Global indigenous media : cultures, poetics, and politics

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Global indigenous media : cultures, poetics, and politics / edited by Pamela Wilson and Michelle Stewart.

Wilson, Pamela, 1957- (Added Author). Stewart, Michelle, 1968- (Added Author).

Summary:

"In this exciting interdisciplinary collection, scholars, activists, and media producers explore the emergence of Indigenous media: forms of media expression conceptualized, produced, and/or 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 are utilizing both traditional and new media to combat discrimination, to advocate for resources and rights, and to 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."--Book cover.

Record details

ISBN: 9780822342915
ISBN: 082234291X
ISBN: 9780822343080
ISBN: 0822343088
Physical Description: ix, 362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Introduction : Indigeneity and indigenous media on the global stage / Pamela Wilson and Michelle Stewart -- Imperfect media and the poetics of indigenous video in Latin America / Juan Francisco Salazar and Amalia Córdova -- "Lest others speak for us" : the neglected roots and uncertain future of Maori cinema in New Zealand / Jennifer Gauthier -- Cache : provisions and productions in contemporary Igloolik video / Cache Collective -- Indigenous animation : educational programming, narrative interventions, and children's cultures / Joanna Hearne -- Media as our mirror : indigenous media of Burma (Myanmar) / Lisa Brooten -- Transistor resistors : native women's radio in Canada and the social organization of political space from below / Kathleen Buddle -- Weaving a communication quilt in Colombia : civil conflict, indigenous resistance, and community radio in northern Cauca / Mario A. Murillo -- Outside the indigenous lens : Zapatistas and autonomous videomaking / Alexandra Halkin -- The search for well-being : placing development with indigenous identity / Laurel Smith -- "To breathe two airs" : empowering indigenous Sámi media / Sari Pietikäinen -- Indigenous media as an important resource for Russia's indigenous peoples / Galina Diatchkova -- Indigenous minority-language media : S4C, cultural identity, and the Welsh-language televisual community / Ruth McElroy -- Recollecting indigenous thinking in a CD-ROM / Priscilla Faulhaber and Louis Forline -- Digital tools and the management of Austrailian aboriginal desert knowledge / Michael Christie -- Rethinking the digital age / Faye Ginsburg.