[ecrea] cfp for Special Issue of Communication Theory - “Latin American communication theory today: charting contemporary developments and their global relevance”

Please find below a reminder of the Call for Papers for the Special 
Issue of Communication Theory “Latin American communication theory 
today: charting contemporary developments and their global relevance”. 
The deadline for full paper submissions is March 1st, 2017.

We'd be grateful if you could share it with other e-mail lists/networks 
where it might be of interest.

Flor Enghel (Stockholm University, Sweden) & Martín Becerra (Universidad 
Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina

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Special Issue of Communication Theory

“Latin American communication theory today: charting contemporary 
developments and their global relevance”
Guest Editors: Florencia Enghel (Stockholm University, Sweden) & Martín 
Becerra (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina)

This Special Issue aligns itself with Communication Theory's intention 
to encourage "authors and editors to highlight the historical, cultural, 
and political contexts in which theoretical approaches are articulated" 
(Wilkins, 2016)[1]. Its goal is to address the paucity of Latin American 
theorization in the journal[2] with a focus on state-of-the-art 
theoretical contributions beyond the much referred-to "Latin American 
tradition"[3]. To this purpose, we invite contributions that provide an 
update of the outstanding theoretical developments produced by Latin 
American communication scholars in the past ten years (2005-2015) and 
examine their relevance to the global field of communication studies.

Contributions from the Global South have been rather absent from 
communication journals published in English in recent years. Graham, 
Ojanperä and De Sabbata's (2015) analysis of “the geography of 
knowledge” reveals that most submissions to SAGE journals in 2014 came 
from the Global North, and that most countries in the Global South had 
very low acceptance rates for the small amount of articles submitted.[4] 
By presenting the region's recent theoretical production and unpacking 
its critical relevance to transnational debates, we expect that the 
Special Issue will contribute to de-westernizing communication studies 
(Waisbord & Mellado, 2014), and in the process expand Communication 
Theory's coverage to Latin American countries that have been absent from 
the journal in terms of their theoretical production and/or the 
affiliation of contributing authors.

The Special Issue welcomes substantial updates of the Latin American 
contributions to the theorization of communication and media in recent 
years combining rich descriptions of conceptual advances well-grounded 
in the wider sociopolitical contexts in which they have developed, with 
critical analyses of their significance to global debates.

The Special Issue invites papers that address the following questions:

1.      How has communication theory developed in specific Latin 
American countries in the past ten years (2005-2015)?

2.      Which lines of research have been in the foreground, and in 
which ways is their prominence linked to wider country and/or regional 
sociopolitical trends and events?

3.      To what extent have scholarly agendas been promoted by national 
research systems, distinct academic units, the private sector, civil 
society and/or social movements?

4.      To what extent have changes in media technologies impacted the 
development of new concepts and theories?

5.      What continuities and discontinuities can be observed in 
comparison with the region's theoretical production in the late 
twentieth century?

6.      How do theorizations originated in the region in recent years 
engage with theoretical developments in other parts of the world?



We particularly encourage papers from communication and media scholars 
based in Latin America, as well as from Latin American scholars 
affiliated with institutions abroad.

The deadline for submission of full paper proposals is March 1st, 2017.

For submission guidelines, see http://www.icahdq.org/pubs/commtheory.asp 
<http://www.icahdq.org/pubs/commtheory.asp>. To submit, go to 
https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/comth 
<https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/comth>. For queries regarding the 
Special Issue's theme, please contact Florencia Enghel 
((florencia.enghel /at/ ims.su.se) <mailto:(florencia.enghel /at/ ims.su.se)>) and 
Martín Becerra ((aracabecerra /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(aracabecerra /at/ gmail.com)>).










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[1] See Wilkins, K. (2016) “Introduction to editorship 2016” in 
Communication Theory, Vol. 26, Number 2, 103-105.

[2] See Scholz, 2016; Davis, 2015; Vásquez & Cooren, 2013; Block, 2013; 
Ceisel, 2011; Sypher, McKinley, Ventsam & Elías Valdeavellano, 2002; 
Rodríguez, 2001; and Lozano, 1992 for the eight (8) articles that 
engaged with Latin America in substantial ways between 1992 and early 
2016. The search was conducted in the online archive of Communication 
Theory accessed via 
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.ezp.sub.su.se/journal/10.1111/%28ISSN%291468-2885 
<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.ezp.sub.su.se/journal/10.1111/%28ISSN%291468-2885>. 
The following keywords were used: Latin America(n), Argentina, Bolivia, 
Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, 
Uruguay, Venezuela, Mexico. The results obtained for each keyword were 
manually searched in order to identify references to Latin America in 
titles and abstracts.

[3] See Lie & Servaes, 2015; Mattoni & Treré, 2014; Couldry & Hepp, 
2013; Ganesh & Zoller, 2012; Murphy, 2011 for recent contributions to 
the journal where references to Latin American theory draw on said 
tradition as represented by Jesús Martín-Barbero, Néstor García Canclini 
and Paulo Freire

[4] See 
http://geonet.oii.ox.ac.uk/blog/the-geography-of-academic-knowledge/ 
<http://geonet.oii.ox.ac.uk/blog/the-geography-of-academic-knowledge/>



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