Practice-based reflections on the internationalization of Latin American communication studies from a pluralist-agonistic perspective
Authors
- Martín Becerra Universidad Nacional de Quilmes
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Florencia Enghel
Jönköping University
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4760-754X
Abstract
This article examines the practices aimed at circulating theoretical work in the field of media and communication studies at the current stage of internationalization and reviews the problematical relationship between North and South in this respect. By scrutinizing the editorial process of a prestigious scholarly publication in the field, the article considers the structural limits shaping the particular presence or absence of Latin American contributions to media and communication studies. In doing so, this article discusses a set of lessons about (mis)matchings between the English-speaking system of scientific publications and Latin American studies, as well as the challenges such frictions imply for the internationalization of communication studies.Keywords:
Latin America, media and communication studies, internationalization, pluralism, North/South divideReferences
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Chumbita, H. (1987). Latinoamericanidad: la apertura a lo imaginario. Alternativa Latinoamericana, 6.
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De Mateo, R. & Bergès, L. (2009). Los retos de las televisiones públicas: nanciación, servicio público y libre mercado. Sevilla: Comunicación Social.
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Fox, E., & Waisbord, S. (Eds.) (2002). Latin politics, global media. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
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Hallin, D. C., & Papathanassopoulos, S. (2002). Political clientelism and the media: Southern Europe and Latin America in comparative perspective. Media, Culture & Society, 24(2), 175-195.
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Llorens, C. (2002). Concentración de empresas de comunicación y el pluralismo: la acción de la Unión Europea, Tesis Doctoral defendida en la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona.
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Silverstone, R. (1999). Why Study the Media? London: SAGE.
Sypher, B. D., McKinley, M., Ventsam, S. & Valdeavellano, E. E. (2002). Fostering reproductive health through entertainment—education in the Peruvian Amazon: The social construction of Bienvenida Salud. Communication Theory, 12(2), 192-205. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2885.2002.tb00266.x
Vásquez, C. & Cooren, F. (2013). Spacing practices: The communicative con guration of organizing through spacetimes. Communication Theory, 23(1), 25-47. https:// doi.org/10.1111/comt.12003
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Zarowsky, M. & Justo Von Lurzer, C. (2018). Communication Research in Argentina (2001– 2015): Between Expansion and Intellectual Intervention. Communication Theory, 28 (2), 202–223.
