[Commlist] new book: From the Chilean Laboratory to World-Communication: Armand Mattelart’s Intellectual Journey

New book
Armand Mattelart’s Intellectual Journey

## Open access book

https://www.mediastudies.press/from-the-chilean-laboratory-to-world-communication-armand-mattelarts-intellectual-journey 


## Description

Zarowsky’s book follows Armand Mattelart’s intellectual trajectory 
through Cold War geopolitics and the rise of critical communication 
studies in Latin America and Europe. First published in Spanish, 
Zarowsky’s study traces Mattelart’s path from his early work in 
demography and law, through his political engagement in Salvador 
Allende’s Chile, to his later role in shaping debates in France and 
globally on media, cultural politics, and transnational communication. 
The book offers a rich account of Mattelart’s life and work, and the 
shifting political, institutional, and epistemological contexts that 
shaped his thinking and progressive activism. Along the way, it 
illuminates his distinctive style of research in relation to Anglophone 
political economy and other strands of critical research. In doing so, 
Zarowsky positions Mattelart as a theorist whose work emerged from—and 
continues to speak to—global struggles over culture, knowledge, and 
power and relations between the Global North and South. As the first 
English edition of Zarowsky’s landmark study, the book will appeal to 
scholars of critical communication studies, Latin American and 
transnational cultural theory, and those working on the history of the 
social sciences across global contexts.

Mariano Zarowsky is a researcher at Argentina’s National Scientific and 
Technical Research Council (CONICET) and teaches at the Faculty of 
Social Sciences, Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA). His research 
intersects the history of intellectuals, communication studies, and 
political culture in Argentina and Latin America. He is the author of 
Allende en la Argentina: intelectuales, prensa y edición entre lo local 
y lo global (1970–1976) (2023), and Los estudios en comunicación en la 
Argentina: ideas, intelectuales, tradiciones político-culturales, 
1956–1985 (2017).

mediastudies.press <mediastudies.press>  is a scholar-led, nonprofit, 
no-fee open access publisher in the media, film, and communication 
studies fields.

Questions? Email press@mediastudies.press <mailto:press@mediastudies.press>
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