| Popis: |
This opening essay asserts that we create place through performative, activist, and aesthetic imaginaries as well as representational practices that render a diversity of Latinx Midwests through the formal creative practices of writing, photography, film, theatre, performance, and dance, as well as the informal creative practices of craft and community-making in social gathering. Drawing on the work of Priscilla Solis Ybarra, Julie Sze, and Elizabeth Povinelli, among other scholars, this chapter outlines the power of cultural expression as endurance in placemaking, illustrating the interconnection among sustenance, sustainability, temporality, and scale in Latinx cultural expressions by considering the volume’s research against the backdrop of recent public discourse about Latinxs in the U.S. In considering both social and environmental climate, the co-editors suggest, this volume prompts us to consider for whom are we imagining healthier worlds. |
