CfP: Re-visiting Latin American Cultural and Media Studies

Re-visiting Latin American Cultural and Media Studies is the theme for an upcoming issue of Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture (WPCC).

Cultural and Media Studies are undergoing diverse changes in regional contexts and remain highly contested fields of intellectual debate and analysis. Latin American media research, best exemplified by the so-called Latin American Communication Tradition, shows an increasing convergence with Cultural Studies. However, Latin American Cultural and Media Studies have not taken their current directions as the result of an epistemological break from British, European and North American Cultural Schools, but rather as a result of a de-centralized and de-westernized analysis of sociocultural and political processes in the region, which have created popular and alternative perspectives in communication and cultural research.

Can contemporary Latin American Cultural and Media Studies contribute new theories and epistemologies to the discipline? Have Western schools observed new trends in the region? Is there a dialogue or resistance between the Western and Latin American perspectives? Is the region part of the Global South?

The full text of the call is available for download. Deadline for abstracts: 11 June 2010; full papers: 17 September 2010.