Mediascapes of ruined geographies in the Global South / Diego Granja do Amaral, A. Chukwudumebi Obute, editors.
Granja do Amaral, Diego.; Obute, A. Chukwudumebi.
2023
P92.2
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Title Mediascapes of ruined geographies in the Global South / Diego Granja do Amaral, A. Chukwudumebi Obute, editors.
ISBN 9783031315909 (electronic bk.)
3031315901 (electronic bk.)
3031315898
9783031315893
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31590-9
Publication Details Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-031-31590-9 doi
Call Number P92.2
Dewey Decimal Classification 302.23091724
Summary This book undertakes an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural interrogation of the Global South through the prisms of media and cultural studies. It closely explores the quotidian (re)territorialization, and brazen ruination of the material geographies of this vast expanse of the world by forces and proxies of (neo)colonialism and global capitalism of resource extraction. We cite the ongoing expulsion of Palestinians from their homelands by occupational forces, the emerging detritus dump across Mexico City and Lagos, the infrastructural precariousness of the favelas of Brazil, the unending resource-war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and the flagrant operation of the oil industry in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria as examples of this geographic cataclysm. The centripetal forces of neo-colonialism and resource extraction at full-flight in the Global South, aided by toxic hegemonic forces, have overtly tossed some of the population to the peripheries of existence and the society at large. As such, this book, additionally, explores the resistance of the subalterns from the margins to this socio-political malaise, and further unmasks the knowledge production from these margins of the Global South. This project is divided into five (5) parts of three essays each. The first part examines the territorial contestation in the Middle East framed and expressed through films and literary lenses. The second part examines the environmental burden of modern consumerism and urbanization on metropolis across Mexico, Brazil, and Nigeria, while the third part explores the attritional violence of resource extraction in the DRC, Brazil, and Nigeria via filmic and journalistic lenses. The fourth part offers a swift response from the margins through ethnographic and journalistic interrogation of the subjectivity of the subalterns of Brazilian favelas, and street artists. The fifth part offers an engaging critique of the political climates of South Africa and Brazil that reinforce the environmental catastrophe of the regions of the world.
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Added Author Granja do Amaral, Diego.
Obute, A. Chukwudumebi.
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Intro
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction
References
Part I: Contested Geographies of the South
Chapter 2: Naji Abu Nowar's Theeb (2014) and the Remapping of "Arabia"
Introduction
Naji Abu Nowar's Theeb
Opening Scene (00:01:12-00:06:19)
The Visitor (00:08:50-00:33:14)
"In questions of brotherhood, never refuse a guest"
Of Wolves (00:33:50-01:34:56)
Conclusion
References

Chapter 3: (Re)Visiting Place: Waters and Barriers in Lisa Suhair Majaj's Geographies of Light, Suheir Hammad's breaking poems and Annemarie Jacir's Film Salt of this Sea
Introduction
Border Crossings and Contested Territorialities
Breaking Walls, Breaking Waters, breaking poems
Performing Resistance
References
Chapter 4: Puzzling Memories: Scattered Glimpses of a Journey to the (Un-homely) Land
Introduction
Landing in Nazareth
The Land as Testimony
A Never-Ending Tragedy-The Quotidian Nakba
Conclusion
References

Part II: Metropolis of Waste, Ruins, and Dystopia
Chapter 5: The Visual Landscape of Waste in Mexico City: Initial Approaches
Introduction
Mexico City: Six Million Men Strewn Among the Garbage
Spatial Dimensions
Landscapes of Recycling
Final Considerations
References
Chapter 6: Lagos in Motion: Trailing the Environmental Ruins of Urbanization
Introducing Lagos: A City on the Move
Welcome to Lagos: How Does It Really Work Here?
Lagos and Its Environmental Ethos of Destruction
Inhabiting Lagos: A Squalid City of Modernity
References

Chapter 7: Sertão Through Narratives: The Invention of Dystopian Geography
Introduction
Sertão and Canudos Emerge
A Dystopian Geography
Press Reinforces the Marks: Cinema Explores Other Sertões
References
Part III: Post-Extraction Environment of the South
Chapter 8: Colonization, Resource Extraction, and War in Blood Diamond
Introduction
The Politics of Resource Extraction in Blood Diamond
Colonizing the Country: Nature, "Africans," and the White Man
Conclusion
References

Chapter 9: Building Fluid Spaces: The Narrative Power of Uncertainty in Journalism Analysis
Introduction
Journalism and Narrative: Complementary Notions
Apprehension and Reality Constructions
Legitimacy of the Place of Speech of Journalism
Gaps of Fact, (Post)Truths, and Flexibilities
Building Fluid Spaces: Narratives of Uncertainties to Rethink Approaches to Journalism
Final Considerations
References
Chapter 10: Resistance from the Global South: Nigerian Press Coverage of Bonga Oil Spill Controversy
Introduction
Nigeria's Resource-Curse

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