The decolonial turn in media studies in Africa and the Global South /

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 h...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Moyo, L. (Last) (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
Subjects:	Mass media > Study and teaching > Africa. Mass media > Study and teaching. Decolonization > Africa. Eurocentrism.

Table of Contents:

1 . Introduction
2. Rethinking internationalizing media and communication studies: Directions and Indirections for the Global South
3. The Global South: Recalibrating Our Geo-cultural and Epistemic Agency
4. The decolonial turn: Toward a Southern critical theory in media and communication studies
5. Academic and Epistemic Freedoms: Struggles of the border intellectual in media studies
6. Decolonial Research Methodologies: Resistance and liberatory approaches
7. Rethinking critical pedagogy and multiculturalism in media studies
8. Conclusion: The paradigm of dialogue and the future of media theory.