Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2021.2024870
W. F. Mohammed
ABSTRACT Despite recent calls for decolonization in academia as a whole and the fields of communication studies and media studies in particular—with a focus on narratives such as #CommunicationSoWhite and #RhetoricSoWhite—there remains a lacuna of research on the topic within the African academy. Drawing on what I call an African feminist autoethnography framework grounded in a decolonial philosophy of Bilchiinsi, I present critical reflections on my experiences as an African scholar conducting research on media studies on the continent. I argue that although canonical theories can be useful in theorizing African media systems, decolonizing research must first look to Indigenous African epistemologies and knowledge systems to support knowledge production in communication studies and media studies. I draw on my experiences as a scholar cocreating knowledge with marginalized communities in Northern Ghana to discuss the legitimacy of African knowledge systems and parse out methodological strategies informed by these knowledge systems. I demonstrate the ways my knowledge gathering in this region is guided by the Dagbaŋ philosophy of Bilchiinsi, which ontologically emphasizes respecting the human dignity of interlocutors. I highlight the need for a paradigm shift in knowledge-building in media studies and communication studies, especially when African communities are the focus.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2021.2005709
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2021.2001843
Gloria Nziba Pindi
ABSTRACT In this essay, I advocate for the (re)centering of African epistemologies in research conducted on/about Africa in communication studies, particularly in feminist scholarship. I argue that African feminisms can serve as a critical decolonial tool providing valuable insights that can decenter whiteness and challenge the dominance of U.S.-centered frameworks for research conducted on/about Africa. I develop my discussion of a decolonial feminist communication agenda in five themes: (a) decolonizing the imperialistic portrayal of the African woman, (b) decolonizing African sexuality, (c) decolonizing the research process, (d) decolonizing the homogenization of Blackness, and (e) decolonizing ways of knowing. In so doing, I invite communication scholars to reflect on how and why they engage, make use of, or conduct communication research on/about Africa in order to reach an emancipatory goal of decolonizing the discipline.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2021.2001844
G. Asante, Jenna N. Hanchey
ABSTRACT In this introductory essay to the first of two themed issues, “(Re)Theorizing Communication Studies from African Perspectives,” we explore the decolonial potential of African perspectives in communication studies. African knowledge systems have something to teach, regardless of whether the West is listening. And yet, in the discipline of communication studies, the vast continent and its knowledge systems barely hold a presence. African knowledge systems are easily denied because of the ways that neocolonialism, coloniality, and global anti-Blackness structure Western ontologies and epistemologies. Therefore, we ask: What kind of epistemological decolonization is required in communication studies for the discipline to take African knowledge systems seriously? This Introduction creates a groundwork for interventions by examining the array of work that has already been done in service of the decolonial African communication studies project and the future possibilities of African communication studies.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2021.2001687
Fatima Zahrae Chrifi Alaoui
ABSTRACT This article theorizes African perspectives by unpacking some of the neocolonial dynamics that characterize much of communication studies and its knowledge production in, of, with, and for Africa. I propose a decolonizing framework, critical Africanness, to read and locate African thought, which requires a political ethic and practice of resistance and intentional undoing by unlearning and dismantling unjust practices, assumptions, and institutions. I propose four modes of critical Africanness: Afro-Epistemilibre, Afrorelationality, Afrosubjectivity, and Afrotransnationality. I conclude by reflecting on the future of critical Africanness and the politics of research of Africanness in communication studies.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2021.2001842
Adedoyin Ogunfeyimi
ABSTRACT This article advances existing studies on ethics, image, and language in rhetoric by offering three key interventions. First, ethics, a reasonable rhetorical practice that enables informed decisions, does not respond to colonial ethics that constructs West Africans as nonhumans, hence the need for an onto-logical ethics that affirms West Africans as reasonably human. Second, decoloniality offers an alternative visual rhetorical model to the common visual perception of Africa that blurs Africans and their essences, a gap that often denies Africans their subject positions, and that almost always gets theorized away in visual rhetoric and communication studies. Third, colonial language—however Africans claim to own it for their rhetorical and creative purposes—almost always expands and advances its linguistic imprint and empiric presence on the users of the language in Africa.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2021.2001686
Bryce Henson
ABSTRACT In this article, I engage Black Brazilian feminist Lélia Gonzalez and her theory, amefricanidade (Amefricanity), to further our understandings of African communication. I argue that Gonzalez’s theory is important for communication studies to understand how Africanity culturally travels to and politically transforms in the Americas. As a Black decolonial theory, amefricanidade critiques U.S. imperialism as well as Brazilian coloniality from the vantage point of Black people in Latin America. It is also invested in Black transnational political and cultural solidarities that transcend colonial, cultural, linguistic, and material borders in the Americas that maintain white supremacy. As I explicate, amefricanidade provides a sophisticated framework to understand Black/African cultural communication through three key themes. I first focus on who is Black in the Americas, especially in Latin America. Then, I turn to Brazil to illustrate the relational meanings between Africanity/Blackness, latinidade, and whiteness. Finally, I center how Black cultures are expressed and exchanged as a political tool of Black reunification in the Western hemisphere.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2021.1961849
K. Cole
ABSTRACT Employing rhetorical listening, I attend to the ways autistic authors narrate their relationships with objects in blogs/vlogs. These authors implore readers to engage with autistic object-orientations, unsettling the dominant assumptions undergirding some of our discipline’s foundational interpersonal communication theories, including theories of symbolic interaction, uncertainty management, and self-disclosure. These narratives reveal possibilities for cultivating theoretical orientations and disciplinary practices that are inclusive of neurodivergence. They also highlight the unjust power relations pervading interpersonal communication theory, provide insight into possibilities for transforming these systemic constraints, and reveal critical intersections and innovations among interpersonal communication, rhetoric, and interdisciplinary object-oriented studies.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2021.1961850
V. Droser, Nivea Castaneda
ABSTRACT bell hooks explains that “the classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy,” and that through teaching, we can “provide students with ways of knowing that enable them to know themselves better and live in the world more fully.” However, as teacher–scholars of interpersonal and family communication (IFC), this promise of possibility is largely missing from our pedagogy. In this essay, we challenge teacher–scholars of IFC to (re)imagine their curriculum in conversation with critical perspectives and to (re)consider their ethical and social responsibilities inside of the classroom. We present our vision for a critical interpersonal and family communication pedagogy framework, providing three key considerations for engaging this perspective: (1) teach to transform; (2) create reflexive classrooms; and (3) abolish the public–private binary. For each consideration, we highlight the potential and praxis for IFC and IFC-adjacent curricula.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2021.1964098
Megan E. Cardwell
ABSTRACT Our family stories shape us. Individual, layered, and metafamily narratives about race act as socializing agents that teach family members about race, family, and the entanglements of these two institutions. The purpose of this study is to highlight the use of critical multiracial theory to analyze interracial family stories. In-depth interviews with 21 multiracial adults revealed that monoracism, racism, and colorism are useful tenets for analyzing encounters of racism within the family; combatting ahistoricism is a useful tenet for analyzing antimiscegenation and political stratification experiences; and (challenging) a monoracial paradigm of race is a useful tenet for analyzing multiracial individuals’ experiences of feeling forced into one racial category by some family members but supported to express their multiple races freely by others.
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