Communicology of the South: Critical Perspectives from Latin America

by Carlos F. Del Valle Rojas (Editor), Francisco Sierra Caballero (Editor)

Overview

This book addresses new conceptual bases for thinking critically about communication as a necessary way in which to confront power, property and the market as part of the daily resistance of Latin American subaltern cultures. The chapters research an urgent field of situated knowledge and spark a much-needed dialogue. The editors view emancipatory communication experiences as disruptive acts of resistance, prompted mainly by social movements. These experiences have opened up political modes of communication by establishing a decolonising axis in the field of communication and reconstructing the history and memory of Latin America. This book is a valuable reference for researchers, academics and students interested in the role of communication and culture in processes of social transformation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783031081170
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	09/29/2022
Series:	Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research - A Palgrave and IAMCR Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Carlos F. Del Valle Rojas is Professor and Director of the Doctorate in Communication at the University of La Frontera (UFRO), Chile.

Francisco Sierra Caballero is Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Group for Studies on Communication, Politics and Social Change at the University of Seville, Spain.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Communicology of the South: The Bases of a New Critical Theory of Communication.- 3. Educating through Wonder: Notes towards an Epistemology from the Origins.- 4. From the Episteme of Domination to an ‘Other Possible Communicology’.- 5. Bastard Cultures, or the Reinvention of the Popular in a Pop Eye-View.- 6. Towards a De-Westernised, Intercultural Journalism: The Media and the Construction of Identities.- 7. Making enemies. The cultural industry and the new enemisation modes.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“This timely book makes a remarkable contribution to the understanding of scholarship developed in Latin America. In presenting a range of theoretical and methodological reflections, the volume brings together researchers who examine the bases of critical perspectives on communication. The book addresses issues, practices and communities rarely explored in the Global North. It will spark essential dialogues about the contributions produced in the Global South. Scholars of communication, media and cultural studies will find this volume especially useful.” (Jessica Retis, Professor at the School of Journalism, University of Arizona, USA)

"This book offers a comprehensive collection of current research in communication studies in Latin America. It is well grounded in the region's longstanding tradition of critical scholarship focused on political-cultural movements, decolonization, social identities, and conflict. The chapters survey a range of experiences across the region that, altogether, lay out the vibrancy of communication studies in the region. Kudos to the editors for putting together an important volume." (Silvio R. Waisbord, Professor at the School of Media and Public Affairs, The George Washington University, USA)

“Finally available also in English, Communicology of the South is a must-read for anyone willing to expand the horizon of their thinking about the interplay between communication, culture, and social transformation. The epistemic project promoted by the book forcefully emerges from a lively dialogue along dimensions typically sidelined by mainstream academia. Centering the “subaltern”, the “bastard”, the “imaginative”, and the “intercultural”, the book challenges and complements Western approaches to communication and culture.” (Stefania Milan, Professor of Critical Data Studies, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

“The Anglo discipline of communications is large—and largely undistinguished. For many decades, the most internationally interesting and influential work in the field has come from Latin America. This volume, both summative and original, is brilliantly curated by two globally-renowned editors. It will be a landmark." (Toby Miller, Stuart Hall Professor of Cultural Studies, Universidad Autónoma de México, Mexico, and Research Professor in the Graduate Division, University of California, Riverside, USA)