Cultural Agency In The Americas

Author : Doris Sommer
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822387480

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Cultural Agency in the Americas by Doris Sommer Pdf

“Cultural agency” refers to a range of creative activities that contribute to society, including pedagogy, research, activism, and the arts. Focusing on the connections between creativity and social change in the Americas, this collection encourages scholars to become cultural agents by reflecting on exemplary cases and thereby making them available as inspirations for more constructive theory and more innovative practice. Creativity supports democracy because artistic, administrative, and interpretive experiments need margins of freedom that defy monolithic or authoritarian regimes. The ingenious ways in which people pry open dead-ends of even apparently intractable structures suggest that cultural studies as we know it has too often gotten stuck in critique. Intellectual responsibility can get beyond denunciation by acknowledging and nurturing the resourcefulness of common and uncommon agents. Based in North and South America, scholars from fields including anthropology, performance studies, history, literature, and communications studies explore specific variations of cultural agency across Latin America. Contributors reflect, for example, on the paradoxical programming and reception of a state-controlled Cuban radio station that connects listeners at home and abroad; on the intricacies of indigenous protests in Brazil; and the formulation of cultural policies in cosmopolitan Mexico City. One contributor notes that trauma theory targets individual victims when it should address collective memory as it is worked through in performance and ritual; another examines how Mapuche leaders in Argentina perceived the pitfalls of ethnic essentialism and developed new ways to intervene in local government. Whether suggesting modes of cultural agency, tracking exemplary instances of it, or cautioning against potential missteps, the essays in this book encourage attentiveness to, and the multiplication of, the many extraordinary instantiations of cultural resourcefulness and creativity throughout Latin America and beyond. Contributors. Arturo Arias, Claudia Briones, Néstor García Canclini, Denise Corte, Juan Carlos Godenzzi, Charles R. Hale, Ariana Hernández-Reguant, Claudio Lomnitz, Jesús Martín Barbero, J. Lorand Matory, Rosamel Millamán, Diane M. Nelson, Mary Louise Pratt, Alcida Rita Ramos, Doris Sommer, Diana Taylor, Santiago Villaveces

Author : United States. Office of Inter-American Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Latin America
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173023677458

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Guide to the Inter-American Cultural Programs of Non-government Agencies in the United States by United States. Office of Inter-American Affairs Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004468108

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Visual Culture and Indigenous Agency in the Early Americas by Anonim Pdf

This volume explores how visual arts functioned in the indigenous pre- and post-conquest New World as vehicles of social, religious, and political identity.

Author : Thomas Augst,Wayne A. Wiegand
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Culture
ISBN : OCLC:1150249390

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The Library as an Agency of Culture by Thomas Augst,Wayne A. Wiegand Pdf

Author : Kevin V Mulcahy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429718564

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America's Commitment To Culture by Kevin V Mulcahy Pdf

Robert Mapplethorpe and Andres Serrano are now legendary, as much because of NEA support of their work as for the work itself. This is one example of what can happen when politics meets culture, and it provides an appropriate snapshot of the issues explored in this book. As in other policy areas, cultural policies develop within a particular political context, evolve as a consequence of government action or inattention, and affect a variety of publics and interests. In this volume, the contributors explore the inescapable politics accompanying public culture. Surveying the philosophical, economic, legal, and political underpinnings of cultural assistance, they articulate not only governments role in the support of the arts, but also basic questions for future cultural policy. Robert Mapplethorpe and Andres Serrano are now legendary, as much because of NEA support of their work as for the work itself. This is one example of what can happen when politics meets culture, and it provides an appropriate snapshot of the issues explored in this book. As in other policy areas, cultural policies develop within a particular political context, evolve as a consequence of government action or inattention, and affect a variety of publics and interests.Americas Commitment to Culture discusses government support of culture as a public policy area. The book focuses on the rationales underlying public support for the arts and examines the development and practice of government as an arts patron. The contributors explore the inescapable politics accompanying public culture. Surveying the philosophical, economic, legal, and political underpinnings of cultural assistance, they articulate not only governments role in the support of the arts, but also basic questions for future cultural policy.

Author : Nancy Snow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : NWU:35556034351221

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Propaganda, Inc by Nancy Snow Pdf

This second edition is updated throughout to cover the Bush administrations global communication efforts.

Author : Pierre Losson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000536935

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The Return of Cultural Heritage to Latin America by Pierre Losson Pdf

The Return of Cultural Heritage to Latin America takes a new approach to the question of returns and restitutions. It is the first publication to look at the domestic politics of claiming countries in order to understand who supports the claims and why. Drawing on analysis of articles published in national newspapers and archival documents and interviews with individuals involved in return claims, the book demonstrates that such claims are inherently political. Focusing on Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, the book analyses how return claims contribute to the strengthening of state-sponsored discourses on the nation; the policy formation process that leads to the formulation of return claims; and who the main actors of the claims are, including civil society individuals, experts, state authorities, and Indigenous communities. The book proposes explanations for why Latin American countries are interested in specific objects held in Western museums and why these claims have come to light over the past three decades. The Return of Cultural Heritage to Latin America argues that return claims ought to be the object of public debate, allowing contemporary societies to address the legacy of colonialism. The book will be essential reading for scholars and students engaged in the study of museums and heritage, political science, history, anthropology, cultural policy, and Latin America.

Author : Claire Taylor,Thea Pitman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135085551

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Latin American Identity in Online Cultural Production by Claire Taylor,Thea Pitman Pdf

This volume provides an innovative and timely approach to a fast growing, yet still under-studied field in Latin American cultural production: digital online culture. It focuses on the transformations or continuations that cultural products and practices such as hypermedia fictions, net.art and online performance art, as well as blogs, films, databases and other genre-defying web-based projects, perform with respect to Latin American(ist) discourses, as well as their often contestatory positioning with respect to Western hegemonic discourses as they circulate online. The intellectual rationale for the volume is located at the crossroads of two, equally important, theoretical strands: theories of digital culture, in their majority the product of the anglophone academy; and contemporary debates on Latin American identity and culture.

Author : David Smilde
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520249431

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Reason to Believe by David Smilde Pdf

Based on fieldwork among Pentecostal men in Caracas, Venezuela, this ethnography seeks an explanation for the explosion of Evangelical Protestantism, unraveling the cultural and personal dynamics of Evangelical conversion to show how and why these men make the choice to convert, and how they come to have faith in a new system of beliefs.

Author : Felipe Cala Buendía
Publisher : Springer
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137462237

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Cultural Producers and Social Change in Latin America by Felipe Cala Buendía Pdf

In Argentina, Colombia, and Peru, there has been an out-pouring of popular-performative activities that have asked citizens to pose questions about the social order and about the memories of recent atrocities. Cala Buendía looks at ways in which cultural producers adapted or developed strategies as resources for social actors to use for change.

Author : William H. Beezley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781119078265

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Latin American Cultural Objects and Episodes by William H. Beezley Pdf

Delight in the cultural aspects of Latin America by observing the objects that give life to history Latin American Cultural Objects and Episodesprovides readers with an eclectic and fascinating exploration of Latin American history through the examination of physical objects. Distinguished author and Professor William H. Beezley takes readers on a journey that includes objects used music and visual media, such as movies, documentaries, and television. Forming an integral part of the history they represent, the objects described in this book tell the tale of the little known or neglected part of Latin American history. While most historical authors and researchers focus on the political and economic life of Latin America, this author uses the objects he highlights to explain and illuminate the daily lives of the Latin American peoples and the legacies that they share. Forming an essential part of a comprehensive understanding of Latin American history, the book includes discussions and explorations of: How objects have transformed and shaped the cultures of Latin America over the years Unusual and interesting objects serendipitously discovered by a variety of researchers and historians Ten chapters, each beginning with an object acting as a synecdoche or metonym that introduces a discussion of Latin American historical life The significance of the objects to particular religious practices, musical traditions, or schools of visual media, such as folk art, film or television Perfect for anyone interested in Latin American life beyond politics and economics, Latin American Cultural Objects and Episodes belongs on the bookshelves of everyone with a curiosity about culture in Latin America as it’s revealed through physical objects.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : America
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173023499145

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The Cultures of the Americas by Anonim Pdf

Author : Cecily Raynor,Rhian Lewis
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487538811

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Digital Encounters by Cecily Raynor,Rhian Lewis Pdf

To understand the creative fabric of digital networks, scholars of literary and cultural studies must turn their attention to crowdsourced forms of production, discussion, and distribution. Digital Encounters explores the influence of an increasingly networked world on contemporary Latin American cultural production. Drawing on a spectrum of case studies, the contributors to this volume examine literature, art, and political activism as they dialogue with programming languages, social media platforms, online publishing, and geospatial metadata. Implicit within these connections are questions of power, privilege, and stratification. The book critically examines issues of inequitable access and data privacy, technology’s capacity to divide people from one another, and the digital space as a site of racialized and gendered violence. Through an expansive approach to the study of connectivity, Digital Encounters illustrates how new connections – between analog and digital, human and machine, print text and pixel – alter representations of self, Other, and world.

Author : George Yúdice
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822385370

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The Expediency of Culture by George Yúdice Pdf

The Expediency of Culture is a pioneering theorization of the changing role of culture in an increasingly globalized world. George Yúdice explores critically how groups ranging from indigenous activists to nation-states to nongovernmental organizations have all come to see culture as a valuable resource to be invested in, contested, and used for varied sociopolitical and economic ends. Through a dazzling series of illustrative studies, Yúdice challenges the Gramscian notion of cultural struggle for hegemony and instead develops an understanding of culture where cultural agency at every level is negotiated within globalized contexts dominated by the active management and administration of culture. He describes a world where “high” culture (such as the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain) is a mode of urban development, rituals and everyday aesthetic practices are mobilized to promote tourism and the heritage industries, and mass culture industries comprise significant portions of a number of countries’ gross national products. Yúdice contends that a new international division of cultural labor has emerged, combining local difference with transnational administration and investment. This does not mean that today’s increasingly transnational culture—exemplified by the entertainment industries and the so-called global civil society of nongovernmental organizations—is necessarily homogenized. He demonstrates that national and regional differences are still functional, shaping the meaning of phenomena from pop songs to antiracist activism. Yúdice considers a range of sites where identity politics and cultural agency are negotiated in the face of powerful transnational forces. He analyzes appropriations of American funk music as well as a citizen action initiative in Rio de Janeiro to show how global notions such as cultural difference are deployed within specific social fields. He provides a political and cultural economy of a vast and increasingly influential art event— insite a triennial festival extending from San Diego to Tijuana. He also reflects on the city of Miami as one of a number of transnational “cultural corridors” and on the uses of culture in an unstable world where censorship and terrorist acts interrupt the usual channels of capitalist and artistic flows.

Author : Axel E. Nielsen,William H. Walker
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816531028

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Warfare in Cultural Context by Axel E. Nielsen,William H. Walker Pdf

Warfare is a constant in human history. Contributors to this book contend that agency and culture, inherited values and dispositions (such as religion and other cultural practices), beliefs, and institutions are always woven into the conduct of war. Using archaeological and ethnohistorical data from various parts of the world, the contributors explore the multiple avenues for the cultural study of warfare that these ideas make possible. Contributions focus on cultural aspects of warfare in Mesoamerica, South America, North America, and Southeast Asia.