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Human rights and African airwaves : mediating equality on the Chichewa radio / Harri Englund.
Van Pelt Library PN1991.3.M3 E55 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Englund, Harri.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Radio broadcasting--Social aspects--Malawi.
- Radio broadcasting.
- Radio broadcasting, Chewa--Malawi.
- Radio broadcasting, Chewa.
- Nkhani Zam'maboma (Radio program).
- Public radio--Malawi.
- Public radio.
- Human rights in mass media.
- Malawi Broadcasting Corporation.
- Social conditions.
- Radio broadcasting--Social aspects.
- Malawi--Social conditions.
- Malawi.
- Ethnology--Malawi.
- Ethnology.
- Physical Description:
- x, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2011.
- Summary:
- Human Rights and African Airwaves focuses on Nkhani Zam'maboma, a popular Chichewa news bulletin broadcast on Malawi's public radio. The program often takes authorities to task and questions much of the human rights rhetoric that comes from international organizations. Highlighting obligation and mutual dependence, the program expresses, in popular idioms and local narrative forms, grievances and injustices that are closest to Malawi's impoverished public. Harri Englund reveals broadcasters' everyday struggles with state-sponsored biases and a listening public with strong views and a critical ear. This fresh look at African-language media shows how Africans effectively confront inequality, exploitation, and poverty. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Human rights, African alternatives. Rights and wrongs on the radio
- Obligations to dogs : between liberal and illiberal analytics
- Against the occult : journalists and scholars in search of alternatives
- The ethos of equality. A nameless genre : newsreading as storytelling
- Inequality is old news : editors as authors
- Stories become persons : producing knowledge about injustice
- The aesthetic of claims. Cries and whispers : shaming without naming
- Christian critics : an illiberal public?
- Beyond the parity principle.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780253356772
- 0253356776
- 9780253223470
- 0253223474
- OCLC:
- 696100044
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