Giraffes and bonsais: independent publishers in Argentina and Brazil (1991-2015)

Author(s)

José de Souza Muniz Júnior

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2016-08-17

Examining board members

Sergio Miceli Pessoa de Barros; Alejandro Raul Blanco; Mayra Rodrigues Gomes; Luiz Carlos Jackson; Fernando Antonio Pinheiro Filho

• Advisor: Sergio Miceli Pessoa de Barros

Abstract

In recent decades, the so-called \"independent\" symbolic producers have increased their presence in the public space. This adjective began to function as a criterion of distinction, summarizing ways of intellectual and political intervention that describe and prescribe certain styles of cultural production. This thesis addresses the development of a debate on \"independent\" publishers, publishing houses, books and publications on a transnational scale, as well as its specificities in Brazil and Argentina. The intellectual materials, collective bodies and sectoral and public policies on this universe were studied. The public appearance of the notion of \"independent\" publishing is discussed, as well as the social and institutional position of the agents engaged in its definition, diffusion, adoption or rejection. The purpose was to understand which meanings this classification category assumes, to which ideological, aesthetic and political positions it refers in each case, and to which social conditions the differences and similarities among the cases studied can be attributed. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 12/20130-3 - Changes ín the Brazilian and Argentinian publishing fields: practices and representations from the independent publishers (1991-2010)
• Grantee: José de Souza Muniz Júnior
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate