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In this article I revisit the ways in which contemporary theorizations in performance studies have incorporated digital activism in their models of interpretation by maintaining a disciplinary perspective, focusing primarily on the theoretical developments in the Americas. Through a case study of the digital contention sparked by the disappearance of 43 students from Ayotzinapa, I propose a model to address political participation in the online sphere. I do so by developing an infrastructuralist approach in a twofold sense. The first aspect is a focus on the material infrastructures that underscore digital protest, as a way to better understand their specific performative nature. I then turn my attention towards the affective infrastructures that emerge in the digital and their capacity to sustain collective action and protest, within the digital and beyond.

Digital Contention in Latin America Material and affective infrastructures to address online activism as performance