Kevin Glynn
Biographic Data
| ID | 1282277 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin Glynn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin |
| FAMILY NAME | Glynn |
| SIGNATURE | GLYNN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Canterbury |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0601-5444 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Transmedia Geographies: Decoloniality, Democratization, Cultural Citizenship, and Media Convergence
Looking at the US, New Zealand, and Central America, this book considers how cultural politics has been deeply reworked in our contemporary media environment. The authors analyze how rampant technological convergence has allowed stories to spill across media platforms as well as geographical borders and how those stories reemerge as transmediated events. The authors explore the cultural politics that have developed within this new media environme…
Cultural studies, geography, and the mediation of disasters: Reflections on Burgess and Gold 40 years on
This forum to revisit a landmark edited collection serves as an important reminder to geographers that media and popular culture have been central to geographical scholarship for at least four decades. The book’s contributions underscore the significance of popular media for research in geography and the centrality of geographical considerations and concerns for the analysis of media texts, production and consumption practices. Communication can …
Stories of decolonial resilience
Many scholars, analysts and commentators have noted that the neoliberal conjuncture has seen the rise of a veritable explosion of discourses and theories of resilience. Some regard this discursive and narrative profusion as integral to the ongoing project of a neoliberal 'worlding' that seeks to reconfigure all aspects of human subjectivities and social relations. Meanwhile, the ongoing outpouring of neoliberal discourses and narratives of resili…
The celebritization of indigenous activism: Tame Iti as media figure
In recent years, a number of indigenous activists have gained celebrity status in ways that carry interesting implications for contemporary cultural politics. This article focuses on the celebrification of Tame Iti, arguably Aotearoa/New Zealand’s best-known Māori activist, within a wider cultural context characterized by intensifying media convergence, an expanding politics of decolonization, and the continuing elaboration of global indigenous m…
Luchas costeñas por los derechos territoriales y el control de los emergentes espacios mediáticos de Nicaragua
Este artículo trata de las respuestas mediáticas a la crisis actual en la Costa Caribe de Nicaragua y los retrocesos a las luchas regionales por la autonomía y los derechos a la tierra. Proporciona un panorama detallado del actual conflicto en el Caribe Norte, en particular cómo las acciones violentas de los colonos ilegales están acelerando la inseguridad y la degradación ambiental y cómo organizaciones de derechos humanos como CEJUDCHAN están u…
Cultural Studies
Cultural studies is an overtly politicized, interdisciplinary field that studies relationships between cultural practices and systems of power. From its earliest days it has mounted a radical critique of traditional notions and practices of academic disciplinarity. It first emerged in Britain around the work done at the University of Birmingham's Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, which was established in 1964 and produced a highly influen…
Communications/Media/Geographies
Although there are human geographers who have previously written on matters of media and communication, and those in media and communication studies who have previously written on geographical issues, this is the first book-length dialogue in which experienced theorists and researchers from these different fields address each other directly and engage in conversation across traditional academic boundaries. The result is a compelling discussion, w…
Visibility, Media Events and Convergence Culture: Struggles for the Meaning of 9/11
Indigenizing and decolonizing higher education on N icaragua's A tlantic C oast
Some universities in postcolonial settler nations such as N ew Z ealand and C anada have begun to acknowledge their need for a more inclusive approach toward indigenous cosmologies and epistemologies, lest they continue to alienate indigenous students; nevertheless such change is not proving easy for these universities. In the N orth A tlantic Region of N icaragua, there is however a community university which is successfully using higher educati…
Negotiating and queering US hegemony in TV drama: Popular Geopolitics and Cultural Studies
This article argues that popular geopolitics should pay closer attention to entertainment television and to the negotiations, complexities, and contradictions associated with contemporary televisual texts. This move requires a closer engagement with media and cultural studies than that initiated to date. In the second half of the article, we discuss the ABC TV drama Commander in Chief, which follows the first female president of the USA, and is s…
The Mediation and Remediation of Disaster: Hurricanes Katrina and Felix in/and the New Media Environment
Hurricanes Katrina and Felix made landfall in 2005 and 2007 on the Gulf Coast of the US and the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua respectively. Despite many economic, political and cultural differences between these two sites, they share a number of interesting similarities. Their inhabitants are subject to similar modes of racialized Othering and internal colonialism, and both places have vital links with the transnational cultural consciousness that …
Postdevelopment Television? Cultural Citizenship and the Mediation of Africa in Contemporary TV Drama
Despite well-established critiques from African and Africanist scholars, problematic images and narratives of Africa as a site of disease, famine, and conflict continue to circulate formulaically in mainstream first-world media. Meanwhile, many recent complex humanitarian emergencies in African countries have failed to garner significant attention from mainstream Western media and their audiences. This article examines how these power-bearing pat…
Leaky Geopolitics: The Ruptures and Transgressions of WikiLeaks
The unfurling of violent rhetoric and the show of force that has lead to the arrest, imprisonment, and impending extradition of WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, serve as an exemplary moment in demonstrating state-sanctioned violence. Since the cables began leaking in November 2010, the violent reaction to WikiLeaks evidenced by numerous political pundits calling for Assange's assassination or execution, and the movement within the US to have Wi…
Indigenous MediaSpace and the Production of (Trans)locality on Nicaragua’s Mosquito Coast
This article draws on notions of networked and multiscalar globalities to explore recent developments around indigenous and Afro-Caribbean media in Nicaragua’s Atlantic Coast region, whose inhabitants are reasserting their collective autonomy by reinvigorating and reformulating a centuries-old ideal of cosmopolitanism forged through a long history of intercultural exchange and the indigenization of foreign elements. The authors argue that their a…
The 2004 Election Did Not Take Place: Bush, Spectacle, and the Media Nonevent
It is arguable that the George W. Bush regime has made a more systematically intensive strategic effort to mobilize the management and control of media images as a primary mode of governance than any other U.S. presidency we have yet seen. This article explores the Bush White House's media imagineering and draws on notions of media spectacle, along with Baudrillard's widely misunderstood analysis of the 1991 Gulf War and often overlooked theory o…
Indigeneity, media and cultural globalization: The Case of Mataku, or the Maori X-Files
This article analyzes Mataku, a New Zealand television anthology program created with an eye toward the global media market and, according to its producers, the first such TV drama ever to be `written, directed and produced entirely by Maori'. Mataku has emerged partly through the economic dynamics of globalization and partly as a consequence of government policies, institutional arrangements and funding mechanisms established in New Zealand in r…
Hybrid Cultures of Postdevelopment: The Struggle for Popular Hegemony in Rural Nicaragua
This article contributes to contemporary debates around "postdevelopment" by examining the new social alliances that are reimagining, rearticulating, and refashioning development discourses and practices in Northern León, an impoverished region on Nicaragua's Pacific coastal strip. We examine the strategies and tactics whereby Northern León's citizens, local leaders, and nongovernmental organizations have reworked the region's cultural, political…
Introduction—Culture incorporated
Challenging disenchantment The discreet charm of occult TV
Occult imagery is widespread in the contemporary global mediaverse, including in TV programs such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charmed, Sightings, and The X-Files. This article considers the popular cultural presence of the otherworldly and the magical in relation to the strand of theorizing, beginning with Max Weber and taking a postmodern turn in Jean Baudrillard, that treats the cultures of Western modernity as disenchanted ones. In particular…
Bartmania: The Social Reception of an Unruly Image
Trials of the postmodern
The criminal courtroom is an important institutional site where a modernist epistemology works hard to keep the postmodern disturbance of such concepts as ‘truth’ and ‘reality’ at bay. Nevertheless, some popular television programs exploit the imagistic conditions of postmodernity in order to volatilize the truths certified as final ones by criminal courts. Similarly, in the first trial of the LAPD officers who beat Rodney King, the prosecution t…
Symbolic racism in candidate evaluation: An experiment
Negotiating and queering US hegemony in TV drama: Popular Geopolitics and Cultural Studies
This article argues that popular geopolitics should pay closer attention to entertainment television and to the negotiations, complexities, and contradictions associated with contemporary televisual texts. This move requires a closer engagement with media and cultural studies than that initiated to date. In the second half of the article, we discuss the ABC TV drama Commander in Chief, which follows the first female president of the USA, and is s…
Symbolic racism in candidate evaluation: An experiment
Indigenizing and decolonizing higher education on N icaragua's A tlantic C oast
Some universities in postcolonial settler nations such as N ew Z ealand and C anada have begun to acknowledge their need for a more inclusive approach toward indigenous cosmologies and epistemologies, lest they continue to alienate indigenous students; nevertheless such change is not proving easy for these universities. In the N orth A tlantic Region of N icaragua, there is however a community university which is successfully using higher educati…
The Mediation and Remediation of Disaster: Hurricanes Katrina and Felix in/and the New Media Environment
Hurricanes Katrina and Felix made landfall in 2005 and 2007 on the Gulf Coast of the US and the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua respectively. Despite many economic, political and cultural differences between these two sites, they share a number of interesting similarities. Their inhabitants are subject to similar modes of racialized Othering and internal colonialism, and both places have vital links with the transnational cultural consciousness that …
Indigeneity, media and cultural globalization: The Case of Mataku, or the Maori X-Files
This article analyzes Mataku, a New Zealand television anthology program created with an eye toward the global media market and, according to its producers, the first such TV drama ever to be `written, directed and produced entirely by Maori'. Mataku has emerged partly through the economic dynamics of globalization and partly as a consequence of government policies, institutional arrangements and funding mechanisms established in New Zealand in r…
Hybrid Cultures of Postdevelopment: The Struggle for Popular Hegemony in Rural Nicaragua
This article contributes to contemporary debates around "postdevelopment" by examining the new social alliances that are reimagining, rearticulating, and refashioning development discourses and practices in Northern León, an impoverished region on Nicaragua's Pacific coastal strip. We examine the strategies and tactics whereby Northern León's citizens, local leaders, and nongovernmental organizations have reworked the region's cultural, political…
Leaky Geopolitics: The Ruptures and Transgressions of WikiLeaks
The unfurling of violent rhetoric and the show of force that has lead to the arrest, imprisonment, and impending extradition of WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, serve as an exemplary moment in demonstrating state-sanctioned violence. Since the cables began leaking in November 2010, the violent reaction to WikiLeaks evidenced by numerous political pundits calling for Assange's assassination or execution, and the movement within the US to have Wi…
The celebritization of indigenous activism: Tame Iti as media figure
In recent years, a number of indigenous activists have gained celebrity status in ways that carry interesting implications for contemporary cultural politics. This article focuses on the celebrification of Tame Iti, arguably Aotearoa/New Zealand’s best-known Māori activist, within a wider cultural context characterized by intensifying media convergence, an expanding politics of decolonization, and the continuing elaboration of global indigenous m…
Postdevelopment Television? Cultural Citizenship and the Mediation of Africa in Contemporary TV Drama
Despite well-established critiques from African and Africanist scholars, problematic images and narratives of Africa as a site of disease, famine, and conflict continue to circulate formulaically in mainstream first-world media. Meanwhile, many recent complex humanitarian emergencies in African countries have failed to garner significant attention from mainstream Western media and their audiences. This article examines how these power-bearing pat…
Indigenous MediaSpace and the Production of (Trans)locality on Nicaragua’s Mosquito Coast
This article draws on notions of networked and multiscalar globalities to explore recent developments around indigenous and Afro-Caribbean media in Nicaragua’s Atlantic Coast region, whose inhabitants are reasserting their collective autonomy by reinvigorating and reformulating a centuries-old ideal of cosmopolitanism forged through a long history of intercultural exchange and the indigenization of foreign elements. The authors argue that their a…
The 2004 Election Did Not Take Place: Bush, Spectacle, and the Media Nonevent
It is arguable that the George W. Bush regime has made a more systematically intensive strategic effort to mobilize the management and control of media images as a primary mode of governance than any other U.S. presidency we have yet seen. This article explores the Bush White House's media imagineering and draws on notions of media spectacle, along with Baudrillard's widely misunderstood analysis of the 1991 Gulf War and often overlooked theory o…
Symbolic racism in candidate evaluation: An experiment
Trials of the postmodern
The criminal courtroom is an important institutional site where a modernist epistemology works hard to keep the postmodern disturbance of such concepts as ‘truth’ and ‘reality’ at bay. Nevertheless, some popular television programs exploit the imagistic conditions of postmodernity in order to volatilize the truths certified as final ones by criminal courts. Similarly, in the first trial of the LAPD officers who beat Rodney King, the prosecution t…
Bartmania: The Social Reception of an Unruly Image
Challenging disenchantment The discreet charm of occult TV
Occult imagery is widespread in the contemporary global mediaverse, including in TV programs such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charmed, Sightings, and The X-Files. This article considers the popular cultural presence of the otherworldly and the magical in relation to the strand of theorizing, beginning with Max Weber and taking a postmodern turn in Jean Baudrillard, that treats the cultures of Western modernity as disenchanted ones. In particular…
Introduction—Culture incorporated
Indigeneity, media and cultural globalization: The Case of Mataku, or the Maori X-Files
This article analyzes Mataku, a New Zealand television anthology program created with an eye toward the global media market and, according to its producers, the first such TV drama ever to be `written, directed and produced entirely by Maori'. Mataku has emerged partly through the economic dynamics of globalization and partly as a consequence of government policies, institutional arrangements and funding mechanisms established in New Zealand in r…
Hybrid Cultures of Postdevelopment: The Struggle for Popular Hegemony in Rural Nicaragua
This article contributes to contemporary debates around "postdevelopment" by examining the new social alliances that are reimagining, rearticulating, and refashioning development discourses and practices in Northern León, an impoverished region on Nicaragua's Pacific coastal strip. We examine the strategies and tactics whereby Northern León's citizens, local leaders, and nongovernmental organizations have reworked the region's cultural, political…
The 2004 Election Did Not Take Place: Bush, Spectacle, and the Media Nonevent
It is arguable that the George W. Bush regime has made a more systematically intensive strategic effort to mobilize the management and control of media images as a primary mode of governance than any other U.S. presidency we have yet seen. This article explores the Bush White House's media imagineering and draws on notions of media spectacle, along with Baudrillard's widely misunderstood analysis of the 1991 Gulf War and often overlooked theory o…
Indigenous MediaSpace and the Production of (Trans)locality on Nicaragua’s Mosquito Coast
This article draws on notions of networked and multiscalar globalities to explore recent developments around indigenous and Afro-Caribbean media in Nicaragua’s Atlantic Coast region, whose inhabitants are reasserting their collective autonomy by reinvigorating and reformulating a centuries-old ideal of cosmopolitanism forged through a long history of intercultural exchange and the indigenization of foreign elements. The authors argue that their a…
Postdevelopment Television? Cultural Citizenship and the Mediation of Africa in Contemporary TV Drama
Despite well-established critiques from African and Africanist scholars, problematic images and narratives of Africa as a site of disease, famine, and conflict continue to circulate formulaically in mainstream first-world media. Meanwhile, many recent complex humanitarian emergencies in African countries have failed to garner significant attention from mainstream Western media and their audiences. This article examines how these power-bearing pat…
Leaky Geopolitics: The Ruptures and Transgressions of WikiLeaks
The unfurling of violent rhetoric and the show of force that has lead to the arrest, imprisonment, and impending extradition of WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, serve as an exemplary moment in demonstrating state-sanctioned violence. Since the cables began leaking in November 2010, the violent reaction to WikiLeaks evidenced by numerous political pundits calling for Assange's assassination or execution, and the movement within the US to have Wi…
The Mediation and Remediation of Disaster: Hurricanes Katrina and Felix in/and the New Media Environment
Hurricanes Katrina and Felix made landfall in 2005 and 2007 on the Gulf Coast of the US and the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua respectively. Despite many economic, political and cultural differences between these two sites, they share a number of interesting similarities. Their inhabitants are subject to similar modes of racialized Othering and internal colonialism, and both places have vital links with the transnational cultural consciousness that …
Indigenizing and decolonizing higher education on N icaragua's A tlantic C oast
Some universities in postcolonial settler nations such as N ew Z ealand and C anada have begun to acknowledge their need for a more inclusive approach toward indigenous cosmologies and epistemologies, lest they continue to alienate indigenous students; nevertheless such change is not proving easy for these universities. In the N orth A tlantic Region of N icaragua, there is however a community university which is successfully using higher educati…
Negotiating and queering US hegemony in TV drama: Popular Geopolitics and Cultural Studies
This article argues that popular geopolitics should pay closer attention to entertainment television and to the negotiations, complexities, and contradictions associated with contemporary televisual texts. This move requires a closer engagement with media and cultural studies than that initiated to date. In the second half of the article, we discuss the ABC TV drama Commander in Chief, which follows the first female president of the USA, and is s…
Visibility, Media Events and Convergence Culture: Struggles for the Meaning of 9/11
Communications/Media/Geographies
Although there are human geographers who have previously written on matters of media and communication, and those in media and communication studies who have previously written on geographical issues, this is the first book-length dialogue in which experienced theorists and researchers from these different fields address each other directly and engage in conversation across traditional academic boundaries. The result is a compelling discussion, w…
Cultural Studies
Cultural studies is an overtly politicized, interdisciplinary field that studies relationships between cultural practices and systems of power. From its earliest days it has mounted a radical critique of traditional notions and practices of academic disciplinarity. It first emerged in Britain around the work done at the University of Birmingham's Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, which was established in 1964 and produced a highly influen…
Luchas costeñas por los derechos territoriales y el control de los emergentes espacios mediáticos de Nicaragua
Este artículo trata de las respuestas mediáticas a la crisis actual en la Costa Caribe de Nicaragua y los retrocesos a las luchas regionales por la autonomía y los derechos a la tierra. Proporciona un panorama detallado del actual conflicto en el Caribe Norte, en particular cómo las acciones violentas de los colonos ilegales están acelerando la inseguridad y la degradación ambiental y cómo organizaciones de derechos humanos como CEJUDCHAN están u…
The celebritization of indigenous activism: Tame Iti as media figure
In recent years, a number of indigenous activists have gained celebrity status in ways that carry interesting implications for contemporary cultural politics. This article focuses on the celebrification of Tame Iti, arguably Aotearoa/New Zealand’s best-known Māori activist, within a wider cultural context characterized by intensifying media convergence, an expanding politics of decolonization, and the continuing elaboration of global indigenous m…
Stories of decolonial resilience
Many scholars, analysts and commentators have noted that the neoliberal conjuncture has seen the rise of a veritable explosion of discourses and theories of resilience. Some regard this discursive and narrative profusion as integral to the ongoing project of a neoliberal 'worlding' that seeks to reconfigure all aspects of human subjectivities and social relations. Meanwhile, the ongoing outpouring of neoliberal discourses and narratives of resili…
Transmedia Geographies: Decoloniality, Democratization, Cultural Citizenship, and Media Convergence
Looking at the US, New Zealand, and Central America, this book considers how cultural politics has been deeply reworked in our contemporary media environment. The authors analyze how rampant technological convergence has allowed stories to spill across media platforms as well as geographical borders and how those stories reemerge as transmediated events. The authors explore the cultural politics that have developed within this new media environme…
Cultural studies, geography, and the mediation of disasters: Reflections on Burgess and Gold 40 years on
This forum to revisit a landmark edited collection serves as an important reminder to geographers that media and popular culture have been central to geographical scholarship for at least four decades. The book’s contributions underscore the significance of popular media for research in geography and the centrality of geographical considerations and concerns for the analysis of media texts, production and consumption practices. Communication can …
Sociology (18 works) · Political science (15 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (10 works) · Art (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Media studies (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works)