ABSTRACT

Online Activism in Latin America examines the innovative ways in which Latin American citizens, and Latin@s in the U.S., use the Internet to advocate for causes that they consider just. The contributions to the volume analyze citizen-launched websites, interactive platforms, postings, and group initiatives that support a wide variety of causes, ranging from human rights to disability issues, indigenous groups’ struggles, environmental protection, art, poetry and activism, migrancy, and citizen participation in electoral and political processes. This collection bears witness to the early stages of a very unique and groundbreaking form of civil activism culture now growing in Latin America.

chapter |30 pages

Introduction

part I|79 pages

Art and Activism in Cyberspace

chapter 1|27 pages

A Theater of Displacement

Staging Activism, Poetry, and Migration through a Transborder Immigrant Tool

chapter 2|18 pages

Decolonizing Youth Culture

Guatemalan Hip Hop Dissidents in Cyberspace

chapter 3|16 pages

Narcocorridos and Internet

Demonopolizing Mexico’s Narco History in Cyberspace

chapter 4|18 pages

Belén Gache’s Aleatory Politics

Radikal karaoke and (Robo)Poetics Hacking Politics

part II|50 pages

Blogging as Online Activism

chapter 5|17 pages

On Pirates and Tourists

Ambivalent Approaches to El Blog del Narco

chapter 6|11 pages

Blogging and Disability Activism in Mexico

Katia D’Artigues’s “Mundo D”

chapter 7|12 pages

Revolución.com?

Resemanticizing the Discourse of Revolution in Yoani Sánchez’s Generación Y Blog 1

part III|51 pages

Enduring Struggles, Now Online

chapter 10|14 pages

Voces Cubanas

Cyberactivism, Civic Engagement, and the making of Cubanía in Contemporary Cuba

chapter 11|12 pages

From Wounds to Healing

Transborder Testimonios through Cyberspace Post-September 11, 2001

chapter 12|11 pages

Cyberspace as a Tool for Political and Social Awareness

The Killings of Juárez

part IV|80 pages

Cyberspace and New Citizenry Representations

chapter 13|21 pages

Digital Favelas

New Visibilities and Self-Representation

chapter 14|18 pages

“Online Activist Eco-Poetry”

Techno-Cannibalism, Digital Indigeneity, and Ecological Resistance in Brazil

chapter 15|21 pages

“Yo soy”: Public Protest, Private Expression

Contestatory Uses of Social Media by Contemporary Mexican Youth

chapter 16|20 pages

Interactive Projects from Colombia

Rethinking the Geopolitics of Territory