Issue 43 of EstuDAv Journal (Advanced Studies) from the University of Santiago de Chile is now available, featuring a dossier titled "Transregional Studies: Methodological and Theoretical Proposals to Approach Historical and Contemporary Relations and Links between Asia and Latin America". This special edition was coordinated by our ICLAC alternate director and UDP Anthropology professor Carol Chan, along with ICLAC Senior Advisor and University of Puget Sound professor Monica DeHart.
The initiative, which emerges from a long-term collaboration begun in 2016, seeks to challenge traditional area studies approaches and narratives centered on the Global North. Through what the coordinators define as a "confabulation" of articles, this issue presents methodological challenges for addressing interconnected geographies that often remain invisible due to national boundaries, inviting a multiscalar approach that connects the worlds of the Pacific and the Atlantic.
Featured Contributions
The dossier is characterized by notable empirical and epistemological heterogeneity. In its pages, Evelyn Hu-DeHart (ICLAC Senior Advisor, Brown University professor) addresses the history of Asian migrations from the Manila Galleon, while Carol Chan analyzes in her article "Patchwork Infrastructures" the informal support networks of Indonesian and Filipino women in Chile. Meanwhile, Jordan Lynton Cox introduces the concept of racial triangulation in the Caribbean, and Junyoung Verónica Kim proposes her "Pedagogies of Rebellion" to rethink violence in academia. The volume also integrates perspectives from literature and media analysis, along with a miscellaneous section on trans memories and materiality.
EstuDAv Journal is a digital, open-access publication.