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Introduction: Popular Communication, an Epistemological Debate between South and North

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The Evolution of Popular Communication in Latin America

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change ((PSCSC))

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This article presents popular communication as one epistemology of the South, based on the identification of the roots that forge it as a method, a pedagogy and a practice deeply enchained with each other. It discusses how the constant referential exchanges between these three elements raise theoretical concepts that are forcibly engaged, without losing neither rigor nor the possibilities of stepping into dialogues with contexts and issues—in social and academic terms—beyond its Latin American birthplace, like it is in the cases of the fields of communication for social change and of the right to communicate.

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    Acknowledgements to the members of the Brazilian research groups Comuni, coordinated by Professor Cicilia Peruzzo, and Deslocar, coordinated by Professor Denise Cogo, with whom this article was discussed in March of 2020. Their comments and questions contributed to clarify and enrich the ideas and debates exposed here.

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    My doctoral research was funded by the Brazilian agency CAPES—Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior.

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    Brazilian news agency of investigative journalism. Available at: https://apublica.org/

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    Other “images” of popular that apply to this reflection can be found in Gómez Obando’s contribution to this book.

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Suzina, A.C. (2021). Introduction: Popular Communication, an Epistemological Debate between South and North. In: Suzina, A.C. (eds) The Evolution of Popular Communication in Latin America. Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62557-3_1

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