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Thinking about Communication from the Global South. Subjectivities Construction in Latin America: An Overview

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The Evolution of Popular Communication in Latin America

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This chapter discusses the constitution of a critical social thinking and, further, a popular communication and grassroots thought and practice in Latin America. To this end it seeks not only to analyse some concrete experiences, but also to highlight certain thinkers who laid the constitutive foundations for or rescued the existence of social and communication theory in the region such as Juan Díaz Bordenave, Luís Ramiro Beltrán and Orlando Fals Borda. At the same time, pointed towards a Latin American communication process, questioning models imported into the region and moving away from them, mainly from those related to Euro-American models.

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    However, from the beginning of the twentieth century, Puerto Rico became a United States colony, going through various legal situations until reaching that of “Associated State,” a colonial euphemism.

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    Raul Prebisch, Executive Secretary of ECLAC 1950–1963, and one of the main theorists on the process of industrialization by import substitution in Latin America, and the concept of center and periphery, as part of the international division of labor.

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    Carlos Antonio López was president of Paraguay, after the death of José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia (1813–1840). He ruled the country between 1844–1862, and led the conservative restoration process in the country, after the long years of Francism.

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    Despite the great importance of these thinkers to the Latin American social sciences, there is no shortage of more research that deepens and enthuses the presence of women in this critical elaborations of Euro-American theories, such as Rosario Castellanos in Mexico, Lélia Gonzalez in Brazil, and Serafina Davalos in Paraguay, among others.

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    It is interesting to note that some of the critical thinking of the second half of the Latin American twentieth century has its “roots” in these two great historical events in the region: the Cuban Revolution and the Second Vatican Council. These events radicalized social sectors, on the one hand, and on the other, pushed broad religious sectors into the struggle for political, social, and spiritual liberation, in the understandings of Liberation Theology.

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Orué Pozzo, A. (2021). Thinking about Communication from the Global South. Subjectivities Construction in Latin America: An Overview. In: Suzina, A.C. (eds) The Evolution of Popular Communication in Latin America. Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62557-3_2

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