Books in this series grapple with the recurring issues facing practitioners, teachers, students, and scholars of media and communication activism. Titles address challenges to communication activism as well as emancipatory practices that build culturally resonant, richly networked, multi-faceted, movement communication systems. Core series themes include: the power structures of media and communication activism; rights in the framework of media and communication activism; outcomes, learning and sustainable futures in media and communication activism.
The editors invite brief (2-3pp.) statements of interest that fall within the scope of the series.
Contact for informal enquiries before submission of statements of interest:
Claudia Magallanes Blanco: [email protected]
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Charlotte Ryan: [email protected]
By Andrea Medrado, Isabella Rega
May 26, 2023
This book analyses a South-to-South connection between media activists and artivists – artists who are activists – in the Global South. The authors, Andrea Medrado and Isabella Rega, emphasise the urgent need to engage in South-to-South dialogues in order to create more sustainable connections ...
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By Joan Pedro-Carañana, Eliana Herrera-Huérfano, Juana Ochoa Almanza
November 11, 2022
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 ...
By Julia Rone
August 01, 2022
The book explores the diffusion of protest against austerity and free trade agreements in the wave of contention that shook the EU following the 2008 economic crisis. It discusses how protests against austerity and free trade agreements manifested a wider discontent with the ...
By Francesca Belotti
March 15, 2022
Exploring Indigenous activism through the lens of media practices, this book examines the Indigenous media that has emerged in Argentina since the introduction of legislation in 2009 intended to promote diversity and access in radio and television media production. Francesca Belotti provides ...
By Charlotte Ryan, Karen Jeffreys
March 28, 2019
In this accessible introduction to communication activism, organizer Karen Jeffreys and sociologist Charlotte Ryan draw on more than two decades of ongoing collaboration, using the Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless (RICH) as a case study. The book examines a community with shared values, ...