Overview
- Provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the Global South through the prisms of media and cultural studies
- Illuminates the quotidian ruination of the Global South by global capitalist forces of resource extraction
- Explores the resistance of the subalterns from the margins against the forces of neo-colonialism
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Contested Geographies of the South
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Metropolis of Waste, Ruins, and Dystopia
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Post-Extraction Environment of the South
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Subterranean South, Cultures of Dissensus, Graffities, and Incarceration
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dumebi Obute is Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Tubingen, Germany.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mediascapes of Ruined Geographies in the Global South
Editors: Diego Granja do Amaral, A. Chukwudumebi Obute
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31590-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-31589-3Published: 16 August 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-31592-3Due: 16 September 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-31590-9Published: 15 August 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 299
Topics: Media and Communication, Film Theory, Journalism, Environmental Geography, Literary Theory