Título:

Mediating indigenous identity: video, advocacy, and knowledge in Oaxaca, Mexico

Autor:

SMITH Laurel Catherine

Editor:

University of Kentucky

Fecha:

2005

Tipo:

Tesis

Formato:

433p.

Idioma:

en

Descripción:

USA

In the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, many indigenous communities further their struggles for greater political and cultural autonomy by working with transnational non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Communication technology (what I call comtech) is increasingly vital to these intersecting socio-spatial relations of activism and advocacy. In this dissertation, I examine how comtech offer indigenous individuals and organizations with the means for visualizing their political-cultural agendas. Approaching the access and use of comtech, especially video technologies, as a partial and situated technoscience, I inquire into how and why these activities reconfigure the production and evaluation of authoritative knowledge about indigenous peoples, places, and practices. More specifically, I undertook an organizational ethnography of a small intermediary NGO comprised of individuals who self-identify as indigenous and others who do not, Ojo de Agua Comunicación Indígena, which endeavors to place communication technologies (especially video equipment) at the disposal of indigenous communities.

Materia:

Identidad

Video

Cognición

Organización

Investigación cualitativa

Fuente:

PhD Thesis