Taking Form, Making Worlds : : Cartonera Publishers in Latin America / / Alex Ungprateeb Flynn, Lucy Bell, Patrick O'Hare.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• VerfasserIn: Bell, Lucy,; Flynn, Alex Ungprateeb,; O'Hare, Patrick,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (339 p.) :; one 16-page color insert, 49 b&w photos
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; A Note on Translation --; Introduction --; CHAPTER 1 Histories: Tracing Trajectories of Resistance --; CHAPTER 2 Methods: Trans- Formal Research for Transformational Practice --; CHAPTER 3 Texts: Cartonera Literature in Action --; CHAPTER 4 Encounters: Existence as Resistance and Sites of Plurality --; CHAPTER 5 Workshops: Cardboard and the Material Sociality of Practice --; CHAPTER 6 Exhibitions: An Artistic Proposition to Reorder the Social --; Conclusion --; Works Cited --; About the Authors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781477324974; 9783110993899; 9783110994810; 9783110993752; 9783110993738; 9783110766516
• DOI: 10.7560/324950
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Alex Ungprateeb Flynn, Lucy Bell, Patrick O'Hare.

A publishing phenomenon and artistic project, cartonera was born in the wake of Argentina’s 2001 economic crisis. Infused with a rebellious spirit, it has exploded in popularity, with hundreds of publishers across Latin America and Europe making colorful, low-cost books out of cardboard salvaged from the street. Taking Form, Making Worlds is the first comprehensive study of cartonera. Drawing on interdisciplinary research conducted across Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina, the authors show how this hands-on practice has fostered a politically engaged network of writers, artists, and readers. More than a social movement, cartonera uses texts, workshops, encounters, and exhibitions to foster community and engagement through open-ended forms that are at once artistic and social. For various groups including waste-pickers, Indigenous communities, rural children, and imprisoned women, cartonera provides a platform for unique stories and sparks collaborations that bring the walls of the “lettered city” tumbling down. In contexts of stigma and exclusion, cartonera collectives give form to a decolonial aesthetics of resistance, making possible a space of creative experimentation through which plural worlds can be brought to life.