The Politics of Culture: Competing Aesthetics of the City in Oaxaca, Mexico
November 13, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
In 2006, the response to government repression of a teacher’s strike was a popular revolt that took over the city of Oaxaca for six months. The groups that made up the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca were united by their desire to depose the governor. This talk examines how the emerging spatial practices produced by the marches, assemblies, street art, and barricades in Oaxaca transcended the people’s desire to oust the governor and produced embodied models of social transformation that became their own point of reference.
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