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Paper short abstract:

The paper reveals how, despite tight state control over local movement, mobility networks were forged around music festivals linking local and transnational circuits in ways that became significant for identity making among young, indigenous people.

Paper long abstract:

This paper examines the mobilities of evangelical indigenous musicians in Peru during the civil war in the 1980s and early 1990s. It examines the geographies of the state of emergency and how evangelical communities in the southern Andes forged indigenous subjectivities in this context. It highlights the role that spaces of creativity play in the everyday production of 'enclave subjectivities' and focuses on the efforts to secure a space for performance in Quechua music festivals under curfew regimes and at time when 'congregating' was banned. It reveals how, despite tight state control over local movement, mobility networks were forged around music festivals linking local and transnational circuits in ways that became significant for identity making among young, indigenous people. Drawing on archive work and life history interviews with evangelical Christians in Apurimac, the paper examines the creation of emergency zones as technologies of partition and explores the 'respectful modes of citizenship' that emerged in the face of this to facilitate the hosting of Quechua music festivals and the movement of musicians nationally and internationally.