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Nomadismo e inmovilidad en el teatro mexicano contemporáneo
| Title in English | Nomadism and Immobility in Contemporary Mexican Theatre |
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| Year of publication | 2019 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Large migrations, mass tourism or labor mobility are some of the manifestations of the phenomenon known as nomadism, consisting of the frequent presence of individuals and communities displaced from their original cultures. Boltanski and Chiapello have pointed out that the necessary condition for "the big ones" to put into practice and enjoy the value of mobility, inherent to the new globalized and interconnected societies, is the weakness of "the small ones", their immobility. García Canclini aptly develops this observation by applying it to Latin American societies: "The small or localized are the indispensable "doubles" for the nomadism and enrichment of the big ones". This "other face" of mobility and nomadism is the one we find thematized most frequently in contemporary Mexican theater. The impossibility of moving around and overcoming the limitations of one's own cultural space, as opposed to the fascination of an apparently interconnected and accessible world, appears in pieces by Legom, or Alejandro Ricano. |
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