[ecrea] Latin American Media & Changing Cities: Power, Inequality & Representation

Please see below a one day symposium on Latin American Media and 
Changing Cities at Loughborough University (London campus) organised by 
my colleague, Dr Patria Roman.

Loughborough University’s Institute for Media & Creative Industries and 
the Institute for Advanced Studies are organising a seminar on ‘Latin 
American Media & Changing Cities: Power, Inequality & Representation’ on 
20th June 2018 from 14:00-17:00 (description below). Please note that 
the seminar will be held in the London campus. You are all welcome to 
attend. The event is free with refreshments provided, but please book 
your place in advance (via this link 
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/latin-american-media-changing-cities-power-inequality-representation-tickets-46657731531) 
for catering purposes.

DESCRIPTION:
The purpose of this workshop on urban inequalities and media spaces is 
to challenge the geographical and media centric focus currently 
dominating most urban communication research, whereby the relationship 
between communication, media and places is mostly approached in terms of 
representation rather than as experiences that are politically charged. 
Our first speaker Jessica Retis will be talking about changing media 
production landscapes in global cities and the latinization of US media. 
Whilst Alejandra Garcia Vargas asks: What does it mean to be placed at 
the margins, both physically and emotionally? What is the relationship 
between borders, migration, periphery, and senses of the city in a 
highly deterritorialised and politicised media and social experience? 
Finally, our third speaker, Patria Roman-Velazquez looks at expressions 
of Latin Urbanism under contexts of regeneration as a strategic tool for 
opposing and reshaping urban spaces in London. Drawing a range of 
theoretical frameworks in a long tradition of Latin American urban 
communication research the speakers will address these questions from a 
dialogic and intersectional perspective.

Latin American spaces are not confined to the geographical boundaries 
that define the geo-political region. The construction of Latin American 
diasporic spaces is equally important for us in this dialogue across 
Latin American cities. It is a personal and political position that we 
as academics based across three very different geo-political territories 
(London, UK; Los Angeles, USA; and Jujuy, ARGENTINA) have had to 
confront on a daily basis. The contexts of our work, from the 
metropolitan experiences of diasporic cities to the peripheral cities in 
Latin America, have allowed us to bring different perspectives to the 
study of urban communication research in the global north and vice versa.

SPEAKERS & PAPERS

Dr. Jessica Retis (California State University Northridge, USA) - 
Mapping Latino media in U.S. global cities: rethinking immigration and 
mobility in times of crisis
Jessica Retis is an Associate Professor of Journalism and communications 
at California State University Northridge. She earned a Bachelors Degree 
in Communications from Universidad de Lima, Peru; a Masters in Latin 
American Studies from Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico; and a 
Ph.D. in Contemporary Latin America from Universidad Complutense de 
Madrid, Spain. Her research interests include international migration, 
diasporas and the media; ethnic media in global cities; political 
economy of media and information; U.S. Latino and Latin American 
cultural industries; Latinos and the media in North America (USA), 
Europe  (Spain and UK) and Asia (Japan). Her work has been published in 
several academic publications in Latin America, Europe and North 
America. She is the co-editor of The Handbook of Diaspora, Media and 
Culture (forthcoming).

Dr. Alejandra García Vargas (Universidad Nacional de Jujuy & Universidad 
Nacional de Salta, ARGENTINA) - City Senses: Space, Power and 
Inequalities in Jujuy`s Audio-Visual Narratives (2011-2015)
Alejandra Garcia Vargas holds a PhD from Universidad Nacional de Córdoba 
(Argentina). She is Professor of Communication, Culture and Society at 
Universidad Nacional de Jujuy and Universidad Nacional de Salta and 
Co-Director of The Centre for Social Equality Development Studies 
(CESDE, FCE, UNJu / CLACSO). Currently she is directing the research 
project: “Intersecciones, dinámicas y fragmentos: figuras del espacio 
noroestino. Configuraciones culturales, desigualdad y poder en procesos 
comunicacionales contemporáneos”, and Co-Investigator for the research 
project: “Políticas de Comunicación y Cultura. Un estudio desde la 
relación entre Estado, poder y medios”. She is the author of numerous 
publications in the area of Sociology of Communication with particular 
focus on power, inequality and difference in the production of social 
space in the North East of Argentina.

Dr. Patria Roman-Velazquez (Loughborough University, UK): Latin Urbanism 
in London: The identity politics of reshaping urban spaces and 
contesting gentrification
Patria Roman-Velazquez Senior Lecturer in Media and Creative Industries 
at Loughborough University. Patria specialises in sociology and 
communication and has an interest in urban communication, migrant and 
ethnic economies and urban regeneration. Her research is framed around 
theories of globalisation, cities, place and identity mainly through 
ethnographic research with Latin Americans in London. Her current 
research interrogates the impact of urban regeneration and urban 
planning policy frameworks for London's migrant and ethnic economies. 
Patria is the author of the book The Making of Latin London: Salsa 
Music, Place and Identity (1999), and has published articles in a number 
of journals and edited collections.


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