The return of popular celebration 2023. Carnival as a cultural policy in Lincoln, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Abstract

Carnival represents a permanent dispute over the occupation of public space in its physical and political dimensions. The pandemic caused the suspension of carnivals around the world. This time of planetary exception, made it possible to show that we are in a new era for its duration and its profound social, political and economic consequences. In 2022 it was very difficult to sustain the network of artisans and craftsmen in each territory.

There will be a review of how the carnivals in 2022 in Argentina and the challenges they represent after the pause in the pandemic will be manifested: returning to inhabit the public space, participation, public cultural policies, sovereignty and cultural development.

This work aims to reflect on those current practices that are loaded with tradition to decode the resistances and knowledge that trancend the individual experience of the celebration to transform it into a common and intersectional experience.