Postcolonial Piracy
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Postcolonial Piracy

Media Distribution and Cultural Production in the Global South

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Postcolonial Piracy

Media Distribution and Cultural Production in the Global South

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Theory for Global Age
  2. Title
  3. Contents 
  4. Series Editor’s Foreword
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. List of Contributors
  7. Introduction: Towards a Postcolonial Critique of Modern Piracy
  8. Part 1 Conceptions: The Domain of Postcolonial Piracy
  9. 1 Revisiting the Pirate Kingdom Ravi Sundaram
  10. 2 Beyond Representation: The Figure of the Pirate Lawrence Liang
  11. 3 On the Benefits of Piracy Volker Grassmuck
  12. 4 ‘Dreaming with BRICs?’ On Piracy and Film Markets in Emerging Economies Shujen Wang
  13. Part 2 Reflections: Reframing the Discourse of Postcolonial Piracy
  14. 5 The Paradoxes of Piracy Ramon Lobato
  15. 6 Depropriation: The Real Pirate’s Dilemma Marcus Boon
  16. 7 Keep on Copyin’ in the Free World? Genealogies of the Postcolonial Pirate Figure Kavita Philip
  17. 8 Interrogating Piracy: Race, Colonialism and Ownership Adam Haupt
  18. Part 3 Selections: The Work of Postcolonial Piracy
  19. 9 To Kill an MC: Brazil’s New Music and its Discontents Ronaldo Lemos
  20. 10 ‘Justice With my Own Hands’: The Serious Play of Piracy in Bolivian Indigenous Music Videos Henry Stobart
  21. 11 Money Trouble in an African Art World: Copyright, Piracy and the Politics of Culture in Postcolonial Mali Ryan Thomas Skinner
  22. 12 Hacking and Difference: Reflections on Authorship in the Postcolonial Pirate Domain Satish Poduval
  23. Index
  24. Copyright