ECO-TERRITORIAL MEDIA PRACTICES: Defending Bodies, Territories, and Life Itself in Latin America

Abstract

While the ecomedia field continues to expand, field-building activities have largely taken place in the Global North. At the same time, contemporary eco-territorial media cultures in Latin America, which have distinct political and cultural trajectories and largely exist outside the purview of ecomedia scholarship, are also proliferating. These media cultures in defense of life and territory are part of a broader “eco-territorial turn.” They are aligned with anti-extractive social movements, have strong feminist and communitarian convictions, and share conceptual frameworks that include political ecology, relational ontologies, and social movement cultures. Their sites of action range from urban to rural spaces. By introducing the reader to compelling work by media collectives in Ecuador, this chapter makes the case that these two fields of knowledge have much to offer each other.