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Decolonizing Ebola Rhetorics Following the 2013-2016 West African Ebola Outbreak
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2020), 232 pp.
"Defends the position that, despite the supposed "lessons" that have been learned about the spread of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) after the 2013-2016 West African Ebola outbreak, there remains a need to "decolonize" the rhetorics of Ebola prevention and containment. The author asserts that the failure
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Internationalizing the Communication Curriculum in an Age of Globalization
London; New York: Routledge (2020), 316 pp.
"This book provides exemplars of how the Communication discipline and curriculum are responding to the demands of globalization and contributing to the internationalization of higher education. Communication as a discipline provides a strong theoretical and methodological framework for exploring the
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The Decolonial Turn in Media Studies in Africa and the Global South
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xvi, 308 pp.
"This book develops a nuanced decolonial critique that calls for the decolonization of media and communication studies in Africa and the Global South. Last Moyo argues that the academic project in African Media Studies and other non-Western regions continues to be shaped by Western modernity's histo
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Media Studies: Critical African and Decolonial Approaches
Deep Insights
Cape Town: Oxford University Press Southern Africa (2020), xii, 340 pp.
Zurückgeben: Über die Restitution afrikanischer Kulturgüter
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2020), 223 pp.
"Oft ging Kolonisation mit dem Raub von Kultur- und Kunstgütern der unterworfenen Bevölkerungen einher. Dabei wird das fremde Kulturerbe – abgeschnitten von seinen spirituellen und historischen Ursprüngen – meist in privaten Sammlungen oder Museen aufbewahrt. Die Objekte dienen als Statussymb
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Indigenous Research Methodologies
Los Angeles et al.: Sage, 2nd ed. (2020), xxiv, 368 pp.
"Author Bagele Chilisa updates her groundbreaking textbook to give a new generation of scholars a crucial foundation in indigenous methods, methodologies, and epistemologies. Addressing the increasing emphasis in the classroom and in the field to sensitize researchers and students to diverse perspec
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De-Westernizing Visual Communication and Cultures: Perspectives from the Global South
Baden-Baden: Nomos (2020), 225 pp.
"This edited volume gives voice to pluralised avenues from visual communication and cultural studies regarding the Global South and beyond, including examples from China, India, Cambodia, Brazil, Mexico and numerous other countries. Defining visual communication and culture as an umbrella term that
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Keywords for India: A Conceptual Lexicon for the 21st Century
London et al.: Bloomsbury Academic (2020), xv, 468 pp.
"This book highlights key words for modern India in everyday usage as well as in scholarly contexts. Encompassing over 250 key words across a wide range of topics, including aesthetics and ceremony, gender, technology and economics, past memories and future imaginaries, these entries introduce some
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Afrika im Blick der Fotografen = Africa in the view of the photographers
Esslingen: Edition Cantz; Edition Völklinger Hütte (2020), 104 pp.
"Today’s discourses on Africa are manifold – as manifold as the images we have of everyday life there. Both are fed by a Western narrative that saddles the “Black Continent” with all kinds of clichés – whether the stuff of dreams or of nightmares. In images that are at times documentary,
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China and the Global Media Landscape: Remapping and Remapped
Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2019), vi, 196 pp.
"In the last decade, the Chinese media have imposed themselves in the global arena and have started to become a reference point, in business and cultural terms, for other national media systems. This book explores how the global media landscape was changed by this revolutionary trend, and why and ho
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Pluriverso: Un diccionario del posdesarrollo
Barcelona: Icaria Editiorial (2019), 476 pp.
"'Pluriverso: Un diccionario del posdesarrollo es una estimulante colección de más de 100 ensayos sobre alternativas transformadoras a los actuales procesos dominantes del desarrollo globalizado, incluidas sus raíces estructurales ancladas en los valores de la modernidad, el capitalismo, el domin
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Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary
Tulika Books; Authorsupfront (2019), 340 pp.
"Pluriverse contains over 100 essays on transformative initiatives and alternatives to the currently dominant processes of globaloized development, including its structural roots in modernity, capitalism, state domination, and masculinist values. It offers critical essays on mainstreaming solutions
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Media and the Global South: Narrative Territorialities, Cross-Cultural Currents
London et al.: Routledge (2019), xvi, 207 pp.
"This book interrogates the possibilities of global thinking from the south in the field of media, communication, and cultural studies. Through lenses of millennial media cultures, it refocuses the praxis of the global south in relation to the established ideas of globalization, development, and con
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Routledge Handbook of South-South Relations
Abingdon; New York: Routledge (2019), xxiii, 447 pp.
"This handbook critically explores diverse ways of defining 'the South' and of conceptualising and engaging with 'South-South relations.' Through 30 state-of-the-art reviews of key academic and policy debates, the handbook evaluates past, present and future opportunities and challenges of South-Sout
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Un nuevo mapa para investigar la mutación cultural: Diálogo con la propuesta de Jesús Martín-Barbero
Quito, Ecuador: CIESPAL (2019), 285 pp.
"La idea de este libro surgió durante el evento conmemorativo de los 30 años de la publicación de: De los Medios a las Mediaciones (1987), realizado a finales de noviembre de 2017, en el ámbito del Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul/ Brasil
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The Other Digital China: Nonconfrontational Activism on the Social Web
Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, England: Harvard University Press (2019), 312 pp.
"A scholar and activist tells the story of change makers operating within the Chinese Communist system, whose ideas of social action necessarily differ from those dominant in Western, liberal societies." (Publisher description)
El buen-convivir y bien-transformar en la comunicación: Sistematización de prácticas innovadoras para el Buen Vivir
Quito: Signis América Latina y Caribe (2019), 204 pp.
"Hemos estructurado el documento en tres grandes partes. La primera es una lectura del Vivir Bien / Buen Vivir desde las prácticas de las experiencias sistematizadas. Es un esfuerzo por conceptualizar la Comunicación para el Vivir Bien / Buen Vivir desde las prácticas vividas. Siguiendo las narra
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Karoronga, Kele’a, Talanoa, Tapoetethakot and Va: Expanding Millennial Notions of a ‘Pacific Way’ Journalism Education and Media Research Culture
Media Asia, volume 46, issue 1-2 (2019), pp. 1-17
"University-based journalism education was introduced to the South Pacific in Papua New Guinea at independence in 1975 and in Fiji at the regional University of the South Pacific in 1987, while Technical Vocational Educational and Training institutions have been a more recent addition in the region.
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Recognition and Transformation: Beyond Media Discourses on the BRICS
Global Media and Communication, volume 15, issue 1 (2019), pp. 27-47
"Based on literature review and interviews with journalists, we argue that the BRICS countries are constructing a collective vision, guided by logics of recognition and of transformation. The production of discourse reaches its high point during the BRICS leaders’ summits. To go beyond analysis of
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Speech and Society in Turbulent Times: Freedom of Expression in Comparative Perspective
Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press (2018), xix, 334 pp.
"This volume explores how societies are addressing challenging questions about the relationship between expression, traditional and societal values, and the transformations introduced by new information communications technologies. It seeks to identify alternative approaches to the role of speech an
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