Of Experts and Tokens: Mapping a Critical Race Archaeology of Communication

IF 1.5 3区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION

Communication Culture & Critique Pub Date : 2020-06-01 DOI:10.1093/ccc/tcaa009

R. Mukherjee

引用次数: 14

Abstract

A disgraceful white boys' club persists within the field of Communication. Engaging key institutional structures and epistemic formations through which the field remains so white, this article considers the mechanisms by which critical race and gender scholars are positioned as eternally foreign, always just arriving, to the field of communication. Addressing the implications of these “epistemologies of ignorance” on the development of the discipline, this article outlines an intellectual and institutional archeology of Communication to reveal, instead, a field marked and shaped, from the start, by ethno-racial encounter. Communication, I suggest, remains so white because its experts and leaders continue to ignore its own institutional DNA, deliberately not knowing profoundly raced elements of its own intellectual history.

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《专家与符号:描绘一个批判性的种族考古学的交流》

一个不光彩的白人男孩俱乐部在传播学领域持续存在。这篇文章涉及到关键的制度结构和认知形成，通过这些结构和认识形成，这个领域仍然如此白人化，本文考虑了关键的种族和性别学者被定位为永远陌生的机制，总是刚刚到达，传播领域。为了解决这些“无知的认识论”对学科发展的影响，本文概述了一种传播的知识和制度考古学，以揭示一个从一开始就被民族-种族相遇标记和塑造的领域。我认为，传播学之所以仍然如此白人化，是因为它的专家和领导者继续忽视它自己的制度DNA，故意不了解它自己的思想史中深刻的种族因素。

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Communication Culture & Critique COMMUNICATION-

CiteScore

2.50

自引率

5.90%

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期刊介绍： CCC provides an international forum for critical research in communication, media, and cultural studies. We welcome high-quality research and analyses that place questions of power, inequality, and justice at the center of empirical and theoretical inquiry. CCC seeks to bring a diversity of critical approaches (political economy, feminist analysis, critical race theory, postcolonial critique, cultural studies, queer theory) to bear on the role of communication, media, and culture in power dynamics on a global scale. CCC is especially interested in critical scholarship that engages with emerging lines of inquiry across the humanities and social sciences. We seek to explore the place of mediated communication in current topics of theorization and cross-disciplinary research (including affect, branding, posthumanism, labor, temporality, ordinariness, and networked everyday life, to name just a few examples). In the coming years, we anticipate publishing special issues on these themes.