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CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> Creative Spaces: Urban Culture and Marginality in Latin America
>
> Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS), University of London
>
> 19th May 2016
>
>
> Marginal urban spaces in Latin America have drawn considerable artistic,
>
political and scholarly attention since the mid-twentieth century, when the
unprecedented growth of cities led to the massive expansion of informal
housing constructed on occupied land. While Latin American cities have
always included marginal spaces (due, for example, to the segregation of
indigenous groups), marginality in its contemporary manifestation is
inherently linked to urban informality. Moreover, this spatial difference
continues to be linked to issues of class, politics, and race, ensuring
that marginal spaces remain inherently 'other'. Two contending views of the
urban margins can, however, be distinguished: one considers them as spaces
of deprivation, violence and dangerous alterity; while the other considers
them to be spaces of opportunity, creativity and popular empowerment.
>
> While conscious of the problems and needs still faced by those living in
>
conditions of marginality in Latin America, this conference will focus on
the production of the 'new' within marginal spaces themselves, on creative
interventions and solutions to the problems encountered in them, and on
creative representations of their inhabitants.
>
> The conference will create dialogue between academics working in fields
>
such as cultural and urban studies, architecture, geography, sociology, and
anthropology. Possible topics for papers include, but are not limited to:
>
> * New art forms emerging from the urban margins (e.g. Cumbia villera,
>
Baile Funk¸ graffiti art);
> * New cinematic and literary works produced by residents of marginal
>
spaces themselves;
> * Architectural interventions in marginal spaces;
> * Community-led projects in the urban margins;
> * Works produced by artists, writers and filmmakers outside the urban
>
margins which draw inspiration from their inherent creativity;
> * Works which represent the urban margins as spaces which either
>
produce or introduce new and radically different subjectivities into the
wider urban environment;
> * New forms of political or social organisation materializing within
>
marginal spaces.
>
> Keynote Speakers:
>
> * Dr Geoffrey Kantaris, Reader in Latin American Culture, University
>
of Cambridge
> * Justin McGuirk, writer, curator and critic, author of Radical
>
Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture (2014) (TBC)
> * With the participation of Dr Felipe Hernández, Department of
>
Architecture, University of Cambridge
>
> Abstracts of approximately 300 words should be emailed to the conference
>
organisers Niall Geraghty and Adriana Massidda at the address
creativemarginality@???<
mailto:creativemarginality@gmail.com> BY 15th
MARCH 2016.
>
>
>
>
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<LATAM-INFO@???>
> CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> Creative Spaces: Urban Culture and Marginality in Latin America
>
> Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS), University of London
>
> 19th May 2016
>
>
> Marginal urban spaces in Latin America have drawn considerable artistic,
political and scholarly attention since the mid-twentieth century, when the
unprecedented growth of cities led to the massive expansion of informal
housing constructed on occupied land. While Latin American cities have
always included marginal spaces (due, for example, to the segregation of
indigenous groups), marginality in its contemporary manifestation is
inherently linked to urban informality. Moreover, this spatial difference
continues to be linked to issues of class, politics, and race, ensuring
that marginal spaces remain inherently 'other'. Two contending views of the
urban margins can, however, be distinguished: one considers them as spaces
of deprivation, violence and dangerous alterity; while the other considers
them to be spaces of opportunity, creativity and popular empowerment.
>
> While conscious of the problems and needs still faced by those living in
conditions of marginality in Latin America, this conference will focus on
the production of the 'new' within marginal spaces themselves, on creative
interventions and solutions to the problems encountered in them, and on
creative representations of their inhabitants.
>
> The conference will create dialogue between academics working in fields
such as cultural and urban studies, architecture, geography, sociology, and
anthropology. Possible topics for papers include, but are not limited to:
>
> * New art forms emerging from the urban margins (e.g. Cumbia villera,
Baile Funk¸ graffiti art);
> * New cinematic and literary works produced by residents of marginal
spaces themselves;
> * Architectural interventions in marginal spaces;
> * Community-led projects in the urban margins;
> * Works produced by artists, writers and filmmakers outside the urban
margins which draw inspiration from their inherent creativity;
> * Works which represent the urban margins as spaces which either
produce or introduce new and radically different subjectivities into the
wider urban environment;
> * New forms of political or social organisation materializing within
marginal spaces.
>
> Keynote Speakers:
>
> * Dr Geoffrey Kantaris, Reader in Latin American Culture, University
of Cambridge
> * Justin McGuirk, writer, curator and critic, author of Radical
Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture (2014) (TBC)
> * With the participation of Dr Felipe Hernández, Department of
Architecture, University of Cambridge
>
> Abstracts of approximately 300 words should be emailed to the conference
organisers Niall Geraghty and Adriana Massidda at the address
creativemarginality@???<
mailto:creativemarginality@gmail.com> BY 15th
MARCH 2016.
>
>
>
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