Overview
- Addresses new conceptual bases for thinking critically about communication
- Explores how communication confronts power, property and the market in Latin American cultures
- Views emancipatory communication experiences as disruptive acts of resistance
Part of the book series: Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research - A Palgrave and IAMCR Series (GTMCR)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Reviews
"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)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Communicology of the South
Book Subtitle: Critical Perspectives from Latin America
Editors: Carlos F. Del Valle Rojas, Francisco Sierra Caballero
Series Title: Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research - A Palgrave and IAMCR Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08117-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-08116-3Published: 01 October 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-08119-4Published: 02 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-08117-0Published: 29 September 2022
Series ISSN: 2634-5978
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5986
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 172
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Media and Communication, Latino Culture, Cultural Theory