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Precarious Publishing in Latin America: Relations, meaning and community in movement

拉丁美洲不稳定的出版业：运动中的关系、意义和社区

基本信息

批准号：
AH/P005675/1
负责人：
Lucy Bell
金额：
$ 25.77万
依托单位：
University of Surrey
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2017 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FP005675%2F1
关键词：
Precarious Publishing Latin America Relations

项目摘要

This project focuses on a contemporary publishing phenomenon that lies at the intersection between cultural trend and social movement, artistic intervention and community environmental project. Known in Latin America as editoriales cartoneras (or catadoras in Brazil), the phenomenon is often translated as 'cardboard publishing', because one feature that unites the diverse publishing projects is the material from which they make their books: recycled cardboard. Yet the term 'cartonera' encompasses far more than the English word 'cardboard'. It is also a reference to the cartonero figure - the cardboard collector or waste picker, a product of economic crisis and unemployment - that was so central in the formation of the first cartonera publishing organisation Eloisa Cartonera in Buenos Aires (2003). It was from cartoneros that Eloisa's founding artists and writers gained inspiration and purchased cardboard, and it was with them that they set up a productive publishing workshop that has since published around 200 titles. Editoriales cartoneras might thus also be translated as 'waste-picking publishers'. Some of them, like Eloisa and Dulcineia (São Paulo), continue to work directly with waste-pickers. Many others, though, have recycled the idea, and adapted it to different local contexts, communities and social needs: some work with groups of school children from deprived areas, others with indigenous communities, to name just two examples. What underpins these divergent, fragmented projects, however, is the shared notion of working productively and creatively from a situation of precariousness - material, social, political, economic and/or environmental. In this comparative study of cartoneras from Brazil and Mexico, we explore 'precarious publishing' in its two closely inter-related guises: an artistic trend and a social movement. In methodological terms, this requires a transnational, interdisciplinary approach that analyses the projects simultaneously as a collection of artistic texts and objects (through literary analysis) and a set of production methods, everyday interactions, organizational logics and social networks oriented toward social transformation (through ethnographic fieldwork). This project makes a number of contributions to research across different humanities and social science disciplines. From sociological and anthropological perspectives, it explores the ways in which theories of social movements can be productively broadened out to include - or dialogue with - phenomena that, like cartoneras, are not only artistic in character, but also fragmentary, fragile and precarious in nature. From a literary angle, it fills a significant gap in research: though these publishers have attracted attention from scholars and journalists since 2003, their focus has largely been on the unusual ways in which they publish (organizational structures and processes), leaving the literary form and content of the books untouched. Our project explores how the content and form of the books (as literary, philosophical or political texts and as art objects) play a key part in creating new relations, communities and meaning. Finally, our innovative use of interdisciplinary methods makes this a ground-breaking study for scholars approaching similarly complex movements that are emerging worldwide in response to increasingly precarious economic, social and environmental conditions. Beyond academia, our project is designed to create productive international collaborations between academics, publishers, cultural promoters and library archivists, which will lead to a number of shared outputs: a series of blog posts co-written by publishers, academics and librarians; a participative exhibition in London, in which participants will contribute to a new cartonera book; and a collection of cartonera texts accessible to UK-based readers and researchers at Senate House Library, Cambridge University Library and the British Library.

这个项目聚焦于一个当代出版现象，它位于文化趋势和社会运动、艺术干预和社区环境项目之间的交叉点。这种现象在拉丁美洲被称为editoriales cartoneras（或巴西的catadoras），通常被翻译为“纸板回收”，因为将不同的出版项目联系在一起的一个特征是他们制作书籍的材料：回收纸板。然而，“cartonera”一词所包含的内容远远超过英语单词“cardboard”。这也是对cartonero人物的参考-纸板收集者或废物收集者，经济危机和失业的产物-这是第一个cartonera出版组织Eloisa Cartonera在布宜诺斯艾利斯（2003年）成立的核心。正是从cartoneros那里，Eloisa的创始艺术家和作家获得了灵感，并购买了纸板，他们与他们一起建立了一个富有成效的出版工作室，至今已出版了约200本书。因此，Editoriales cartoneras也可以被翻译为“废物收集者”。其中一些，如Eloisa和Dulcineia（圣保罗），继续直接与拾荒者合作。然而，还有许多人重新利用了这一想法，并将其适用于不同的地方背景、社区和社会需求：仅举两个例子，有些人与贫困地区的学龄儿童群体合作，另一些人与土著社区合作。然而，支撑这些不同的、支离破碎的项目的是一种共同的概念，即在物质、社会、政治、经济和/或环境不稳定的情况下富有成效和创造性地工作。在这个来自巴西和墨西哥的cartoneras的比较研究中，我们探讨了“不稳定的出版”在其两个密切相关的伪装：艺术趋势和社会运动。在方法论方面，这需要一种跨国的、跨学科的方法，将项目同时作为艺术文本和对象的集合（通过文学分析）和一套生产方法、日常互动、组织逻辑和面向社会转型的社交网络（通过民族志实地考察）进行分析。该项目为不同人文和社会科学学科的研究做出了许多贡献。从社会学和人类学的角度来看，它探讨了社会运动的理论可以有效地扩大到包括-或对话-现象，如卡托内拉，不仅是艺术的性质，但也支离破碎，脆弱和不稳定的性质。从文学的角度来看，它填补了一个重要的研究空白：虽然这些出版商自2003年以来吸引了学者和记者的注意，但他们的重点主要是他们出版的不寻常方式（组织结构和流程），而不涉及书籍的文学形式和内容。我们的项目探讨了书籍的内容和形式（作为文学，哲学或政治文本和艺术品）如何在创造新的关系，社区和意义中发挥关键作用。最后，我们创新地使用跨学科方法，使这成为一个开创性的研究学者接近类似的复杂运动，正在出现在世界各地，以应对日益不稳定的经济，社会和环境条件。在学术界之外，我们的项目旨在在学者、出版商、文化推广者和图书馆档案管理员之间建立富有成效的国际合作，这将导致一些共同的产出：由出版商、学者和图书馆管理员共同撰写的一系列博客文章;在伦敦举办的参与性展览，参与者将为一本新的cartonera书做出贡献;以及一套可供英国读者和研究人员在参议院图书馆、剑桥大学图书馆和大英图书馆查阅的卡托内拉文本。