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.

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

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

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.