Thinking about Communication from the Global South. Subjectivities Construction in Latin America: An Overview

Abstract

Beginning in 1492, from the occupation of the territory initially named America by Spaniards and Portuguese-and then by British, French, and Dutch, among other imperial powers-the occupied territory was subjected to various impositions of new subjectivities, by different forms of physical and symbolic violence. While the processes of building and imposing subjectivities go through multiple instances, and involve the combination of a number of factors, what I will try to develop relates more directly to the communication processes that are inserted in the newly occupied A. Orué Pozzo (*) Graduate Program on Interdisciplinary Latin-American Studies (IELA),