Postcolonial Piracy

Media Distribution and Cultural Production in the Global South

AvLars Eckstein,Anja Schwarz

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

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Beskrivning

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.Across the global South, new media technologies have brought about new forms of cultural production, distribution and reception. The spread of cassette recorders in the 1970s; the introduction of analogue and digital video formats in the 80s and 90s; the pervasive availability of recycled computer hardware; the global dissemination of the internet and mobile phones in the new millennium: all these have revolutionised the access of previously marginalised populations to the cultural flows of global modernity. Yet this access also engenders a pirate occupation of the modern: it ducks and deranges the globalised designs of property, capitalism and personhood set by the North. Positioning itself against Eurocentric critiques by corporate lobbies, libertarian readings or classical Marxist interventions, this volume offers a profound postcolonial revaluation of the social, epistemic and aesthetic workings of piracy. It projects how postcolonial piracy persistently negotiates different trajectories of property and self at the crossroads of the global and the local.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-10-23
Mått:142 x 218 x 24 mm
Vikt:520 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Theory for a Global Age Series
Antal sidor:312
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781472519429

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Lars Eckstein is Professor of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures Outside of Britain and the U.S. at the University of Potsdam, Germany.Anja Schwarz is Professor of Cultural Studies, University of Potsdam, Germany.

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Is piracy good or is it bad? Hundreds of articles and books have sought to answer to this question and what makes Postcolonial Piracy so important is that it ignores it altogether. Instead, these authors see piracy as spilling beyond the legal domain to give rise to sets of cultural practices that are central to the operation of media cultures in the postcolonial world. The book combines conceptual discussions of piracy and the figure of the pirate with a focus on the everyday life of cultures of copying in Mali, India, Brazil and elsewhere. It is a volume that will be widely read, not just by those interested in intellectual property, but by those interested in postcolonial media worlds and postcolonial society.

Innehållsförteckning

Series Editor’s Foreword Introduction: Towards a Postcolonial Critique of Modern PiracyPart 1 Conceptions: The Domain of Postcolonial Piracy 1 Revisiting the Pirate KingdomRavi Sundaram 2 Beyond Representation: The Figure of the PirateLawrence Liang3 On the Benefits of Piracy Volker Grassmuck4 ‘Dreaming with BRICs?’ On Piracy and Film Markets in Emerging EconomiesShujen Wang Part 2 Reflections: Reframing the Discourse of Postcolonial Piracy 5 The Paradoxes of Piracy Ramon Lobato 6 Depropriation: The Real Pirate’s Dilemma Marcus Boon 7 Keep on Copyin’ in the Free World? Genealogies of the Postcolonial Pirate Figure Kavita Philip 8 Interrogating Piracy: Race, Colonialism and OwnershipAdam Haupt Part 3 Selections: The Work of Postcolonial Piracy 9 To Kill an MC: Brazil’s New Music and its DiscontentsRonaldo Lemos 10 ‘Justice With my Own Hands’: The Serious Play of Piracy in Bolivian Indigenous Music VideosHenry Stobart 11 Money Trouble in an African Art World: Copyright, Piracy and the Politics of Culture in Postcolonial MaliRyan Thomas Skinner 12 Hacking and Difference: Reflections on Authorship in the Postcolonial Pirate Domain Satish Poduval Index