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Media and Politics in Post-Authoritarian Mexico The Continuing Struggle for Democracy
This volume presents an analytical and empirical overview of the array of issues that the Mexican media faces in the post-authoritarian age, which...
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Cultural Activism around Gender and Sexualities in Colombia and Mexico De un Mundo Raro
This book focuses on an underestimated alternative to the mainstream liberal rights-based approach: cultural activism. This political strategy...
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Black Lives Matter in Latin America Continuities in Racism, Cross-National Resistance and Mobilization in the Americas
This volume considers how Black activism in Latin America has taken place in varying arenas such as in the academy, digital platforms, and...
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An Anthropology of Making in Santa Clara del Cobre Presence of Absence
This book, introduced with a Foreword by Tim Ingold, offers a nuanced reflection on the meaning of making and artisan agency, demonstrating how...
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Una muestra bibliográfica [A Bibliographic Sampling] of Latin American Digital Poetry (So Far)
This bibliography is composed of key dossiers, edited books, monographs, and special journal issues, all of which represent important touchstones in...
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Poetry and Artificial Intelligence
Focused on the (simulated) robo-poetics in Martín Rangel in Soy una máquina y no puedo olvidar, this concluding chapter analyzes Rangel’s approaches...
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Critical Snapshots
This section offers a muestra—a sampling or display—of major works of Latin American digital poetry. Authored by experts in the field, these 25 short...
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Introduction
Although the Anglophone Caribbean has had a large output in varied and localised discourse/text-types in the post-independence era, there has been...
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Storifying Caribbean Cricket: Voice and Perspective in Paul Keens-Douglas’s “Tanti at de Oval”
Paul Keens-Douglas, renowned Caribbean storyteller, has related various tales on the game of cricket. “Tanti at de Oval”, a notable representation of...
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Selvon’s Stylistics: Self-Conscious Language Production in An Island Is a World
Samuel Selvon’s 1955 novel An Island Is a World portrays characters who intentionally alter the linguistic and prosaic features of their speech in...
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Critical Discourse Studies and Curriculum Development in Trinidad and Tobago: Exploring Discursive Practices in Education Policy
This chapter examines language curricula and related education policy documents in Trinidad and Tobago using Critical Discourse Studies given that...
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Media Representation of Gender-Based Violence in Two Cases and Related Examples: A Multimodal Discursive Study
This chapter addresses media reports representing gender-based violence (GBV). It interrogates media representation of GBV against women by...
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Lía
In Volver a los 17, Violeta Parra claims the value of sentiment along with reason. Parra says: “Lo que puede el sentimiento no lo ha podido el saber...
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Introduction. Not Authoritarian, But Not Yet Democratic. Advances, Setbacks, and Challenges in Mexican Media and Politics
For its breadth and complexity, Mexico is a rich case to study the relationship between media and politics in post-authoritarian democracies. In this...
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Mediatization in Post-Authoritarian Democracies. Thirty Years of Media Logic in the Mexican Press
Mediatization theory contends that as the media becomes more pervasive, authoritative, and autonomous, politicians adapt their discourses and...
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Towards a Post-national Cuban Imaginary: Theoretical and Historical Context
This chapter provides a historical contextualization of the process of negotiation of narratives of Cubanness since the emergence of the Cuban nation...
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TCAMS and the Music Industry
The chapter engages in case studies of TCAMS musicians, like Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Yusa, and Descemer Bueno, to advance some reflections on the...
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Racial Politics: Central Themes in Academic Scholarship in the Social Sciences in Brazil (2012–2019)
This chapter presents a bibliographic review of Brazilian academic studies on race, racism, and race relations produced between 2012 and 2019. The...
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The Race and Democracy Project and Black Lives Matter: Continuities in Racism, Cross-National Resistance and Mobilization in the Americas
This chapter traces the history of the Race and Democracy Project, composed of scholars from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists...
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The Afro-Colombian Movement’s Institutional Activism and Political Impact (1991–2018)
In this chapter, the author analyzes the political negotiations that preceded the declaration of the 1991 Constitution, the subsequent debates within...