Whiteness, internationalization, and erasure: decolonizing futures from the Global South

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 gov...

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Published inCommunication and critical/cultural studies Vol. 17; no. 2; pp. 228 - 235
Main Author Dutta, Mohan J.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Routledge 02.04.2020
Subjects
actual socialism
communication studies
decolonization
Global South
radical posturing
whiteness
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Summary: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 claims to radical equality that emerge from within socialist struggles in the Global South. In resistance, a radical framework of knowledge from the Global South emerges from within subaltern struggles for hegemony, achieved through (a) delinking from the metropoles of the North and (b) explicitly crafting a socialist anticolonial politics that names and dismantles Whiteness as a capitalist project.
ISSN:1479-1420
1479-4233
DOI:10.1080/14791420.2020.1770825