Movement in Print: Migrations and Political Articulations in Grassroots Publishing

Rabasa, Magalí

doi:10.1080/13569325.2016.1272445

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“…In what follows, we build on existing work on cartoneras by the likes of Bilbija and Carbajal (2009), Epplin (2009, 2014), Palmeiro (2011), Schwartz (2018) and Rabasa (2019), delving further into Epplin’s question: ‘what are the possible, and what are better, ways of doing and making assemblages of social life today?’ (2009: 68–9). Beyond cartoneras, Rabasa (2017: 36), in the context of grassroots presses in Argentina and Bolivia, asks: ‘what is the potential of the rhizomatic networks of grassroots presses – and the broader political circuits they emerge from and engage – to disrupt or even destabilize existing hierarchies of power and knowledge in the continent?’ In the Brazilian context of the sem-teto squatters’ movement, Melo (2010: 8) argues that ‘the multiplicity of tactics that constituted this transversal practice [. .…”

Section: Theories and Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Latin American politics underground: Networks, rhizomes and resistance in cartonera publishing

Bell

O’Hare

2019

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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Cartonera publishing emerged in post-crisis Buenos Aires with the birth of Eloísa cartonera (2003), whose founders proposed a radically new model of making books out of recycled cardboard, purchased from, and made with, cartoneros (waste-pickers). Since then, this model has been adapted across Latin America by an ever-growing number of collectives (currently around 250). In this article we ask: What relations and/or networks have enabled this model of underground cultural production to grow on such a scale? What modalities of resistance do they enable? Our contention is that Deleuze and Guattari’s theory of rhizomes helps in understanding the ways in which cartoneras work, network and spread. Examining texts and practices across Argentina, Mexico and Brazil through literary analysis and ethnography, we make a case for the political significance of cartonera networks and, more broadly, the possibilities afforded by rhizomatic formations for emerging modes of micro-political action and transnational cultural activism.

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Section: Theories and Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%