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A Post-Colonial Model of International News: Perspectives and Contributions of Stringers and Local Journalists in Central Africa

Anjam Sundaram

In: Media and Mass Atrocity: The Rwanda Genocide and Beyond

Allan Thompson (ed.)

Waterloo, Ontario: Centre for International Governance Innovation (2019), pp. 365-391

"This chapter demonstrates the critical importance of stringers and local journalists to international news production, and how much harder we need to work to understand the motivations and perspectives of these excluded groups of journalistic actors. News bureaus should restructure to cater to the ... more

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Medialisierungen Afrikas

Valerie Hänsch, Johanna Rieß, Ivo Ritzer, Heike Wagner (eds.)

Baden-Baden: Nomos (2018), 175 pp.

"Der Band fragt nach den multidimensionalen Zusammenhängen in der Konstruktion von Medialisierungen Afrikas. Um der Komplexität des Themas gerecht werden zu können, wird eine Thematisierung aus verschiedenen wissenschaftlichen und praktischen Perspektiven vorgenommen. Neben theoretischen Zugänge ... more

Comunicación y decolonialidad: Horizonte en construcción

Erick R. Torrico Villanueva, Eloina Castro Lara, Nelson Osorio Andrade (orgs.)

La Paz: Asociación Boliviana de Investigadores de Comunicación;Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Instituto de Investigación, Posgrado e Interacción Social en Comunicación (2018), 354 pp.

This is Not an Atlas: A Global Collection of Counter-Cartographies
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Bielefeld: transcript;Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung (2018), 352 pp.

"This Is Not an Atlas gathers more than 40 counter-cartographies from all over the world. This collection shows how maps are created and transformed as a part of political struggle, for critical research or in art and education: from indigenous territories in the Amazon to the anti-eviction movement ... more

De-colonialidad en la era tecnomediática: Intersecciones teóricas, contextos y procesos de comunicación

Claudio Andrés Maldonado Rivera

CIESPAL (2018), 150 pp.

"La obra que sigue a continuación invita a un ejercicio de relectura de los procesos de modernidad-colonialidad desde la perspectiva teórica basada en el giro decolonial. El objetivo es presentar una discusión teórica que permita comprender y dar respuesta a las relaciones culturales en conflict ... more

(Re)imagining African Independence: Film, Visual Arts and the Fall of the Portuguese Empire

Maria do Carmo Piçarra, Teresa Castro (eds.)

Oxford et al.: Peter Lang (2017), xvi, 287 pp.

"The fortieth anniversary of the independence of the African countries colonized by Portugal presents a valuable opportunity to reassess how colonialism has been «imagined» through the medium of the moving image. The essays collected in this volume investigate Portuguese colonialism and its filmic ... more

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Handbuch Postkolonialismus und Literatur

Dirk Göttsche, Axel Dunker, Gabriele Dürbeck (eds.)

Stuttgart: Metzler (2017), ix, 459 pp.

"Das Handbuch bietet erstmals einen umfassenden interdisziplinären Überblick über die postkoloniale Theorie und Forschung in den Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften. Es verbindet die Einführung in das Thema mit einer kritischen Zwischenbilanz zu diesem internationalen Forschungsfeld. Auf einen T ... more

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Everyday Media Culture in Africa: Audiences and Users

Wendy Willems, Winston Mano (eds.)

London: Routledge (2017), 260 pp.

"This volume examines the lived experiences of Africans and their interaction with different kinds of media: old and new, state and private, elite and popular, global and national, material and virtual. By offering a comparative, critical and largely qualitative account of audiences and users across ... a range of national contexts in different regions of Africa, the book examines media through the voices and perspectives of those engaging with it rather than reducing audiences and users to numbers and statistics, ready to be exploited as potential target markets or as political constituencies. The critical, qualitative research perspective adopted in this book enables us to gain a better understanding of how African viewers, listeners and users make sense of a range of media forms; what role these play in their everyday lives and what audience and user engagement can tell us about how citizens perceive the state, how they imagine themselves in the wider world and how they relate to each other. The book argues that the experiences of audiences and engagements of users with a range of media—newspapers, radio, television, magazines, internet, mobile phones, social media—are always grounded in particular contexts, worldviews and knowledge systems of life and wisdom: ‘It is akin to the tortoise. The tortoise never leaves its shell behind. It carries it wherever it goes’ (Chivaura 2006: 221). African media audiences and users carry their contexts and cultural repertoires in the same way a tortoise carries its shell. Thus far, the bulk of academic research on media and communication in Africa has addressed the policy and regulatory aspects as well as the relation between media institutions and the state (Willems 2014a). While studies on media, democratization and press freedom are invaluable, the ways in which ordinary people make sense of, and relate to, media in their everyday lives are largely left beyond consideration. As Barber (1997: 357) has pointed out, ‘[w]hat has not yet been sufficiently explored is the possibility that specific African audiences have distinctive, conventional modes and styles of making meaning, just as performers/speakers do. We need to ask how audiences do their work of interpretation’." (Page 4) more

Comunicación, Decolonialidad y Buen Vivir

Francisco Sierra Caballero, Claudio Maldonado (coords.)

Quito: CIESPAL (2016), 552 pp.

Social Inequalities, Media, and Communication: Theory and Roots

Jan Servaes, Toks Oyedemi (eds.)

Lanham et al.: Lexington Books (2016), xxxix, 272 pp.

Afrikanisch-Europäische Medienbeziehungen

Medien & Zeit, volume 31, issue 2 (2016), pp. 2-57

"In your text, treat Africa as if it were one country“ (Wainaina, 2012) – was der kenianische Autor und Gründer des Literaturmagazins Kwani Binyavanga Wainaina in seiner satirischen Gebrauchsanweisung How to Write about Africa SchriftstellerInnen empfiehlt, wird in Medienbeiträgen zu Afrika be ... more

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Mächtige Bilder: Zur Dekolonisierung des Blicks in der angolanischen Fotografiegeschichte

Nadine Siegert

Fotogeschichte, volume 36, issue 141 (2016), pp. 15-24

"Im Folgenden gebe ich zunächst einen kurzen historischen Überblick über die bedeutsamen Genres und Momente der angolanischen Fotografiegeschichte, bevor ich mich ausgewählten Beispielen der rezenten künstlerischen Fotografie intensiver widme. Beides ist wichtig, um zu verstehen, wie in Angola ... more

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Postcolonial Studies Meets Media Studies: A Critical Encounter

Kai Merten, Lucia Krämer (eds.)

Bielefeld: transcript (2016), 262 pp.

"The book brings together experts from Media and Communication Studies with Postcolonial Studies scholars to illustrate how the two fields may challenge and enrich each other. Its essays introduce readers to selected topics including »Media Convergence«, »Transcultural Subjectivity«, »Hegemony� ... more

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Decolonizing Communication for Social Change: A Culture-Centered Approach

Mohan J. Dutta

Communication Theory, volume 25, issue 2 (2015), pp. 123-143

"The role of communication in planned social change is portrayed as a linear conduit for inducing pro-development behavior change in the "undeveloped" world. Later versions of social change communication started incorporating culture and participation into multicultural participatory development pro ... more

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Global Nollywood: The Transnational Dimensions of an African Video Film Industry

Matthias Krings, Onookome Okome (eds.)

Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2013), viii, 371 pp.

Storytelling in World Cinemas. Vol. 2: Contexts

Lina Khatib (ed.)

London; New York: Wallflower Press (2013), x, 198 pp.

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Cinema and Development in West Africa

James Eskridge Genova

Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2013), xiv, 222 pp.

"Cinema and Development in West Africa shows how the film industry in Francophone West African countries played an important role in executing strategies of nation building during the transition from French rule to the early postcolonial period. James E. Genova sees the construction of African ident ... more

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Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples

Linda Tuhiwai Smith

London; New York: Zed Books, 2nd ed. (2012), xv, 240 pp.

"To the colonized, the term 'research' is conflated with European colonialism; the ways in which academic research has been implicated in the throes of imperialism remains a painful memory. This essential volume explores intersections of imperialism and research - specifically, the ways in which imp ... more

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Postcolonial Cinema Studies

Sandra Ponzanesi, Marguerite R. Waller (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2012), xviii, 250 pp.

"This collection of essays foregrounds the work of filmmakers in theorizing and comparing postcolonial conditions, recasting debates in both cinema and postcolonial studies. Postcolonial cinema is presented, not as a rigid category, but as an optic through which to address questions of postcolonial ... more

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