East Asia, Latin America, and the Decolonization of Transpacific Studies

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. When East Is North and South

   • Jordi Serrano-Muñoz, Chiara Olivieri

   Pages 1-17

3. Confronting “the Ends” of Area: Murmurs Toward a Transpacific Phenomenology

   • Andrea Mendoza

   Pages 19-41

4. Decolonial Notes on How to Do Research on International Migrations in the World-System

   • Yoan Molinero-Gerbeau, Gennaro Avallone

   Pages 43-65

5. Ocean Narratives: Fluxes of Commodities Across the Pacific in the Contemporary Age

   • Antonio Ortega Santos

   Pages 67-88

6. From IIRSA-COSIPLAN to the Belt and Road Initiative: Infrastructure for Extractivism in Latin America

   • Helios Escalante-Moreno

   Pages 89-114

7. The Feminization of Extractive Violence: A Comparative Study from Colombia and Indonesia

   • Raúl Holz, Paulina J. Pavez

   Pages 115-138

8. China’s Lost Connection to the Global South: A Fanonian Reading of Yu Dafu and the Colonized Status of May Fourth Literature in the Japanese Empire

   • Ashley Liu

   Pages 139-157

9. Worshipping Ancestors: A Decolonized Epistemology on Death Conceptions in Indigenous Okinawan and Mexican Worldviews

   • Angélica Cabrera Torrecilla

   Pages 159-182

10. The Vedette China on Havana’s International Cabaret Stage

    • Rosanne Sia

    Pages 183-201

11. Between North and South: Colombia in Korean War Exhibitions

    • Gina Catherine León Cabrera

    Pages 203-225

12. This Coronavirus Shit Is Real: Racialized People, Vulnerability and Intersectional Care in Virtual Social Networks During the Pandemic

    • Núria Canalda Moreno, Andrés Vargas Herreño

    Pages 227-249

13. Latin America as a Catalyst to Restore Japanese Culture: Tsurumi Shunsuke’s Post-Mexico Philosophy

    • Matías Chiappe Ippolito

    Pages 251-266

14. Back Matter

    Pages 267-274

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 In this collective work, researchers from different disciplines reflect upon the challenges and opportunities of decolonizing transpacific studies through the lens of a few paradigmatic case-studies that deal with connections between East Asia and Latin America. The present book offers a productive problematization of the idea of the transpacific as a concept and a space that is not restricted to a single definition. We defend that the transpacific can instead promote an understanding of agents and experiences that share many common traits that have been generally overlooked by a hegemonic interpretation of knowledge and the relationship between regions.By fostering an environment that not only accepts a plurality of views but that actively looks to accommodate analogous, tangential, and even contradicting approaches to the study of our ideas, we seek a double objective. First, we hope to highlight precisely the richness within the idea of the transpacific, avoiding sticking to any particular conception to it while at the same time acknowledging and owning each of our points of enunciation. Our second objective is part of a constant struggle in the quest towards social and epistemic justice. By adopting this stance of plurality, we can fight against structures of knowledge production and reproduction that willingly or unintentionally instill specific interpretations in ways that inculcate exclusivity.

The goal of this book is opening up and expanding the debate regarding transpacific connections, examining the limits and promises of including these experiences within the conceptual paradigm of the Global South, and showcasing different ways of approaching decolonial research to the study of the relationship between East Asia and Latin America.

• Transpacific studies
• Decolonization studies
• East Asia-Latin America relations
• China and the Global South
• Indigenous Perceptions of Death

• Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

  Chiara Olivieri

• CEAA, El Colegio de México, Mexico City, Mexico

  Jordi Serrano-Muñoz

Chiara Olivieri holds a PhD in Migration Studies. She is Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Toronto, and member of the Research Group STAND (University of Granada). 

Jordi Serrano-Muñoz is currently a lecturer and guest researcher at El Colegio de México and a lecturer at the Open University of Catalonia.  He holds a Ph.D. in the Humanities from the Pompeu Fabra University.      

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