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The Poetics of Indigenous Radio in Colombia

Clemencia Rodríguez, Jeanine El Gazi

Media, Culture & Society, volume 29, issue 3 (2007), pp. 449-468

"In 2002, 14 indigenous radio stations began operating in Colombia reaching 78.6 percent of the national indigenous population. Colombian indigenous radio stations are shaped by intense deliberations among each indigenous people about the poetics of information and communication technologies, unders ... more

Community Media Matters: An Audience Study of the Australian Community Broadcasting Sector

Michael Meadows, Susan Forde, Jacqui Ewart, Kerrie Foxwell

Brisbane: Griffith University (2007), 118 pp.

"This report presents the results of the first national qualitative research study into Australian community broadcasting audiences. It explores why a significant and increasing number of Australians listen to community radio and/or watch community television, what they value about it, and how it me ... more

The Televised Community: Culture, Politics, and the Market of Visual Representation in India

Britta Ohm

Frankfurt, Oder: European University Viadrina, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Doctoral Thesis (2007), 384 pp.

"This thesis provides, firstly, an analysis of the interplay of transnational media corporations, particularly Rupert Murdoch's Star TV, in their pursuit of creating profitable national consumer markets, preferably in a democracy like India, with the anti-minority politics, modes of popular/populist ... mobilisation and discursive strategies of Hindu nationalism. It looks at the economic, technological, medial, political, social, visual/iconographic and legal aspects of this interplay and delineates their concrete manifestations in news as well as in entertainment programming of everyday television (particularly in very popular shows and channels at the time). These aspects are set into the larger framework of globalisation, privatisation, commercialisation and neo-liberal policies, the related thrusts of social upward mobility (especially in the new middle classes), ‘good governance’ (instead of socio-economic justice) and shifting class-, caste-, majority-minority and national-regional relations in the context of a re-formulation of nation and state that defines and legitimises new logics of inclusion and exclusion. Secondly, this work is a study of "Indianisation" and lingual/representational politics in the context of the growing precariousness of the liberal-secular discourse and of democratic, independent mass media in India. Especially English-language journalists, whose largely critical coverage of the anti-Muslim violence experienced an hitherto unknown rejection on the part of TV audiences (and consequently produced a slump in advertising revenues), turned with the Gujarat crisis out to epitomise the ambivalence of challenging the definitional power of a privileged postcolonial class: its rightful critique carries the danger of vindicating and naturalising anti-minority cultural nationalism. The study follows and examines, before the background of a normative construction of a Hindi-speaking, ‘authentic’ media consumer, the changing position of both English and Hindi-producing journalists and producers, their respective perceptions of alienation, speechlessness and empowerment, their unwanted role as activists in the context of shifting meanings of 'neutrality' and 'objectivity', their difficulties or agility in assessing their options and maintaining, changing or even developing their convictions, and the strategies they find or reject for adapting to the circumstances." (Abstract) more

Bibliotecas en comunidades indígenas: Guía de acción y reflexión

Edgardo Civallero

Córdoba: Wayrachaki (2007), 140 pp.

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Media and Ethnic Identity: Hopi Views on Media, Identity, and Communication

Ritva Levo-Henriksson

New York: Routledge (2007), xvii, 243 pp.

"Media and Ethnic Identity carries a Native American perspective to media and its role in ethnic identity construction. This perspective is gained through a case study of the Hopis, who live in northeast Arizona and are known for their devotion to their indigenous culture. The research data is built ... more

Bibliotecas indígenas: Revisión bibliográfica y estado actual de la cuestión a nivel internacional

Edgardo Civallero

Córdoba: Wayrachaki (2007), 81 pp.

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Medienkultur und Ethnographie: Ein transdisziplinärer Ansatz. Mit einer Fallstudie zu Senegal
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Frank Wittmann

Bielefeld: transcript (2007), 422 pp.

Publishing in Indigenous Languages: Papers Presented at the Fourth Nigeria International Book Fair, 10-14 May, 2005

Lagos: Nigerian Book Fair Trust (2006), 167 pp.

"One in a series of collections from the Nigerian Book Fair Trust containing the opening addresses, keynote speeches, and papers presented at the Nigeria International Book Fair, held annually since 2002, each fair focusing on a special topic or topics. The fourth collection focuses on the topic “ ... more

Heeding the Voiceless: A Guide to Use Oral Testimonies for Radio Documentaries

Dakar: Panos Afrique de l'Ouest (2006), 87 pp.

Water and Indigenous Peoples

Rutgerd Boelens, Moe Chiba, Douglas Nakashima, Vanessa Retana (eds.)

Paris: UNESCO;Local and Indigenous Knowledge Systems (LINKS) (2006), 179 pp.

"Indigenous peoples from all corners of the globe continue to struggle for acknowledgement and recognition of their unique visions of water, both at home and in national, regional and international forums. But almost without exception, their voices remain obscured by a mainstream discourse rooted in ... more

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Native on the Net: Indigenous and Diasporic Peoples in the Virtual Age

Kyra Landzelius (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge (2006), xi, 338 pp.

"From the Taino Indians of the Caribbean, the U’wa of the Amazon rainforest, and the Tunomans and Assyrians of Iraq, to the Tingas and Zapatistas, Native on the Net is a lively and intriguing exploration of how new technologies have enabled these previously isolated peoples to reach new levels of ... more

Der swahilisprachige Videofilm Girlfriend: Eine Sprachanalyse

Claudia Böhme

Mainz: Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität (2006), iv, 95 pp.

"Girlfriend als Teil des afrikanischen Videobooms zeigt, dass die Produktion von Filmen im Videoformat eine Möglichkeit für tansanische Regisseure ist, Filme mit ihren eigenen Themen in ihrer eigenen Sprache für den ostafrikanischen Markt gewinnbringend zu vermarkten. Die Swahili-Videofilme sind ... more

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Ethnographic Film

Karl G. Heider

Austin: University of Texas Press, revised ed. (2006), xvi, 161 pp.

"Even before Robert Flaherty released Nanook of the North in 1922, anthropologists were producing films about the lifeways of native peoples for a public audience, as well as for research and teaching. Ethnographic Film (1976) was one of the first books to provide a comprehensive introduction to thi ... more

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Indigenous Language Media in Africa

Abiodun Salawu (ed.)

Lagos: Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization (CBAAC) (2006), xii, 398 pp.

"A collection of 22 papers on the indigenous language press (and other media) in Cameroon, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Uganda, and Zimbabwe, primarily devoted to the activities of African language newspapers and periodicals. Some papers examine the significant and pioneering role religious publications ... more

Entwicklungszusammenarbeit mit indigenen Völkern in Lateinamerika und der Karibik

Bonn: Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) (2006), 23 pp.

"Die deutsche staatliche Entwicklungszusammenarbeit erkennt die besondere Situation der indigenen Völker an und unterstützt ihre Beteiligung auf verschiedenen Ebenen. Sie geht davon aus, dass eine aktive Beteiligung indigener Völker unverzichtbar ist, um ihre Menschenrechte zu verwirklichen und d ... more

Indigenous, Yes: Participatory Documentary-Making Revisited. An Argentine Case Study

Florencia Enghel

Malmö: Malmö University, Master Thesis (2005), 63 pp.

Aproximación a experiencias de comunicación en pueblos indígenas latinoamericanos

María Eugenia Delgado Moreno

Madrid: Instituto Universitario de Desarrollo y Cooperación (IUDC-UCM), Magister Thesis (2005), 87 pp.

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