Media Cultures in Latin America

Anna Cristina Pertierra is Associate Professor of Cultural and Social Analysis in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University, where she is also a member of the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS). An anthropologist by training, her research has focussed on media and consumer cultures, popular culture and urban modernities in Asia and the Americas. Regionally, her work spans Cuba, Mexico and the Philippines. Anna is the author of Media Anthropology in the Digital Age (Polity 2017), Locating Television: Zones of Consumption (with Graeme Turner, Routledge 2013), and Cuba: the struggle for consumption (Caribbean Studies Press, 2011). With John Sinclair, she edited the volume Consumer Culture in Latin America (Palgrave 2012). Currently, she is the chief investigator of a new research project funded by the Australian Research Council, examining emerging consumer cultures among the former urban poor in four countries: Mexico, Brazil, the Philippines and China.

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.

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