{"product_id":"taking-form-making-worlds-lucy-bell-9781477324950","title":"Taking Form, Making Worlds: Cartonera Publishers in Latin America","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2023 LASA Visual Culture Studies Section Book Prize, Latin American Studies Association (LASA) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The first comprehensive study of cartonera, a vibrant publishing phenomenon born in Latin America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eTaking Form, Making Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lucy Bell, Alex Ungprateeb Flynn, Patrick O'Hare\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 147732495X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781477324950\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/07\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.49lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.30d","brand":"Lucy Bell","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44057696927999,"sku":"9781477324950","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_87880f17-7afa-49bc-95af-2ba4b67add1e.jpg?v=1685048425","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/taking-form-making-worlds-lucy-bell-9781477324950","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}