Recent history of self-managed publishers in Argentina. From fairs to the web and vice versa

Abstract

Self-managed publishing houses have become objects of study in Argentina since the last decade of the 20th century. They have multiplied after the structural crisis of 2001, in a context that favored activism forms against the globalized publishing sector. Currently, in the face of a new editorial crisis, the heterogeneity of projects and publishing houses is remarkable and is perceived as a development sign to produce outside the literary mainstream. This work seeks to briefly historicize these practices and show, within the framework of the coexistence of production and publication supports, some empirical references that characterize current forms of sociability and production strategies, going from the material world to the digital one.