Communicative Justice in the Pluriverse An International Dialogue

By way of prologue

Translated by Sheila Agenjo Alcaide

Introduction

Chapter 1. Dialogue of knowledges in the Pluriverse

Chapter 2. Weaving life: The women of the Andes in their decolonial work

Chapter 3. Promoting Nonviolent Communication for a Harmonious Communication Ecosystem

Chapter 4. Voices with Purpose: Lessons Learned from the South-South Collaboration between Latin America and Africa for the Strengthening of Communication Capacities in Social Organizations

Jair Vega-Casanova, Rafael Obregón Gálvez, Sara-Nathalie and Gabriel Baglo

Chapter 5. Conserving the Mangroves? Social and Environmental Conflicts in the Gulf of Guayaquil: The Case of Puerto El Morro, Posorja and Isla Puná

Translated by: Catalina Campuzano Rodríguez

Chapter 6. Reverse Media Policy: Challenging Empires, Resisting Power.

Chapter 7.Popular Music, Gender and Communicative Justice on International Women’s Day

Chapter 8. Exploring Resistance to Development in the Okinawa Pluriverse

Daniel Broudy and Ariko Ikehara

Chapter 9.Ontologies and Ecologies of the Otherwise: Notes on Post-development Practices in Malawi

Chapter 10. Further roads for communicative justice in pluriversal dialogues

Postscript: Justice, Sustainability, and Communications: A Pluriversal Approach

Biography

Joan Pedro-Carañana is Assistant Professor of Journalism and New Media at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. He is interested in the role of media, education, and culture in the reproduction and transformation of societies. He is coeditor of El Modelo de Propaganda y el Control de los Medios, The Propaganda Model Today: Filtering Perception and Awareness, and Talking Back to Globalization: Texts and Practices.

Eliana Herrera-Huérfano is Dean of the Communication School at Uniminuto, Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios, Colombia. Her research is based on participatory methodologies that involve interaction with Indigenous communities and other social or community leaders. Her publications include Emergencia del territorio y comunicación local and Communicology of the South The Bases of a New Critical Theory of Communication.

Juana Ochoa Almanza is Research Professor in Communication, Development, and Social Change at the Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios, Colombia. She is interested in the studies of gender, feminisms, and communication in Latin American context. Her latest articles have been published in Revista Conrado, University of Cienfuegos, Cuba, and Revista Improntas de la Historia y la Comunicación, Universidad Nacional de la Plata, Argentina.

"Communicative Justice in the Pluriverse powerfully demonstrates why decolonizing communications is essential to all pluriversal politics. Methodically organized around the cogent concept of communicative justice, each chapter brilliantly disrupts dominant practices of communicative violence while creatively illuminating multiple paths towards a media ecology indispensable for the flourishing of the pluriverse and a renewed ethics of interdependence and care. The volume’s approach is decidedly transnational and inter-epistemic, making it eminently applicable to many fields, from communications, global, and development studies to political ecology and cutting-edge ontologically oriented pursuits."

Arturo Escobar, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA

"Valuable studies from across the planet of the material and cultural dimensions of communicative justice, putting in dialogue theories of the pluriverse with studies of everyday practices, ranging, for example, from the embodiment of women’s knowledge and solidarity in Aymara textile-making and Spanish popular music, to post-neoliberal development struggles in Okinawa, Malawi, and Ecuador. Useful for students in both the global south and north. "

Dorothy Kidd, Professor of Media Studies, University of San Francisco, USA