Transversing Our borders: Decolonizing Communication Theory

Mosley, Sterlin

Transversing Our borders: Decolonizing Communication Theory

dc.contributor.advisor	Rodriguez, Clemencia
dc.contributor.author	Mosley, Sterlin
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Davidson, Maria Lupe
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Kramer, Eric
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Olufowote, James
dc.contributor.committeeMember	John, Catherine
dc.date.accessioned	2015-08-17T13:27:55Z
dc.date.available	2015-08-17T13:27:55Z
dc.date.issued	2015-08-14
dc.date.manuscript	2015-08-03
dc.description.abstract	This dissertation explores the limitations of western communication models through analyzing the western colonial philosophical assumptions which underlie theories of communication. The themes of knowledge, reality, identity, and time and space will be analyzed through the postcolonial lenses of anthropologist Malidoma Somé and Latina feminist scholar Gloria Anzaldúa in an effort to understand these themes from the lens of the non-hegemonic “other”. Through the epistemological and ontological restructuring of the western tropes of knowledge, reality, identity, time and space this dissertation argues for an alternative model of communication “transversal communication” which positions the process of communication outside the binary assumptions of western philosophy in order to legitimize non-western or “othered” epistemologies and ontologies.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11244/15518
dc.language	en_US	en_US
dc.subject	communication, theory, cultural studies, ethnic studies	en_US
dc.thesis.degree	Ph.D.	en_US
dc.title	Transversing Our borders: Decolonizing Communication Theory	en_US
ou.group	College of Arts and Sciences::Department of Communication	en_US
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