Communicology of the South : Critical Perspectives From Latin America

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. 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. 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