ABSTRACT

This volume examines communicative justice from the perspective of the pluriverse and explores how it is employed to work towards key pluriverse goals of environmental, cognitive, sociocultural, sociopolitical, and political economy justice.

The book identifies and explains the unequal power relations in place that limit the possibilities of communication justice, the challenges and difficulties faced by activists and communities, the ways in which communities and movements have confronted power structures through discourse and material action, and their successes and limitations in creating new structures that promote the right to, and facilitate a future for, communicative justice. The volume features contributions based on experiences of resistance and transformation in the Global South—Bolivia, Ecuador, India, Malawi, and collaborations between the continents of Latin America and Africa—as well as notable studies from the Global North—Japan, Spain, and the United Kingdom—that defy hegemonic models.

This book is essential for students and scholars interested in media and communication activism, media practice for development and social change, and communication for development and social change, as well as those actively engaged with activism and social justice.

chapter 2|11 pages

Weaving life

The women of the Andes in their decolonial work

chapter 4|18 pages

Voices with Purpose

Lessons learned from the South–South collaboration between Latin America and Africa for the strengthening of communication capacities in social organisations

chapter 6|15 pages

Reverse Media Policy

Challenging empires, resisting power

chapter 9|16 pages

Ontologies and Ecologies of the Otherwise

Notes on postdevelopment practices in Malawi

chapter 11|4 pages

Postscript

Justice, sustainability, and communications: a pluriversal approach