Transbordering Latin Americas : Liminal Places, Cultures, and Power There

This book examines transborder Latin American sociocultural and spatial conditions across the globe and at different scales, from gendered and racialized individuals to national and transnational organizations. Gathering scholars from the "spatial sciences"―architecture, urban design, urban planning, and geography―as well as sociology, anthropology, history, and economics, the volume explores these transbordering practices of place making and community building across cultural and nation-state borders, examining different agents (individuals, ethnic and cultural groups, NGOs, government agencies) that are engaged in transnational/transborder living and city-making practices, reconceiving notions of state, identity, and citizenship and showing how subjected populations resist, adapt, or coproduce transnational/transborder projects and, in the process, help shape and are shaped as transborder subjects.

Clara Irazábal is Director of the Latin Lab and assistant professor of Urban Planning in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University in the City of New York.