Abstract

TORRICO VILLANUEVA, Erick R.. Rehumanization, the ultimate meaning of communicational decolonization. Rev. aportes de la comunicación [online]. 2017, n.23, pp.31-38. ISSN 2306-8671.

The dehumanization that still survives in the contemporary world began at the moment when Modernity was born, along with the so-called "discovery of America". It was then when the hierarchy between peoples and human beings was established as a justifying mechanism of domination and exploitation, while communication was interrupted. Later, the Eurocentric science confirmed that subordination in the theory, this "Western" knowledge also involved the field of Communication studies. The political independence of the countries liberated from colonialism did not overcome coloniality, which is expressed in the areas of being, knowledge, powerand doing. Decolonization today implies ending the seconstraints and restoring the humanity of the subjugated; that is, to restore the human sense of communication in concepts and practice.

Keywords : Dehumanization; Modernity; Communication; Rehumanization.

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