https://doi.org/10.25058/20112742.n58.07
Viviana Parody
Universidad de San Martín, Argentina
Abstract
In this article, I analyze the developments in cultural policies related to Afrodescendant populations in Argentina, specifically during the period between the Bicentennial and the present day. I start with a discussion of the very idea of “cultural policy,” as conceived from various points of view across Latin America, and particularly Argentina. Drawing on multisituated ethnographic work, encompassing State’s action, actors’ agency and regional agencies’ new agenda, I look at how a grassroots-based Afrodescendant cultural field was shaped in Buenos Aires in the 1980s-1990s. Then, I analyze the shift away from recognition politics, between “progressive” governmentality and the newly emerged anarchist-libertarian far-right. Between both points, I estimate recognition policies’ continuities and ruptures in this period (2010–2025), which was characterized by two (racialized) governmental ideologies.
Keywords: cultural policies, Afrodescendants, post-Bicentennial Argentina.
