Full Description
Media Cultures in Latin America updates and expands contemporary global understandings of the region's media and cultural research. Drawing on forty years of contributions made by Latin American cultural studies to the global media research, the book connects this history to newly developing work that has yet to be given deep consideration in anglophone scholarship.
The authors emphasise themes that are key to media and cultural scholarship: distinctive from other world regions, these intellectual debates have been central to how media and communication is studied and produced in Latin America. This approach provides students and scholars with a better framework for engaging with Latin American research beyond the specificities of just one place or one kind of cultural product or technology.
The book is an essential read for upper level undergraduate and postgraduate students of media studies, anthropology, cultural studies, communication studies, and Latin American studies. It will also be of interest to students and scholars learning about human rights, environmental, indigenous and political activism.
Contents
1.Media Cultures in Latin America: An Introduction. 2. Thinking Communications from the Perspective of Mediations: Genealogies and Contributions from a Latin American Tradition. 3. New Tijuanologies: From Hybridity to Garbology in Border Aesthetics. 4. Music and Popular Culture: Subjects, Spaces, and Temporalities in Twenty-first Century South America. 5.Citizens' Media in Latin America. 6. Memoria and Human Rights: 500 Years of Resistance and Memory Activism 7. Contemporary Social Movements and Digital Media Resistance in Latin America. 8. Indigenous Media Cultures in Abya Yala. 9. A Heretical Accumulation of "International Capital": The Zapatista Activists' Media Networks. 10. Social Movements and Media Cultures in Defense of Life and Territory. 11. Afterword
