Abstract
Communication, as we understand it through Western academic traditions, is a bridge between the self and the other who are engaged in unceasing and mutually co-constituting relationalities. This bridge, however, is not neutral and is conceived as a mode to reduce the inherent conflict between the self and the other, a conflict that is inevitable when the self is split from the communities, giving rise to the self-other dynamics (and perhaps the existence of both these entities in the first place). Cutting through this conceptualization, this paper asks if there is a possibility of understanding the process of communication through any other modalities. Based on my ethnographic fieldwork among the Buddhist communities in the trans-Himalayan regions, this paper explores how communication can be reconceptualized using non-Western onto-epistemic frameworks.
Presenters
Sreedhar NemmaniPhD Candidate, Klein College of Media and Communication, Temple University, Pennsylvania, United States
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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KEYWORDS
Communication, Buddhism, Non-Western, Theory, Empirical, Research
