BookIndigenous media in Mexico: culture, community, and the state
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- Indigenous media in Mexico: culture, community, and the state.
Published
- Durham, N.C.; London: Duke University Press, 2013.
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- From the dramatic strife in Oaxaca in the summer of 2006 (APPO vs. the governor) to the Zapatistas, this easy-to-read book examines how indigenous people represent themselves and their struggles to their own communities, their region and nation, and also to the world by way of video, television, and radio. Linking it to self-determination, expressive rights, and a pushback against centuries of silencing, the author addresses the "decolonization" of outsider perspectives on indigenous culture, history, and social practice evident in this new media. Making culture visible jumps beyond the original multiculturalism envisioned by the state to engender a process with major political implications associated with autonomy, a reflexive remaking of culture, and a different, critical relationship to the state. In Chiapas, indigenous video also serves to inhibit forces of repression (as it has in the US), as well as become a new arm of indigenous self-representation and agency.
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Description
- 265 p.: bibl., ill., index, map, photos.
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Contents
- Introduction : making culture visible : indigenous media in Mexico -- The global and national contexts of video indígena -- Inventing video indígena : "transferring" audiovisual media to indigenous organizations and communities -- Regional dimensions : video indígena beyond state sponsorship -- Dilemmas in making culture visible : achieving community embeddedness in Tamazulapam del Espíritu Santo, Mixe -- Revolutionary indigenous media : the Chiapas media project/promedios -- Conclusions : indigenous media on the international stage.
Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-259) and index.
ISBN
- 9780822354840 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780822355007 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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HLAS contributor
- Duncan Earle