The decentralized culture
Studies on cultural democracy in Chile and Latin America

How to think together about the self-restraint that is still called for in autonomous works, media, and their disseminated products streaming, the discomfort of artists who call themselves workers and find that the promises of the creative economy dissolve into precarity? If culture is so widespread, can it be democratized with policies that have insisted for half a century only on expanding its dissemination? This book is based on fieldwork in traditional and performative museums and with their users in Chile, Paraguay, and Peru, following the practices of creators and readers in Mexico, the contradictory convulsions of citizen participation, urban memories, and the euphoria and disappointment in political mobilizations that use the languages of art to communicate their imaginaries and rebellions.