Academic International Cooperation as Collective Action from Latin America

Resumen

This article examines academic and scientific cooperation in communication research in Latin America, approaching it not as mere institutional management but as a form of collective action articulated through narratives, emotions, and participation strategies. Drawing on a reading and coding of the transcripts of panels from the Latin American Seminar on Communication and Academic-Scientific Cooperation, the article identifies four narratives of regional cooperation: an institutional response to Anglo-Saxon hegemony, a foundational search for a voice of one's own, resistance to scientific capitalism, and the ethical-political centrality of communication. The analysis also incorporates an affective dimension and examines concrete participation practices. The article argues that thinking about cooperation through these categories shifts the focus from formal agreements toward the relational bonds that sustain them, and that this perspective is indispensable for South-South and North-South cooperation in communication to confront structural asymmetries of funding, language, and recognition. It concludes by outlining a concrete agenda for the region's academic associations.