Urban Cultures
The exhibition and the public programme in the second chapter show positions dedicated to resisting the colonial legacies in urban cultures, highlighting their potential of opposing hegemonic structures and politics. How are social hierarchies created and represented geographically in contemporary colonial relationships by stereotypical imaginaries? Urban cultures, such as music, fashion and tourism, are used as political or cultural instruments of empowerment and agency. In educating and uplifting stigmatized and discriminated communities, they point towards relations of subordination and domination that were established and are maintained by colonial structures and neocolonial relations: ideologically, psychologically, culturally, and politically. The plurality of positions and narrative voices in chapter 2 widen Eurocentric narratives and show strong counter-positions.