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Vivir bien: Diálogos transculturales e interdisciplinarios entre Latinoamérica y Europa

J. Fernando Galindo, Manuel Moser, Werther Gonzales León (eds.)

Madrid; Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana; Vervuert (2025), 325 pp.

"En los últimos años, dos corrientes de pensamiento que gozan de gran acogida en el ámbito académico, el Sumak Kawsay o Suma Qamaña de los pueblos indígenas andinos y la Teoría de la Resonancia o sociología de la vida buena del sociólogo alemán Hartmut Rosa, se aproximan a la pregunta éti ... more

Climate Disinformation in Pakistan: Silencing Indigenous Peoples’ Voice

Humera Qasim Khan, Waqas Naeem

Islamabad: International Media Support (IMS); Institute for Research, Advocacy and Development (IRADA); Mediastan (2025), vii, 39 pp.

"The study identifies five distinct forms of climate disinformation in Pakistan: alarmist and sensationalised content, which exaggerates climate impact to provoke fear, confusion and emotional reactions rather than informed understanding; conspiracy-driven narratives that suggest hidden agendas or e ... xternal actors manipulating climate event, undermining trust in institutions and science; denial and delay narratives where scientific consensus is rejected or inaction is promoted by downplaying risks and questioning the urgency of climate response; oversimplified or false solutions that promote misleading or ineffective fixes to distract from evidence-based mitigation and adaptation strategies; religious fatalism, which frames climate change effects as predetermined or divinely inevitable, reducing perceived human responsibility and discouraging action.hich frames climate change effects as predetermined or divinely inevitable, reducing perceived human responsibility and discouraging action. The study also confirms findings from literature about structural weaknesses within Pakistan’s news media environment, which include a lack of consistent news coverage of climate issues, limited scientific literacy among journalists, editorial incentives favouring sensationalism over accuracy and the absence of systematic fact-checking protocols. These gaps, exacerbated by platform algorithms that reward virality over veracity, create a situation where climate-related disinformation may spread unchecked. The report shows that the climate disinformation impacts IPs in five ways: first, it affects community safety and Indigenous livelihoods by creating a false sense of security or conversely unnecessary panic among IP communities that may lead to damage, displacement and poor adaptation and mitigation practices; second, disinformation related to natural disasters generates fear, uncertainty, confusion and psychological distress among vulnerable IP communities, creating emotional trauma and diminishing their self-confidence in their ability to respond to climate risks; third, climate-related disinformation erodes trust of IPs in scientific forecasts, institutional information and the official responses of state authorities, as viral disinformation messages and rumours fill the information vacuum created by the absence of clear, timely and accessible climate communication; fourth, it discourages Indigenous ecological knowledge and diminishes the credibility of local adaptation methods by painting these methods as primitive, unscientific or outdated; fifth, climate disinformation intensifies the existing exclusion, marginalisation and invisibility of IPs in climate policy frameworks and climate governance mechanisms, silencing their voices and forcibly transforming them from custodians of community resilience to subjects of pity or blame within the policy and media discourses. The study underscores that climate disinformation is not an isolated digital problem but a systemic governance challenge. It undermines trust in science and institutions, weakens public engagement and delays adaptation efforts. This crisis of information integrity demands coordinated action across sectors. The report offers the following recommendations for key stakeholders to address climate disinformation and its impact on Indigenous peoples and communities in Pakistan. UN bodies should support the government in integrating climate information integrity in national climate and digital governance frameworks and ensure Pakistan’s compliance with relevant international conventions and declarations on the rights of Indigenous Peoples. The relevant ministries of the federal and provincial governments should embed information integrity into Pakistan’s climate governance frameworks, including the National Action Plan and Nationally Determined Contributions, to ensure coordinated and accountable action on climate misinformation. iNGOs should facilitate the creation of a National Climate Fact-Checking Alliance linking journalists, researchers, media organisations and civil society for real-time verification and rapid debunking of false climate narratives. CSOs should establish community-based verification networks, conduct grassroots awareness campaigns, promote digital safety and information verification capacity building for IPs and document and amplify local climate knowledge. Media should set up climate news beats within newsrooms, ensure the presence of trained journalists for environmental reporting, institutionalise fact-checking protocols, provide training for journalists on climate science and disaster reporting and adopt ethical editorial standards for coverage of climate emergencies. Technology companies should implement algorithmic accountability measures to curb the viral spread of climate disinformation, promote verified climate information through priority ranking and contextual labels, collaborate with fact-checkers to monitor regional-language climate content for falsehoods and support rapid-response climate information alerts for Pakistan during climate-induced extreme weather events. Indigenous communities should engage in peer-led digital literacy programmes that build capacity to recognise and counter climate disinformation and collaborate with independent media to document." (Executive summary, pages vi-vii) more

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Epistemología de la comunicación comunitaria: Reflexiones y experiencias desde/con los pueblos

Edizon León Castro (coord.)

Quito: Ediciones Abya Yala; CIESPAL, 2da ed. (2025), 335 pp.

"Entendemos a la comunicación comunitaria más allá de los medios de comunicación, desde las mediaciones culturales que reconocen formas de narrar, de saber, de habitar y estar en el mundo y que han sido históricamente silenciadas, faveladas y excluidas. Esta publicación apuesta a una polifoní ... a de voces, pero sobre todo de reflexiones de experiencias, es una toma de posición, un acto colectivo de resistencia epistémica frente a los modelos y narrativas de comunicación hegemónica. La comunicación comunitaria, tal como se teje en este libro es una práctica de vida, que conlleva una ética del cuidado, una forma política y espiritual de habitar el mundo-territorio. Es comunicación que brota de la memoria viva de los pueblos, de sus luchas, de sus sueños, de sus afectos, de sus cuerpos, y de su comunicación-relación con la tierra y los espíritus. Esta comunicación se expresa en la interpretación de los sueños de los pueblos amazónicos con la toma de guayusa, en los “supinas” o cantos y silbos en las ceremonias rituales de la ayahuasca, en los llamados a las minkas (filosofía de cuidado y organización alrededor del trabajo). Frente a la necro-comunicación del algoritmo que todo lo controla y reduce a mercancía, la comunicación comunitaria se alza como una forma de desobediencia epistémica y para sostener la tradición y la ancestralidad. Desobedece el funcionalismo de la comunicación, el culto al emisor acrítico, la tiranía de la viralización y la forma perversa de espectaculizar la vida. Y propone en su lugar otras lógicas comunicacionales: las del vínculo, la reciprocidad, la palabra compartida, que hacen parte del proceso de re-existencia. Aquí no se trata solo de informar, trasmitir, sino de vivir en común, de narrar-se desde los interiores de lo comunitario. Esta obra recorre territorios y reflexiones comunicacionales de la Amazonía brasileña y peruana, los Andes regionales que llegan hasta las tierras del sur donde habitan pueblos como los mapuches, las tierras afroandinas y la urbanidad afropacífica en Cali. Recoge voces de mujeres indígenas que hacen radio como acto de memoria, de afrodescendientes que disputan sentidos desde prácticas ancestrales como la “cochita amorosa” que es un sistema de comunicación y protección de sus ancestros, de jóvenes que se reapropian de las tecnologías para decir: aquí estamos, no somos datos, somos comunidad que sueña, que comunica, que resiste. No se trata de inventar nuevas formas de relacionarnos, sino de volver a nuestras formas ancestrales de comunicarnos, aportar y consolidad esa ontología relacional que ha devenido en la comunicación y por supuesto, mediando e incorporando las nuevas tecnologías en favor de esos sentidos de vida. Se trata de esa atar el discurso con la acción al proyecto comunitario que resiste desde el territorio, como lo plantea el pueblo nasa en Colombia, cuando hablan de la cosmoacción, acción desde el propio discurso y cosmovisión, que se vuelve constitutiva del sentido de comunalidad y que está envuelta en la comunicación comunitaria, por ello, vuelve un tema epistémico que interpela lo hegemónico comunicacional que posiciona ideologías del poder dominante." (Prólogo, páginas 9-10) more

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Indigenous knowledge and information technology for sustainable development

Randsome Bawack, Sian Roderick, Abdalla Badhrus, Denis Dennehy, Jacqueline Corbett

Information Technology for Development (2025), 18 pp.

"Despite the proliferation of IT applications worldwide, Indigenous knowledge remains marginalized in the mainstream information technology (IT) and Information Systems (IS) discourse. This special section explores tensions and opportunities at the intersection of Indigenous knowledge and digital te ... more

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Decolonising Epistemologies, Pluralising Justice: Insights from the Field of Indigenous Studies

Jessika Eichler, Philippe Boucher, Max Virupaksha Katner, Freddy Sebastián Medina Sepulveda, Lorena Albornoz

Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa); Deutsche Stiftung Friedensforschung (2025), 66 pp.

"This paper pursues an ambitious agenda in that it seeks to decolonise Indigenous relations with (the) State(s), departing from the very sources and forms of knowledge, commonly established logics and structures in the academic world, and by introducing the reader to Indigenous forms of knowledge an ... more

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AI Ethics from the Majority World: Reconstructing the Global Debate through Decolonial Lenses, 23. - 24. May 2024

Bonn: Bonn University, Institute for Science and Ethics (IWE) (2024)

"To foster a multifaceted perspective on AI ethics, a pluriversal approach needs to be employed. This two-day workshop “AI Ethics from the Majority World: Reconstructing the Global Debate Through Decolonial Lenses” offers a forum to discuss alternatives to the status quo of AI ethics. Hosted by ... more

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Indigenizing Emerging Technologies

Cultural Survival Quarterly, volume 48, issue 1 (2024), pp. 8-25

"Addressing a rarely-examined intersection, the magazine features eight articles highlighting the use of technology in Indigenous communities. These include AI’s role in exacerbating violence and inequality, the use of AI in tracking salmon migration, Indigenous representation in video games, and ... more

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Community Radio Content in Print Facebook Posts: Limitations and Opportunities for Indigenous Languages

Limukani Mathe, Gilbert Motsaathebe

Communicatio, volume 50, issue 1 (2024), pp. 42–67

"With the advent of social media, traditional analogue radio has converged to audio-visual with print formats. Using the case of community radio in Zimbabwe, this article explores how radio broadcasters have taken advantage of media convergence to disseminate text as implant on radio. A qualitative ... more

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Social Media Activism in Underrepresented Communities: A Case Study of Indigenous Narratives

Peter Okonkwo, Ignatius Achille Njoku, Rosemary Ngozi Okonkwo

Preprints.org (2024), 13 pp.

"This research explored the role of social media in empowering Indigenous narratives, focusing on how digital platforms enabled Indigenous communities to challenge colonial histories, promote cultural sovereignty, and advocate for social justice. Using a mixed-methods approach that included case stu ... more

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Maori data sovereignty: Contributions to data cultures in the government sector in New Zealand

Lilley Spencer, Gillian Oliver, Cranefield, Mattew Lewellen

Information, Communication & Society, volume 27, issue 16 (2024), pp. 2801-2816

"Maori data sovereignty, an extension of Indigenous data sovereignty, is gaining recognition as a vital element of data-related strategy, management, policy, and culture in New Zealand. Driven by the principles of tino-rangatiratanga and Te Tiriti o Waitangi, Maori data sovereignty emphasizes Maori ... more

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Radio Latacunga, 1976-1994: Evangelización y comunicación popular en Ecuador

Jacqueline Aimacaña

Quito: Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Sede Ecuador (2024), 113 pp.

"Este libro estudia el proceso social y la participación política de Radio Latacunga, emisora católica en Cotopaxi, Ecuador, entre 1976 y 1994. El objetivo es comprender cómo este medio de comunicación se vinculó con las comunidades rurales hasta el punto de formar parte constitutiva de la mem ... more

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Educomunicación para la preservación de la Amazonía: Estudio de caso Grupo Comunicarte, Colombia

Sara López-Gómez

Revista Española de Desarrollo y Cooperación, volume 51, issue 2 (2024), pp. 263-276

"La región amazónica enfrenta múltiples desafíos ambientales, socioeconómicos y humanitarios debido a la deforestación, minería ilegal y conflicto armado, afectando especialmente a comunidades indígenas y afrodescendientes. Este estudio de caso utiliza análisi ... more

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Follow up to the UNPFII recommendations: Indigenous Peoples and the Media. Multistakeholder event, 23 April 2024, UN Headquarters in New York, USA

Paris: UNESCO (2024), 10 pp.

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Towards a circular theory of communication: The case of the Wayusa ritual of the traditional Kichwa people of Sarayaku

Ana Cristina Suzina

Journal of Alternative and Community Media, volume 8, issue 1 (2024), pp. 145-167

"The Wayusa is a community ritual that is part of the exercise of political imagination among the Kichwa Indigenous people of Sarayaku, in Ecuador. In this article it will be discussed as a case study arguing towards a circular theory of communication, emerging from the works of Paulo Freire and cal ... more

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Decolonising Digital Media and Indigenisation of Participatory Epistemologies: Languages of the Global South

Fulufhelo Oscar Makananise, Shumani Eric Madima (eds.)

Oxford: Routledge (2024), xvi, 210 pp.

"The book provides valuable insights on decolonising the digital media landscape and the indigenisation of participatory epistemologies to continue the legacies of indigenous languages in the global South. It is one of its kind as it climaxes that the construction phase of self-determining and redef ... more

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Decolonizing Maasai History: A Path to Indigenous African Futures

Meitamei Olol Olol Dapash, Mary Poole

London; New York: Zed Publications; Bloomsbury Publishing (2024), 264 pp.

"In this open access book, Maasai leader and activist Meitamei Dapash teams with historian Mary Poole to offer a new version of Maasai history based on Maasai memory and concerns. Through their rich and detailed narrative, we learn not only about the history of the Maasai as they understand it, but ... more

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Case Study Gram Vaani: The “Voice of the Village”

GSMA (2024), 4 pp.

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La fiesta de las paces

Catalina Uribe Rincón, Omar Rincón (eds.)

Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes (2024), 305 pp.

"Paz y reconciliación son temas cruciales de nuestra historia. En la coyuntura de análisis y debates, La fiesta de las paces reflexiona sobre la construcción de la paz desde una perspectiva interdisciplinaria y, lo que es más importante, desde voces no institucionales. Los autores demuestran que ... more

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Dynamiques identitaires et flux médiatiques globaux : Le cas des Kabyles (Berbères)

Massen Allioui

Paris: L'Harmattan (2024), 218 pp.

"Cet ouvrage porte sur les processus identitaires mis en ouvre depuis le développement d'Internet. Massen Allioui part du postulat que les caractéristiques des collectifs en ligne sont indissociables des contextes sociomédiatiques qui les ont produits. Ipso facto, pour les aborder, il analyse les ... more

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Digital Media and the Preservation of Indigenous Languages in Africa

Fulufhelo Oscar Makananise, Shumani Eric Madima (eds.)

Lanham et al.: Lexington Books (2024), 303 pp.

"This edited collection provides a methodology for African researchers, practitioners, and marginalized communities to integrate digital technologies into their lives to foster innovation, advance the documentation and preservation of underrepresented languages, and promote African-centered epistemo ... more