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Performance Constellations: Networks of Protest and Activism in Latin America

Marcela A. Fuentes 2019
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Performance Constellations maps transnational protest movements and the dynamics of networked expressive behavior in the streets and online, as people struggle to be heard and effect long-term social justice.  Its case studies explore collective political action in Latin America, including the Zapatistas in the mid-'90s, protests during the 2001 Argentine economic crisis, the 2011 Chilean student movement, the 2014–2015 mobilizations for the disappeared Ayotzinapa students, and the 2018 transnational reproductive rights movement. The book analyzes uses of space, time, media communication, and corporeality in protests such as virtual sit-ins, flash mobs, scarfazos, and hashtag campaigns, arguing that these protests not only challenge hegemonic power but are also socially transformative. While other studies have focused either on digital activism or on street protests, Performance Constellations shows that they are in fact integrally entwined. Zooming in on protest movements and art-activism in Mexico, Argentina, and Chile, and putting contemporary insurgent actions in dialogue with their historical precedents, the book demonstrates how, even in moments of extreme duress, social actors in Latin America have taken up public and virtual space to intervene politically and to contest dominant powers.
 
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  • Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
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  • Media Studies:New Media
  • Political Science
  • Theater and Performance
  • Latin American Studies
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  • Copyright Page
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  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Updating Protest and Activism
  • One. Assembling Convergence Online
  • Two. Articulating Local and Global Resistance
  • Three. Expanding Moves, Enacting Futurity”
  • Four. Contesting Disappearance after Ayotzinapa
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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Fig. 1. An image that clones google search's interface as a way to represent the search/demand for justice for two murdered protesters.

Google page clone

From Introduction

Figure 1: Buscar justicia (Justice search), net art piece by Sienvolando, Argentina, June 2008.

Fig. 2. A single protester confronts the effects of a water canon, wielding a cross made with pieces of metal.

Protester, cross and water cannon

From Chapter 2

Figure 2: A man confronts police repression in Plaza de Mayo on December 20, 2001. Photo: Diego Giúdice/AP.

Fig. 3. The home page of a website that depicts pots and pans, utensils used to protest economic shortage, as a way to incite users to share their grievances online.

Pots and pans protest forum

From Chapter 2

Figure 3: Pots-and-pans web forum.

Fig. 4. A moment in a disruption of a bank when a family deployed beach chairs to protest the bank's blockade of their saving account.

In-Bank Vacation, a protest performance

From Chapter 2

Figure 4: The Wakstein family in their In-Bank Vacation protest in Buenos Aires during the 2001–2002 bank freeze. Photo courtesy of Enrique García Medina.

Fig. 5. A group of students wear zombie make up and carry signs emulating gravestones to draw attention to depleting debt and moribund education systems.

Thriller for Education, zombie flash mob

From Chapter 3

Figure 5: “Morí debiendo” (I died owing). Thriller por la educación, zombie flash mob in Santiago de Chile, June 24, 2011. Photo courtesy of Diego Salinas Flores / Colectivo Fauna.

Fig. 6. While people go about their business in the city, young protesters run carrying a flag to draw attention to the need for public education.

1800 Hours for Education, durational run

From Chapter 3

Figure 6: 1800 horas por la educación, durational protest performance, Santiago de Chile, June 13–August 27, 2011. Photo courtesy of Diego Salinas Flores / Colectivo Fauna.

Fig. 7. An image parodying the cover of Time magazine shows Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto as the figure of death.

Time Magazine meme

From Chapter 4

Figure 7: A meme depicting Peña Nieto as the Grim Reaper to condemn the effects of his policies.

Fig. 8. A row of chairs on a stage holding headshots representing the missing students of Ayotzinapa.

A teach-in for Ayotzinapa

From Chapter 4

Figure 8: Ayotzinapa teach-in at New York University, December 10, 2014. Photo courtesy of Lorie Novak.

Fig. 9. A map of Mexico depicted with gun shots and what appears to be a bloodstain.

Violence in Mexico, a meme

From Chapter 4

Figure 9: #IAmTired meme, circulated in response to the discovery of mass graves in multiple sites in late 2014.

Fig. 10. A crowd of rotesters holds green scarves stretched in the air.

Scarfazo, or scarves' show down

From Conclusion

Figure 10: Protesters spread their green scarves representing reproductive rights during the Ni Una Menos annual demonstration in Buenos Aires on June 4, 2018. Photo courtesy of Sol Vazquez.

Fig. 11. The green profile of a wave that is about to flood the Congress building, depicted with a realistic photo.

The Green Wave takes over Congress

From Conclusion

Figure 11: This green tide meme was heavily circulated on social media in mid-June 2018 during the abortion rights’ debate in Congress.

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