Olivia Casagrande (Sheffield): “Subversive aesthetics and anticolonial indigeneity in Santiago de Chile”

On Wed 19 October, as part of the University of Manchester’s Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series, Olivia Casagrande (Sheffield) presented the book Performing the jumbled city Subversive aesthetics and anticolonial indigeneity in Santiago de Chile (Manchester University Press, 2022), which she edited with Claudio Alvarado Lincopi, and Roberto Cayuqueo Martínez. The book, which is available as Open Source, builds on analyses of the relationship between race, aesthetics and politics, and elaborates on the epistemological possibilities arising from collaborative and decolonial methodologies at the intersection of ethnography, art, performance and the urban space.