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Ch'ixinakax utxiwa: On Practices and Discourses of Decolonization
The Bolivian scholar and activist Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui is a pre-eminent Latin American intellectual, world renowned for her work in postcolonial and subaltern studies. She has long maintained that we must acknowledge how colonial structures of domination continue to affect indigenous identities and cultures. Even in contexts where diversity and the value of indigenous cultures have been officially recognized, “internal colonialism” operates as a structure that shapes mental categories and social practices.
This book considers this persistent colonial structure by examining artistic and popular practices of apprehending and resisting it, arguing that in Andean cultures there is a sustained practice of insubordinate image production and use. Combining this visual history with other instances of political resistance, the book offers an alternative narrative to the history of Latin American decolonisation. This narrative challenges the common conception that mestizaje (race-mixing) and hybridity are liberatory formations, offering instead a new theorisation of the complex racial configurations produced by colonialism and its afterlives.
Given Rivera Cusicanqui’s vital contribution to critical epistemologies, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars throughout the humanities and social sciences and to everyone concerned with the key questions of critical theory today.
Touched Bodies: The Performative Turn in Latin American Art
What is the role of pleasure and pain in the politics of art? Polgovsky Ezcurra approaches this question as she examines the flourishing of live and intermedial performance in Latin America during times of authoritarianism and its significance during transitions to democracy.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Border Brujo
A Performance Poem from the Series “Documented/Undocumented”.
Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960 - 1985
Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Hammer Museum, LA. 15 September – 31 December 2017.
Argentina’s Popular Uprising - newspaper
An eyewitness account of the financial meltdown and ongoing grassroots rebellion.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Nurtured by Knowledge: Learning to Do Participatory Action Research
Examines the frustrations and limitations of conventional Western academic research on social change and describes the struggle to fashion a new approach based on the principle that people have a universal right to participate in the production of knowledge that directly affects their lives.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Arte-Acción y Performance en los muchos Méxicos
Outlins the performance map in Mexico, calling on artistsfrom various regions of the country to investigate and trace the history of this artistic expression.
In Spanish.
Displaced: Arte Contemporaneo de Colombia / Contemporary Art from Colombia
In Spanish.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
Of Bridges & Borders: Vol. II
Anthropologists, writers, philosophers, artists, sociologists and architects from around the world voice their views of the challenges facing society today. The content ranges from anecdotes to complex research projects. In Spanish and English.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
VERBO 2005-2015
An overview of the first 10 years of the VERBO festival, featuring texts by Brazilian and foreign authors.
In Portuguese and English; some text in Spanish.
