Abraham I Acosta

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Books

• Acosta, A. I. (2014). Thresholds of Illiteracy: Theory, Latin America, and the Crisis of Resistance. Just ideas (Transformative Ideals of Justice in Ethical and Political Thought). Edited by Drucilla Cornell and Roger Berkowitz.. New York: Fordham University Press.

Chapters

• Acosta, A. I. (2022). "El giro posthgegemónico: América Latina y la crisis de la hegemonía". In Nuevos Acercamientos a los Estudios Latinoamericanos: Cultura Y Poder. Juan Poblete, editor. Buenos Aires, CLACSO.. Buenos Aires: CLACSO.
• Acosta, A. I. (2022). “Postmigrancy: Borders, Primitive Accumulation, and Labor at the US/Mexico Border.”. In Accumulation and Subjectivity in Latin America. Karen Benezra, Editor. New York: SUNY Press.. New York: SUNY Press.
• Acosta, A. I. (2019). “Postmigrancy: Borders, Primitive Accumulation, and Labor at the US/Mexico Border.”. In Accumulation and Subjectivity (Under review at SUNY Press)(pp 25 pages). SUNY Press.
• Acosta, A. I. (2018). “Crisis and Migration in Posthegemonic Times: Primitive Accumulation and Labor in La Bestia”. In Dialectical Imaginaries: Materialist Approaches to U.S. Latino/a Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism. University of Michigan Press.(pp 241-262). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
• Acosta, A. I. (2018). “The Posthegemonic Turn.”. In New Approaches to Latin American Studies: Culture and Power. Juan Poblete, editor. New York; London: Routledge.(pp pg. 255-271.). New York: Routledge.
• Acosta, A. I. (2016). "Illiteracy in Latin America.". In The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies. Ray, Sangeeta, Henry Schwarz, José Luis Villacañas Berlanga, Alberto Moreiras and April Shemak (eds).(pp 11pp). New York: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.
• Acosta, A. I. (2013). Sign-Cutting: Thresholds, Borders, and Others in the Devil’s Highway. In The Shade of the Saguaro/La sombra del saguaro(pp 463 - 467). Firenze: Firenze University Press.

Journals/Publications

• Acosta, A. I. (2015). Of Failed Retreats: Postcolonial Theory and Post-Testimonial Narrative in Central American Writing. Politíca Común, 47pp.
• Acosta, A. I. (2019). (de)colonial sources: the coloniality of power, reoriginalization, and the critique of imperialism. FORMA Journal, 1(1), 17-36.
• Acosta, A. I. (2018). Editor's Introduction, "Unsettling Coloniality: Readings and Interrogations". Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies. 6:1, 6(1), 3-16.
• Acosta, A. I. (2017). “Mariano Siskind. Cosmopolitan Desires: Global Modernity and World Literature in Latin America. Northwestern UP, 2014, 328 pp.”. Revista Hispánica Moderna, 70.1, 113-115.
• Acosta, A. I. (2016). "Of Failed Retreats: Postcolonial Theory and Post-Testimonial Narrative in Central American Writing.". Política Común, 9.
• Acosta, A. I. (2016). "The Fantasy of Globalism: The Latin American Neo-Baroque by John V. Waldron”.. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, 50.3: 788-790., 50(3), 788-790.
• Acosta, A. I. (2014). The Wager of Critical Multilingualism Studies. Critical Multilingualism Studies, 2(1), 20 - 37.
• Acosta, A. (2013). Orality and politics in Latin America: Thresholds of illiteracy. New Centennial Review, 13(2), 203-222.
• Acosta, A. I. (2013). Review: Lund, Joshua. The Mestizo State: Reading Race in Modern Mexico. The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History, 70(1), 117 - 118.
• Acosta, A. I. (2012). Hinging on Exclusion and Exception: Bare Life, The US/Mexico Border, and Los que nunca llegarán [those who will never arrive]. Social Text, 30(4 (113)), 103 - 123.
• Acosta, A. I. (2012). Review: Beverley, John. Latinamericanism after 9/11. Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, 16, 343 - 344.
• Acosta, A. I. (2011). Review: Legras, Horacio. Literature and Subjection: The Economy of Writing and Marginality in Latin America. Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature, 35(1), 166 - 168.
• Acosta, A. (2010). Contingencies of silence: Subalternity, the EZLN, and the accounting of speech in Latin America. Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, 19(2), 203-223.
• Acosta, A. I. (2005). At the Margins of History, the Nation-State and Literature: the Discourse of Comparative Literature and Latin American Subaltern Studies. Dispositio/n: American Journal of Cultural Histories and Theories, 25(52), 249 - 264.

Presentations

• Acosta, A. I. (2022). "FORMA: on Borders". Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. April 22-23..
• Acosta, A. I. (2020, February 25). “Sourcing the Decolonial: Coloniality of Power, Settler Colonialism, and the Critique of Imperialism”.. Department of English, University of Oregon. February 25. (invited). Eugene, OR.
• Acosta, A. I. (2020, January 31). “Post-nomos: Coloniality of Power and Settler Colonialism”.. Symposium: Decolonizing Knowledge: Indigenous Theories in Latin American and U.S. Empire Studies. Department of English, University of Florida. Gainesville, FL. January 30-31. (invited). Gainesville, FL.
• Acosta, A. I. (2015, March). Postmigration at the Limits of Capitalism: Accumulation or Subsumption. ACLA. Georgetown University.
• Acosta, A. I. (2019, March 1). "(De)colonial Sources: The Coloniality of Power, Reoriginalization, and the Critique of Imperialism". Invited Lecture, Department of Hispanic Studies. University of California, Riverside. Riverside, CA.
• Acosta, A. I. (2019, March). "Postmigration at the Limits of Capitalism: Accumulation or Subsumption". ACLA. Georgetown University.
• Acosta, A. I. (2018, January 19). “Form in Posthegemonic Times: Aesthetics, Sovereignty, and Nomos”. Edith O’Donnel Institute of Art History, University of Texas at Dallas. January 19, 2018.
• Acosta, A. I. (2017, September 17). “Mapping La Bestia: Migrancy, Posthegemony, and Primitive Accumulation in Contemporary Times.”. Invited Speaker, Liu Institute for Global Issues, University of British Columbia. September 17, 2017..
• Acosta, A. I. (2016, April). "Remapping Resistance in the Posthegemonic Age: Cultural Studies, Affect, Illiteracy.". Invited Speaker. Department of English, University of California, Irvine. April 18.. Department of English, University of California, Irvine..
• Acosta, A. I. (2016, April). “Crisis and Migration in Posthegemonic Times: Primitive Accumulation and La Bestia”. Invited Speaker. Department of Hispanic Studies, University of California, Riverside. April 15.. Department of Hispanic Studies, University of California, Riverside. April 15..
• Acosta, A. I. (2016, March). “Crisis and Migration in Posthegemonic Times: Primitive Accumulation and La Bestia.”. ACLA. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. March 17-20.: Panel “Hispanic World Crises And The Representation of Precarious Life.” American Comparative Literature Association Conference.
• Acosta, A. I. (2016, May). “Of Posthegemonic Forms: Politics, Theory, Representation”. LASA. New York, New York. May 27-30.: LASA, Panel “Forms of the Political: The Politics of Aesthetics in Posthegemonic Times.”.
• Acosta, A. I. (2016, September). “Crisis and Sovereignty: Posthegemony, Affect, Illiteracy.”. Invited Speaker. Department of Global Studies and Languages/ Global Border Research Collaboration, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA: Department of Global Studies and Languages/ Global Border Research Collaboration..
• Acosta, A. I. (2015, April). “The Biopolitics of Cultural Difference: Postcoloniality, Decoloniality, and Illiteracy.”. Race, Place & Capital in Postcolonial Studies: An Interdisciplinary Tricontinental Symposium. Indiana University.
• Acosta, A. I. (2015, December). “The Posthegemonic Turn.”. Comparative Subalternities: Socio-Spatial Marginalization In the Global South, and International Roundtable.. Gurgaon, India: Indiana University.
• Acosta, A. I. (2015, February). Thresholds of Illiteracy: The Fictions of Sovereignty and Decoloniality. Invited Lecture, Department of Spansh and Portuguese, University of Southern California. University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA.
• Acosta, A. I. (2015, March). The Constraints of Freedom: Writing, Illiteracy, and the US/Mexico border. ACLA. Seattle, WA.
• Acosta, A. I. (2015, March). Thresholds of Illiteracy: Decoloniality and the Biopolitics of Cultural Difference. Invited Lecture, Dept. of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of Arkansas. Dept. of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
• Acosta, A. I. (2015, May). “The Latin American Posthegemonic: Affect, Illiteracy, and the Question of Reading.”. LASA. San Juan, PR.
• Acosta, A. I. (2015, May). ““Migrantes que no importan”: Bare Life, Subalternity, and Border Biopolitics.” (Roundtable). LASA. San Juan, PR.
• Acosta, A. I. (2015, October). “Latin American and the Crisis of Hegemony: Illiteracy, Affect, Posthegemony.”. Invited Lecture, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. Ann Arbor, MI.
• Acosta, A. I. (2015, September). “Crisis and Migration in Posthegemonic Times: Primitive Accumulation and La Bestia.”. Invited Lecture, Department of Hispanic Studies. University of Puget Sound. Tacoma, WA.
• Acosta, A. I. (2016, January). “Subjectivities beyond Identity in North America and the Caribbean” (Roundtable). MLA. Austin, TX.
• Acosta, A. I. (2014, April). Illiteracy: Remapping Orality, Politics, and Subalternity in Latin America. Invited Lecture, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Princeton University. Princeton University, Princeton NJ..
• Acosta, A. I. (2014, March). The Coloniality of Power and Subalternity: of (De)Colonial Sources, Re- Originalization, and the Critique of Imperialism. American Comparative Literature Association Conference. New York University, NY.
• Acosta, A. I. (2014, May). Doctrina y Enseñanza de los Reyes Incas’: Biopolitics, Illiteracy, and the Latin American Colonial Archive. Latin American Studies Association Conference. Chicago, IL.
• Acosta, A. I. (2014, October 24). Thresholds of Illiteracy: Cultural Difference, Subalternity, Infrapolitics. Invited Lecture, Texas Research Group on Luso-Hispanic, Caribbean, and Latino Thought. University of Texas at Dallas.

Others

• Acosta, A. I. (2018, 2018). Edited Collection: "Unsettling Coloniality: Readings and Interrogations". Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies 6:1.