Writing-up seminar with Casper Jacobsen

Welcome to Casper Jacobsens’s seminar on Monday 16 December when we will discuss his text “Power to define, power to display? Museality as Governmentality in Mexico's Magical Villages Program".

Please sign up to Casper who will distribute his paper five days before the seminar to those who have signed up:

casjac@hum.ku.dk

Casper’s abstract:
In 2001, as part of a surging political multiculturalism within Latin America, Mexico's Secretariat of Tourism launched the UNESCO inspired national tourism program Magical Villages. For the indigenous minorities, the new multicultural agenda has created an unprecedented arena of negotiation, as the state now seeks to embrace intangible indigenous heritage. Through the critical term museality and a governmentality perspective, I analyze the generic form and structure of the Magical Villages Program and its implementation in the magical village Cuetzalan, Puebla. Doing so, I seek to understand how distinct constituents of the Magical Villages Program express inherent power workings and facilitate the creation, articulation and distribution of particular views of the Mexican nation, its heritage and citizenship.

venue: 10-4-05 KUA2

time: 1.30-3pm

ECTS: 1,8 for paper presentation and 0,3 for active participation

The first writing up seminar in 2014 will take place on Monday 13 January when Emilija Zabiliute presents a chapter at. 1.30pm.