Moving beyond the U.S.-Eurocentric paradigm of communication theory, this handbook broadens the intellectual horizons of the discipline by highlighting underrepresented, especially non-Western, theorists and theories, and identifies key issues and challenges for future scholarship.
Showcasing diverse perspectives, the handbook facilitates active engagement in different cultural traditions and theoretical orientations that are global in scope but local in effect. It begins by exploring past efforts to diversify the field, continuing on to examine theoretical concepts, models, and principles rooted in local cumulative wisdom. It does not limit itself to the mass-interpersonal communication divide, but rather seeks to frame theory as global and inclusive in scope.
The book is intended for communication researchers and advanced students, with relevance to scholars with an interest in theory within information science, library science, social and cross-cultural psychology, multicultural education, social justice and social ethics, international relations, development studies, and political science.
Author(s): Yoshitaka Miike, Jing Yin
Series: ICA Handbook Series
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 544
City: New York
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Series Editor’s Foreword
Acknowledgments
Editors
Contributors
Introduction: Global Interventions in Search of Communication Theory in Human Diversity
PART I: HISTORICAL INTERVENTIONS
1 A Conversation on the History of Paradigmatic Dialogue in Communication Theory: Brenda Dervin and the 1985 ICA Conference
2 Paradigmatic Debates, Theoretical Diversity, and the IAMCR: A Historical Perspective
3 Unity in Diversity: Multiculturalism, Guilt/ Victimage, and a New Scholarly Orientation
4 Toward Asian Communication Theory: An Intellectual Journey
PART II: AFRICAN INTERVENTIONS
5 Afrocentricity and the Cultural Question: On Theorizing Humanity and Communication
6 Maatian Ethics, Sdm, and Communicative Practice: The Conception and Cultivation of the Sedjemic Person
7 Humane Communication in African Languages: African Philosophical Perspectives
8 Frank Okwu Ugboajah, Oramedia, and the Ethical Paradigm of Development (Civilization)
PART III: ASIAN INTERVENTIONS
9 The Question of Asianness in Asian Communication Studies: Notes on Asiacentricity and Its Critics
10 Rethinking Eurocentric Visions in Feminist Communication Research: Asiacentric Womanism as a Theoretical Framework
11 Al-Fārābī and Ibn Khaldūn as Communication Theorists: The New Science of Society before the European Enlightenment
12 Toward a Gandhian Theory of Communication: The Ahimsa (Nonviolent) Way to Truth and Liberation
13 Confucianism and Communication in East Asia: A Revisit
14 Chinese Principles of Human Communication: A Philosophical Outline
PART IV: LATIN AMERICAN INTERVENTIONS
15 Paulo Freire, Communication, and Conscientization for Liberation
16 Between Social Semiosis and Mediatizations: Toward a Dictionary of Eliseo Verón’s Theoretical Contributions
17 Luis Ramiro Beltrán and Theorizing Horizontal and Decolonial Communication
18 Latin American Interventions to the Practice and Theory of Communication and Social Development: On the Legacy of Juan Díaz-Bordenave
19 Buen Vivir as a Critique of Communication for Development
PART V: EUROPEAN INTERVENTIONS
20 Media Theories in the United States and Europe: Fragmented Notions and Macroscopic Visions
21 Changing Narratives of Cultural Studies in Britain and the United States: Dialogue and Difference
22 French and German Theories of Communication: Comparative Perspectives with Regard to the Social and the Epistemological Body of Science
23 Özséb Horányi and the Participation Theory of Communication
24 Russian Traditions of Communication Theory
PART VI: DIVERSE INTERVENTIONS
25 Communicating in “Global” English: Promoting Linguistic Human Rights or Complicit with Linguicism and Linguistic Imperialism
26 Culture-Centered Approach to Communicating Health and Development: Communication, Social Justice, and Social Change
27 Perspectives and Approaches to Intercultural Communication Competence: Toward a Theoretical Synthesis
28 Environmental Communication Theory and Practice for Global Transformation: An Ecocultural Approach
29 The Way of Coyolxauhqui: An Indigenous Mexica-Inspired Imperative for Deconstruction as a Spiritual Practice
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