Diablos Rojos
Painted Buses and Panamanian Identities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2162729 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nina K Müller-Schwarze (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 435-456 |
| Publication date | 2009-10-15 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Visual Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0894-9468 • E-ISSN: 1545-5920 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08949460701688965 |
| OpenAlex | W2005162738 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 9 |
In Panama City, Republic of Panama, debates about transportation modernization focused on diablos rojos, refurbished used U.S. school buses. City-wide protests, debates and national legislation relating to transportation were negotiations for local identity within globalization. This article is salvage anthropology, for painted buses are now outlawed. Detailed observations, interviews and archival research support a history of bus painting, descriptions of buses situated in social networks, and a heteroglossia of viewpoints regarding the bus as symbol. This article complements the 2005 documentary video Diablos Rojos: Los Buses de Panamá
Aesthetics · Art · Globalization · Identity (music · Legislation · Media studies · Modernization theory · Negotiation · Panama · Political science · Situated · Social science · Sociology · Symbol (formal · Viewpoints · Visual arts · Cuban History and Society · Law · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Urban Planning and Governance
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| Citations per year | 0.36 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2019 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |