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Creative Spaces: Urban Culture and Marginality in Latin America
Niall Geraghty and Adriana Laura Massidda
Creative Spaces is an inter-disciplinary exploration of the different ways in which marginal urban spaces have become privileged locations for creativity in Latin America. The essays within the collection reassess dominant theoretical notions of ‘marginality’ in the region and argue that, in contemporary society, it invariably allows for (if not leads to) the production of the new.