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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays on popular culture and politics in the Americas presents the study of ethnographic and historical data from different countries: Canada, United States, Mexico, Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina. Each chapter brings to light a distinct focus on the way in which popular cultural practices evolve in the context of contemporary globalization. Accordingly, this book aims to improve our understanding of the way in which subordinate groups participate in the process of state building and in the reproduction (or rejection) of the major macroeconomic and cultural processes shaping contemporary societies.
Table of ContentsContents: Mariá Ana Portal: Prologue – Eduardo González Castillo/Jorge Pantaleón/Nuria Carton de Grammont: The Popular Revisited through a Polyphonic Overview – Pablo Alabarces: Post-popular Cultures in Post-populist Times: The Return of Pop Culture in Latin American Social Sciences – Eduardo González Castillo: The Popular in Parenthesis: State Interpellation and Popular Culture - A Case Study of Immigrant Youth in Montreal – Julieta Infantino: Disputes over Senses of the Popular in the Circus Arts in the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina – Laura Navallo: Making the State: Forming and Educating the Public, Presenting and Circulating Contemporary Dance in Brazil – Nuria Carton de Grammont: The Aesthetics of Informality, Self-Management, Popular Culture, and Urban Imaginaries in Mexico City – Ricardo Macip: Pankration: The Spectacle of Masculinity in Mexican Political Culture – Elizabeth Fast: Popular Culture and Urban Indigenous Youth – Leah S. Stauber: Concientización, Praxis and the Radical Habitus: Youth and the Re/Formation of Popular Contestations on the U.S. - Mexico Border – Brígida Renoldi: Agency and State in the Triple Frontier – Jorge Pantaleón: Between Savings and Celebratory Expenses: Popular Economy among Mexican Seasonal Farm Workers in Canada.
