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Jens Andermann serves as Reader in Latin American and Luso-Brazilian Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, within the University of London system. His academic role focuses on critical analysis of visual culture and state formation in Latin America.
His research centers on how nationalist imaginaries were constructed through public visual representations during modern state formation in Brazil and Argentina. Key interests include the interplay between government institutions, cultural producers, and scientific actors in propagating political power through heritage sites, territorial mappings, and ethnographic displays. Andermann examines how these visual strategies secured state viability by framing historical processes as natural givens while targeting European imperial recognition.
His seminal 2007 work, The Optic of the State, establishes core trends in his scholarship, revealing how visual culture reinforced political agendas across disciplines like history, anthropology, and museology. The research demonstrates consistent engagement with Latin American state mythology through iconographic analysis, emphasizing contested narratives of social composition and territorial sovereignty within global economic contexts of the late nineteenth century.
