In July 2021, residents of Vicente Guerrero, a settlement built around the largest landfill in Oaxaca, commemorated the waste-pickers’ 40th anniversary with an urban art festival. This event was organised by Santa Cecilia Music School, a community-led cultural infrastructure that has shaped the social and material landscape of Vicente Guerrero since 2011. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted around this festival and throughout 2023, I propose studying cultural initiatives like Santa Cecilia as listening infrastructures to discern their ability to ‘centre’ peripheral communities through the opportunities they create for self-, collective and social listening, which, respectively, promote self-growth, spark community projects and display peripheries as creative places. I argue that the combined effect of these forms of listening – what Vicente Guerrero residents call community weaving– helps overcome material and social stigma conditioning life on the periphery. By examining these listening mechanisms, this analysis aims to enrich debates about the fundamental role of cultural infrastructure in the making of (Latin American) cities and their peripheries.

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跨越拉丁美洲周边地区的社区编织：瓦哈卡州的聆听基础设施

2021 年 7 月，维森特格雷罗（Vicente Guerrero）（瓦哈卡州最大垃圾填埋场周围的一个定居点）的居民举办了一场城市艺术节，纪念拾荒者成立 40 周年。该活动由圣塞西莉亚音乐学校组织，这是一所社区主导的文化基础设施，自 2011 年以来塑造了维森特·格雷罗的社会和物质景观。借鉴围绕该音乐节和整个 2023 年进行的民族志实地调查，我建议研究像圣塞西莉亚这样的文化举措作为聆听基础设施，通过他们为自我、集体和社会聆听创造的机会来识别他们“集中”外围社区的能力，这些机会分别促进自我成长，激发社区项目并将外围地区展示为创意场所。我认为，这些倾听形式的综合效应——维森特格雷罗居民称之为社区编织——有助于克服限制外围生活的物质和社会耻辱。通过研究这些倾听机制，本分析旨在丰富关于文化基础设施在（拉丁美洲）城市及其周边地区的形成中的基本作用的辩论。