Media and the Global South: Narrative Territorialities, Cross-Cultural Currents
London et al.: Routledge (2019), xvi, 207 pp.
Contains figures, index
ISBN 978-1-138-59552-1
"This book interrogates the possibilities of global thinking from the south in the field of media, communication, and cultural studies. Through lenses of millennial media cultures, it refocuses the praxis of the global south in relation to the established ideas of globalization, development, and conditions of postcoloniality. Bringing together original empirical work from media scholars from across the global south, the volume highlights how contemporary thinking about the region as theoretical framework - an emerging area of theory in its own right - is incomplete without due consideration being placed on narrative forms, both analogue and digital, traditional and sub-cultural. From news to music cultures, from journalism to visual culture, from screen forms to culture-jamming, the chapters in the volume explore contemporary popular forms of communication as manifested in diverse global south contexts." (Publisher description)
1 Theorizing media in and across the Global South: narrative as territory, culture as flow, 1
2 Imaginaries of the north and south in three Egyptian plays, 17
3 They are like us: race, porn, and viewing patterns in South Africa, 34
4 Popular culture, new femininities, and subjectivities: reading Nairobi Diaries, 55
5 Cartographies of Brazilian popular and 'peripheral' music on YouTube: the case of Passinho dance-off, 72
6 Cuir visualities, survival imaginaries, 86
7 Risking images: the political and subjective production of images in Brazil's 2013 mass protests, 105
8 Journalism cultures in Egypt and Lebanon: role perception, professional practices, and ethical considerations, 119
9 Concrete poetry in Brazil and Germany: the avant-garde reviews history through new media, 140
10 Between remembering and forgetting: memory, culture, and the nostalgia market in the Brazilian mediascape, 157
11 The struggle over narratives: Palestine as metaphor for imagined spatialities, 170
12 Helper and threat: how the mediation of Africa-China relations complicates the idea of the Global South, 186
2 Imaginaries of the north and south in three Egyptian plays, 17
3 They are like us: race, porn, and viewing patterns in South Africa, 34
4 Popular culture, new femininities, and subjectivities: reading Nairobi Diaries, 55
5 Cartographies of Brazilian popular and 'peripheral' music on YouTube: the case of Passinho dance-off, 72
6 Cuir visualities, survival imaginaries, 86
7 Risking images: the political and subjective production of images in Brazil's 2013 mass protests, 105
8 Journalism cultures in Egypt and Lebanon: role perception, professional practices, and ethical considerations, 119
9 Concrete poetry in Brazil and Germany: the avant-garde reviews history through new media, 140
10 Between remembering and forgetting: memory, culture, and the nostalgia market in the Brazilian mediascape, 157
11 The struggle over narratives: Palestine as metaphor for imagined spatialities, 170
12 Helper and threat: how the mediation of Africa-China relations complicates the idea of the Global South, 186
