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- Indigenous Media and Political Imaginaries in Contemporary Bolivia
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: University of Nebraska Press
summary
Gabriela Zamorano Villarreal examines the political dimension of indigenous media production and distribution as a means by which indigenous organizations articulate new claims on national politics in Bolivia, a country experiencing one of the most notable cases of social mobilization and indigenous-based constitutional transformation in contemporary Latin America. Based on fieldwork in Bolivia from 2005 to 2007, Zamorano Villarreal details how grassroots indigenous media production has been instrumental to indigenous political demands for a Constituent Assembly and for implementing the new constitution within Evo Morales controversial administration.
On a day-to-day basis, Zamorano Villarreal witnessed the myriad processes by which Bolivia’s indigenous peoples craft images of political struggle and enfranchisement to produce films about their role in Bolivian society. Indigenous Media and Political Imaginaries in Contemporary Bolivia contributes a wholly new and original perspective on indigenous media worlds in Bolivia: the collaborative and decolonizing authorship of indigenous media against the neoliberal multicultural state, and its key role in reimagining national politics. Zamorano Villarreal unravels the negotiations among indigenous media makers about how to fairly depict a gender, territorial, or justice conflict in their films to promote grassroots understanding of indigenous peoples in Bolivia’s multicultural society.
On a day-to-day basis, Zamorano Villarreal witnessed the myriad processes by which Bolivia’s indigenous peoples craft images of political struggle and enfranchisement to produce films about their role in Bolivian society. Indigenous Media and Political Imaginaries in Contemporary Bolivia contributes a wholly new and original perspective on indigenous media worlds in Bolivia: the collaborative and decolonizing authorship of indigenous media against the neoliberal multicultural state, and its key role in reimagining national politics. Zamorano Villarreal unravels the negotiations among indigenous media makers about how to fairly depict a gender, territorial, or justice conflict in their films to promote grassroots understanding of indigenous peoples in Bolivia’s multicultural society.
Table of Contents
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- List of Illustrations
- pp. vii-viii
- List of Tables
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xv-xviii
- List of Abbreviations
- pp. xix-xxiv
- Introduction
- pp. 1-16
- 4. The Political Possibilities of Fiction
- pp. 119-158
- 5. Disputes for Indigeneity
- pp. 159-194
- 6. Narrative and Aesthetics
- pp. 195-236
- 7. Politics of Distribution
- pp. 237-276
- Conclusions
- pp. 277-286
- Bibliography
- pp. 305-318
Additional Information
ISBN
9781496201720
Related ISBN(s)
9780803296879
MARC Record
OCLC
982249097
Pages
378
Launched on MUSE
2017-06-17
Language
English
Open Access
No