Crafting Carnival, Crafting Community: the new Mardi Gras in New Orleans
Tuesday, November 7, 2017, 1:15 - 2:30 pm
Burnaby Campus, 丁香园AV
Room AQ 5067, Ellen Gee Room
Dr. Martha Radice, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Dalhousie University
Co-sponsored with the Urban Studies Program
Over the last three decades, and especially since Hurricane Katrina, a new wave of carnival parading clubs or 鈥榢rewes鈥� has emerged in New Orleans, taking a handmade aesthetic and progressive politics to the streets during carnival season. This talk discusses what people get out of the practical work of this public cultural production. As krewe members spend hundreds of hours and dollars making material things for their parade鈥攃ostumes, throws, and floats鈥攖hey are also making intangible things, like a sense of belonging as well as a sense of satirical critique.
Martha Radice is an urban anthropologist whose research interests include public space, public art and public culture; interethnic relations; and neighbourhoods, community and sociability. She has recently published articles about cosmopolitanism, conviviality, and the publicness of public art, and a book co-edited with Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier on public art interventions in Canadian cities.
Free and everyone welcome!
Light refreshments served