Communicative Justice in the Pluriverse

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

• By way of prologue 1. Dialogue of knowledges in the Pluriverse 2. Weaving life: The women of the Andes in their decolonial work 3. Promoting Nonviolent Communication for a Harmonious Communication Ecosystem 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 5. Conserving the Mangroves? Social and Environmental Conflicts in the Gulf of Guayaquil: The Case of Puerto El Morro, Posorja and Isla Puná 6. Reverse Media Policy: Challenging Empires, Resisting Power 7. Popular Music, Gender and Communicative Justice on International Women’s Day 8. Exploring Resistance to Development in the Okinawa Pluriverse 9.Ontologies and Ecologies of the Otherwise: Notes on Post-development Practices in Malawi 10. Further roads for communicative justice in pluriversal dialogues Postscript: Justice, Sustainability, and Communications: A Pluriversal Approach