[Commlist] New book: The Evolution of Popular Communication in Latin America

*The Evolution of Popular Communication in Latin America*

Ana Cristina Suzina (editor)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783030625566 
<https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783030625566>

This book brings together twelve contributions that trace the 
empirical-conceptual evolution of Popular Communication, associating it 
mainly with the context of inequalities in Latin America and with the 
creative and collective appropriation of communication and knowledge 
technologies as a strategy of resistance and hope for marginalized 
social groups. In this way, even while emphasizing the Latin American 
and even ancestral identity of this current of thought, this book 
positions it as an epistemology of the South capable of inspiring 
relevant reflections in an increasingly unequal and mediatized world.

The chapters come from a great team of authors: Ana Cristina Suzina 
(editor; Brazil/UK), Aníbal Orué Pozzo (Paraguay), Cicilia Peruzzo 
(Brazil), Washington Uranga (Argentina), Santiago Gómez Obando 
(Colombia), Jair Vega Casanova (Colombia), Marita Mata (Argentina), 
Daniel Prieto Castillo (Argentina), Nívea Bona (Brazil/United States), 
Dorismilda Flores-Márquez (Mexico), Leonardo Custódio (Brazil/Finland) 
and Adalid Contreras Baspinero (Bolivia/Ecuador).

“The Evolution of Popular Communication in Latin America presents the 
richness and breadth of Latin American communication research to the 
English speaking public.” Paola Sartoretto, Assistant Professor, 
Jönköping University, Sweden

“The book fosters an academic dialogue with the Global South by focusing 
on a key concept and the analysis of it by Latin American scholars 
normally invisible to the mainstream academia which broadens the sources 
of knowledges from which we all should learn.” Claudia 
Magallanes-Blanco, Professor, Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla, Mexico

“… this book is a breath of fresh air from the Global South at a time 
when people from many corners of the world are fighting colonial 
oppression. … If you are keen on engaging in a truly global dialogue, 
this book is a great place to start.” (Andrea Medrado, Vice-President of 
IAMCR

“The texts gathered in this work revisit the Latin American 
communicational thought and invite to a South-North dialogue that 
re-signifies a popular communication as a decolonial epistemology and in 
the scope of the rearrangements produced by globalization and the 
processes of life digitalization.” Denise Cogo, Professor at ESPM and 
researcher at CNPq, Brazil

“If social sciences usually feed a certain pessimism of reason, the 
contributions gathered in this volume deliberately choose, in the 
struggle against the global violence of neoliberal capitalism, the 
optimism of the will.” Benjamin Ferron, East-Paris University, France

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