Creative Spaces: Urban Culture and Marginality in Latin America

CreativeSpace: Urban Culture and Marginality is an interdisciplinaryexploration of the different ways in which marginal urban spaces have becomeprivileged locations for creativity in Latin America. The collection reassessestheories of `marginality’ in the region and argues that these notions invariablyallow for the production of the new in contemporary society. Moreover, the bookexplores how this creativity reveals, manifests and challenges existingtensions in Latin American space, culture and society.Theessays are drawn from a wide spectrum of disciplines, ranging from cultural andurban studies to architecture and sociology. The collection is designed topromote dialogue between these disciplines and to facilitate discussion of howthese different conceptions of marginal spaces work together in order tocontribute to the imagined and material reality of the wider city.