Unhaunting the Village: Critical Regionalism and "Luminous Place" at the Village of Arts and Humanities

This note explores the possibilities of a critical regionalist approach to the study offolk communities through an examination of a community arts organization that imagines and produces an enriched inner-city region through practices that critically examine received dominant values and celebrate available community resources. Following Appadurai, the organization's attempt to "control the means of their own self-reproduction" is explored through the attention to time, revision of space, creation of rituals, and focus on perception.