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100			_aMbaye, Jenny _943837
245			_aIns and outs of the cultural polis: Informality, culture and governance in the global South
260			_bSage _c2019
300			_aVol 56, Issue 3, 2019 : (578-593 p.)
520			_aThis article provides an epistemological critique of informality by focusing on cultural governance in two cities of the global South, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Dakar, Senegal. Aiming to enrich debates about urban creativity and urban cultural policy, which are still mainly focused on and articulated from the global North, we consider the broad field of ‘informality’ research as an entry point for such a discussion. Using case studies from African and Latin American contexts, we focus on the interstices of cultural policy and the borderlands of (in)formality, examining how governmental institutions are entangled in informal processes, and how grassroots cultural interventions become part of mainstream cultural circuits. The analysis sheds light on how these creative spaces of cultural production, located in Southern contexts of urban extremes, contribute to the vitality of informal urbanisms and unsettle predominant views that see them merely as sites of infrastructural poverty and social exclusion. The article suggests that a creative remapping of informality, through an inquiry of the ‘ins’ and ‘outs’ of the cultural polis, could improve our translating capacity of academic discourse into institutional/policy-related operations.
650			_a civil society _943838
650			_aDakar _943839
650			_agovernance _943840
650			_aglobal South _943841
650			_acultural polis _943842
700			_aDinardi, Cecilia _943799
773	0		_011188 _915499 _dsage, 2019. _tUrban studies
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/0042098017744168
942			_2ddc _cART