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Human Rights and African Airwaves

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Description for Human Rights and African Airwaves Paperback. Details local discourse in the global discussion of human rights Num Pages: 280 pages, 9 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMM; APW; JFD; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 468.

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.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
308
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253223470
SKU
V9780253223470
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Harri Englund
Harri Englund is Reader in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. He is author of Prisoners of Freedom: Human Rights and the African Poor, winner of the 2006 Amaury Talbot Prize of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

Reviews for Human Rights and African Airwaves
A valuable addition to any collection on human rights or media studies. . . . Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.
Choice
This book will certainly inspire anthropologists working on popular culture. And, because of its thorough theoretical discussions and claims, the monograph will help us not only to disentangle the complexity of Africa's public culture, but it ... Read more

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