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

dc.contributor.authorGarrido Castellano, Carlos
dc.contributor.authorRaposo, Otávio
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-28T15:59:39Z
dc.date.available2023-02-28T15:59:39Z
dc.date.issued2020-08-13
dc.date.updated2023-02-28T15:47:17Z
dc.description.abstractThis 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.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationGarrido Castellano, C., and Raposo, O. (2020) 'Bottom-up creativity and insurgent citizenship in “Afro Lisboa”: Racial difference and cultural commodification in Portugal', Cultural Dynamics, 32(4), pp. 328-351. doi: 10.1177/0921374020949057en
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0921374020949057en
dc.identifier.eissn1461-7048
dc.identifier.endpage351en
dc.identifier.issn0921-3740
dc.identifier.issued4en
dc.identifier.journaltitleCultural Dynamicsen
dc.identifier.startpage328en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/14259
dc.identifier.volume32en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSAGE Publicationsen
dc.rights© 2020, the Authors. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of the following article: Garrido Castellano, C., and Raposo, O. (2020) 'Bottom-up creativity and insurgent citizenship in “Afro Lisboa”: Racial difference and cultural commodification in Portugal', Cultural Dynamics, 32(4), pp. 328-351, doi: 10.1177/0921374020949057. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1177/0921374020949057en
dc.subjectCreative industriesen
dc.subjectGentrificationen
dc.subjectPortuguese studiesen
dc.subjectPostcolonial Africaen
dc.subjectPublic arten
dc.subjectRacial differenceen
dc.subjectUrban arten
dc.titleBottom-up creativity and insurgent citizenship in “Afro Lisboa”: Racial difference and cultural commodification in Portugalen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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