Fronteiras culturais e práticas comunicativas

Abstract

The book “Cultural borders and communicative practices” is a collection that intends to fill part of the gap in the systematization of studies focused on the theme of border relations in Brazil in interface with the communicational universe. The work brings together 13 chapters by 20 authors from universities located from the South to the North of the country and in Latin America, cases in Venezuela and Mexico. Mexican researcher Raúl Fuentes Navarro, from the University of Guadalajara, opens the book with the chapter “Communication and borders: geographies and spaces symbolic aspects of communicative practices in Latin America”. Then, another 11 chapters are divided into two sections. The first part of the book is called “Borders: Historical, Geographical and Cultural Aspects” and presents an interdisciplinary panorama on the configuration of Brazilian borders thought not only as territories, but also as geosymbolic spaces. The second part of the collection, called “Borders: communicative and media practices”, is devoted to the possible interlocutions between the complex universe of Brazilian borders and the peculiar communicative practices of this locus. Thus, in the set of its chapters, the book “Cultural borders and communicative practices” presents a very complex and multifaceted picture, based on regional integration, academic solidarity and, especially, on interdisciplinarity, although with careful attention especially in the field of communication, plunging deeply into this theme that is so dear to research at the Graduate Program in Communication at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (PPGCOM/UFMS), where the work was created.