Bottom-up creativity and insurgent citizenship in “Afro Lisboa”: Racial difference and cultural commodification in Portugal

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 328-351
Author(s):  
Carlos Garrido Castellano ◽  
Otávio Raposo
Keyword(s):  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Racial Difference ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Police Violence ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Cultural Productions ◽  
Positive Identification ◽  
Cultural Commodification ◽  
Portuguese Society

This article analyzes recent audio-visual creativity by young Afrodescendants emerging out of the outskirts of Lisbon. We argue that those cultural productions are challenging unproblematic identifications of the Portuguese capital as a multicultural city shaped by African communities. Responding to issues of racism, police violence, and urban marginalization, but also to celebratory views of Portuguese society as exempt of racial discrimination, the communities inhabiting the neighborhoods of Cova da Moura and Quinta do Mocho are employing creative means to develop a positive identification of afro-diasporic communities. Engaging those means, this article places bottom-up creativity side by side to the activity of Lisbon cultural institutions such as museums and contemporary art centers. It also addresses the relevance of visual and musical creativity to counter the stereotypes and images frequently used to categorize racialized subjects and communities in Portugal. Finally, it explores the strategies employed by the residents of the above mentioned neighborhoods to struggle against the process of cultural gentrification Lisbon is going through.

scholarly journals Mediação como atribuição de força a uma arte fraca

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (35) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tania Queiroz
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Art Works

Investiga a proximidade entre arte contemporânea e público - a relaçãoentre arte e vida - entendendo que é o que os distancia. Apresenta: rupturasprovocadas pela arte moderna sob a ótica de artistas da época; artistascontemporâneos cuja obra seja atravessada por outros campos; programaseducativos em instituições culturais; perfis de mediação para a arte hoje.Palavras-chave: Arte. Arte contemporânea. Ensino. Programas educacionais.Mediation as a strength’s attribution to a weak artAbstract: Investigates the proximity between contemporary art and public - artand life - understanding that as the reason of their distance. It presents: theruptures of modern art from its own artists perspective; contemporaneous artistswhose art works are corelated to other fields of knowledge; educational programsin cultural institutions; mediation’s profiles for the current art.

Contemporary Art in the Classic Museum: Strategies for a Productive Dialogue

2021 ◽  
pp. 19-27
Author(s):  
Е.А. Kartseva
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Domestic Institutions ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
Specialized Institutions ◽  
Cultural Dialogue ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Changing Role

A variety of strategies for incorporating contemporary art are found today in almost all world museums. Domestic institutions in recent years have also taken a course on contemporary art, which has become the occasion of numerous discussions. Not all are advocates of such integrations, suggesting that for contemporary art there are specialized institutions. However, with the changing role of the museum in the modern world, the acquisition of new functions, as well as the development of contemporary art practices, classical cultural institutions are less and less able to resist the expansion of contemporary art. The article formulates the advantages and risks of including contemporary art in a classical museum, and offers scenarios for a productive cultural dialogue.

scholarly journals Dance Well and Diary of a Move: From Artistic Projects to Social Processes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Franco
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Standing Committee ◽  
Diverse Communities ◽  
The World ◽  
Large Audience

This chapter analyses two participatory projects conducted in the frame of the Creative Europe project Dancing Museums. Dance Well (2015) was hosted by the Civic Museum of Bassano del Grappa (Italy) and was aimed at people affected by Parkinson’s disease and their families; Diary of a Move (2020), which was conceived by the Italian-Japanese choreographer Masako Matsushita during the first lockdown in Italy, was addressed to a large audience. Operating outside the contemporary art mainstream and in a rather provincial and conservative political and social context, these two artistic projects and the processes they initiate by actively involving their audiences, have produced real social change and have created a sense of community rather than merely producing a display or a staged version of it. Both projects also prove how museums as cultural institutions can be “democratising and inclusive spaces” and how they “work for diverse communities” to “enhance understandings of the world”, as the 2019 ICOM Standing Committee for Museum Definition, Prospects and Potentials suggested.

scholarly journals Sounds of youth in the metropolis: the different routes of the Hip Hop movement in the city of São Paulo.

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-94
Author(s):  
José Carlos Gomes da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Hip Hop ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Intimate Relationship ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Police Violence ◽  
Cultural Productions ◽  
War Zones ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The City

In this article I examine different moments of the hip hop movement in the city of São Paulo. I analyze the intimate relationship of this phenomenon with urban segregation. I first discuss the rise of break dancing in the downtown region in the mid-1980s. I find that the themes and sounds present in the music of this period express aspects of the centrality of public life in the metropolis. In the following decades, there was a shift of hip hop towards peripheral neighborhoods. In this context, I analyze the relationships between rap and a new modality of urban segregation, marked by a withdrawal of the elites into vibrant v.8 n.1 josé carlos gomes da silva fortified enclaves and the transformation of peripheral neighborhoods into “war zones,” controlled by local micro-powers and police violence. At this time, rappers assumed a position as chroniclers of a violent, segregated and silenced urban reality. I also map new cultural productions with a focus on saraus, which are spaces that bring together rap musicians, as well as poets and marginal writers. The frontiers between these groups are increasingly tenuous, many artists have dual affiliation. What unifies them is their reaction to and protest against violence and urban segregation.

Refreshing or Abolishing Colorblindness in France?

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 39-50
Author(s):  
Séverine Rebourcet
Keyword(s):  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Police Violence ◽  
National Project ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
The Way

A commentary on the Black Lives Matter movement’s influence on France’s own debate over the idea of colorblindness within its universalist national project and the way in which the concept obscures the reality of racial discrimination, police violence, and the marginalization of ethnic communities in France.

Race and Racial Discrimination

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naomi Zack
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Racial Difference ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Century ◽  
Race And Racism ◽  
Fourth Section ◽  
The Third ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Made In

This article attempts to develop an accessible approach to race and racism in the United States at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The second section is about the concept of racism, and, by derivation, racists and racist behavior. Any acceptable definition of racism would seem to presuppose the existence of races and racial difference. Therefore, the third section, ‘Race’, is an examination of those concepts. The fourth section ‘Remedies’, is a discussion of practical correctives to racism in the light of the progress made in second and third sections.

Turning the Pushkin Museum into a ‘Russian Tate’: Informal creative labour in a transitional cultural economy (the case of privately funded Moscow art centres)

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 281-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margarita I Kuleva
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Art Market ◽  
Cultural Economy ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Russian Art ◽  
Cultural Workers ◽  
Depth Interviews

This article investigates the creative work that is now taking place in newly established cultural institutions in Moscow, the non-governmental museums of contemporary art (MoCAs). The exploration of creative work in Russian art centres is of particular interest because it promises to record the transition of the contemporary art market from the Soviet-era cultural monopoly to the market economy, during the real-time formation of new, informal standards of cultural production. The present article evaluates what informality means within these new standards of the organization of creative work: while standing for culture ‘in a new and innovative way’, the new art centres preserve many residues of the ‘old system’, such as the practices of blat, favour-swapping and clientelism. The article is based on an empirical study conducted in 2016 which included 25 in-depth interviews with cultural workers employed full-time, and 20 live observations in offices and exhibition areas of the art centres.

scholarly journals A Note on Posttreatment Selection in Studying Racial Discrimination in Policing

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
QINGYUAN ZHAO ◽  
LUKE J KEELE ◽  
DYLAN S SMALL ◽  
MARSHALL M JOFFE
Keyword(s):  
Causal Inference ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Risk Ratio ◽  
Causal Effect ◽  
Similar Data ◽  
Police Violence ◽  
Administrative Records ◽  
Average Causal Effect ◽  
Naive Estimator ◽  
Administrative Datasets

We discuss some causal estimands that are used to study racial discrimination in policing. A central challenge is that not all police–civilian encounters are recorded in administrative datasets and available to researchers. One possible solution is to consider the average causal effect of race conditional on the civilian already being detained by the police. We find that such an estimand can be quite different from the more familiar ones in causal inference and needs to be interpreted with caution. We propose using an estimand that is new for this context—the causal risk ratio, which has more transparent interpretation and requires weaker identification assumptions. We demonstrate this through a reanalysis of the NYPD Stop-and-Frisk dataset. Our reanalysis shows that the naive estimator that ignores the posttreatment selection in administrative records may severely underestimate the disparity in police violence between minorities and whites in these and similar data.

scholarly journals A POLÍTICA CULTURAL NA REVOLUÇÃO CUBANA: as disputas intelectuais nos anos 1960 e 1970

Caderno CRH ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (87) ◽  
pp. 537
Author(s):  
Sílvia Cezar Miskulin
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Cuban Revolution ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Cultural Productions ◽  
Culture History ◽  
Cuban Government ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
And Control

<p>A Revolução Cubana promoveu grandes transformações na sociedade da ilha. Novas publicações, instituições culturais e manifestações artísticas acompanharam a efervescência política e cultural ao longo dos anos 60. Esta pesquisa analisou o suplemento cultural Lunes de Revolución, a editora El Puente e o suplemento cultural El Caimán Barbudo, com o objetivo de mostrar o surgimento das novas publicações e manifestações culturais em Cuba após o triunfo da Revolução. O trabalho demonstra que o surgimento de uma política cultural acarretou a normatização e o controle das produções culturais pelo governo cubano desde os anos 1960, e mais ainda após 1971, quando se acentuou o fechamento e o endurecimento no meio cultural cubano.</p><p> </p><p>CULTURAL POLICY IN THE CUBAN REVOLUTION: intellectual disputes in the 1960s and 1970s</p><p>The Cuban Revolution promoted great transformations in the society of the island. New publications, cultural institutions and artistic manifestations accompanied the political and cultural effervescence throughout the 1960s.This research analyzed the cultural supplement Lunes de Revolución, the El Puente publishing house and the El Caimán Barbudo cultural supplement, with the aim of showing the emergence of new publications and cultural manifestations in Cuba after the triumph of the Revolution. However, the emergence of a cultural policy has led to the normalization and control of cultural productions by the Cuban government since the 1960s, and especially after 1971, when the closing and hardening of the Cuban cultural milieu became more pronounced.</p><p>Key words: Cuba. Revolution. Culture. History. Intellectual.</p><p> </p><p>LA POLITIQUE CULTURELLE DANS LA REVOLUTION CUBAINE: controverses intellectuelles dans les annees 1960 et 1970</p><p>La révolution cubaine a promu de grandes transformations dans la société de l’île. De nouvelles publications, des institutions culturelles et des manifestations artistiques ont accompagné l’effervescence politique et culturelle tout au long des années 1960.Cette recherche a analysé le supplément culturel Lunes de Revolución, la maison d’édition El Puente et le supplément culturel El Caimán Barbudo, dans le but de montrer l’émergence de nouvelles publications et manifestations culturelles à Cuba après le triomphe de la Révolution. Cependant, l’émergence d’une politique culturelle a conduit à la normalisation et au contrôle des productions culturelles par le gouvernement cubain depuis les années 1960, et encore plus après 1971, lorsque la fermeture et l’endurcissement du milieu culturel cubain se sont accentués.</p><p>Mots clés: Cuba. Révolution. Culture. Histoire. Intellectuel.</p>

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