Building Sustainable Worlds: Latinx Placemaking in the Midwest Delgadillo Theresa
Building Sustainable Worlds: Latinx Placemaking in the Midwest Delgadillo Theresa Latina/o/x places exist as both tangible physical phenomena and gatherings created and maintained by creative…
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Building Sustainable Worlds: Latinx Placemaking in the Midwest Delgadillo Theresa
Latina/o/x places exist as both tangible physical phenomena and gatherings created and maintained by creative cultural practices. Authors consider how our embodied experiences of place, together with our histories and knowledge, inform our imagination and reimagination of our surroundings in acts of placemaking. In this collection, an interdisciplinary group of contributors critically examines the many ways that varied Latina/o/x communities cohere through cultural expression.
It emerges not only in specific locations but as movement within and between sites; not only as part of a built environment, but also as an aesthetic practice; and not only because of efforts by This placemaking often considers environmental sustainability as it helps to sustain communities in the face of xenophobia and racism through cultural expression ranging from festivals to zines to sanctuary movements.
Building in the Desert