9. The Search for Well-Being: Placing Development with Indigenous Identity

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction: Indigeneity and Indigenous Media on the Global Stage 1
5. Part I: From poetics to politics: Indigenous media aesthetics and style
6. 1. Imperfect Media and the Poetics of Indigenous Video in Latin America 39
7. 2. ‘‘Lest Others Speak for Us’’: The Neglected Roots and Uncertain Future of Maori Cinema in New Zealand 58
8. 3. Cache: Provisions and Productions in Contemporary Igloolik Video 74
9. 4. Indigenous Animation: Educational Programming, Narrative Interventions, and Children’s Cultures 89
10. Part II: Indigenous activism, advocacy, and empowerment through media
11. 5. Media as Our Mirror: Indigenous Media of Burma (Myanmar) 111
12. 6. Transistor Resistors: Native Women’s Radio in Canada and the Social Organization of Political Space from Below 128
13. 7. Weaving a Communication Quilt in Colombia: Civil Conflict, Indigenous Resistance, and Community Radio in Northern Cauca 145
14. 8. Outside the Indigenous Lens: Zapatistas and Autonomous Videomaking 160
15. Part III: Cultural identity, preservation, and community-building through media
16. 9. The Search for Well-Being: Placing Development with Indigenous Identity 183
17. 10. ‘‘To Breathe Two Airs’’: Empowering Indigenous Sámi Media 197
18. 11. Indigenous Media as an Important Resource for Russia’s Indigenous Peoples 214
19. 12. Indigenous Minority-Language Media: s4c, Cultural Identity, and the Welsh-Language Televisual Community 232
20. Part IV: New technologies, timeless knowledges: Digital and interactive media
21. 13. Recollecting Indigenous Thinking in a CD-ROM 253
22. 14. Digital Tools and the Management of Australian Aboriginal Desert Knowledge 270
23. 15. Rethinking the Digital Age 287
24. References 307
25. About the Contributors 335
26. Index 341