Circus, Gender and humor in the public space: Women street clowns in Buenos Aires looking for other ways of laughing
What happens if we fill the streets and laughter with historicity and gender? From a feminist anthropology, I analyze the genderization process of street clown and public space, from the resurgence of the street circus in the 90s to the present in Buenos Aires. Life stories of a group of women who w...
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I28-R259-article-136172026-02-25T22:40:25Z Circus, Gender and humor in the public space: Women street clowns in Buenos Aires looking for other ways of laughing Circo, género y humor en el espacio público: Payasas callejeras de Buenos Aires en busca de otros modos de hacer reír losada, camila losada gender; public space; clown women; humor. género; espacio público; payasas; humor. What happens if we fill the streets and laughter with historicity and gender? From a feminist anthropology, I analyze the genderization process of street clown and public space, from the resurgence of the street circus in the 90s to the present in Buenos Aires. Life stories of a group of women who were pioneers in street clown are used to reflect on the way in which their subjectivities were constituted through the specific experience of occupying public space as clowns on a daily basis at a time when that was male territory. Finally, I analyze the transformations that emerged from the meeting of feminist activism and the circus since 2017 in the heat of the fight for legal abortion. ¿Qué pasa si colmamos la risa y la calle de historicidad y de género? Desde una antropología feminista analizo el proceso de generización de la payasería callejera y del espacio público, desde el resurgimiento del circo callejero en los años 90’ hasta la actualidad en Buenos Aires. Se utilizan relatos de vida de un grupo de mujeres que fueron pioneras en la payasería callejera para reflexionar acerca de la manera en que se constituyeron sus subjetividades a través de la experiencia específica de ocupar el espacio público como payasas, en un momento en el que éste era territorio masculino. Finalmente, se analizan las transformaciones que emergieron del encuentro de los activismos feministas y el circo desde 2017 al calor de la lucha por el aborto legal. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires 2026-02-25 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Artículo revisado por pares application/pdf https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/mora/article/view/13617 10.34096/mora.n31.13617 Mora; Vol. 2 Núm. 31 1853-001X 0328-8773 spa https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/mora/article/view/13617/15864 Derechos de autor 2026 camila losada losada |
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What happens if we fill the streets and laughter with historicity and gender? From a feminist anthropology, I analyze the genderization process of street clown and public space, from the resurgence of the street circus in the 90s to the present in Buenos Aires. Life stories of a group of women who were pioneers in street clown are used to reflect on the way in which their subjectivities were constituted through the specific experience of occupying public space as clowns on a daily basis at a time when that was male territory. Finally, I analyze the transformations that emerged from the meeting of feminist activism and the circus since 2017 in the heat of the fight for legal abortion.
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