Mohan J. Dutta
 
ABSTRACT
The essay explores the mobility of Whiteness in networks of Communication Studies that posture themselves as speaking from the Global South. Depoliticized languages of de-westernizing, internationalizing, and decolonizing are often articulated by elites in North-South networks pushing neoliberal governmentality, erasing c......

Lisa M. Corrigan & Anjali Vats
 
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In this essay, we describe the protest cycle that begins when scholars from the margins make demands on an institution or on the discipline for changes to ameliorate structural inequalities and offer two interventions related to the gridlock described above. First, we chart the patronage dynamic that produ......

Rita Kaur Dhamoon
 
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My main contention is that racism should be read beyond the registers of discrimination, human rights, or harassment – rather, I approach racism as a workload issue that labour organizations and employers need to address at the level of collective bargaining. To illustrate this argument, I focus on racism and workload......

Lisa B. Y. Calvente, Bernadette Marie Calafell, and Karma R. Chávez
 
 
ABSTRACT
The authors utilize a modernity-coloniality framework to highlight practices of whiteness and white dominance within the academy and the field of communication studies in particular. The article grounds its framework in personal experience and theories in the flesh t......

Louise Lund Liebmann
 
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Applied to institute a distinct category of violence, the testimonial format of battered migrant women who escape their families is a recurrent narrative pattern in public discourses on honor-based violence. Through interviews with women categorized as victims of honor-based violence, this essay problematizes the pr......

Myra Washington
 
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This essay questions whether resistance and resignation are the only options available to Communication scholars whose work is focused on race. Resistance can only be understood in counter to Whiteness while resignation takes Whiteness at its word, both reactions center and re-center Whiteness. Ultimately, this piece st......

Paula Chakravartty and Sarah J. Jackson
 
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Here, we consider how graduate education in communication fares when it comes to engaging conceptual and theoretical legacies of racial apartheid and modern European and American imperialism. Treating syllabi as a discourse which powerfully represents the field to future scholars, and graduate clas......

 
Bryan J. McCann, Ashley Noel Mack and Rico Self
 
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This essay examines communication's historical anxieties regarding disciplinary legitimacy as an investment in whiteness. We argue that such anxieties are predicated upon a normative ideal of citizenship. As such, rhetorics of disciplinary legitimacy enact white civil society's originary ......

Adrian Murray
 
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While progressive coalitions continue to oppose neoliberal restructuring, organizing on the left remains fragmented and the underlying unity of the multitude of working class struggles undertheorized. Overcoming these theoretical and practical obstacles is an urgent task in the face of both renewed attempts by the state and......

Ian Hussey
 
ABSTRACT
Feminist standpoint epistemology (FSE) is an important form of writing from below; that is, writing from embodied experience. FSE and other forms of writing from below involve practices of representation that are mediated by ideology. In this article, I tease out some of the complexities and limitations of feminist efforts to......