ABSTRACT
This chapter is a distillation of our collective articulations on the culture-centered approach (CCA) to health communication, critical approaches to health, and the politics of doing health communication scholarship at different stages of one’s career. Crafted as a conversation between the four of us—an M.A. student, two doctoral students, and a senior scholar/advisor, this chapter weaves between defining of what CCA means to us at our respective stages, politicizing the nature of health, defining/destabilizing the global South, and thinking through the activist emancipatory politics of critical health communication. It is written expressly to invite early career scholars and students in a journey toward understanding the often jargon-heavy world of critical health communication.
