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List of contents
1 Theorizing media in and across the global south: narrative as territory, culture as flow 2 Imaginaries of the north and south in three Egyptian plays 3 They are us: race, porn, and viewing patterns in South Africa 4 Popular culture, new femininities, and subjectivities: reading Nairobi Diaries 5 Cartographies of Brazilian popular and ‘peripheral’ music on YouTube: the case of Passinho dance-off 6 Cuir visualities, survival imaginaries 7 Risking images: the political and subjective production of images in Brazil’s 2013 mass protests 8 Journalism cultures in Egypt and Lebanon: role perception, professional practices, and ethical considerations 9 Concrete poetry in Brazil and Germany: the avantgarde reviews history through new media 10 Between remembering and forgetting: memory, culture, and the nostalgia market in the Brazilian mediascape 11 The struggle over narratives: Palestine as metaphor for imagined spatialities 12 Helper and threat: how the mediation of Africa-China relations complicates the idea of the global south
About the author
Mehita Iqani is Associate Professor in Media Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her research explores the multiple intersections between consumer culture and the media in relation to discourse, power, aspiration, identity, and global culture. She has a monograph forthcoming on the cultural politics of postconsumer waste.
Fernando Resende is Associate Professor in Culture and Media Studies at the Federal Fluminense University (UFF) in Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Primarily interested in the study of narratives of conflicts and diasporic movements, dealing with issues related to both physical and symbolic zones, his research focuses on theory and philosophy of communication; journalism; culture; comparative media and documentary studies; global south theory; critical cultural studies; and the impact of geopolitical discursive relations (narratives and conflicts) on the imaged geographies of East/West and, in particular, the imagination of Palestine and Africa by Brazil and England (19th and 20th centuries).
Summary
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 anthropolo
