Culture and Consumption of Urban Margins
Urban margins across the globe have been sites of systemic disenfranchisement, social contestation, and cultural commodification within global capitalism. In this course we will explore how cultural production pertaining to urban margins from the Lusophone world (and beyond) across South America, Africa, Europe, and Asia has circulated across borders in ways that either reproduce or challenge hegemonic notions of urban marginality. We will also confront the complex relationships between race, gender, sexuality, class, culture, globality, and local space while considering how urban margins have been sold and consumed through music, visual culture, and tourism. We will address such questions through the works and identities of cultural producers from the Lusophone world and beyond such as Machado de Assis, Anitta, Lucenzo, MIA, and J. Balvin. (PGSE 215 or equivalent) 3hrs. lect./disc.