Media and the Global South: Narrative Territorialities, Cross-Cultural Currents (Literary Cultures of the Global South)

What does the notion of the ‘global south'mean to media studies today?This book interrogates the possibilities of global thinking from the south in the field of media, communication, and cultural studies. Through lenses of millennial media cultures, it refocuses the praxis of the global south in relation to the established ideas of globalization, development, and conditions of postcoloniality.Bringing together original empirical work from media scholars from across the global south, the volume highlights how contemporary thinking about the region as theoretical framework ・ an emerging area of theory in its own right ・ is incomplete without due consideration being placed on narrative forms, both analogue and digital, traditional and sub-cultural. From news to music cultures, from journalism to visual culture, from screen forms to culture-jamming, the chapters in the volume explore contemporary popular forms of communication as manifested in diverse global south contexts.A significant contribution to cultural theory and communications research, this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of media and culture studies, literary and critical theory, digital humanities, science and technology studies, and sociology and social anthropology. "What does the notion of the "global south" mean to media studies today? This book interrogates the possibilities of global thinking from the South in the field of media, communication and cultural studies. Through lenses of millennial media cultures, it refocuses the praxis of the Global South in relation to the established ideas of globalization, development and conditions of post-coloniality. Bringing together original empirical work from media scholars from across the Global South, the volume highlights how contemporary thinking about the region as a theoretical framework -- an emerging area of theory in its own right -- is incomplete without due consideration being placed on narrative forms, both analogue and digital, traditional and sub-cultural. From news to music cultures, from journalism to visual culture, from screen forms to culture-jamming, the essays in the volume explore contemporary popular forms of communication as manifested in diverse global south contexts. A significant contribution to cultural theory and communications research, this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of media and culture studies, literary and critical theory, digital humanities, science and technology studies, and sociology and social anthropology"-- Provided by publisher Theorising media in and across the global south : narrative as territory, culture as flow / Mehita Iqani and Fernando Resende -- Imaginaries of the North and South in three Egyptian plays / Amina Al-Halawani -- They are like us : race, porn and viewing patterns in South Africa / Yolo Siyabonga Koba -- Popular culture, new femininities and subjectivities : reading Nairobi diaries / Dina Ligaga -- Cartographies of Brazilian popular and "peripheral" music on YouTube : the case of Passinho dance-off / Simone Pereira de Sá -- Cuir visualities, survival imaginaries / Rían Lozano de la Pola -- Risking images : the political and subjective production of images in Brazil's 2013 mass protests / Roberto Robalinho -- Journalism cultures in Egypt and Lebanon : role perception, professional practices and ethical considerations / Zahera Harb -- Concrete poetry in Brazil and Germany : the avant-garde reviews history through new media / Luca Romani -- Between remembering and forgetting : memory, culture and the nostalgia market / Ana Paula Goulart Ribeiro -- The struggle over narratives : Palestine as metaphor for imagined spatialities / Dina Matar -- Helper and threat : how the mediation of Africa-China relations complicates the idea of the global south / Cobus van Staden What does the notion of the global south mean to media studies today? This book interrogates the possibilities of global thinking from the south in the field of media, communication, and cultural studies. Through lenses of millennial media cultures, it refocuses the praxis of the global south in relation to the established ideas of globalization, development, and conditions of postcoloniality. Bringing together original empirical work from media scholars from across the global south, the volume highlights how contemporary thinking about the region as theoretical framework an emerging area of theory in its own right is incomplete without due consideration being placed on narrative forms, both analogue and digital, traditional and sub-cultural. From news to music cultures, from journalism to visual culture, from screen forms to culture-jamming, the chapters in the volume explore contemporary popular forms of communication as manifested in diverse global south contexts. A significant contribution to cultural theory and communications research, this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of media and culture studies, literary and critical theory, digital humanities, science and technology studies, and sociology and social anthropology. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Series 3 Title 6 Copyright 7 Contents 8 List of figures 10 List of contributors 11 Series editors’ preface 16 Acknowledgements 18 1 Theorizing media in and across the global south: narrative as territory, culture as flow 20 2 Imaginaries of the north and south in three Egyptian plays 36 3 They are like us: race, porn, and viewing patterns in South Africa 53 4 Popular culture, new femininities, and subjectivities: reading Nairobi Diaries 74 5 Cartographies of Brazilian popular and ‘peripheral’ music on YouTube: the case of Passinho dance-off 91 6 Cuir visualities, survival imaginaries 105 7 Risking images: the political and subjective production of images in Brazil’s 2013 mass protests 124 8 Journalism cultures in Egypt and Lebanon: role perception, professional practices, and ethical considerations 138 9 Concrete poetry in Brazil and Germany: the avant-garde reviews history through new media 159 10 Between remembering and forgetting: memory, culture, and the nostalgia market in the Brazilian mediascape 176 11 The struggle over narratives: Palestine as metaphor for imagined spatialities 189 12 Helper and threat: how the mediation of Africa-China relations complicates the idea of the global south 205 Index 222 This book explores the idea of the 'Global South' through the lens of media and communication studies, as well as possibilities of global thinking in the field. It will be of interest to scholars and researchers of media and culture studies, literary and critical theory, digital humanities, and sociology and social anthropology.