Human rights and African airwaves : mediating equality on the Chichewa radio / Harri Englund.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Englund, Harri.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Radio broadcasting--Social aspects--Malawi.

Radio broadcasting.

Radio broadcasting, Chewa--Malawi.

Radio broadcasting, Chewa.

Public radio--Malawi.

Public radio.

Human rights in mass media.

Ethnology--Malawi.

Ethnology.

Malawi--Social conditions.

Malawi.

Nkhani Zam'maboma (Radio program).

Malawi Broadcasting Corporation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

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 s

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780253005434

0253005434

OCLC:

757756311