MAPPING SOUTH-SOUTH CONNECTIONS AUSTRALIA and LATIN AMERICA Edited by Fernanda Peñaloza and Sarah Walsh Studies of the Americas

STUDIES OF THE AMERICAS MAPPING SOUTH-SOUTH CONNECTIONS AUSTRALIA AND LATIN AMERICA Edited by Fernanda Peñaloza and Sarah Walsh Studies of the Americas Series Editor Maxine Molyneux Institute of the Americas University College London London, UK The Studies of the Americas Series includes country specifc, cross- disciplinary and comparative research on the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada, particularly in the areas of Politics, Economics, History, Sociology, Anthropology, Development, Gender, Social Policy and the Environment. The series publishes monographs, readers on specifc themes and also welcomes proposals for edited collec- tions, that allow exploration of a topic from several different disciplinary angles. This series is published in conjunction with University College London’s Institute of the Americas under the editorship of Professor Maxine Molyneux. More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14462 Fernanda Peñaloza · Sarah Walsh Editors Mapping South-South Connections Australia and Latin America Editors Fernanda Peñaloza Sarah Walsh Department of Spanish and Latin Washington State University American Studies Pullman, USA University of Sydney Sydney, NSW, Australia Studies of the Americas ISBN 978-3-319-78576-9 ISBN 978-3-319-78577-6 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78577-6 Library of Congress Control Number: 2019931740 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 This work is subject to copyright. 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Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affliations. Cover image: © Maria Fernanda Cardoso. “Dibujo de Mariposas/Butterfy Drawing.” 2004. Butterfies, glue, perspex, metal. 122 x 122 x 1.4 cm. First Prize Jupiter Art Competition, Gold Coast Art Gallery. 2004 Cover design by Akihiro Nakayama This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Mapping South-South Connections is the result of three years of work and quite a lot of support. The frst people that deserve our thanks are those that participated in the workshop at the University of Sydney in July 2015 that served as the inspiration for this collection: Gai Bryant, Barry Carr, David Corbet, Michael Jacklin, Jim Levy, Vek Lewis, Alfredo Martinez-Exposito, Sara C. Motta, Kevin Murray, Cristina Rocha, Robin Rodd, Peter Ross, Catherine Seaton, and Irene Strodthoff. Not all of them are represented in these pages, but they all contributed to a lively and dynamic discussion about the purpose of Latin American studies in Australia and continue to contribute to the developments in that feld. That conference was also supported by the Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship Project “Race and Ethnicity in the Global South.” The project’s leader, Professor Warwick Anderson, not only saw the value of the workshop and subsequent volume, but also has been a tireless advocate for expanding the study of Latin America among Australian scholars. The Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Sydney through SURCLA, Sydney University Research Community for Latin America, also provided support for the workshop. A special thank you to Anne Walsh, department chair at the time of the organisation of the workshop. Fernanda Peñaloza would like to express her deepest gratitude to co-editor Sarah Walsh; the organisation of the Workshop and the com- pletion of this volume coincided with a very challenging period at a per- sonal level, so it was essential for the carrying out of the different stages v vi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of the project, to have such a supportive colleague. In addition, the real- ities of being an academic migrant woman with family responsibilities requires a great deal of patience, understanding, and encouragement: so special thanks to Frank, Qilqa, Lola, Mateo, María Esther (1942–2015), Juan, and Silvina. Last but not least, great appreciation for the ongoing encouragement of Professor Yixu Lu, Head of the School of Languages and Cultures, University of Sydney. Sarah Walsh would like to acknowledge her co-editor Fernanda Peñaloza for her support not only in this publication but in her experi- ences traversing the feld of Latin American Studies as a junior scholar. She would also like to thank her colleagues at the University of Sydney who created such a collegial environment to work through the “Race and Ethnicity in the Global South” project: Miranda Johnson, Sebastián Gil-Riaño, Ben Silverstein, and Jamie Dunk. A special thank you to Warwick Anderson and Hans Pols for being constant supporters of her work and keeping the history of science community at the University of Sydney vibrant. Finally, the fnancial and intellectual support she received from the European Research Council Project “The Colour of Labour: Racialized Lives of Migrants” and its director, Cristiana Bastos, was criti- cal during the fnal editing of this collection. CONTENTS 1 Introduction: Why Australia and Latin America? On Mapping Connections and Its Implications for Knowledge Production 1 Fernanda Peñaloza and Sarah Walsh Part I South-South Perspectives and Transpacifc Flows 2 Decolonising the Exhibitionary Complex: Australian and Latin American Art and Activism in the Era of the Global Contemporary 23 David Corbet 3 La Bestia as Transpacifc Phenomenon: Indigenous Peoples’ Camps, Violence, Biopolitics, and Agamben’s State of Exception 59 Victoria Grieves-Williams 4 Common Ground: Connections and Tensions Between Food Sovereignty Movements in Australia and Latin America 81 Alana Mann vii viii CONTENTS 5 Rethinking the Chile–Australia Transpacifc Relationship in Light of Globalisation and Economic Progress 111 Irene Strodthoff Part II Diasporic Connections 6 Mavis Robertson, the Chilean New Song Tours, and the Latin American Cultural Explosion in Sydney After 1977 145 Peter Ross 7 Latin American Diasporic Writing in the Australian Migrant Magazine Tabaré 173 Michael Jacklin 8 Sydney’s Iberoamerican Plaza and the Limits of Multiculturalism 197 Sarah Walsh 9 Screening Latin America: The Sydney Latin American Film Festival 223 Fernanda Peñaloza Part III Comparative Readings 10 Days of the Dead: Australian Encounters with Violence in Contemporary Mexico 243 Robert Mason 11 Remembering Obedience and Dissent: Democratic Citizenship and Memorials to State Violence in Australia and Argentina 263 Robin Rodd NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS David Corbet is a visual designer, educator, writer, and curator based in Sydney, Australia. He is engaged in Doctoral research at the University of Sydney, following graduate studies at The University of New South Wales, Australia, and Central Saint Martins School of Art, The University of the Arts, London, UK. He is the author/editor of several books and numerous articles and essays on contemporary art. Victoria Grieves-Williams is an historian from the Warraimay people of the mid north coast of NSW in Australia. She works in interdisciplinary and transnational ways to progress Indigenous knowledge as a means of meeting the increasing demands of the Anthropocene. Important in this is the baseline for Indigenous knowledge production in Australia, she frst documented in the widely accessed book Aboriginal Spirituality: Aboriginal Philosophy—And the Social and Emotional Wellbeing of Aboriginal People. This work has led to publications in Aboriginal history, race, politics, including identity politics, and environmental studies. Importantly she has identifed Aboriginal people as living in a state of exception to the Australian settler colonial state and has argued for the creation of a new sovereign republic based on Aboriginal cultural values. https://victoriagrieves.academia.edu/. Michael Jacklin is an Honorary Fellow in the School of the Arts, English, and Media at the University of Wollongong. His research focuses on multilingual Australian literatures and his recent publications ix x NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS in this area have appeared in Australian Literary Studies and Antipodes (on Hispanic-Australian writing) and Southerly, Kunapipi and JASAL (on Vietnamese-Australian writing), as well as book chapters in Bearing Across: Translating Literary Narratives of Migration (2016) and Migrant Nation: Australian Culture, Society and Identity (2017). Alana Mann is Chair of the Department of Media and Communications

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