The Evolution of Popular Communication in Latin America

This book brings together twelve contributions that trace the empirical-conceptual evolution of Popular Communication, associating it mainly with the context of inequalities in Latin America and with the creative and collective appropriation of communication and knowledge technologies as a strategy of resistance and hope for marginalized social groups. In this way, even while emphasizing the Latin American and even ancestral identity of this current of thought, this book positions it as an epistemology of the South capable of inspiring relevant reflections in an increasingly unequal and mediatized world. The volume’s contributors include both early-career and more established professionals and natives of seven countries in Latin America. Their contributions reflect on the epistemological roots of Popular Communication, and how those roots give rise to a research method, a pedagogy, and a practice, from decolonial perspectives.

Ana Cristina Suzina is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Institute for Media and Creative Industries at Loughborough University London.

Adalid Contreras Baspinero: Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, La Paz, Bolivia, and Quito, Ecuador

Aníbal Orué Pozzo: Graduate Program on Interdisciplinary Latin-American Studies (IELA), Federal University of Latin-American Integration (UNILA), Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil; Graduate School, East National University (UNE), Ciudad del Este, Paraguay

Cicilia M. Krohling Peruzzo: University of State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Federal University of Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro and Vitória, Brazil

Daniel Prieto Castillo: National University of Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina

Dorismilda Flores-Márquez: Universidad De La Salle Bajío, León, México

Jair Vega Casanova: Department of Social Communication, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia

Leonardo Custódio: Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland

María Cristina Mata: National University of Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina

Nívea Canalli Bona: Núcleo de Estudos de Comunicação Comunitária e Local (COMUNI), São Paulo, Brazil

Santiago Gómez Obando: Dimensión Educativa, Bogotá, Colombia

Washington Uranga: Universidad Nacional de La Plata and Universidad de Buenos Aires, La Plata and Buenos Aires, Argentina