Migration, Communication, and Activism: Perspectives and Critical Reflections

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Isabel Macedo, Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal

Isabel Macedo is an assistant researcher at the Communication and Society Research Centre, University of Minho. She holds a PhD in Cultural Studies and a BA and an MA in Educational Sciences. Her current research intersects intercultural communication and decolonial perspectives, focusing on contemporary migration challenges and cinematic representations. Isabel Macedo is the co-coordinator of the project Migrations, Media and Activism in Portuguese: Decolonising Media Landscapes and Imagining Alternative Futures (Foundation for Science and Technology, 2022–2026) and the director of the Virtual Museum of Lusophony, a platform fostering academic cooperation in science, education and the arts across Portuguese-speaking countries. She is also a member of the international project CONCILIARE – Confidently Changing Colonial Heritage (Horizon Europe).
Her work has been published in national and international journals, covering topics such as cinema, interculturality, memory, (anti)racism and education.

Rosa Cabecinhas, Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal

Rosa Cabecinhas works at the Department of Communication Sciences and a researcher at the Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS) at the University of Minho. She has conducted interdisciplinary research and coordinated various national and international projects on social memory, migrations, intercultural communication, and social change. Currently, she is the Principal Investigator of the project Migrations, Media and Activism in Portuguese: Decolonising Media Landscapes and Imagining Alternative Futures (Foundation for Science and Technology) and coordinates the UMinho team in the European project CONCILIARE – Confidently Changing Colonial Heritage (Horizon Europe).

Susana de Andrés, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Jurídicas y de la Comunicación, Universidade de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain

Susana de Andrés holds a PhD in Information Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid. She is a professor of Communication Ethics and director of the Audiovisual Communication and Hypermedia Research Group GIR GICAVH at the University of Valladolid. She is also a board member of the Gender Studies Chair and the International Development Cooperation Observatory at the same university.

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Published

2024-12-20

How to Cite

Macedo, I., Cabecinhas, R., & de Andrés, S. (2024). Migration, Communication, and Activism: Perspectives and Critical Reflections. Lusophone Journal of Cultural Studies, 11(2), e024021. https://doi.org/10.21814/rlec.6095