Abstract
Diversity has become a key discourse of international cultural policy-making following the neoliberal turn. This article traces how diversity discourses were put into practice by the city government of Buenos Aires, Argentina, following the devastating 2001 Argentine economic crisis, taking the first Buenos Aires International Music Fair (BAFIM) as a case study. A key event within broader policies aimed at developing the local music industry as both an economic and a cultural resource, BAFIM was designed to use diversity as a means of reconfiguring the economic, social, and cultural domains of the city. While the fair opened fields of action in which subjects could make newly productive moves, a critical examination of the fair also demonstrates that diversity, in and of itself, is not a democratising paradigm.
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