed by some contemporary historiansdan undeniably important analytical tackdstill does not obviate the need for a solid, at times even central, focus on processes of state-formation. Herein, I review some of the critical contributions to a growing multidisciplinary field of state/culture studies, and from critical human geography, and suggest ways their insights might be useful for historians and historical geographers focusing on the post-revolutionary Mexican state.

Framing Spaces between India and China (2021)

Willem van Schendel, ‘Framing Spaces between India and China,’ in: Dan Smyer Yü and Karin Dean (eds.), Yunnan-Burma-Bengal Corridor Geographies: Protean Edging of Habitats and Empires (London: Routledge, 2021), 29-45, 2021

How can we think productively about the sweep of land connecting China's southwest, Myanmar's north, India's northeast, Bangladesh, and the Bay of Bengal? In its entirety, this region is rarely the focus of academic inquiry, even though the production of knowledge about some parts has been increasing rapidly. Stretching from the waterlogged environment of the world's largest river delta to the snowtopped slopes of the world's highest mountain range, and from the exceptionally heavy monsoons in the west to much lower-and long-term declining (Tan et al. 2017)-rainfall in the east, it is the home of a range of agro-ecological topographies and the meeting point of three of the earth's biodiversity hotspots. 1 So what is the point of considering this physically and environmentally varied zone as a single region, tentatively referred to as the "India-China corridor"? 2 Paradoxically, it is its persistent diversity that sets it apart from surrounding regions. First, the region's environmental variety has contributed to its always having been politically fractured. It was never under single common rulealthough, for a short while, British imperial designs came close. 3 As a result, local forms of sovereignty and territoriality developed out of long histories of political fragmentation and cultural variation, and these persist today. Second, the postcolonial states-India, Bangladesh, 4 Burma/Myanmar, and China-view their sections of it primarily in terms of security. After the mid-twentieth century, they interdicted economic connections across their borders, thwarting infrastructural upgrading and regional growth. 5 And third, the region has long been marginalized geopolitically. State elites considered it to be a problematic and unmanageable periphery in which local wars, ethnic confrontations, and drug lords f lourished; where resources were hard to exploit; and where state control was haphazard and expensive. As a result, it turned into a political geography of silence and erasure (Grundy-Warr and Sidaway 2006).