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.
Author(s): Carlos F. Del Valle Rojas, Francisco Sierra Caballero
Series: Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research - A Palgrave and IAMCR Series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 184
City: Cham
Acknowledgments
Praise for Critical Perspectives from Latin America
Contents
Notes on Editors and Contributors
Editors
Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction
References
Chapter 2: Communicology of the South: The Bases of a New Critical Theory of Communication
Introduction
The State of the Art
Diversity and Interculturality: The Challenge to the Research Agenda
New Cultural Maps and Cartographies: From Cultural Anthropophagy and Tropicalism to the Creative Economy of a Thinking of One’s Own
Conclusions
References
Chapter 3: Educating Through Wonder: Notes Towards an Epistemology From the Origins
Introduction
‘You Haven’t Failed, the System Has Failed You’
Narrative as Knowledge Building
From the Media Age to the Middle Ages and Back
A Symbolical Summary of the Educational Process
References
Chapter 4: From the Episteme of Domination to an ‘Other Possible Communicology’
Introduction
Breaking Through the Disciplinary Field of Communication
From Scientific to Imperial-Colonial Rationality
Confronting the Episteme of Domination
Decolonising the Communicological Field: The Analectic Method as a Possibility
Conclusions
References
Chapter 5: Bastard Cultures, or the Reinvention of the Popular in a Pop Eye-View
Introduction
The Popular Revisited
The Popular as Bastard Taste
The Popular/Pop as a Strategic Agency of Twenty-First-Century Politics
References
Chapter 6: Towards a De-Westernised, Intercultural Journalism: The Media and the Construction of Identities
Introduction
Human Culture
The Construction of Identity/ies
Cultural Identities as Media
Media as Cultural Identities
The Intercultural in Communication and Journalism
General Conclusions
References
Chapter 7: Making Enemies: The Cultural Industry and the New Enemisation Modes
Introduction
The General Process of Production and Globalisation of the Enemy
The Civilising Rationality
The Dispossession of the Enemy
The Globalised Enemy
The Enemisation Modes
The Enemy in Permanent Subjugation
The Privatisation of the Role of the Nation-State
New Roles of the Nation-State
The Role of Exclusion
The Role of Inclusion
The Response of the Mapuche Indigenous Social Movement: From Resistance to Offensive
Some Closing Thoughts
References
Index
