Global Indigenous Media

Cultures, Poetics, and Politics

Autor: Wilson, Pamela; Stewart, Michelle; Salazar, Juan F.; Gauthier, Jennifer
Editor: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822342915
eISBN Pdf: 9780822388692
Lloc de publicació: Durham , United States
Any de publicació digital: 2008
Mes: Agost
Pàgines: 376
DDC: 302.23
Idioma: Anglés

Descripció

In this exciting interdisciplinary collection, scholars, activists, and media producers explore the emergence of Indigenous media: forms of media expression conceptualized, produced, and created by Indigenous peoples around the globe. Whether discussing Maori cinema in New Zealand or activist community radio in Colombia, the contributors describe how native peoples use both traditional and new media to combat discrimination, advocate for resources and rights, and preserve their cultures, languages, and aesthetic traditions. By representing themselves in a variety of media, Indigenous peoples are also challenging misleading mainstream and official state narratives, forging international solidarity movements, and bringing human rights violations to international attention.

Global Indigenous Media addresses Indigenous self-representation across many media forms, including feature film, documentary, animation, video art, television and radio, the Internet, digital archiving, and journalism. The volume’s sixteen essays reflect the dynamism of Indigenous media-making around the world. One contributor examines animated films for children produced by Indigenous-owned companies in the United States and Canada. Another explains how Indigenous media producers in Burma (Myanmar) work with NGOs and outsiders against the country’s brutal regime. Still another considers how the Ticuna Indians of Brazil are positioning themselves in relation to the international community as they collaborate in creating a CD-ROM about Ticuna knowledge and rituals. In the volume’s closing essay, Faye Ginsburg points out some of the problematic assumptions about globalization, media, and culture underlying the term “digital age” and claims that the age has arrived. Together the essays reveal the crucial role of Indigenous media in contemporary media at every level: local, regional, national, and international.

Contributors: Lisa Brooten, Kathleen Buddle, Cache Collective, Michael Christie, Amalia Córdova,
Galina Diatchkova, Priscila Faulhaber, Louis Forline, Jennifer Gauthier, Faye Ginsburg, Alexandra Halkin, Joanna Hearne, Ruth McElroy, Mario A. Murillo, Sari Pietikäinen, Juan Francisco Salazar,
Laurel Smith, Michelle Stewart, Pamela Wilson

Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Indigeneity and Indigenous Media on the Global Stage
PART I: From Poetics to Politics: Indigenous Media Aesthetics and Style
- 1. Imperfect Media and the Poetics of Indigenous Video in Latin America
- 2. ‘‘Lest Others Speak for Us’’: The Neglected Roots and Uncertain Future of Maori Cinema in New Zealand
- 3. Cache: Provisions and Productions in Contemporary Igloolik Video
- 4. Indigenous Animation: Educational Programming, Narrative Interventions, and Children’s Cultures
PART II: Indigenous Activism, Advocacy,and Empowerment through Media
- 5. Media as Our Mirror: Indigenous Media of Burma (Myanmar)
- 6. Transistor Resistors: Native Women’s Radio in Canada and the Social Organization of Political Space from Below
- 7. Weaving a Communication Quilt in Colombia: Civil Conflict, Indigenous Resistance, and Community Radio in Northern Cauca
- 8. Outside the Indigenous Lens: Zapatistas and Autonomous Videomaking
PART III: Cultural Identity, Preservation, and Community-building through Media
- 9. The Search for Well-Being: Placing Development with Indigenous Identity
- 10. ‘‘To Breathe Two Airs’’: Empowering Indigenous Sámi Media
- 11. Indigenous Media as an Important Resource for Russia’s Indigenous Peoples
- 12. Indigenous Minority-Language Media: S4C, Cultural Identity, and the Welsh-Language Televisual Community
PART IV: New Technologies, Timeless Knowledges: Digital and Interactive Media
- 13. Recollecting Indigenous Thinking in a CD-ROM
- 14. Digital Tools and the Management of Australian Aboriginal Desert Knowledge
- 15. Rethinking the Digital Age
References
About the Contributors
Index