Tomaselli, Keyan Gray.Mboti, Nyasha.2013-04-172013-04-1720122012Tomaselli, K.G., Mboti, N. 2012. South-North perspectives: contesting cultural and media studies.http://hdl.handle.net/10413/8776This is a pre-publication of the following article: Tomaselli, K.G., Mboti, N., and Ronning, H. 2013. South–North perspectives : the development of cultural and media studies in Southern Africa. Media, Culture and Society 35(1) pp. 36-43. DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0163443712464556.This intervention examines conceptual trajectories arising out of a 22 year North-South research collaboration. It traces the genesis of that trajectory of (Southern) African cultural and media studies that emerged from a context of struggle and liberation via an interdisciplinary network involving departments in universities in Zimbabwe, South Africa (and Kenya) linked to University of Oslo, 1980-2012. The study concludes by elaborating a new imaginary within cultural and media studies (CMS) that incorporates: i) social justice; ii) social action and popular participation; and iii) a reassessment of some assumptions of the European Enlightenment in multicultural African societies.enResearch--International cooperation.Research--South Africa.Research--Zimbabwe.Research--Norway.Media Studies Programme, University of Zimbabwe.Centre for Communication, Media and Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal.North-South research collaboration.Peer reviewed journal article