Online Activism in Latin America

Hilda Chacón is Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literatures and Cultures, Nazareth College, USA.

Introduction (Hilda Chacón)

Part I. Art and Activism in Cyberspace

1. A Theater of Displacement: Staging Activism, Poetry, and Migration through a Transborder Immigrant Tool (Sergio Delgado Moya)

2. Decolonizing Youth Culture: Guatemalan Hip Hop Dissidents in Cyberspace (Esteban Loustaunau)

3. Narcocorridos and Internet: Demonopolizing Mexico’s Narco History in Cyberspace (Juan Carlos Ramírez-Pimienta)

4. Belén Gache’s Aleatory Politics: Radikal Karaoke and (Robo)Poetics Hacking Politics (Scott Weintraub)

Part II. Blogging as Online Activism

5. On Pirates and Tourists: Ambivalent Approaches to El Blog del Narco (Emily Hind)

6. Blogging and Disability Activism in Mexico: Katia D’Artigues’s ‘Mundo D’ (Beth Jörgensen)

7. Revolución.com? Resemanticising the Discourse of Revolution in Yoani Sánchez’s Generation Y Blog (Thea Pitman)

8. The Uses and Limits of Ethnic Humor and New Media in ¡Ask A Mexican! (Amber Workman)

Part III. Enduring Struggles, Now Online

9. Five Hundred Years of Struggle Enter Cyberspace. Neo Zapatism and the (Old) New Insurgency (Carolina Gaínza Cortés)

10. Voces Cubanas: Cyberactivism, Civic Engagement and Cubanía in Contemporary Cuba (Omar Granados)

11. From Wounds to Healing: Transborder Testimonios Through Cyberspace Post-September 11, 2001 (Claire Joysmith)

12. Cyberspace as a Tool for Political and Social Awareness: The Killings of Juárez (María R. Matz)

Part IV. Cyberspace and New Citizenry Representations

13. Digital favelas: New Visibilities and Self-Representation (Tori Holmes)

14. Online Activist Eco-Poetry: Techno-Cannibalism, Digital Indigeneity and Ecological Resistance in Brazil (Eduardo Ledesma)

15. ‘Yo soy:’ Public Protest, Private Expression: Contestatory Uses of Social Media by Contemporary Mexican Youth (Mary K. Long)

16. Interactive Projects from Colombia: Re-Thinking the Geopolitics of Territory (Claire Taylor)