Message posted on 18/12/2019

NEW BOOK ON POLITICAL PORNOGRAPHY

Dear coleagues:

I am pleased to share a new publication.

Information below:

THE VULGARITY OF DEMOCRACY: Political Pornography, Masculinity and Politics in
Ecuador.

The Vulgarity of Democracy explores key aesthetics and affective aspects of
democracy via a visual ethnographic exploration of political pornography and
the public uses of machismo to construct agendas for popular redemption in
Guayaquil, Ecuador, during the 1980s. This period was the beginning of a
highly conflictive social process as a result of the imposition of neoliberal
policies. Its focus is on the life and work of Pancho Jaime (1946-1989), the
most controversial and widely known rock promoter and independent journalist.
Between 1984 and his assassination in 1989, Jaimes underground publications
used in-depth investigation as well as gossip, pornographic cartoons, and
obscene language to comment on democracy and the corruption of political
elites. Jaimes strategy was to denounce the conduct of powerful figures in
public office, and caricaturize their deformed bodies as indexes of their
supposedly deviant sexuality. Following contemporary and comparative
discussions on the political economy of images, and the materiality of
image-objects, X. Andrade analyzes the production, circulation, and
consumption of Pancho Jaimes political magazines, audience responses to
grotesque visual and aggressive textual discourses, and the effects of
revealing public secrets about popular understandings of politics.

https://ediciones.uniandes.edu.co/Paginas/DetalleLibro.aspx?lid=1265

https://uniandes.edu.co/en/publicacion/libro-vulgarity-democracy-political-po
rnography-masculinity-politics-ecuador

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7440/j.ctvsn3n9g

Thanks for sharing,

x.andrade
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Xavier_Andrade3/research
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Xavier Andrade | Ph.D. in Anthropology, The New School for Social Research |
Los Andes University (Colombia), Bogot | UNIANDES | Department of
Anthropology
X. Andrade is a Ph. D. in Anthropology for The New School for Social Research,
New York. Works as an Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology,
Universidad de Los Andes (Bogot, Colombia). His fields of inquiry are:
visuality, contemporary art, ethnography, and urban anthropology. He is also
the President of full dollar, inc., a company that explores the fringes
between anthropology and contemporary art.
www.researchgate.net

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Subject: [Vaneasa] Visual Anthropology M.A. at USC (Call for Applications)


The Department of Anthropology at the
University of Southern California (USC) is now accepting applications for Fall
2020 admission to the
Master of Arts
in Visual Anthropology (MVA) program. We have a rolling admissions process and
accept applications through April. However, is best to be considered in the
first rounds: applications received by January 31 will be included in the
first review for admissions.

Continuing a 30-year tradition of ethnographic documentary production, the
Center for Visual Anthropology at USC offers a Masters degree in Visual
Anthropology (MVA) that can be completed in one calendar year of full-time, or
two years of part-time study. The MVA program is open to college graduates who
have a background in anthropology, social science, cultural studies, visual
studies, film studies, documentary production and also to USC undergraduates.
We provide a scholarly environment for the study and practice of
anthropological media, and hands-on training in ethnographic research methods
and documentary production techniques (camera, sound, editing). You can follow
current MVA news on the USC Center for Visual Anthropology Facebook page
.



Founded by acclaimed anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff, best known for her
Academy Award-winning documentary Number Our Days (1976), the Center for
Visual Anthropology at USC was led from 1982-1994 by Timothy Asch, a pioneer
in incorporating ethnographic film into the practice and teaching of
anthropology. Over the Centers history, students and faculty have produced
more than 150 ethnographic documentaries. Among the distinctions garnered by
this body of work are: an Academy Award, an Academy Award nomination, a
Sundance Grand Prize, and a national broadcast on the PBS television series
POV. Learn more about the programs history in these features from our
archive:

* A New Generation of Visual Anthropologists
, USC
News, 2019
* Reel Life ,
USC Dornsife Magazine, 2011
* Visual Anthropologist in the Directors Chair
, Los
Angeles Times, 1987

More on the MVA program and application process can be found here:
https://dornsife.usc.edu/anth/masters-in-visual-anthropology/

Feel free to contact Graduate Studies Advisor, Dr. Emily Zeamer at
zeamer@usc.edu , with any questions about the MVA
program or application process.











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