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Development and Communication in Sri Lanka: A Buddhist Approach
In: The Global Intercultural Communication Reader
New York; London: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2014), pp. 467-479
"According to Dissanayake, the Sarvodaya movement encompasses the ideal of the harmonious social order and the principle of self-reliance and self-transformation as envisioned and encouraged by Buddhist teaching. The Sarvodaya movement also duly asserts that the idea of development should include no
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Sentipensamientos: De la comunicación-desarrollo a la comunicación para el vivir bién
Quito: Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar (UASB); Ediciones La Tierra (2014), 190 pp.
"Este libro demuestra cómo desde su cosmovisión —que entiende la espléndida existencia en la armonía de los hombres consigo mismos, en sociedad y con la naturaleza—, el suma qamaña/sumak kausay es una propuesta profundamente comunicacional sustentada en valores y prácticas comunitarias com
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Media Development with Chinese Characteristics
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 4, issue 2 (2014), 16 pp.
"China’s concessionary loans and support to development projects have tended to shift balances of power by favouring certain actors over others and have challenged existing development paradigms, revitalizing ideas of the developmental state. Building on fieldwork conducted in Ghana, Ethiopia, and
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Postcolonial Piracy: Media Distribution and Cultural Production in the Global South
London: Bloomsbury Academic (2014), ix, 300 pp.
"Across the global South, new media technologies have brought about new forms of cultural production, distribution and reception. The spread of cassette recorders in the 1970s; the introduction of analogue and digital video formats in the 80s and 90s; the pervasive availability of recycled computer
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Provincializing Hegemonic Histories of Media and Communication Studies: Toward a Genealogy of Epistemic Resistance in Africa
Communication Theory, volume 24, issue 4 (2014), pp. 415-434
"In the late 1990s and 2000s, a number of calls were made by scholars to "internationalize" or "dewesternize" the field of media and communication studies. I argue that these approaches have indirectly silenced a much longer disciplinary history outside "the West" that has not only produced empirica
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Communication and Cultural Settings: An Islamic Perspective
In: The Global Intercultural Communication Reader
New York; London: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2014), pp. 237-247
"In this chaper, Hamid Mowlana elucidates four cardinal concepts of the Islamic worldview that may serve as the fundamental principles of ethical communication in Muslim societies: (1) tawhid (unity, coherence, and harmony of all in the universe), (2) amr bi al-ma'ruf wa nahy'an al munkar (commandin
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Global Nollywood: The Transnational Dimensions of an African Video Film Industry
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2013), viii, 371 pp.
Exploring the Diegesis of the Haridasi Kirtan: A Critical Study
Religion and Social Communication, volume 11, issue 1 (2013), pp. 22-32
"It is argued that to identify an Indian theory of communication Rasa and Dhvani experience must be studied in multimedia and multicultural contexts of the contemporary media universe and that such a theory shall emerge better from an in depth study of Indian folk media. The study explores the world
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Cinema and Development in West Africa
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2013), xiv, 222 pp.
"Cinema and Development in West Africa shows how the film industry in Francophone West African countries played an important role in executing strategies of nation building during the transition from French rule to the early postcolonial period. James E. Genova sees the construction of African ident
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Postcolonial Cinema Studies
London; New York: Routledge (2012), xviii, 250 pp.
"This collection of essays foregrounds the work of filmmakers in theorizing and comparing postcolonial conditions, recasting debates in both cinema and postcolonial studies. Postcolonial cinema is presented, not as a rigid category, but as an optic through which to address questions of postcolonial
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The Three Alternative Journalisms of Africa
International Communication Gazette, volume 74, issue 7 (2012), pp. 636-654
"Much African journalism scholarship has had a critical stand towards ‘Western’ journalism models. The criticism has resulted in the submission of alternative African journalism models such as ujamaa journalism, ubuntu journalism and oral discourse journalism. The present article reviews a numbe
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Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples
London; New York: Zed Books, 2nd ed. (2012), xv, 240 pp.
"To the colonized, the term 'research' is conflated with European colonialism; the ways in which academic research has been implicated in the throes of imperialism remains a painful memory. This essential volume explores intersections of imperialism and research - specifically, the ways in which imp
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Multiple Modernities and Mass Communications in Muslim Countries
Global Media and Communication, volume 8, issue 3 (2012), pp. 243-268
"This article critically explores the shortcomings of the West-centric theory of singular modernity. By focusing on the modern transformation of mass communication in Muslim countries, it argues that both traditional means of mass communication, such as manbars, and modern media, such as newspapers
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Towards a Theory of Communication for Africa: The Challenges for Emerging Democracies
Communicatio: South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research, volume 37, issue 1 (2011), pp. 1-20
"While the scholarship on communication theory has evolved over many years in Africa it is still work in progress. This discourse has been anchored in society's cultural milieu. The import of this is that the debate has evolved without incorporating the realities of Africa. Consequently, theories of
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De-Westernizing Communication Research: Altering Questions and Changing Frameworks
London et al.: Routledge (2011), 288 pp.
"The rise of postmodern theories and pluralist thinking has paved the way for multicultural approaches to communication studies and now is the time for decentralization, de-Westernization, and differentiation. This trend is reflected in the increasing number of communication journals with a national
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Descolonizar el saber, reinventar el poder
Montevideo: Ediciones Trilce; Universidad de la República, Extensión Universitaria (2010), 110 pp.
"Es tan difícil imaginar el fin del capitalismo como imaginar que el capitalismo no tenga fin. Ese dilema ha fracturado el pensamiento crítico de izquierda en dos vertientes que plantean opciones políticas distintas. Una de ellas dejó de preocuparse por el fin del capitalismo y centra su creativ
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China in Africa: A New Approach to Media Development?
Oxford; London: University of Oxford, Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP); Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research (2010), 21 pp.
"In the past few years China has rapidly become an important player in the media sector in many African countries in at least three ways. First, its economic success and the impressive growth of media outlets and users within China have quietly promoted an example of how the media can be deployed wi
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La Comunicología de Liberación, otra fuente para el pensamiento decolonial. Una aproximación a las ideas de Luis Ramiro Beltrán
Quórum Academico, volume 7, issue 1 (2010), pp. 65-77
"El artículo plantea que la Comunicología de Liberación propuesta por el boliviano Luis Ramiro Beltrán en 1976 puede ser considerada entre las fuentes del pensamiento decolonial junto a otras elaboraciones del dependentismo y el anticolonialismo latinoamericano de entonces. El programa de invest
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