Communicative Justice in the Pluriverse: An International Dialogue

Joan Pedro-Carañana · Eliana Herrera-Huérfano · Juana Ochoa Almanza

Nov 2022 · Taylor & Francis

About this ebook

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.

About the author

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.