Mexican capoeira is not diasporic! – On glocalization, migration and the North-South divide

Contreras Islas, David Sebastian 2021. Mexican capoeira is not diasporic! – On glocalization, migration and the North-South divide. Martial Arts Studies (11) , pp. 56-70. 10.18573/mas.122

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Abstract

This paper contributes to the understanding of martial arts globalization processes. It focuses on the development of capoeira in Mexico, which is presented as an example of glocalization. In contrast to the diasporic capoeira observed by Delamont and Stephens in the UK, capoeira in Mexico is characterized by the proliferation of local groups with classes taught by Mexican instructors, as well as by advanced cultural reinterpretation. To explain these differences, capoeira is considered as the bodily capital of Brazilian migrants whose mobility patterns are influenced by the North-South divide. This paper hypothesizes that glocalization processes similar to Mexico’s might exist throughout Hispanic Latin America and other regions of the Global South. Furthermore, the diaspora-glocalization divide could be a pattern in the globalization process of practices that originated in the South which spread as part of migrants’ bodily capital. Finally, I ask how capoeira’s glocalization in Mexico might anticipate similar processes in the global North.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Subjects:	F History United States, Canada, Latin America > F1201 Latin America (General) G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GV Recreation Leisure H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Publisher:	Cardiff University Press
ISSN:	2057-5696
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	13 August 2021
Date of Acceptance:	25 June 2021
Last Modified:	04 May 2023 21:17
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/143356

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