"Paz y reconciliación son temas cruciales de nuestra historia. En la coyuntura de análisis y debates, La fiesta de las paces reflexiona sobre la construcción de la paz desde una perspectiva interdisciplinaria y, lo que es más importante, desde voces no institucionales. Los autores demuestran que
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la paz desborda lo oficial y académico; rescatan esfuerzos cívicos, populares y sus distintas formas de expresión en el territorio. Los enfoques que aquí se compilan presentan a la paz desde miradas indígenas, negras, femeninas, artísticas, medioambientales y territoriales. No solo es la ausencia de guerra, sino la oposición a cualquier forma de violencia. La fiesta de las paces nos recuerda que la paz se celebra colectivamente y se vive en lo común. Es un llamado a liberar la fiesta, el humor, el relato y la alegría como elementos fundamentales en el camino hacia una paz auténtica y diversa." (Descripción de la casa editorial)
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"The Routledge Handbook to the Culture and Media of the Americas charts the pervasive, asymmetrical flows of cultural products and capital and their importance in the development of the Americas. The volume offers a comprehensive understanding of how inter-American communication is constituted, fram
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ed and structured, and covers the artistic and political dimensions that have shaped literature, art and popular culture in the region. Forty-six chapters cover a range of inter-American key concepts and dynamics, divided into two parts: 'Literature and Music' deals with inter-American entanglements of artistic expressions in the Western Hemisphere, including music, dance, literary genres and developments. 'Media and Visual Cultures' explores the inter-American dimension of media production in the hemisphere, including cinema and television, photography and art, journalism, radio, digital culture and issues such as freedom of expression and intellectual property." (Publisher description)
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"With the increase of digital and networked media in everyday life, researchers have increasingly turned their gaze to the symbolic and cultural elements of technologies. From studying online game communities, locative and social media to YouTube and mobile media, ethnographic approaches to digital
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and networked media have helped to elucidate the dynamic cultural and social dimensions of media practice. The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography provides an authoritative, up-to-date, intellectually broad, and conceptually cutting-edge guide to this emergent and diverse area. The Features include: "a comprehensive history of computers and digitization in anthropology, exploration of various ethnographic methods in the context of digital tools and network relations, consideration of social networking and communication technologies on a local and global scale and in-depth analyses of different interfaces in ethnography, from mobile technologies to digital archives." (Publisher description)
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"El libro de Claudia Magallanes y José Manuel Ramos es fundamental para el debate sobre medios de comunicación indígena. Contiene el aporte colectivo de once capítulos, en los cuales autores de diferentes comunidades académicas ensayan nuevas perspectivas metodológicas de investigación. El te
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ma principal que recorre el texto es la praxis comunicacional de varios grupos indígenas en la disputa por la auto representación y visibilización de las identidades culturales. Esto se revela en el uso de las radios comunitarias y videos indígenas como medios para articular la resistencia y reivindicar su identidad. Estos median la plataforma cultural para defender la lengua autóctona, el cuidado de la naturaleza y del medio ambiente y resistir a las industrias o para representar a sus comunidades con los valores simbólicos propios, como un discurso autónomo de resistencia contra la hegemonía cultural." (Reseña por José Morán, en: Chasqui,, nr. 131, 2026, página 421)
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"Contemporary anthropology is done in a world where social and digital media are playing an increasingly significant role, where anthropological and arts practices are often intertwined in museum and public intervention contexts, and where anthropologists are encouraged to engage with mass media. Be
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cause anthropologists are often expected and inspired to ensure their work engages with public issues, these opportunities to disseminate work in new ways and to new publics simultaneously create challenges as anthropologists move their practice into unfamiliar collaborative domains and expose their research to new forms of scrutiny. In this volume, contributors question whether a fresh public anthropology is emerging through these new practices." (Publisher description)
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"The article examines the notion of development as self-determination in the context of current politicisation of indigenous peoples’ affairs. It looks at the links between development studies, indigenous social movements, and community media practices; and more specifically between specific views
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on development, self-determination, and identity, and how these terms become embodied in specific media-making (video) practices. The article summarises two case studies of indigenous media production in a transnational context: the UNESCO-funded project Information and Communications Technologies for Intercultural Dialogue: Developing Communication Capacities of Indigenous People (ICT4ID), and the emergence and consolidation of CLACPI, a network of indigenous media producers in Latin America." (Abstract)
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"Citizens’ media and communication are still poorly understood in the mainstream of development policy and practice – and are prone to simplistic forms of implementation, because of the lack of a coherent grasp of the social, cultural, and political processes that make them transformative. Intro
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ducing the articles in this guest issue, the authors find that citizens’ media is about more than bringing diverse voices into pluralist politics: it contributes to processes of social and cultural construction, redefining norms and power relations that exclude people. Local ownership and control of their own media can allow people to reshape the spaces in which their voices find expression." (Abstract)
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"Whether discussing Maori cinema in New Zealand or activist community radio in Colombia, the contributors describe how native peoples use both traditional and new media to combat discrimination, advocate for resources and rights, and preserve their cultures, languages, and aesthetic traditions. By r
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epresenting themselves in a variety of media, Indigenous peoples are also challenging misleading mainstream and official state narratives, forging international solidarity movements, and bringing human rights violations to international attention. Global Indigenous Media addresses Indigenous self-representation across many media forms, including feature film, documentary, animation, video art, television and radio, the Internet, digital archiving, and journalism. The volume's sixteen essays reflect the dynamism of Indigenous media-making around the world. One contributor examines animated films for children produced by Indigenous-owned companies in the United States and Canada. Another explains how Indigenous media producers in Burma (Myanmar) work with NGOs and outsiders against the country's brutal regime. Still another considers how the Ticuna Indians of Brazil are positioning themselves in relation to the international community as they collaborate in creating a CD-ROM about Ticuna knowledge and rituals. In the volume's closing essay, Faye Ginsburg points out some of the problematic assumptions about globalization, media, and culture underlying the term "digital age" and claims that the age has arrived. Together the essays reveal the crucial role of Indigenous media in contemporary media at every level: local, regional, national, and international." (Back cover)
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