Del i serien Global Media and Race

Digital Activism in the Mexican Nations

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Resistance, Catharsis, Transformation

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

AvDavid S. Dalton

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Digital Activism in the Mexican Nations analyzes Mexico's rich history of digital activism, which is among the most vibrant of any country in the Hispanic world. The book begins with a discussion of the Zapatista uprising of 1994—which is widely understood as the first digital social movement in the history of the world—and ends with a discussion of the digital strategies of migrant communities trekking through Mexico into the present.Conceptualizing (digital) activism as a type of performance, the book opens a dialogue with Brecht's binary of cathartic and transformative performance. As such, it suggests that activist movements centered on expressive manifestations of emotion tend to stifle a social movement's revolutionary potential by stifling their ability to resonate with potential allies outside their community. At the same time, it argues that the most successful digital social movements seek strategies to build connections with allies who can help them to shift state policy.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-09-08
Mått156 x 235 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieGlobal Media and Race
Antal sidor222
FörlagRutgers University Press
ISBN9781978847774

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Introduction: From the Day Without Mexicans Strike to #YoSoy132: Social Movements and Digital Activism in the Mexican Nations Part 1 Internal Nations: Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Others 1 From the EZLN to the Digital Zapatistas: Transnational Alliances and Transformative Performance 2 Digital Feminism in Mexico: #MeToo, #NiUnaMás, #NiUnaMenos, and Cristina Rivera Garza's El invencible verano de Liliana Part 2 Migrant Nations: Foreign Actors in and from Mexico 3 Of DREAMers and the DREAMer Diaspora: Activist Organizations, NGOs, and Digital Performance 4 Migrant Nations in Mexico: Digital Community-Building in the Central American and Haitian Diasporas in Tijuana Conclusion: From Valor por Tamaulipas to Obbatala Collantes and LGBTQ Rights: Expanding the Scope of Digital Activism in the Mexican Nations Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index