The Book in Movement

Autonomous Politics and the Lettered City Underground
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-8229-6587-9
Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: Pitt Illuminations

The Book in Movement is an ethnography of an object—the underground print book—and examines its production and circulation in networks of current social movements in Latin America.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rabasa, Magalí

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Magali´ Rabasa joined the faculty of Lewis & Clark College in 2016. She received her PhD from the University of California, Davis in Cultural Studies with an emphasis in Feminist Theory and Research in 2014. Her teaching focuses on social movements and popular media, as well as feminist and postcolonial studies in the Americas, with a particular focus on the US, Mexico, Bolivia, and Argentina. Her current research examines popular media markets in Mexico, Bolivia, and Argentina. Over the last decade, she has worked extensively with alternative media and popular education projects across the Americas. She is a founding member of the Colectivo Radio Autonomi´a (Oakland) and Changing Suns Press (Saskatchewan). She has published articles and commentary in the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Anthropology Today, Tabula Rasa, La Jornada, Rebelio´n, and Herramienta, and her translations include the “Subalternisms” entry by Ileana Rodri´guez in the Dictionary of Latin American Cultural Studies (University Press of Florida, 2012). She is currently finalizing her first book which is an exploration of print book culture in current Latin American social movements.