The Other Sides of Globalization: Communication, Culture, and Postcolonial Critique

Abstract

The launch of the new International Communication Association journal Communication, Culture & Critique heralds the creation of a much needed international forum for critical media scholars—political economists, cultural critics, and ethnographers—from a wide variety of theoretical orientations and perspectives—postcolonial, Marxist, and feminist—to debate the “social, cultural, and political dimensions of our media-saturated world” (from journal description online). The journal’s accommodation of multiple genres of writing (research papers, commentaries, critiques, and work in progress) and its explicit commitment to the goals listed below are especially heartening to scholars in postcolonial studies: For postcolonial feminist communication scholars who work in and on South Asia, the above goals of the journal can be channeled into a rigorous and critical interrogation of the myriad popular, policy, and state discourses that shroud globalization in its misty smog of authority, inevitability, and legitimacy. As globalization creates First Worlds in the Third World and Third Worlds in...

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