Thinking the recolonial in Communication Studies: reflections from Latin America

• Autor(a) principal: de Albuquerque, Afonso
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: de Oliveira, Thaiane
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Comunicação, Mídia e Consumo (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistacmc.espm.br/revistacmc/article/view/82

Despite its pioneering spirit, the Latin American tradition of critical thinking has practically disappeared from the international research scene of reference, since the establishment of an English-speaking circuit in the 1990s, centred in the United States. This issue discusses this phenomenon in the context of a broader process of recolonization, conducted within the scope of neoliberal globalization and academic capitalism, with a focus on Latin American research in the studies of Communication and in circuits of Science Communication. In this unfavorable context, Latin America was able to preserve a vigorous academic exchange circuit, based on open access to intellectual production. We sustain this circuit can serve as a basis for the construction of a more diversified global space of academic circulation, an alternative to the current one.