1st Edition
Communicative Justice in the Pluriverse An International Dialogue
This volume examines communicative justice from the perspective of the pluriverse and explores how it is employed to work towards key pluriverse goals of environmental, cognitive, sociocultural, sociopolitical, and political economy justice.
The book identifies and explains the unequal power relations in place that limit the possibilities of communication justice, the challenges and difficulties faced by activists and communities, the ways in which communities and movements have confronted power structures through discourse and material action, and their successes and limitations in creating new structures that promote the right to, and facilitate a future for, communicative justice. The volume features contributions based on experiences of resistance and transformation in the Global South—Bolivia, Ecuador, India, Malawi, and collaborations between the continents of Latin America and Africa—as well as notable studies from the Global North—Japan, Spain, and the United Kingdom—that defy hegemonic models.
This book is essential for students and scholars interested in media and communication activism, media practice for development and social change, and communication for development and social change, as well as those actively engaged with activism and social justice.
By way of prologue
Alberto Acosta
Translated by Sheila Agenjo Alcaide
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Joan Pedro-Carañana, Eliana Herrera-Huérfano and Juana Ochoa Almanza
Chapter 1. Dialogue of knowledges in the Pluriverse
Eliana Herrera-Huérfano, Joan Pedro-Carañana and Juana Ochoa Almanza
Chapter 2. Weaving life: The women of the Andes in their decolonial work
Elvira Espejo Ayca and Aura Isabel Mora
Chapter 3. Promoting Nonviolent Communication for a Harmonious Communication Ecosystem
Vedabhyas Kundu
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
Karen Andrade Mendoza and Galo Plaza Vanegas
Translated by: Catalina Campuzano Rodríguez
Chapter 6. Reverse Media Policy: Challenging Empires, Resisting Power.
Des Freedman
Chapter 7.Popular Music, Gender and Communicative Justice on International Women’s Day
Josep Pedro and Begoña Gutiérrez-Martínez
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
Carlos A. Segovia
Chapter 10. Further roads for communicative justice in pluriversal dialogues
Eliana Herrera-Huérfano, Joan Pedro-Carañana and Juana Ochoa Almanza.
Postscript: Justice, Sustainability, and Communications: A Pluriversal Approach
Ashish Kotari
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
