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Τμήμα Κοινωνικής Ανθρωπολογίας, Πάντειον Πανεπιστήμιο

Εαρινό εξάμηνο 2022-2023

Τετάρτη 10 Μαΐου, 15:00-17:00 (διαδικτυακά)

Σας προσκαλούμε στο επόμενο διαδικτυακό σεμινάριο του εαρινού εξαμήνου με ομιλήτρια τη Myriam Maria Lamrani, Πάντειο Πανεπιστήμιο & Πανεπιστήμιο του Harvard

Digital Nomads and Culture-Vulture Poseurs: Plumbing the Cultural Depths of Gentrification in Oaxaca, Mexico

Το σεμινάριο θα διεξαχθεί διαδικτυακά στον εξής ΣΥΝΔΕΣΜΟ.

Περίληψη ομιλίας
In this presentation, I address the question of whether the movement of predominantly white, educated individuals, digital nomads, and other “culture-vulture” poseurs from the Global North to cities of the Global South can be considered as gentrification. Using the example of Oaxaca in Mexico, I argue that the transformations of culture in a city that has long been gentrified by “Whitexicans” (white Mexicans) is a distinct phenomenon that deserves further study. Fueled by Instagram aesthetics and the desire for authenticity, this process highlights the intersection of indigenous beliefs, politics, representations, and the global dynamics of gentrification. I propose that this unique context challenges traditional understandings of the power dynamics associated with gentrification. Through a deeper examination of its complexities, I reframe this process as a diversely aware form of aesthetics.

Σύντομο βιογραφικό σημείωμα ομιλήτριας
Myriam Lamrani is a Marie Skłodowska Curie Research Fellow (H2020) at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences and Harvard University. She works on the impact of images of migration on national imaginaries in Greece and Mexico and the relation between politics and religion. Her doctoral research on popular devotion and death in Mexico (PhD, UCL 2018) was funded by the ERC. She won the J.B. Donne Essay Prize on the Anthropology of Art (2019) of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Her latest article on intimacy with death and violence in Mexico was published by the American Ethnologist (2022).

Πληροφορίες σχετικά με τη διεξαγωγή του σεμιναρίου: Δήμητρα Κόφτη (d.kofti@panteion.gr) και Κατερίνα Ροζάκου (krozakou@panteion.gr).