Taking form, making worlds : cartonera publishers in Latin America / Lucy Bell, Alex Ungprateeb Flynn, Patrick O'Hare.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bell, Lucy, 1986- author.

Flynn, Alex (Anthropologist), author.

O'Hare, Patrick, author.

Series:

William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere

The William and Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cartonera books--Publishing--Latin America.

Cartonera books.

Cartonera books--Publishing--Social aspects--Latin America.

Cartonera books--Latin America.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

xvi, 303 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2022.

Summary:

"Cartoneras are community-based publishing collectives that make low-cost books out of waste materials in contexts where paperbacks can cost over a month's minimum wage. The first of its kind, Eloísa Cartonera, was born in Buenos Aires in the aftermath of the 2001 economic crisis. As many families lost work, many turned to other ways of supporting their families by picking through trash for objects to recycle, including cardboard. The founding members of Eloísa began to buy cardboard from these cartoneras with the idea of using it to create hand-painted books (typically priced for the middle class and higher in Latin America) at an affordable price. Cartoneras have their own specific aesthetics, much like zines in the US and Europe, while also finding ways to experiment with, and potentially break down, some social markers between and social institutions and systems"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Histories : tracing trajectories of resistance

Methods : trans-formal research for transformational practice

Texts : cartonera literature in action

Encounters : existence as resistance and sites of plurality

Workshops : cardboard and the material sociality of practice

Exhibitions : an artistic proposition to reorder the social.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-286) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Bell, Lucy, 1986- Taking form, making worlds.

ISBN:

9781477324950

147732495X

9781477324967

1477324968

OCLC:

1253439129