Multiculturalism in the bodies and the paradoxes of post-colonial inequality

Abstract

With the intensification of globalization processes, in Latin-American cities it is possible to appreciate an increase and diversification in the offer of body techniques; music and dances linked to different non-Western performance genres (Eastern, African, Amerindian or mixing different influences). Starting from the ethnographic research on teaching courses at Buenos Aires and Rosario cities (Argentina), we focus on how these techniques promote alternative modes of subjectivation in a multicultural context but at the same time, we also point out how these update hegemonic matrices inherited from colonial history and form the expansion of capitalism and the ideologies of Western modernity.