Visibility and recognition of pioneer women in the field of Latin American communication. An analysis of the trajectory of Mabel Piccini

HERAM, YAMILA; GÁNDARA, SANTIAGO

Mediterranea de la comunicación

Universidad de Alicante

Lugar: Alicante; Año: 2021 vol. 12 p. 65 - 75

1989-872X

This article aims to make visible and recognize thecontributions of pioneering women in the LatinAmerican communication field. Specifically, wefocus on the trajectory of the Argentine, MabelPiccini. Her pioneering contributions date fromvery early in the Chile of the Popular Unity atthe end of the 1960s. There she integrates aresearch group on ideology, culture and massculture, at the Center for Studies of the NationalReality, dependent on the Catholic University,together with Armand and Michèle Mattelart.Subsequently, she returns to Argentina andfinally to Mexico, after the forced exilesimposed by the dictatorships of the SouthernCone. To address her career, we performeda meta-analysis of her academic work andidentified changes, breaks and continuities inher research topics and theoretical positions.We read their contributions in the chart of thedisplacements collected by the histories ofthe field of communication in Latin America:from the stage of empowerment (in the sixtiesand seventies) to that of institutionalization(in the eighties), of professionalization (in thenineties) and bureaucratization and academicconsolidation (from the 2000s). The main resultsand conclusions show that the critical traditionsof the 70s were, to some extent, restored in herworks of the 90s.