In Beyond the Pink Tide: Art and Political Undercurrents in the Americas, Macarena Gómez-Barris offers a dynamic and refreshing understanding of art and social movements in the Americas as alternative modes of embracing the political that go beyond the confining paradigm of liberal democracy. Drawn from theories of transnational American Studies and decolonial methodologies that celebrate submerged perspectives and pluriversal relationality, the book’s origin was the author’s own disappointment with the turn to the Left in Latin American politics that arose in the 1990s and began to decline in the mid 2010s. Living in Quito in 2015 as a Fulbright Fellow at FLACSO, she witnessed, as she writes in the preface, how such post-neoliberal governments as that of President Rafael Correa in Ecuador had “turned against…social movements that had first brought them to power,” leading “on the ground, eco-feminist, transgender, artist, youth, and Indigenous activists [to] work collaboratively to...
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January 2021
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January 01 2021
Review: Beyond the Pink Tide: Art and Political Undercurrents in the Americas, by Macarena Gómez-Barris
Beyond the Pink Tide: Art and Political Undercurrents in the Americas
, by Macarena Gómez-Barris. Oakland
: University of California Press
, 2018
. 160 pages. Hardcover $85.00, paperback $18.95.
Florencia San Martín
Florencia San Martín
California State University, San Bernardino
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Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture (2021) 3 (1): 120–122.
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Florencia San Martín; Review: Beyond the Pink Tide: Art and Political Undercurrents in the Americas, by Macarena Gómez-Barris. Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture 1 January 2021; 3 (1): 120–122. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/lavc.2021.3.1.120
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