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Dancing on the Margins: Transforming Urban Marginality Through Popular Performance
Author(s) -
Goldstein Daniel M.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
city and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1548-744X
pISSN - 0893-0465
DOI - 10.1525/ciso.1997.9.1.201
Subject(s) - pride , space (punctuation) , dance , sociology , gender studies , geography , political science , visual arts , art , philosophy , linguistics , law
In a migrant barrio of Cochabamba, Bolivia, a community considered marginal in the social geography of the city, people struggle to assert their integration to urban and national life. They accomplish this through dance performances that are widely recognized as components of Bolivia's national Carnaval. By demonstrating mastery of national culture, barrio residents offer alternative constructions of urban space, restore community pride, and improve the area's physical infrastructure. Photographs of a local fiesta illustrate this process of contesting marginality. [Urban space, marginality, Andes, Bolivia]