Citizenship and Cultural Rights: An Approach to the Construction of Social Fabric through Contemporary Art in Mexico City

Abstract

From the European and North American academic context we often tend to forget scientific and humanistic knowledge production that take place in Latin America. It is important to correct this tendency and analyse the experiences that are developing in the articulation and construction of citizenship in which the contemporary art plays a notable role: the first part of this work will be focused on the analysis and context of this phenomenon. A short period of research for young teachers in Latin America that was sponsored by the Santander Bank, was the opportunity to study specifically in the City of Mexico a series of spaces whose proposals are taking place actually would be examine thoroughly in the second section of this work.

Finally we will tackle the question How articulate networks to endow and change the social structure in which we are already immersed? The possibilities to construct meaning from down to up and to promote the cultural rights of the citizenship can constitute a way to position in front of the processes of gentrification that are present in many cities around the world. This questions will be drawn as a way to conclude.