Discourses of the Developing World

<p>Against the backdrop of overwhelming discourse scholarship emanating from the Western cosmopolitan centres this volume offers a development-centred approach to unfamiliar marginalized or otherwise disadvantaged discourses of the Third World or the Global South. Written by leading researchers based in Asia Africa and Latin America respectively this book reconstructs Eastern paradigms of communication studies on the one hand and explores the discursive problems complexities aspirations and dynamics of the non-Western subaltern and developing societies on the other. As methodological principles the authors i) adopt the cultural-political stance of supporting cultural diversity and harmony at both academic and everyday levels ii) draw upon Asian African and Latino scholarship in critical dialogue with the existing mainstream traditions and iii) make sense of the discourses of Asia Africa and Latin America from their own local as well as global historical and intercultural perspectives. This book will particularly appeal to scholars and students in the fields of discourse studies communication and cultural studies and development studies.</p>