En Casa: Women and Households in Post-Soviet Cuba*
- A. Pertierra
- SociologyJournal of Latin American Studies
- 1 November 2008
Abstract This paper argues that the household has become a renewed space of significance for Cuban women in the post-Soviet period. It draws from existing scholarship and ethnographic fieldwork…
Inventar: Recent Struggles and Inventions in Housing in Two Cuban Cities
- Patricio del Real, A. Pertierra
- Sociology
- 2 November 2008
Cuban cities are characterized by juxtapositions of Spanish colonial and U.S. capitalist heritage with the material and political culture of nearly fifty years of socialism; these cities have been…
Introduction Thinking about Caribbean Media Worlds
- A. Pertierra, H. Horst
- Art
- 1 March 2009
This special issue brings together cultural studies of media with current themes in Caribbean studies and anthropology. The papers were part of an interdisciplinary conference panel focused upon…
From White Nation to White Caution: Non-Indigenous Reflections on Indigenous Difference
- T. Rowse, A. Pertierra
- Political ScienceJournal of Australian studies
- 3 July 2019
ABSTRACT Based on interviews with 31 non-Indigenous Australians during 2015–2017, this article argues that there is no “typical” non-Indigenous Australian way of talking and thinking about Indigenous…
If They Show Prison Break in the United States on a Wednesday, by Thursday It Is Here
- A. Pertierra
- Political Science
- 1 September 2012
This article describes practices of informal digital media circulation emerging in urban Cuba between 2005 and 2010, drawing from interviews and ethnographic research in the city of Santiago de Cuba.…
Private pleasures
- A. Pertierra
- Business
- 1 March 2009
This article traces circuits of distribution and consumption of videocassette recorders (VCRs) and videocassettes in Cuba, which until April 2008 were not available for retail sale, and were usually…
Entertainment publics in the Philippines
- A. Pertierra
- Political Science
- 11 January 2021
Since the late 1980s, Filipino entertainment television has assumed and maintained a dominance in national popular culture, which expanded in the digital era. The media landscape into which digital…
Locating Television: Zones of Consumption
- A. Pertierra, Graeme Turner
- Sociology
- 12 December 2012
Zones of Consumption takes an important next step for television studies: it acknowledges the growing diversity of the international experience of television today in order to address the question of…
Media Cultures in Latin America
- A. Pertierra, J. Salazar, Sebastián Martín Valdez
- Political ScienceMedia Cultures in Latin America
- 5 September 2019
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