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Creative Spaces: Urban Culture and Marginality in Latin America


Author: Niall H.D. Geraghty, Adriana Laura Massidda; Lucy O'Sullivan, Cristian Silva, Paul Merchant, Orlando Deavila Pertuz, Lucy McMahon, Anabella Roitman, Simone Kalkman, Geoffrey Kantaris
Source: Humanities Digital Library
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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...