[ecrea] CFP Disertaciones "Indigenous Communication in Latin America"

        Articles for Volume 11, Number 2 (Jul-
        Dec. 2018), focusing on Indigenous Communication in Latin America

	
Issue focused on /Indigenous Communication in Latin America/. 
Coordinated by Alejandro Barranquero Carretero (Universidad Carlos III 
de Madrid, Spain) -(abarranq /at/ hum.uc3m.es)- and Eva Tanco (Centro de 
Investigación Internacional para la Participación y el Cambio Social, 
Colombia) -(tanco.eva /at/ gmail.com)-.



This issue of/Disertaciones 
<https://revistas.urosario.edu.co/index.php/disertaciones/index>/ 
receives empirical studies (qualitative, quantitative, or mixed) on 
different manifestations of indigenous communication in Latin America. 
/Disertaciones/ (ISSN: 1856 - 9536) is a peer-reviewed and indexed 
academic and scientific publication. It is collaboratively edited by the 
Universidad del Rosario 
<http://www.urosario.edu.co/Periodismo-y-Opinion-Publica/Inicio/> 
(Colombia), the Universidad de los Andes 
<http://saber.ula.ve/handle/123456789/26076> (Venezuela) and the 
Universidad Complutense de Madrid <http://www.ucm.es/mdcs/> (Spain). 
Manuscripts are welcome in *English*, *Spanish* or *Portuguese*.

Over the last two decades, indigenous movements in the region have been 
in the vanguard of critical thinking and social action, in open defiance 
of the modern/colonial/capitalist tradition and its emphasis on the 
instrumentalist rationality and developmentalism that are so destructive 
of the natural environment. Many works attest to the viability of 
indigenous knowledge and practice regarding social transformation, a 
regeneration of social relations and connections between humans and the 
natural environment, particularly as we confront the systemic crisis 
(political, economic, ecological, and cultural) facing the planet.

Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, indigenous movements drew the 
interest of anthropologists and social scientists that saw them from a 
colonialist perspective, not valuing the autochthonous cognitive, 
aesthetic, and value systems that characterize indigenous people. Since 
the 20th century, however, indigenist currents have contributed to a new 
appreciation of pre-Columbian cultures that were protected from 
destruction in certain territories, although these protected cultures 
also tended to be somewhat stereotyped and assimilated to Western 
society, reduced in some cases to the realm of folklore. In 1992, the 
Fifth Centenary of the so-called Discovery of America saw a significant 
movement toward reclaiming indigenous rights around the idea of a common 
past (pan-indigenism) and pan-indigenous references such as /Abya Yala/. 
More recently, struggles for the recognition of indigenous difference 
and identity have given way to demands for empowerment and the 
progressive acquisition of social, political, and civil rights. One good 
example of this is the promulgation of legal frameworks with 
differential approaches promoted by the first clearly indigenous 
governments (Ecuador, Bolivia), although such regulations have not 
always been coherently translated into policies and practices.

In the area of communication, the first Latin American contributions 
came out of anthropology and cultural studies in the 1960s, with 
pioneering perspectives such as folk communication and studies of 
community/popular/alternative communication media for social change. In 
1980, the McBride Report recognized the right to communication and 
respect for cultural identity in communication policy. Not until the 
1992 commemorations and the 1994 Zapatista uprising in Mexico was there 
increased scientific interest in the field that left behind the 
exogenous and romanticizing approaches of the past and began to move 
toward new objects and perspectives such as digital appropriations by 
indigenous communities and the first research on what some call “ethnic 
media.”

These contributions had their value, but indigenous protest continued to 
find a place in communication studies thanks to the appearance of 
indigenous spaces at the hemispheric level such as the Indigenous 
Communication Conferences of Abya Yala (Colombia, 2010; México, 2013), 
the appearance of the first ethnic universities sponsoring indigenous 
communication studies, the vitality of community film and video 
organizations, and legislative recognition in some places, such as 
Bolivia, of a “fourth sector” of communication based on variable identity.

Indigenous communication is increasingly an object of study today – 
albeit not without problems – that provides a place for the perspective 
of indigenous communities themselves in countries including Argentina, 
Chile, Colombia, México, Ecuador, and Guatemala. This issue of 
/Disertaciones/ seeks to incorporate traditional scientific perspectives 
on indigenous communication as an object of study, and also incorporate 
a space for self-reflection by indigenous leaders, thinkers, and 
communities so that expressions of Western academia are accompanied by 
incipient indigenous scholarship. We propose a dialogue entailing the 
different dimensions of the communications field: empirical approaches 
(quantitative and/or qualitative) with theoretical backing and solid 
methodology, the systematization of work in the professional field, and 
self-reflection and action regarding communication emerging from 
indigenous universities themselves. An work agenda and a set of  goals 
derive from this academic/professional/pedagogical triple perspective, 
entailing the following main points:

  * Epistemologies and methodologies of indigenous communication and
    interrelation with autochthonous imaginaries and cosmovisions
    reflecting Right Living (/Buen Vivir/, from kichwa /Sumak Kawsay/
    and Aymara /Suma Qamaña/) and other indigenous constructs deriving
    from peoples with Maya, Nasa, Quechua, Guaraní, and other influences.
  * Communication policy and regulation of ethnic/indigenous media and
    the right of indigenous peoples to communication (with their
    specific focuses and dimensions), and the role of communities,
    organizations, and networks in promoting this right.
  * The systematization of media, communications, and journalistic
    experiences and practices for indigenous expression, recognition,
    and rights: participatory film and video, community radio, online
    platforms, artistic and ritual platforms, etc., in connection with
    the political, cultural, and social aspects of the indigenous
    question, going beyond the mere recounting of these experiences.
  * Appropriation of information and communication technology by
    indigenous communities: Internet, social networks,
    telecommunications, etc., and studies on the digital divide.
  * Internal communication processes in Latin American indigenous
    movements (decision-making at assemblies and mingas, leadership
    development, participatory culture, etc.), from indigenous forms of
    building community to communicative practices within organizations
    and networks.
  * The interrelation between indigenous communication and related
    fields of knowledge such as communication for development/social
    change, communication/education (edu-communication), social
    mediation, environmental communication, citizen and community media,
    semiotics and language studies, indigenous communication practices
    in other parts of the world, etc.
In this issue, we seek to recognize the indigenous communication 
practices that are multiplying in Latin America and to provide a space 
for academic discussion of indigenous thinking and indigenous 
communication projects and proposals. Thus, we seek the participation of 
academics and researchers, but also of indigenous thinkers, leaders and 
collectivities that have participated in such proposals and projects on 
the ground. The ultimate goal is to establish a scientific panorama of 
the past, the present, and the coming challenges for indigenous 
communication, together with the contributions of successful practices 
in social justice and ecology that contribute to the present moment and 
the construction of an alternative proposal for communicative 
interactions between human beings and nature.


*Deadline for articles*: 5/15/2017



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