Decolonization and Community Media: Fostering a Decolonial Imaginary in El Alto, Bolivia

Radio Trono, a community radio in Bolivia, uses grassroots critical theory and participatory media to illuminate the influence the colonial matrix of power has on participant\u27s bodies, daily lives, and imaginations. Corporal decolonization, the theory of decolonization developed by the collective that manages Radio Trono, focuses on the body as a site of liberation at multiple scales of geography, and links new bodily configurations to new imaginaries and possibilities for resistance to coloniality of power. This theory infuses Radio Trono\u27s production process and content while the radio\u27s presence in El Alto works to decolonize and democratize the city\u27s media system