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SUMMARY:Nicole Bonino (UoM): “Cities on the Edge: Urban Migration\, Art\,
  and Eco-Hybridity in the Southern Cone”
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DESCRIPTION:Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin Ameri
 can and Caribbean Studies' research seminar series.\n\nThis event will b
 e via Zoom. Here is the link: https://zoom.us/j/94462492930\n\nAbstract:
  Theorists Néstor García Canclini\, Homi Bhabha\, and Edward Said invest
 igate the phenomenon of “cultural hybridization” describing it as the em
 ergence of a new multiculturalism in which different cultural forms coex
 ist. According to this definition\, contemporary metropolises are powerf
 ul examples of hybrid constructions\, as they are the result of socio-cu
 ltural sedimentation and juxtaposition. Latin American cities are a nerv
 e center of what I call “eco-hybridity\,” a critical concept that define
 s the artistic products—such as novels\, murals\, paintings\, and archit
 ectural elements—created by the modifications of the geographical and so
 cio-cultural environment in response to the encounter between immigrants
  and urban settings. According to the Department of Economic and Social 
 Affairs of the United Nations\, 68% of the world population is projected
  to live in urban areas by 2050. Latin American metropolises\, such as S
 ão Paulo\, Buenos Aires\, Lima and Rio de Janeiro\, are home for more th
 an 10 million people. A great amount of the urban population is represen
 ted by immigrants forced to face cultural and geographical challenges\, 
 such as social paranoia\, xenophobia\, and the lack of material resource
 s which entails the spread of unregulated residential areas not suitable
  to guarantee a decent standard of living. In a contemporary reality cha
 racterized by massive migratory movements and global interactions it is 
 fundamental to investigate the mutual transformations involving individu
 als and the urban arena where they settle down. How does urban populatio
 n affect the cityscape and its racial\, social\, and cultural components
  and how are these dynamics represented in the literature and visual art
  of the Southern Cone? By showing architectural\, artistic\, and literar
 y examples drawn from different metropolitan settings\, this talk will i
 ntroduce some of the implications of the concept of eco-hybridity in Lat
 in America. \n\nBio: Nicole Bonino holds a PhD in Latin American Literat
 ure from the University of Virginia. She is an Assistant Professor\, Aca
 demic General Faculty\, at the University of Virginia and a Visiting Res
 earch Fellow at the University of Manchester. Her area of specialty is c
 ontemporary Latin American literature with an interdisciplinary focus on
  migratory movements\, environmental humanities\, and visual arts. Withi
 n the theoretical framework of ecocriticism\, her interdisciplinary rese
 arch examines the ways in which literature and art record cultural and e
 nvironmental modifications provoked by the interactions between global d
 iasporas and urban landscapes.\n
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