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This issue explores relations between culture, rights, and institutions analyzing the discourse of “cultural rights,” how performance functions as a vehicle for claiming such rights, and institutional agency in relation to the law, citizenship, the museum, the university, and more.

Editors

Jill Lane

Marcial Godoy-Anativia

Managing Editors

Rachel Lears

Sarah J. Townsend

Design Director

Frances Pollitt

Video Editor

Gray Wetzler

Editorial Assistant

Zena Bibler

Zoe Lukov

Translators

Pablo A. Costa

Wilson Loria

Emmanuelle

Lambert-Lemoine

Kelly McKay

Sebastian Reyes

Leticia Robles-Moreno

Marlène Ramírez-Cancio

Sarah Thomas

Interns

Hannah Krafcik

Emmanuelle

Lambert-Lemoine

Kelly McKay

Leticia Robles-Moreno

Contributors

Nelly Richard, Andreas Huyssen, peter kulchyski, Gisela Cánepa-Koch, Alejandro Meitin, Lucio Agra, David Lozano, Nicholas Mirzoeff, Dorian Lugo Bertrán, Sarah Wolf, Dioscórides Pérez, Adriana Mejía, Alejandro Jaramillo, Rocío Silva Santisteban, Patrick Anderson, Pedro Lasch, Brenda Werth, Alberto Borja, Paola Hernández, Li Cornfeld, Dioscórides Pérez, Diana Raznovich, Paola Marín, Felipe Cala Buendía, Eric Ames, Anabelle Contreras Castro, Loren Kruger, Felipe Martínez-Pinzón, melissa blanco borelli, Susana Wappenstein, Tobias Reu, Michael J. Lazarra, Juan Carlos Narváez Gutiérrez, Gwendolyn Alker, Diego Fabián Arévalo Viveros, Lindsey Freeman, Heather A. Vrana, Sean T. Mitchell, Claudia Bacci, Caridad Svich, Isel Rodríguez, Karen Jaime, Joanne Rappaport, Michael Birenbaum-Quintero, Giuseppe Campuzano, Regina José Galindo, José Alejandro Restrepo

Special Thanks

The editors would like to give special thanks to our friends and colleagues Adriana Mejía Flores and Alejandro Jaramillo Hoyos for their assistance with the production of this issue.

Published By

HemiPress New York City 2018 ISSN 1554-3706

Land Acknowledgement

The Hemispheric Institute at New York University acknowledges with respect the Lenape nation, whose traditional homelands NYU now occupies. We recognize the longstanding significance of these territories for Lenape nations past and present. We acknowledge that we work in a city with the largest urban Native population in the United States. Even as we work to increase the historical awareness of Indigenous exclusion and erasure, we acknowledge the effect of that legacy in educational institutions, at NYU, and across the hemisphere. We are committed to work revealing Indigenous history and life-worlds and to the inclusion of Indigenous voices and participation, in allyship with Indigenous makers and communities across the Americas.

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