Politics, Culture and Economy in Popular Practices in the Americas

Eduardo González Castillo is a social anthropologist whose studies concern popular culture, youth activism, alternative media and urban space in Mexico and Canada. Currently, he works as a lecturer at University of Montreal and at University of Ottawa. Jorge Pantaleón is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Montreal. His interests include economic ethnography and social and cultural transformation in Latin-American contemporaries societies. Dr. Pantaleón is the author of several books concerning popular economic practices, immigration and development. Nuria Carton de Grammont is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for International Studies of the University of Montreal (CERIUM), where she also coordinates the Réseau d’études de l’Amérique latine. Dr. Carton de Grammont works on the aestheticsviolence and on the impact of narcotraffic in art and popular culture in contemporary Mexico.

Contents: Mariá Ana Portal: Prologue – Eduardo González Castillo/Jorge Pantaleón/Nuria Carton de Grammont: The Popular Revisited through a Polyphonic Overview – Pablo Alabarces: Post-popular Cultures in Post-populist Times: The Return of Pop Culture in Latin American Social Sciences – Eduardo González Castillo: The Popular in Parenthesis: State Interpellation and Popular Culture - A Case Study of Immigrant Youth in Montreal – Julieta Infantino: Disputes over Senses of the Popular in the Circus Arts in the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina – Laura Navallo: Making the State: Forming and Educating the Public, Presenting and Circulating Contemporary Dance in Brazil – Nuria Carton de Grammont: The Aesthetics of Informality, Self-Management, Popular Culture, and Urban Imaginaries in Mexico City – Ricardo Macip: Pankration: The Spectacle of Masculinity in Mexican Political Culture – Elizabeth Fast: Popular Culture and Urban Indigenous Youth – Leah S. Stauber: Concientización, Praxis and the Radical Habitus: Youth and the Re/Formation of Popular Contestations on the U.S. - Mexico Border – Brígida Renoldi: Agency and State in the Triple Frontier – Jorge Pantaleón: Between Savings and Celebratory Expenses: Popular Economy among Mexican Seasonal Farm Workers in Canada.