Contestations Over Sacred Spaces in North America

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31261/rias.15683

Keywords:

Sacred Spaces, North America, Introduction, Review of International American Studies

Abstract

The article serves as an introduction to the present issue, offering the reader an insight into the Editors' overall concept, as well as an overview of the contents of the issue's "Features" section.   

Author Biographies

Lucie Kýrová, Charles University, Prague

Lucie Kýrová received her PhD from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, USA. She works as an assistant professor at the Department of North American Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Her teaching and research interests include American history (social, cultural, and intellectual), Native American and Indigenous Studies, Indigenous internationalism, transnational social movements and dissent. She is an author of a chapter “Práva původních obyvatel severní Ameriky a OSN: transnacionální aktivismus amerických Indiánů v druhé polovině 20. století” [“Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and the United Nations: Native American Transnational Activism in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century”] in a collection of essays Původní obyvatelé a globalizace. [Indigenous Peoples and Globalization] (2021), and co-editor of a special issue “Red Power at 50: Re-Evaluations and Memory” of the Comparative American Studies An International Journal (2020) and a collective monograph America First: Příčiny a kontext volebního vítězství Donalda Trumpa [American First: The Reasons and Context of the Election Victory of Donald Trump] (2020). 

Nathaniel R. Racine, Texas A&M International University in Laredo

Nathaniel R. Racine is an assistant professor of English in the Department of Humanities at Texas A&M International University in Laredo, Texas. He holds a PhD in English from Temple University in Philadelphia and a professionally-accredited Master’s degree in Urban Planning from McGill University in Montréal, Canada. In 2018-2019 he was a Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholar to Mexico. His recent work draws from the fields of geography and urbanism to understand the cultural exchange between the US and Mexico from the interwar period through midcentury.

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RIAS Vol. 16, Spring—Summer № 1/2023 - cover art: Another Family Reunion by Ukjese van Kampen © 2023

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2023-08-28

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Kýrová, L., & Racine, N. R. (2023). Contestations Over Sacred Spaces in North America. Review of International American Studies, 16(1), 15–30. https://doi.org/10.31261/rias.15683

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Vol. 16 No. 1 (2023): Sacred Spaces in North America—RIAS Vol. 16, Spring–Summer (1/2023)

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INTRO

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