Communicology, Decoloniality, Chicana and Latina Phenomenology: Building Community Through Struggle

The present work considers the communicative dimensions of intellectual practices in an effort to discern how these practices can take full account of their own placement within and accountability to the human communities and cultures they cultivate. The discussion is framed with a focus on intellec...

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Main Author: Jacqueline M. Martinez
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Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2024-12-01
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/9/6/188
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description The present work considers the communicative dimensions of intellectual practices in an effort to discern how these practices can take full account of their own placement within and accountability to the human communities and cultures they cultivate. The discussion is framed with a focus on intellectual communities who have struggled against the dominance of Euromodern epistemological orientations that have constructed their own cultures and intellectual practices as irrelevant or, at best inferior. This struggle is a decolonial praxis. The development of communicology during the post-World War II period in the United States is taken up as an approach to theory construction that allows for the fullest possible examination of the very human condition in which thought and action emerge. Chicana and Latina phenomenology constitute a further development of this decolonial praxis consonant with the sensibilities of communicology. Chicana and Latina phenomenology is shown to advance our understanding of philosophy as an intellectual (i.e., communicative) practice that takes place in a world of other human beings to whom we are accountable. Theory construction as it relates to boundary conditions is taken as an important point that spans the all too common gap between the existential and the cultural and aids in constituting a theory construction project that is also a decolonial praxis.
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spelling doaj-art-0b1d5a3b9a9a44f4a4cc3c351270b7672024-12-27T14:46:59ZengMDPI AGPhilosophies2409-92872024-12-019618810.3390/philosophies9060188Communicology, Decoloniality, Chicana and Latina Phenomenology: Building Community Through StruggleJacqueline M. Martinez0School of Applied Sciences and Arts, College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ 85004, USAThe present work considers the communicative dimensions of intellectual practices in an effort to discern how these practices can take full account of their own placement within and accountability to the human communities and cultures they cultivate. The discussion is framed with a focus on intellectual communities who have struggled against the dominance of Euromodern epistemological orientations that have constructed their own cultures and intellectual practices as irrelevant or, at best inferior. This struggle is a decolonial praxis. The development of communicology during the post-World War II period in the United States is taken up as an approach to theory construction that allows for the fullest possible examination of the very human condition in which thought and action emerge. Chicana and Latina phenomenology constitute a further development of this decolonial praxis consonant with the sensibilities of communicology. Chicana and Latina phenomenology is shown to advance our understanding of philosophy as an intellectual (i.e., communicative) practice that takes place in a world of other human beings to whom we are accountable. Theory construction as it relates to boundary conditions is taken as an important point that spans the all too common gap between the existential and the cultural and aids in constituting a theory construction project that is also a decolonial praxis.https://www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/9/6/188communicologydecolonial praxisChicana and Latina phenomenologyboundary condition
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Communicology, Decoloniality, Chicana and Latina Phenomenology: Building Community Through Struggle
Philosophies
communicology
decolonial praxis
Chicana and Latina phenomenology
boundary condition
title Communicology, Decoloniality, Chicana and Latina Phenomenology: Building Community Through Struggle
title_full Communicology, Decoloniality, Chicana and Latina Phenomenology: Building Community Through Struggle
title_fullStr Communicology, Decoloniality, Chicana and Latina Phenomenology: Building Community Through Struggle
title_full_unstemmed Communicology, Decoloniality, Chicana and Latina Phenomenology: Building Community Through Struggle
title_short Communicology, Decoloniality, Chicana and Latina Phenomenology: Building Community Through Struggle
title_sort communicology decoloniality chicana and latina phenomenology building community through struggle
topic communicology
decolonial praxis
Chicana and Latina phenomenology
boundary condition
url https://www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/9/6/188
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