Creative spaces : : urban culture and marginality in Latin America / / edited by Niall H.D. Geraghty and Adriana Laura Massidda.

Creative Spaces: Urban Culture and Marginality is an interdisciplinary exploration of the different ways in which marginal urban spaces have become privileged locations for creativity in Latin America. The essays within the collection reassess dominant theoretical notions of ‘marginality’ in the reg...

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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (280 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Niall H.D. Geraghty and Adriana Laura Massidda
  • I. Where are the margins? 1. The politics of the in-between: the negotiation of urban space in Juan Rulfo's photographs of Mexico City / Lucy O'Sullivan ; 2. The interstitial spaces of urban sprawl: unpacking the marginal suburban geography of Santiago de Chile / Christian Silva ; 3. Cynicism and the denial of marginality in contemporary Chile: Mitómana (José Luis Sepúlveda and Carolina Adriazola, 2009) / Paul Merchant
  • II. The struggle for the streets. 4. Community action, the informal city and popular politics in Cartagena (Colombia) during the National Front, 1958-74 / Orlando Deavila Pertuz ; 5. On 'real revolution' and 'killing the lion': challenges for creative marginality in Brazilian labor struggles / Lucy McMahon ; 6. Urban policies, innovation and inclusion: Comuna 8 of the city of Buenos Aires / Anabella Roitman
  • III. Marginal art as spatial praxis. 7. Exhibitions in a 'divided' city: socio-spatial inequality and the display of contemporary art in Rio de Janerio / Simone Kalkman ; 8. The spatiality of desire in Martín Osterheld's La multitud (2012) and Luis Ortega's Dromómanos (2012) / Niall H.D. Geraghty and Adriana Laura Massidda ; 9. Afterward Creative spaces: uninhabiting the urban / Geoffrey Kantaris.