Indigeneity in Real Time: The Digital Making of Oaxacalifornia - Couverture souple

Kummels, Ingrid

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1978834780 ISBN 13 : 9781978834781

Editeur : Rutgers University Press, 2023

Synopsis

Long before the COVID-19 crisis, Mexican Indigenous peoples were faced with organizing their lives from afar, between villages in the Oaxacan Sierra Norte and the urban districts of Los Angeles, as a result of unauthorized migration and the restrictive border between Mexico and the United States. By launching cutting-edge Internet radio stations and multimedia platforms and engaging as community influencers, Zapotec and Ayuujk peoples paved their own paths to a transnational lifeway during the Trump era. This meant adapting digital technology to their needs, setting up their own infrastructure, and designing new digital formats for re-organizing community life in all its facets--including illness, death and mourning, collective celebrations, sport tournaments, and political meetings--across vast distances. Author Ingrid Kummels shows how mediamakers and users in the Sierra Norte villages and in Los Angeles created a transborder media space and aligned time regimes. By networking from multiple places, they put into practice a communal way of life called Comunalidad and an indigenized American Dream--in real time.

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À propos de l?auteur

INGRID KUMMELS is a professor of cultural and social anthropology at the Institute for Latin American Studies of the Freie Universität Berlin. She is the author of Transborder Media Spaces: Ayuujk Videomaking between Mexico and the US.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rutgers University Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1978834780
• ISBN 13: 9781978834781
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 232
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