Favela Media Activism: Counterpublics For Human Rights In Brazil

This book is an in-depth ethnographic and interdisciplinary study about how young people engage in media activism in impoverished and violence-ridden favelas in Rio de Janeiro. It analyzes uses of media and mobilization for struggles for human rights and social change in contexts of racial and social inequalities and discrimination.

• | Author: Leonardo Custódio
• | Publisher: Lexington Books
• | Publication Date: Jul 24, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 236 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/History
• | ISBN-10: 1498529992
• | ISBN-13: 9781498529990