CFP [AAA]: Infrastructures of Latin American Visibility: Tracing the Technologies of Aesthetic Consumption

Call For Papers

American Anthropological Association Annual Conference - Traces, Tidemarks, Legacies

Montreal, QC. November 16-20 2011

 

Infrastructures of Latin American Visibility: Tracing the Technologies of Aesthetic Consumption

This panel explores aesthetic consumption as a novel site to examine both disciplining and resistance within the Latin American body politic, given the region's rise within the global economy and the rapid transformations it is undergoing, in the face of ongoing inequalities, postcolonial traces of domination and ubiquitous contradictions regarding access to full citizenship.  The panel seeks to address the structures of power that mediate contemporary modes of aesthetic representation, identification and recognition. These ethnographic accounts will pay particular attention to the affective, embodied and lived experiences of consumption as an aesthetic encounter, one through which Latin American societies invent themselves as publics.

Among the questions this session will ask, are: What are the technologies and sites through which particular subjects order aesthetic consumption today in Latin America? How does an analytical turn that emphasizes aesthetic processes of self-making illuminate the various institutional practices that produce public culture, including museum exhibitions, advertising and public bodily performances, amongst others? How do competing forms and access to representation impel various constructions of publics, and subsequently of counter-publics? And what does an anthropological approach that reminds us of the power of aesthetic interpellation offer to our understanding and critique of Latin American modernity, development and late capitalism?

Please let us know if you have any questions. Submit abstracts to Lucia Cantero at lucia.cantero@yale.edu and Ana Laura Gamboggi at anagamboggi@gmail.com by April 1st 2011. We will notify panel participants by April 7th 2011.

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