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De-Westernizing Visual Communication and Cultures: Perspectives from the Global South
Baden-Baden: Nomos (2020), 225 pp.
"This edited volume gives voice to pluralised avenues from visual communication and cultural studies regarding the Global South and beyond, including examples from China, India, Cambodia, Brazil, Mexico and numerous other countries. Defining visual communication and culture as an umbrella term that
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Tradiciones de investigación en diálogo: Estudios sobre comunicación en América Latina y Europa
Ramada (PO): Media XXI; Formalpress (2020), 358 pp.
Decolonizing Ebola Rhetorics Following the 2013-2016 West African Ebola Outbreak
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2020), 232 pp.
"Defends the position that, despite the supposed "lessons" that have been learned about the spread of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) after the 2013-2016 West African Ebola outbreak, there remains a need to "decolonize" the rhetorics of Ebola prevention and containment. The author asserts that the failure
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Media Studies: Critical African and Decolonial Approaches
Deep Insights
Cape Town: Oxford University Press Southern Africa (2020), xii, 340 pp.
Kosmopolitische Kommunikationswissenschaft: Plädoyer für eine „tiefe Internationalisierung“ des Fachs in Deutschland. Ein wissenschaftspolitisches Positionspapier
Publizistik, volume 65 (2020), pp. 295-303
"Wir appellieren an alle in Deutschland tätigen Kommunikationswissenschaftler* innen, also an unsere Scientific community, und besonders an unsere Fachgesellschaft DGPuK, ihre Verantwortung im Bereich der Internationalisierung zu überdenken und den Prozess der „tiefen Internationalisierung“ in
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The Sage Handbook of Media and Migration
Deep Insights
Los Angeles et al.: Sage (2020), lxii, 638 pp.
"The SAGE Handbook of Media and Migration offers a comprehensive overview of media and migration through new research, as well as a review of present scholarship in this expanding and promising field. It explores key interdisciplinary concepts and methodologies, and how these are challenged by new r
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The Decolonial Turn in Media Studies in Africa and the Global South
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xvi, 308 pp.
"This book develops a nuanced decolonial critique that calls for the decolonization of media and communication studies in Africa and the Global South. Last Moyo argues that the academic project in African Media Studies and other non-Western regions continues to be shaped by Western modernity's histo
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A Post-Colonial Model of International News: Perspectives and Contributions of Stringers and Local Journalists in Central Africa
In: Media and Mass Atrocity: The Rwanda Genocide and Beyond
Waterloo, Ontario: Centre for International Governance Innovation (2019), pp. 365-391
"This chapter demonstrates the critical importance of stringers and local journalists to international news production, and how much harder we need to work to understand the motivations and perspectives of these excluded groups of journalistic actors. News bureaus should restructure to cater to the
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De-colonialidad en la era tecnomediática: Intersecciones teóricas, contextos y procesos de comunicación
CIESPAL (2018), 150 pp.
"La obra que sigue a continuación invita a un ejercicio de relectura de los procesos de modernidad-colonialidad desde la perspectiva teórica basada en el giro decolonial. El objetivo es presentar una discusión teórica que permita comprender y dar respuesta a las relaciones culturales en conflict
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Medialisierungen Afrikas
Baden-Baden: Nomos (2018), 175 pp.
"Der Band fragt nach den multidimensionalen Zusammenhängen in der Konstruktion von Medialisierungen Afrikas. Um der Komplexität des Themas gerecht werden zu können, wird eine Thematisierung aus verschiedenen wissenschaftlichen und praktischen Perspektiven vorgenommen. Neben theoretischen Zugänge
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This is Not an Atlas: A Global Collection of Counter-Cartographies
Deep Insights
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag; Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung (2018), 352 pp.
"This Is Not an Atlas gathers more than 40 counter-cartographies from all over the world. This collection shows how maps are created and transformed as a part of political struggle, for critical research or in art and education: from indigenous territories in the Amazon to the anti-eviction movement
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(Re)imagining African Independence: Film, Visual Arts and the Fall of the Portuguese Empire
Oxford et al.: Peter Lang (2017), xvi, 287 pp.
"The fortieth anniversary of the independence of the African countries colonized by Portugal presents a valuable opportunity to reassess how colonialism has been «imagined» through the medium of the moving image. The essays collected in this volume investigate Portuguese colonialism and its filmic
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Handbuch Postkolonialismus und Literatur
Stuttgart: Metzler (2017), ix, 459 pp.
"Das Handbuch bietet erstmals einen umfassenden interdisziplinären Überblick über die postkoloniale Theorie und Forschung in den Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften. Es verbindet die Einführung in das Thema mit einer kritischen Zwischenbilanz zu diesem internationalen Forschungsfeld. Auf einen T
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Everyday Media Culture in Africa: Audiences and Users
London: Routledge (2017), 260 pp.
"This volume examines the lived experiences of Africans and their interaction with different kinds of media: old and new, state and private, elite and popular, global and national, material and virtual. By offering a comparative, critical and largely qualitative account of audiences and users across
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Afrikanisch-Europäische Medienbeziehungen
Medien & Zeit, volume 31, issue 2 (2016), pp. 2-57
"In your text, treat Africa as if it were one country“ (Wainaina, 2012) – was der kenianische Autor und Gründer des Literaturmagazins Kwani Binyavanga Wainaina in seiner satirischen Gebrauchsanweisung How to Write about Africa SchriftstellerInnen empfiehlt, wird in Medienbeiträgen zu Afrika be
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Social Inequalities, Media, and Communication: Theory and Roots
Lanham et al.: Lexington Books (2016), xxxix, 272 pp.
Postcolonial Studies Meets Media Studies: A Critical Encounter
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2016), 262 pp.
"The book brings together experts from Media and Communication Studies with Postcolonial Studies scholars to illustrate how the two fields may challenge and enrich each other. Its essays introduce readers to selected topics including »Media Convergence«, »Transcultural Subjectivity«, »Hegemony
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Mächtige Bilder: Zur Dekolonisierung des Blicks in der angolanischen Fotografiegeschichte
Fotogeschichte, volume 36, issue 141 (2016), pp. 15-24
"Im Folgenden gebe ich zunächst einen kurzen historischen Überblick über die bedeutsamen Genres und Momente der angolanischen Fotografiegeschichte, bevor ich mich ausgewählten Beispielen der rezenten künstlerischen Fotografie intensiver widme. Beides ist wichtig, um zu verstehen, wie in Angola
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Comunicación, Decolonialidad y Buen Vivir
Quito: CIESPAL (2016), 552 pp.
