American Cultural Studies Research Articles

Para una teoría del arte en Historia y estilo, de Jorge Mañach by Yaneidys Arencibia Coloma

Reviewed by: Para una teoría del arte en Historia y estilo, de Jorge Mañach by Yaneidys Arencibia Coloma Christina García Arencibia Coloma, Yaneidys. Para una teoría del arte en Historia y estilo, de Jorge Mañach. A Contracorriente, 2018. 110 pp. Yaneidys Arencibia Coloma's engagement with Jorge Mañach's early-to-mid-twentieth century essays will be of particular interest to Latin American Cultural Studies scholars and intellectual historians of Cuba's Republican era. While Jorge Mañach is already regarded as one of Cuba's most important thinkers, Arencibia Coloma effectively makes the case for considering his essays as models of multidisciplinary praxis and formulating theory from the contextual specificity of the region. For those committed to thinking Latin American culture and history from a situated vantage point, through its vernacular tropes and, thereby, bypassing hegemonic European paradigms, Mañach's essays, as shown by Arencibia Coloma, merit attention beyond a Cuban literary canon. Specifically, Arencibia Coloma's intervention in the scholarship on Mañach is to consider a collection of four essays published in a volume titled Historia y estilo from 1944, as contributing to the discipline of Art Historical theory. Whereas Arnold Hauser is credited for being the first to argue for a sociological approach to art in 1951, Jorge Mañach had articulated an interdependence between art and society seven years prior. Again, for Latin American Cultural Studies scholars who privilege the authority of autochthonous intellectuals, Mañach's sociological art theories articulated through the literary genre of the essay not only provide an alternative to US and European criticism, but also demonstrate that Cultural Studies methods in Latin America predated those of Britain and the US. In her introduction, Arencibia Coloma explains that, while scholars have attended to the individual essays compiled in Historia y estilo, alongside other works of Mañach devoted to particular cultural manifestations, the 1944 volume as a whole has not been carefully studied. Consequently, previous readers have missed Mañach's singular contribution to art historical theory. From the island's colonial past to his present, Mañach traces artistic trends in tandem with the island's geography, institutions, forms of government, minor and major political events, and, especially, to stages in the nation-building project. What he formulates is a processional evolution of styles as both constituted and constitutive of historical circumstance. Arencibia Coloma later notes that, for contemporary readers, such a relationship between art and its sociopolitical context is taken as a given. However, in the first half of the twentieth century, Eurocentric discourses and periodizations dominated; these discourses tended to focus on form, as having its own internal raison d'être and linear chronology, or iconography, privileging correlations with texts such as [End Page 293] the Bible and Greco-Roman mythology. Ultimately, Mañach succeeds in understanding the trajectory of Cuban art styles in relation to its academies and immediate historical climate, that is, as a process and not a phenomenon. Practicing an Electivist philosophy, Mañach was not tethered to any one ideology and selected concepts from a variety of thinkers and discourses. In this respect, together with his multidisciplinarity, Arencibia Coloma argues that Mañach further escapes Eurocentric models and their presumed inherent theorems. Significantly, Mañach drew from the historiography of the Longue Durée, Emile Durkheim's notions of societal integration and collective consciousness, Herbert Spencer's evolutionism and aggregates, and Oswald Spengler's notion of cultures as discrete organisms with souls. While positivist historians focused on the facticity of documents, the dates of battles and the names of generals, the Longue Durée historiographers set their sights on much longer, wholistic processes. As Arencibia Coloma explains, in Mañach's dense cultural essays the binary between politics and aesthetics collapses and a single literary work is considered a more efficacious synthesis of the era's zeitgeist than a heap of government documents. Drawing from Durkheim, Spencer, and Spengler (among others), Mañach elaborates various stages in the evolution of the nation, like the maturation of a larger subjectivity, imbued with a consciousness. For Mañach, what he describes as initially an amorphous aggregate eventually becomes a...

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Announcement| December 01 2019 Announcements American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 922–924. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7917526 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Announcements. American Literature 1 December 2019; 91 (4): 922–924. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7917526 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsAmerican Literature Search Advanced Search American Literature and Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities invite submissions for a joint special issue titled “The Infrastructure of Emergency,” coedited by John Levi Barnard, Stephanie Foote, Jessica Hurley, and Jeffrey Insko. This joint special issue aims to draw together scholars of American literary and cultural studies with others working across the environmental humanities to trace the long histories and possible futures of infrastructure under conditions of planetary ecological emergency, with a particular focus on the infrastructures of empire and capital and the local and global environmental ramifications of their historical unfolding. Areas of interest include but are not limited to energy and resource extraction, delivery, and consumption; shipping, air traffic, roads, canals, railroads, highways, and the networks of commerce; agriculture, food production, and the rendering of animal capital; waste management, garbage, and recycling; the infrastructures of global health, epidemics, and epidemiology; infrastructures of urban spaces, including public... Issue Section: Announcements You do not currently have access to this content.

Shilpa Davé, Leilani Nishime, and Tasha Oren (eds.), Global Asian American Popular Cultures

Global Asian American Popular Cultures expands the discussion initiated in the editors’ first volume, East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture, published a decade earlier. Exploring an impressively wide range of media forms and privileging a stimulating interdisciplinary critical approach, the twenty-two essays collected here thoughtfully address questions that remain pivotal to Asian American cultural studies: “How do we engage with culture? How do Asian Americans continue to influen...

Introduction: Digital changes in Latin American cinemas

This article introduces the dossier of the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies devoted to the study of digital cinema in Latin America. First, the text addresses the lack of research on the history of digital cinema in Latin America. Then, it proposes a comprehensive analysis of the digital, in terms of film aesthetics, production, distribution, exhibition, and consumption. At the same time, it establishes a dual axis to account for the changes and continuities generated by digital technology in temporal and spatial terms, within both sub- and supra-national logics. In this way, it emphasises the need to understand digital cinema as connected with previous technological and cultural phenomena such as analogue cinema or magnetic video. It also acknowledges that digital cinema is an extension of several local and global economic and industrial processes that different countries have negotiated in diverse and, at times, antagonistic fashions. Lastly, the article presents the five articles included in this dossier, and a sixth, shorter piece that functions as a critical response to the arguments and points addressed by the contributors.

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Announcement| September 01 2019 Announcements American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 687–689. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7890244 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Announcements. American Literature 1 September 2019; 91 (3): 687–689. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7890244 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsAmerican Literature Search Advanced Search American Literature and Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities invite submissions for a joint special issue titled “The Infrastructure of Emergency,” coedited by John Levi Barnard, Stephanie Foote, Jessica Hurley, and Jeffrey Insko. This joint special issue aims to draw together scholars of American literary and cultural studies with others working across the environmental humanities to trace the long histories and possible futures of infrastructure under conditions of planetary ecological emergency, with a particular focus on the infrastructures of empire and capital and the local and global environmental ramifications of their historical unfolding. Areas of interest include but are not limited to energy and resource extraction, delivery, and consumption; shipping, air traffic, roads, canals, railroads, highways, and the networks of commerce; agriculture, food production, and the rendering of animal capital; waste management, garbage, and recycling; the infrastructures of global health, epidemics, and epidemiology; infrastructures of urban spaces, including public... You do not currently have access to this content.

Creating hybrid scientific knowledge and practice: the Jesuit and Guaraní cultivation of yerba mate

ABSTRACTThe drinking of yerba mate tea has become a common symbol of southern South American culture and many studies have explored the economic and social history of yerba mate in Argentina, Paraguay, and southern Brazil. The consumption of yerba mate has its roots in Guaraní culture and practice, and, at the time of European contact, the Guaraní had developed effective practices of harvesting and processing the leaves. The tree is native to different forest types of the Rio de la Plata Basin and its exploitation by the Spanish occurred mainly through natural forest stands from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. Nevertheless, the Jesuit missionaries in colonial Paraguay successfully developed the technology to plant yerba mate in forest stands around the mission towns. This not only stabilized their production but also represented the domination of European scientific knowledge and practice on the untamed wilderness of the Rio de la Plata Basin. This article examines how Jesuit discourse surrounding the invention of this technology masks the very active participation of the Guaraní in developing and testing this scientific practice. The process of cultivation and “civilization” of the wild environment and people of the Americas by the Jesuits was not one sided, but it was rather a hybrid construction of knowledge and technology that actively involved both the Guaraní and the Jesuit Fathers, creating new knowledge and understandings of the forest environment.

Nas margens, uma crítica

Fazendo das relações entre cultura e política um ato de cumplicidade, Beatriz Sarlo é um dos nomes que mais se destacam no cenário da crítica literária argentina e, principalmente, nos debates do que se convencionou chamar de estudos culturais latino-americanos. Nascida em 1942 em Buenos Aires, e descendente de famílias imigrantes, Beatriz Sarlo se graduou em Letras pela Universidade de Buenos Aires no ano 1966, quando tem início a ditadura militar argentina. Durante o regime autoritário, à margem da universidade e de uma formação acadêmica continuada, desenvolveu atividades em grupos editoriais e em revistas de crítica literária e cultural, espaços “alternativos” que foram decisivos em sua formação intelectual.

Deafness and Ethnic Identity: The Idea of a Deaf State and its Resonances with American Exceptionalism and Frontier Ideology

Abstract This article focuses on the nineteenth century as a pivotal time for the development of a Deaf identity in the United States and examines the way John Jacob Flournoy’s idea of a “Deaf-Mute Commonwealth” touches upon core themes of American culture studies and history. In employing pivotal democratic ideas such as egalitarianism, liberty, and self-representation as well as elements of manifest destiny such as exceptionalism and the frontier ideology in order to raise support for a Deaf State, the creation and perpetuation of a Deaf identity bears strong similarities to the processes of American nation-building. This article will show how the endeavor to found a Deaf state was indicative of the separationist and secessionist movements in the United States at that time, and remains relevant to Deaf group identity today.

The Turn to the Object: Recent Developments in the Field of Nineteenth-Century Latin American Cultural and Literary Studies

This essay provides an overview of the current state of nineteenth-century Latin American literary and cultural studies. It begins by reviewing some of the key critical interventions in the field, including Doris Sommer’s Foundational Fictions and Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities, and argues that Sommer’s and Anderson’s postulations helped turn the critical gaze away from a vision of nineteenth-century Latin American literature as subsidiary to the subsequent, supposedly superior literary movements of the fin de siglo and the twentieth century. Critics of nineteenth-century Latin American literature have increasingly focused on previously less-studied texts, on those not typically considered literary, and on other cultural phenomena that can be both read as texts and alongside written texts, such as music and visual imagery. The essay also resists binarisms and implicit hierarchies and conceptualizes nineteenth-century Latin America in terms of Bourdieu’s field of cultural production, while taking into account Bottero and Crossley’s “concrete connections” among actors in that field. In that way, I conclude that the two chief critical tendencies today in nineteenth-century Latin American literary studies may be categorized as a focus on the circulation of ideas and on the circulation of objects.

American Literature and the New Puritan Studies ed. by Bryce Traister

Reviewed by: American Literature and the New Puritan Studies ed. by Bryce Traister Richard A. Bailey (bio) American Literature and the New Puritan Studies Edited by bryce traister Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017 254 pp. When thoughts turn to Puritans in America, they often still go one of two ways. In the popular imagination, they tend to be either a starting point for the view of America as the shining beacon for all the world to see and imitate or the stoic, repressive persecutors of all things even slightly different. Thankfully, recent scholarship, such as that by David Hall and Michael Winship, has demonstrated many of the shortcomings of both of [End Page 824] these extreme ways of imagining America's Puritans. By reevaluating the "Puritan origins thesis" and its tendency toward a narrative of national exceptionalism in light of new directions in current scholarship, the essays in American Literature and the New Puritan Studies map some of the exciting, potential routes forward for those interested in studying Puritans and their influences in American history, letters, and thought. In her To Live upon Hope: Mohicans and Missionaries in the Eighteenth-Century Northeast, Rachel Wheeler posited the need "to make the Puritans strange once again" (4). Such a task seems to be one of the aims of this collection of essays. In his introduction, "The New Puritan Studies," Bryce Traister contends that this volume and the scholarship it represents "will enable and enrich rather than diminish and confine the study of American literature and culture," making "the case for considering the scholarship of the New Puritan Studies as a useful provocation to contemporary Americanist critical practice" (3). Traister's introduction to the collection is very useful not only for the way it establishes the direction of this specific volume but also for the succinct way that he sets the current stage of Puritan studies. His brief survey of the field from Perry Miller through Janice Knight and Stephen Foster to Sarah Rivett and others clearly demonstrates the continued need for the sorts of scholarship represented by these twelve essays. The collection is divided into three parts: "Unexpected Puritans," "Puritanism's Others," and "Puritan Afterlives." Describing these parts as "broad and provisional," Traister explains the direction and scope of each part as "[part 1] a commitment to understudied or too-long buried intellectual and historical archeologies; [part 2] an engagement with social and political categories of critique, including the indigenous encounter; and, finally [part 3], an interest in the 'post-Puritan' careers of some of the key concepts we associate with the Puritan seventeenth century" (15). Within this structure, several of the essays in each part stand out as particularly provocative and useful toward such a rethinking and reframing. Part 1 offers several fascinating essays, including one by Michael Schuldiner that tackles some of the myths about Puritans and their lack of mirth by focusing on a pamphlet written by Boston pastor Benjamin Colman. Not only does his analysis dispel some received ideas about Puritans, but Schuldiner also situates Colman, and by extension New England Puritanism, within the world of the Enlightenment and modernity. Another essay [End Page 825] in the first part of the collection that bears some attention is Linda M. Johnson's insightful analysis of John van der Spriett's portrait of Increase Mather. In "A Pre-millenial Portrait during the Revocation of the Massachusetts Charter," Johnson examines this painting to demonstrate fairly convincingly that divines such as Increase Mather expressed a concern to self-fashion and self-promote in ways that on the surface might seem paradoxical with accepted ideas about "Puritan self-effacement" (70). Her close reading of such a material archive demonstrates at least one way forward in evaluating and reevaluating the place of American Puritans. Part 2 focuses especially on "Others" within the bounds of Puritanism. The "Others" in question here include those groups and individuals perhaps outside the traditional pale of Puritanism, such as Native Americans and women. Rather unexpectedly, though, Jason M. Payton's "Piracy, Piety, and Providence in Cotton Mather's The Vial Poured Out upon the Sea" includes pirates as one of these outside groups, albeit in different ways. Analyzing one...

The Construction of Race and Space in Thomas Dooley’s Writings: “What kind of place was Laos?”

Author(s): Sisavath, Davorn | Abstract: This article examines narratives on Laos published between the Geneva Agreements of 1954 and 1962 because this period saw the most aid workers, missionaries, diplomats, journalists, and educators in Laos, and provided Americans the most detailed knowledge of the country. Attentive to imperialist ideology and close readings of Thomas Dooley’s nonfiction account of his humanitarian journey in The Edge of Tomorrow and The Night They Burned the Mountain, I analyze the languages and tropes that enabled Dooley to conceive of Laos and Laotians as stagnant, backward and without progress, characteristics that allegedly would make them more susceptible to communism. In particular, I read Dooley’s nonfiction novels as an imperial discourse that racializes Laos’ landscape as “empty land,” which I suggest contributed to America’s eventual treatment of Laos as a military wasteland during the US air war from 1964 to 1973. Situating my work in transnational American studies, ethnic studies and cultural studies, I offer a critical analysis of Dooley’s construction of race and space in Laos, which I argue can reveal another form of America’s racial knowledge of Asia(ns) that reinforced US intervention in the region.

Apontamentos sobre os Estudos Culturais no Brasil

Resumo: A partir de uma revisão sobre as articulações entre os Estudos Culturais e as teorizações das áreas da Comunicação Social, Antropologia, Ciências Sociais, Teoria Literária e Educação no Brasil, coloca-se em destaque a produtividade acadêmica de conceitos, perspectivas e modos de pesquisa. O estudo envolveu: (a) ampla varredura nos principais periódicos internacionais de Estudos Culturais; (b) pesquisa no Google Acadêmico e em outras plataformas específicas; (c) investigação de filiações institucionais, grupos de pesquisa, currículos Lattes e, eventualmente, entrevistas disponibilizadas online. Finaliza-se este texto apresentando apontamentos político-acadêmicos relativos aos estudos realizados no Brasil em sua articulação com os Estudos Culturais latino-americanos.

Las culturas urbanas, se apropian de la hora del recreo

“Las Culturas Urbanas, se apropian de la hora del recreo”, es el resultado de una investigación en la cual se realizó un estudio etnográfico dentro de una institución educativa secundaria particular mixta de Cuenca, en la que se analiza la dinámica que tienen los colectivos para agruparse y formar las culturas juveniles. Se estudia cómo construyen sus identidades, cuáles son los entornos en los cuales los jóvenes del colegio interactúan, y cómo utilizan el espacio público dentro de la ciudad. En este estudio cualitativo se aplica la técnica de la etnografía, cuyo objetivo fundamental es analizar la construcción de las identidades y las culturas juveniles, y su entorno, y como este es capitalizado por los grupos de adolescentes para conocer sus necesidades, intereses e interacciones. Se analiza cómo estos jóvenes conciben el “espacio público”, de qué manera interactúan en él; dónde y para qué se reúnen, qué hacen, cómo se vinculan entre ellos, si son rechazados o aceptados en este. La investigación permitió descubrir, identificar y describir diversas culturas juveniles inmersas en la institución educativa, y cómo van construyendo sus identidades en los diversos entornos y cómo convierten en su territorio el espacio público de la ciudad. Además, se estudia a las culturas urbanas como se enfocan conceptualmente desde la comunicación y cultura y se afianzan en los estudios culturales latinoamericanos.

New York, New York: The Empire State of Mind

This paper aims at reading the two songs entitled New York , New York and The Empire State of Mind to see how the city of New York is perceived and campaigned by the songs. It is an American popular cultural studies research discussing the two songs which are analysed as popular media works to deliver messages to the audiences. Inge’s theory on popular cultural works is employed to examine the form, function, and methods of evaluation in a way that the songs are treated as readable cultural texts. Semiotics is also employed as a relevant approach to interpret the data. In addition, Socio-cultural approach is applied in this study by considering American history that is useful to have a deeper discussion to examine how the city of New York is defined and spread by the media through the songs. The finding shows that the two popular songs see New York as a representation of America to hold the values of finding dreamland, conquering the wilderness, and achieving individual success in a modern materialistic capitalistic America. Released in two different eras, the songs are functioned as media voicing the American thoughts and feeling toward New York City as the today’s place of dream and reshaping the society itself as well. Keywords: New York, America, popular culture, media works, song.

Trajetos com Jesús (e para além): autoanálise da pesquisa dos usos sociais da mídia

Começando pelo título, “além” é uma referência à figura con(sagrada) do intelectual que conduz a amplos voos teóricos, em contraposição à figura profana do homem Jesús. Além significa, igualmente, o avanço da minha trajetória em direção a posições fronteiriças à Teoria das Mediações de Martín-Barbero: dos estudos culturais latino-americanos e britânicos, à etnografia crítica da audiência, à história das mentalidades, à sociologia da reprodução e às teorias de gênero. Evidencio o impacto do especialista em Comunicação e sua metáfora do mapa noturno nas investigações sobre os usos sociais da mídia à luz da problemática das desigualdades. Finalizo com questões para pensar as dinâmicas da convergência digital e seus novos desafios para a abordagem dos conflitos culturais e políticos. A fala que segue é um palimpsesto, foi raspada e rasurada no ritmo industrial do trabalho acadêmico. Por isso, preservo as características de um texto oral elaborado sem a preocupação de referenciar todas as fontes que o embasaram, mesmo que dando nomes próprios à origem das ideias aqui sistematizadas.

CIÊNCIAS SOCIAIS, COMUNICAÇÃO E IMAGEM: APORTES TEÓRICOS SOBRE A (RE)PRODUÇÃO DA DIFERENÇA (E DO PODER) NO JORNALISMO HEGEMÔNICO

A partir da relação entre ciências sociais, comunicação e imagem, neste artigo apresento algumas reflexões teóricas sobre a reprodução da diferença e do poder no jornalismo hegemônico, em diálogo com o pensamento decolonial, além de outras fontes teóricas como a semiótica e os estudos culturais latino-americanos. O objetivo é colaborar e dialogar com as pesquisas que buscam compreender o papel da imagem e da imprensa em nossas sociedades ocidentais contemporâneas. O artigo está dividido em quatro partes. Na primeira, proponho algumas reflexões sobre a relação entre comunicação, decolonialidade e poder. Na sequência apresento considerações sobre a relação entre a construção da diferença e a reprodução do poder para, posteriormente, discorrer sobre jornalismo e representação da diferença. Por último, desenvolvo uma análise sobre o uso da imagem como recurso para transmissão de informações e discursos a partir da relação entre ficção e realidade.

Wires That Bind: Nation, Region, and Technology in the Southwestern United States, 1854–1920. American Culture Studies. By Torsten Kathke

Wires That Bind: Nation, Region, and Technology in the Southwestern United States, 1854–1920. American Culture Studies. By Torsten Kathke

Toward a Transnational Approach to the Study of Jewish Latin American Literature and Culture

This response paper explores the significance of Judit Bokser Liwerant, not just as an individual researcher and theorist, but as a highly collaborative intellectual who is able to bring together scholars from the social sciences, history, and the humanities. Literary and cultural critics would benefit from Liwerant’s guidance to move away from ingrained “methodological nationalism” and to take into account the increasingly transnational flow of creative people, cultural products, and ideas. I sketch out some avenues of research that might be pursued by applying Liwerant’s concepts to the study of Jewish Latin American literary and cultural phenomena.

The Portrait and the Book: Illustration and Literary Culture in Early America

June 01 2018 The Portrait and the Book: Illustration and Literary Culture in Early America The Portrait and the Book: Illustration and Literary Culture in Early America. By MeganWalsh. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2017. Pp. vii, 260. $65.00.) Mary Kelley Mary Kelley Mary Kelley, the Ruth Bordin Collegiate Professor of History, American Culture, and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan, has published eight books. Most recently, she is the author of Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Mary Kelley Mary Kelley, the Ruth Bordin Collegiate Professor of History, American Culture, and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan, has published eight books. Most recently, she is the author of Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life. Online Issn: 1937-2213 Print Issn: 0028-4866 © 2018 by The New England Quarterly2018The New England Quarterly The New England Quarterly (2018) 91 (2): 354–356. https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_r_00675 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Search Site Citation Mary Kelley; The Portrait and the Book: Illustration and Literary Culture in Early America. The New England Quarterly 2018; 91 (2): 354–356. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_r_00675 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll JournalsThe New England Quarterly Search Advanced Search This content is only available as a PDF. © 2018 by The New England Quarterly2018The New England Quarterly Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Estudos culturais latino-americanos e Jesús Martín-Barbero: mais afinidades do que disputas

Although Martín-Barbero claims that “we had done cultural studies long before this label appeared”, this article sustains that, without De los medios a las mediaciones (From the Media to Mediations), Latin American cultural studies would not have developed, especially those linked to communication studies. The argument highlights the kinship between cultural studies, especially in the version associated with the Birmingham School, and the premises of the research program proposed by the Spanish-Colombian author. To trace these affinities, the combination of methodological programmatic and ethnographic approaches was adopted.