Contribuciones de la Teoría Social Latinoamericana a la agenda de la comunicación y la cultura en la UNESCO (1970 – 2015)

Abstract

Through bibliographic review and content analysis of primary sources, this article analyzes and makes visible key ideas emanating from Latin American Social Theory in the multilateral agenda of communication and culture discussed at UNESCO between 1970 and 2015. Bridges are established between concepts such as the right to communication, National Communication Policies, Buen Vivir, interculturality and decoloniality, and paramount UNESCO reports and legal instruments. In this sense, we are able to rebuild the narrative that that underlies the evolution of the agenda, which begins with the critical approach to communication in the 1970s, makes a turn towards cultural diversity in the 1990s and culminates in the great question mark of the present moment, inaugurated in 2015, with the 2030 Agenda, where UNESCO’S four decades of debate on cultural self-determination of peoples are not reflected.

Keywords

• latin american social theory
• unesco
• cultural self-determination
• right to communicate
• cultural rights