Papers by Juan Francisco Salazar
Global indigenous media: Cultures, …, 2008
El mito de Peribo (1988), based on Yanomami mythology and produced by a university student, Félix... more El mito de Peribo (1988), based on Yanomami mythology and produced by a university student, Félix Nakamura. 5. For a description of Frota's film, see Communication Initiative 2002. See also Frota nd 6. See the Centro de Trabalho Indigenista Web site at www. ...
Anthropologies and Futures
The Polar Journal
This issue of The Polar Journal is coming out at the waning of a tumultuous year in world politic... more This issue of The Polar Journal is coming out at the waning of a tumultuous year in world politics, still early into an already turbulent Trump administration that has seen the US pull out of the Paris Agreement and UNESCO. It was a year that in any case is perhaps best captured by the World Meteorological Organisation's report, 1 which states that we have surpassed our understanding of our changing climate and have stepped into new "uncharted territory". Uncharted territory is certainly a useful analogy for describing a new stage of corporate and state endeavours towards a new era in off-Earth exploration. 2 It was in 2017 that NASA discovered a record number of exoplanets located in circumstellar human habitability zones to a sun; Australia announced the creation of a new national space agency; Ghana launched its first satellite; SpaceX successfully launched its twelfth Commercial Resupply Services mission; and China turned an important page in establishing its intent to become the new main player in space exploration. In relation to this last point, in May 2017 during the concluding day of the fortieth Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting in Beijing, China confirmed its plans to build its fifth scientific research station in Antarctica and that it is prepared to considerably step up its investments there. These investments are dwarfed by the Xi Jinping administration's massive investment in China's space programme and in advanced technology sectors such as robotics and artificial intelligence. Antarctica and Outer Space will no doubt test China's capacity as a global leader in the next few decades. 3 This Special Issue on Antarctica and Outer Space is materialising alongside a series of important anniversaries that speak of the intricate relational trajectories of the polar regions and Outer Space. Among the most significant of these events are the sixtieth anniversary of the start of the International Geophysical Year (IGY) on July 1, 1957 and the tenth anniversary of the last International Polar Year in 2007; the sixtieth anniversary of the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957, the first artificial Earth satellite launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit; and the fiftieth anniversary of the signing and entering into force of the Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, Including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, commonly referred to as the Outer Space Treaty, in 1967. Hence, the rationale behind the idea of this Special Issue was to mark these anniversaries with a selection of new work from the humanities, social sciences, planetary sciences and arts. It is commonly agreed that the Space Age began sixty years ago with the Soviet Union launching Sputnik 1 on 4 October 1957, an event that Hanna Arendt famously described in her chef d' oeuvre, The Human Condition, as "second in importance to no other, not even to the splitting of the atom". 4 The launch of Sputnik 1 took place as the 1957-58 IGY was just underway, during a period when many scientists were complaining that more was known about Outer Space than
Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy
Anthropology's interest in visual communication dates back more than a century, as part ... more Anthropology's interest in visual communication dates back more than a century, as part of what may be considered the rich history and legacy of visual anthropology and ethnographic film. Moreover, anthropology has always been intricately linked to new media developments from photography to early cinema (when these media were new), from documentary and cinema verité to experimental film. The increasing engagements by anthropologists in applied and public visual research and practice are a sign that ethnographic studies of the ...
Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy
This article examines the subject of digitisation of cultural knowledge in light of the new inter... more This article examines the subject of digitisation of cultural knowledge in light of the new intertextual possibilities within visual anthropology made possible by digital media. The article argues that new media present several challenges and opportunities for decolonising anthropological research through processes of documentation, visualisation and collaboration. These aspects will be examined by concentrating on a collaborative documentary video produced with the participation of indigenous Mapuche media-makers in Chile. The final product — a 48-minute documentary — was in part an attempt at testing how visual sampling and remixing of authored footage could be conceived as a novel form of collaborative storytelling in practice-based research.
Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy
The article analyses the role of the internet in informing and shaping indigenous knowledge and o... more The article analyses the role of the internet in informing and shaping indigenous knowledge and offers a critical examination of the uses of internet by Mapuche indigenous activists in Chile. It describes the ways in which the internet has been appropriated as an efficient political tool to rearticulate a renewed Mapuche cultural imaginary, constructed in the realm of the virtual but grounded in the materiality of the everyday struggle for cultural survival and ethnic recognition. Through a critical reading of several Mapuche websites hosted in Chile and Europe, the paper analyses how and why new media have been embraced as a fertile field of symbolic and political struggle. It is argued that the internet has been constructed, promoted and used as an incipient counter public sphere to the state, the national imaginary and corporate interests becoming an important mediator for the articulation of a Mapuche ‘activist imaginary’. It is demonstrated how the World Wide Web has been a key...
Handbook on the Politics of Antarctica, 2000
Environmental Humanities, 2016
Making Our Media Global Initiatives Toward a Democratic Public Sphere Volume I Creating New Communication Spaces, 2015
The Yearbook of Polar Law Online, 2015
Whilst nationalism is a recognised force globally, its framing is predicated on experience in con... more Whilst nationalism is a recognised force globally, its framing is predicated on experience in conventionally occupied parts of the world. The familiar image of angry young men waving Kalashnikovs means that the idea that nationalism might be at play in Antarctica has to overcome much instinctive resistance, as well as the tactical opposition of the keepers of the present Antarctic political arrangements. The limited consideration of nationalism in Antarctica has generally been confined to the past, particularly “Heroic-Era” and 1930s–1940s expeditions. This article addresses the formations of nationalism in the Antarctic present. Antarctic nationalism need not present in the same shape as nationalisms elsewhere to justify being called nationalism. Here it occurs in a virtual or mediated form, remote from the conventional metropolitan territories of the states and interests concerned. The key aspect of Antarctic nationalism is its contemporary form and intensity. We argue that given ...
Revista de Estudios para el Desarrollo Social de la Comunicación, 2015
emeRgenciA del teRRitoRio y comunicAción locAl Experiencias de comunicación y desarrollo sobre me... more emeRgenciA del teRRitoRio y comunicAción locAl Experiencias de comunicación y desarrollo sobre medio ambiente en Colombia 2 dad del Norte -Uninorte-, que consolidó su participación en esta investigación desde febrero de 2011. El punto de partida de este trabajo de investigación, titulado Experiencias de comunicación y desarrollo sobre medio ambiente en las regiones Amazonia, Orinoquia, Pacífico, Caribe e Insular, estaba relacionado con el interés de entender la relación comunicación-desarrollo desde experiencias que buscan la gestión y transformación social de problemáticas relacionadas con el medioambiente en las otras regiones diferentes a la Andina. Una de las primeras acciones fue revisar las lecciones generadas por el grupo durante la segunda investigación desde la lógica del ensayo-error, propia de la dinámica del aprendizaje. El abordaje teórico que orientó esta investigación está relacionado con las implicaciones entre comunicación y desarrollo y los diferentes paradigmas desde los cuales se establece la relación con el ambiente a emeRgenciA del teRRitoRio y comunicAción locAl Experiencias de comunicación y desarrollo sobre medio ambiente en Colombia 8 Redes {39-0} Interculturalidad {54-0} Educación {122-0} Políticas de comunicación y cultura {122-0} Prácticas comunicativas {23-0} Difi cultades {38-0} CF: COMUNICACIÓN-INTERACCIÓN 4 Aunque este libro corresponde de manera particular a los resultados del proyecto de investigación Experiencias de comunicación y desarrollo sobre medio ambiente en las regiones Amazonia, Orinoquia, Pacífico, Caribe e Insular, se decidió incluir para esta lectura general los resultados del mapeo realizado en la investigación Experiencias de comunicación y desarrollo sobre medio ambiente en la región Andina de Colombia, realizada por el mismo grupo de investigación (2008)(2009)(2010). La inclusión de los datos de la región Andina para la configuración de este capítulo obedece a la posibilidad de lograr una mirada nacional de las experiencias. Una mirada panorámica a las experiencias de comunicación, desarrollo y medio ambiente en Colombia 17 UBICACIÓN ESPACIO -TEMPORAL lA existenciA en el teRReno Del conjunto de experiencias que respondieron se observa que 112, es decir, el 35,3 % pertenecen a la región Andina; el 22,1 % a la región Orinoquia, es decir, 70 casos; el 16,1 % están en la región Amazonia, donde se identifi caron 51 casos; el 13,2 % a en la región Pacífi co, que en cifras absolutas corresponde a 42 experiencias, y con este mismo porcentaje se encuentran las experiencias de la región Caribe.
En C. Barrientos (ed.) Aproximaciones a la cuestión mapuche en Chile, una mirada desde la histori... more En C. Barrientos (ed.) Aproximaciones a la cuestión mapuche en Chile, una mirada desde la historia y las ciencias sociales. Santiago, Chile: RIL Editores, pp. 143-160.
In the popular imagination, circumstances and the apparent internationalism of regional governanc... more In the popular imagination, circumstances and the apparent internationalism of regional governance under the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS) undercuts any basis for nationalism in Antarctica. The containment of critical underpinnings of nationalism – around positions on territorial sovereignty and Cold-War polarities – appears the ATS' greatest achievement. However, the cost of this achievement, paradoxically, has been institutionally embedding, and privileging, the historically contingent pre-ATS nationalisms. Now, technology-enabled resource interests, the new global competitiveness, and a sense of the vulnerability of Western hegemony in Antarctica, gives new edge to these, and other, nationalisms. The new Antarctic nationalism has many legs: the formal legal stance of states in relation to territory and/or perceptions of quasi condominium rights; shrill assertions of national duties and prerogatives echoed through the popular media – sometimes with racist undertow; increasing ...
The concept of wilderness in Antarctica is an intensely political construct. Drawing upon a nomin... more The concept of wilderness in Antarctica is an intensely political construct. Drawing upon a nominally global framing of untrammelled nature and space, its roots are in a western reaction to the loss of domestic wild-ness consequential upon the industrial revolution. It also draws upon what was historically true in Antarctica: most of the place was in fact untrammelled. We reassured ourselves of our good intentions by construing the entire continent as a wilderness and, more recently, enabled it as a criteria for designating Antarctic protected areas. The “we” of this project were largely western, and the few “others” tended to say not very much. So, almost the whole construction of “wilderness” in Antarctica is western. The global, and Antarctic, order is changing. Not only are there now more “others”, but they are beginning to feel that the order should also reflect their views and interests. In turn, longer-established Antarctic states are becoming more concerned about their own s...
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