Community radio policies in South Asia: a deliberative policy ecology approach
Singapore:
Palgrave Macmillan
(2020), 382 pp., abbrev. p.xix-xxii, 2 tables, bibliogr. p.339-361, index
ISBN 978-981-15-5629-6 (ebook); 978-981-15-5628-9 (hbk)
"The book draws on critical media policy studies, to study the principles and performances of policies and policymaking for community radio in four countries of South Asia---Sri Lanka, Nepal, India, and Bangladesh. It focuses on the processes and practices of deliberation that go into policymaking, across space and time, and the global-local spectrum. It stitches together a critical media policy ethnography, drawing on over a 100 formal interviews and informal conversations with policy actors from South Asia, in a bid to present a deliberative policy analysis of policymaking for community radio in the region. Drawing on Grounded Theory, the book fleshes out the Deliberative Policy Ecology Approach as an inclusive heuristic to study media policies." (Back cover)
Contents
1 Media Policy Studies and Community Media, 1
2 The Deliberative Policy Ecology Approach to Media Policy, 47
3 The Postcolony and Its Radio, 87
4 A Glocal Public Sphere: Opening up of Radio to Communities in South Asia, 145
5 Plural Policy Actors and Narratives of Practice, 193
6 Liminality, Sustainability, and the State, 255
7 A Critical Comparative Ecology: Connectedness, Contestation, Comparativity, 291
2 The Deliberative Policy Ecology Approach to Media Policy, 47
3 The Postcolony and Its Radio, 87
4 A Glocal Public Sphere: Opening up of Radio to Communities in South Asia, 145
5 Plural Policy Actors and Narratives of Practice, 193
6 Liminality, Sustainability, and the State, 255
7 A Critical Comparative Ecology: Connectedness, Contestation, Comparativity, 291
