Of Rhizomes and Radio: Networking Indigenous Community Media in Oaxaca, Mexico

dc.contributor.advisorHindery, Derrick
dc.contributor.authorMyers, Emily
dc.date.accessioned2016-11-21T16:57:54Z
dc.date.available2016-11-21T16:57:54Z
dc.date.issued2016-11-21
dc.description.abstractIn the face of a shifting political climate in Latin America, movements for indigenous rights and autonomy are leveraging community media in new ways transcending the state-market binary. Through ethnographic research with Zapotec media producers in Oaxaca and the supportive organizations forming points of connection between radios and activists, I argue that the strength of the indigenous community media movement in Oaxaca, and its potential to build a movement to resist destructive state and market forces, is best explained by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattariā€™s concept of the rhizome, which portrays Oaxacan indigenous media as a map of heterogeneous interconnections defying structural hierarchies and binaries. With this picture of a rhizomatic media movement, I demonstrate how radios have paved the way for innovations, revealing creative ways that indigenous groups are connecting with each other and the outside world, while asserting agency in their interactions with the market and the state.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/20700
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US
dc.subjectIndigenousen_US
dc.subjectMediaen_US
dc.subjectMexicoen_US
dc.subjectRadioen_US
dc.titleOf Rhizomes and Radio: Networking Indigenous Community Media in Oaxaca, Mexico
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of International Studies
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.A.

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