Hecho por fans, para fans:

producción, circulación y consumo cultural en el mundo mágico de Harry Potter

Authors

  • Roberta Aller Universidad de Buenos Aires
  • Paula Cuestas Universidad Nacional de La Plata

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15460/apropos.7.1833

Keywords:

fandom, Harry Potter, magical world, globalization, ethnography

Abstract

What does it mean to be part of fandom? What are the implications of being part of one in Latin America, in this new decade of the 21st century? To answer these questions, in this article we analyze the characteristics of a particular fandom: the one formed by Harry Potter fans in Argentina. More than twenty years after the publication of the first book in this British series, we are interested in how the local fan thinks and “constructs” him/herself, not only in their singularity but also as part of a community. To do this, our analysis focuses on the largest fan convention in the country: the Magic Meeting. Through an ethnographic approach, we describe an event in which fans exchange knowledge, experience and productions around their hobby to help show the ways in which culture is produced, circulated and consumed in Argentina in a globalized and digital world.

Author Biographies

Roberta Aller, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Roberta Aller is professor and Licenciate (6 year degree) in Anthropological Sciences by the University of Buenos Aires. CONICET PhD fellow at the Institute of Anthropological Sciences (UBA). Her work focuses on fandoms and fanisms in Argentina. She has researched on the Harry Potter fandom in Argentina and K-pop and manga/anime in Jujuy. Within her doctorate, she is carrying out a comparative analysis of the practices, identifications, relations and representations of fantasy literature, anime/manga and k-pop fan communities in Ciudad de Buenos Aires, San Salvador de Jujuy and Ushuaia (Argentina). 

Paula Cuestas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata

Paula Cuestas is professor and Licenciate (6 year degree) in Sociology by the Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Teacher in the subject Special Educational and Practice of The Teaching of Sociology and Social Sciences in Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación de la UNLP. CONICET PhD fellow at the Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales. Within her doctorate, she studies the connections between young people and the literary field, through the appropriation of digital technologies. She has worked with communities of fans of Harry Potter and is currently continuing her research on reading and young people, analyzing the practices of bloggers, booktubers and bookstagrammers. 

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Published

2021-12-19

How to Cite

[1]
Aller, R. and Cuestas, P. 2021. Hecho por fans, para fans:: producción, circulación y consumo cultural en el mundo mágico de Harry Potter. apropos [Perspektiven auf die Romania]. 7 (Dec. 2021), 38–59. DOI:https://doi.org/10.15460/apropos.7.1833.

Issue

No. 7 (2021): Producir y consumir cultura en la América Latina del siglo XXI

Section

Special issue

URN

http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:18-8-18339

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Copyright (c) 2021 Roberta Aller, Paula Cuestas

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.