%0 Journal Article %1 barranquero_rediscovering_2011 %A Barranquero, Alejandro %D 2011 %J Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture %K 1970s 1980s center-periphery critical externalist historiography intellectual internalist international-communication latin-america social-change social-justice %N 1 %P 154--177 %T Rediscovering the Latin American Roots of Participatory Communication for Social Change %V 8 %X The history of communication theory for social change has tended to adopt a Westernizing and colonial perspective when describing its origin, evolution and main paradigm shifts, as a US and European contribution complemented with peripheral ideas from other world regions – Latin America and, to a much lesser extent, Asia and Africa. All of the ideas from the periphery were underestimated, if not considered ideological or political disputes and, consequently, non-scientific. Despite this lack of recognition, the Latin American legacy to communication for development and social change constitutes one of the main theoretical frameworks for building a more complex, participatory and democratic communication paradigm. Some of the first proposals of Latin American communication scholars in the 1970s and 1980s shared similar ethical/political aims. These involved a grassroots and critical basis and, above all, a constant a constant attention to praxis as the core of a new way of thinking, researching and planning communication.

@article{barranquero_rediscovering_2011, abstract = {The history of communication theory for social change has tended to adopt a Westernizing and colonial perspective when describing its origin, evolution and main paradigm shifts, as a US and European contribution complemented with peripheral ideas from other world regions \textendash{} Latin America and, to a much lesser extent, Asia and Africa. All of the ideas from the periphery were underestimated, if not considered ideological or political disputes and, consequently, non-scientific. Despite this lack of recognition, the Latin American legacy to communication for development and social change constitutes one of the main theoretical frameworks for building a more complex, participatory and democratic communication paradigm. Some of the first proposals of Latin American communication scholars in the 1970s and 1980s shared similar ethical/political aims. These involved a grassroots and critical basis and, above all, a constant a constant attention to praxis as the core of a new way of thinking, researching and planning communication.}, added-at = {2019-08-29T01:56:31.000+0200}, author = {Barranquero, Alejandro}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/24b40e075335e0be3a2dcf209dca40745/jpooley}, interhash = {441b1c5f19958527e646b8677f9d011e}, intrahash = {4b40e075335e0be3a2dcf209dca40745}, journal = {Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture}, keywords = {1970s 1980s center-periphery critical externalist historiography intellectual internalist international-communication latin-america social-change social-justice}, number = 1, pages = {154--177}, timestamp = {2019-08-29T01:56:31.000+0200}, title = {Rediscovering the {{Latin American Roots}} of {{Participatory Communication}} for {{Social Change}}}, volume = 8, year = 2011 }