TY - JOUR
T1 - Introduction : thinking about Caribbean media worlds
AU - Pertierra, Anna Cristina
AU - Horst, Heather A.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - This special issue brings together cultural studies of media with current themes in Caribbean studies and anthropology. The papers were part of an interdisciplinary conference panel focused upon Caribbean Media Worlds. At the outset, we wanted to demonstrate that there are several specific reasons why the Caribbean makes a particularly interesting case study for examining the cultural practices, relationships, micro-political encounters and identities that surround the distribution and use of media technologies. The collection here examines media in interaction with the world of which it is part — in this case, that world is imagined as `the Caribbean'. The main goal of this introduction is to contextualize the studies by presenting key ideas within Caribbean research as a backdrop against which the conceptual and analytic frameworks which emerge in the contributors' articles can be better understood.
AB - This special issue brings together cultural studies of media with current themes in Caribbean studies and anthropology. The papers were part of an interdisciplinary conference panel focused upon Caribbean Media Worlds. At the outset, we wanted to demonstrate that there are several specific reasons why the Caribbean makes a particularly interesting case study for examining the cultural practices, relationships, micro-political encounters and identities that surround the distribution and use of media technologies. The collection here examines media in interaction with the world of which it is part — in this case, that world is imagined as `the Caribbean'. The main goal of this introduction is to contextualize the studies by presenting key ideas within Caribbean research as a backdrop against which the conceptual and analytic frameworks which emerge in the contributors' articles can be better understood.
UR - https://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:59336
U2 - 10.1177/1367877908099494
DO - 10.1177/1367877908099494
M3 - Article
SN - 1460-356X
SN - 1367-8779
VL - 12
SP - 99
EP - 111
JO - International Journal of Cultural Studies
JF - International Journal of Cultural Studies
IS - 2
ER -