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Creative Spaces: Urban Culture and Marginality in Latin America

Geraghty, NHD and Massidda, AL (Eds). (2019) Creative Spaces: Urban Culture and Marginality in Latin America. [Book]. Institute of Latin American Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London: London, UK. Green open access

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Abstract

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 region and argue that, in contemporary society, it invariably allows for (if not leads to) the production of the new. While Latin American cities have, since their foundation, always included marginal spaces (due, for example, to the segregation of indigenous groups), the massive expansion of informal housing constructed on occupied land in the second half of the twentieth century have brought them into the collective imaginary like never before. Originally viewed as spaces of deprivation, violence, and dangerous alterity, the urban margins were later romanticized as spaces of opportunity and popular empowerment. Instead, this volume analyses the production of new art forms, political organizations and subjectivities emerging from the urban margins in Latin America, neither condemning nor idealizing the effects they produce. To account for the complex nature of contemporary urban marginality, the volume draws on research from a wide spectrum of disciplines, ranging from cultural and urban studies to architecture and sociology. Thus the collection analyzes how these different conceptions of marginal spaces work together and contribute to the imagined and material reality of the wider city.

Type: Book
Title: Creative Spaces: Urban Culture and Marginality in Latin America
ISBN-13: 9781908857699
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.14296/519.9781908857699
Publisher version: https://humanities-digital-library.org/index.php/h...
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © 2019 Chapter authors. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > SELCS
URI: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10083260
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