Banking on Folk Art: Banamex‐Citigroup and Transnational Cultural Citizenship |
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Authors: | MARY K. COFFEY |
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Affiliation: | Dartmouth College, USA |
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Abstract: | This article offers two readings of The Great Masters of Mexican Folk Art, a travelling exhibition of the Fomento Cultural Banamex, AC's folk art collection that coincided with Citigroup's buyout of Banamex, Mexico's second largest bank. The first, a political economic critique, situates the exhibition within the neoliberal economic reform of the Mexican banking system and the designs of US‐based transnational banks on migrant remittances. The second, a material culture approach, focuses on the exhibitionary strategies employed to incentivise folk art consumption as a mode of cosmopolitan citizenship. |
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Keywords: | Citizenship consumption exhibition folk art Mexico |
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