The Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies proudly announces the dossier “Affective Arrangements and Violence in Latin America,” edited by Silvana Mandolessi, Reindert Dhondt, and Martín Zícari, which has just been published in Vol, 31, Issue 3. The five articles compiled in this dossier explore how social practices and aesthetic objects in Latin America mobilise affective dispositions and politics. The articles investigate a multiplicity of bodies, which are both individual and social, human and non-human, natural and cultural, textual and visual, shaping as well as deconstructing the surface of the Latin American territory. Affects mobilise – and are mobilised – in multiple ways and through multiple media, but all the articles share the common intent to examine the mobilisation of affects as relational, social, and situated dynamics, interrogating the particular situatedness of Latin America.
Here are some further readings on questions of affect, media, and the politics and cultures of violence published in the Journal in recent years:
Cynthia Francica, “A Dystopian Utopia: Queerness, Affect and the Political in Roberto Jacoby’s Darkroom (2002)” Vol. 28, 2 (2019): 291-320.
Cecilia Macón, “Time-Riding: Albertina Carri and the Ironic Affective Presence of the Past” Vol. 27, 3 (2018): 399-414.
Brad Epps, “The Unbearable Lightness of Bones: Memory, Emotion, and Pedagogy in Patricio Guzmán’s Chile, la memoria obstinada and Nostalgia de la luz” Vol. 26, 4 (2017): 483-502.
Kaitlyn M. Murphy, “Memory Mapping: Affect, Place, and Testimony in El Lugar Más Pequeño (2011)” Vol. 25, 4 (2016): 571-595.
Irene Depetris Chauvin, “Geographies of Love(lessness), Space and Affectivity in Viajo Porque Preciso, Volto Porque te Amo (Karim Aïnouz and Marcelo Gomes, 2009) and Turistas (Alicia Scherson, 2009)” Vol. 25, 3 (2016): 467-483.
Martín Fotta, Sílvia Posocco and Frank Dylan Smith, “Violence and Affective States in Contemporary Latin America” Vol. 25, 2 (2016): 167-177.
Andrew Lantz, “The Performativity of Violence: Abducting Agency in Mexico’s Drug War” Vol. 25, 2 (2016): 252-269.
Frank Dylan Smith, “Feeling the Boundaries of Normality – ‘tristeza’ and the Restitution of Community in the Aftermath of Violence” Vol. 25, 2 (2016): 237-251.
Andrea Noble, “Introduction: Visual Culture and Violence in Contemporary Mexico” Vol. 24, 4 (2015): 417-433.
Sarah Wright, “Noli me tangere: Memory, embodiment and affect in Silvio Caiozzi’s Fernando ha vuelto (2005)” Vol. 21, 1 (2012): 37-48.
Luis Duno Gottberg, “Mob Outrages: Reflections on the Media Construction of the Masses in Venezuela (April 200-January 2003)” Vol. 13, 1 (2004): 115-135.