Unesco, communication and neoliberalism

Authors

  • Fernando Quirós Universidad Complutense de Madrid

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.16921/chasqui.v0i134.3097

Keywords:

Unesco, Sean MacBride, NWICO, UN, United States, neoliberalism, mass communication, culture

Abstract

This article addresses how and why the debate on information and communication in Unesco was ended with the "new communication strategy"" promoted by Federico Mayor Zaragoza, after the United States of America and the United Kingdom withdraw in 1985 and 1986, respectively. The author describes the crisis of 1984 using two great novels of the twentieth century: The Process, by Franz Kafka and 1984, by George Orwell. He concludes by saying that the first statements by Donald Trump's ambassador to the UN suggest a new blackmail by US conservatives to the United Nations system."

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Quirós, F. (2016). Unesco-1984. Entre Kafka y Orwell. Las claves de la retirada de los Estados Unidos. Quito: Ediciones de CIESPAL.

Quirós, F. & Sierra, F. (2016). El Espíritu MacBride. Neocolonialismo, Comunicación-Mundo y alternativas democráticas. Quito: Ediciones de CIESPAL.

US Department of State (1984). US–Unesco Policy Review. Washington: Department of State.

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Published

29-04-2017

Issue

No. 134 (2017): Publicidad y Buen Vivir

Section

Tribuna

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