Human Rights And African Airwaves

Author : Harri Englund
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253223474
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Rights and African Airwaves written by Harri Englund and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-03 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Article 19 (Organization)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who Rules the Airwaves? written by Article 19 (Organization) and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 6. Namibia, by David Lush

Author : Mette Hjort
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253039444
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Cinema and Human Rights written by Mette Hjort and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays and case studies exploring how filmmaking can play a role in promoting social and economic justice. Bringing theory and practice together, African Cinema and Human Rights argues that moving images have a significant role to play in advancing the causes of justice and fairness. The contributors to this volume identify three key ways in which film can achieve these goals: Documenting human rights abuses and thereby supporting the claims of victims and goals of truth and reconciliation within larger communities Legitimating, and consequently solidifying, an expanded scope for human rights Promoting the realization of social and economic right Including the voices of African scholars, scholar-filmmakers, African directors Jean-Marie Teno and Gaston Kaboré, and researchers whose work focuses on transnational cinema, this volume explores overall perspectives, and differences of perspective, pertaining to Africa, human rights, and human rights filmmaking alongside specific case studies of individual films and areas of human rights violations. With its interdisciplinary scope, attention to practitioners’ self-understandings, broad perspectives, and particular case studies, African Cinema and Human Rights is a foundational text that offers questions, reflections, and evidence that help us to consider film’s ideal role within the context of our ever-continuing struggle towards a more just global society.

Author : Harri Englund
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 100908481X
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visions for Racial Equality written by Harri Englund and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on David Clement Scott, the head of the Church of Scotland mission in Malawi, this innovative book narrates the rise and demise of a unique vision for racial equality in nineteenth-century Africa, offering rich insights into diverse approaches to the missionary vocation.

Author : Mark Goodale
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195371844
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Rights at the Crossroads written by Mark Goodale and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human Rights at the Crossroads brings together preeminent and emerging voices within human rights studies to think creatively about problems beyond their own disciplines, and to critically respond to what appear to be intractable problems within human rights theory and practice. It provides an integrative and interdisciplinary answer to the existing academic status quo, with broad implications for future theory and practice in all fields dealing with the problems of human rights theory and practice.

Author : John Parker
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191667544
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History written by John Parker and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History represents an invaluable tool for historians and others in the field of African studies. This collection of essays, produced by some of the finest scholars currently working in the field, provides the latest insights into, and interpretations of, the history of Africa - a continent with a rich and complex past. An understanding of this past is essential to gain perspective on Africa's current challenges, and this accessible and comprehensive volume will allow readers to explore various aspects - political, economic, social, and cultural - of the continent's history over the last two hundred years. Since African history first emerged as a serious academic endeavour in the 1950s and 1960s, it has undergone numerous shifts in terms of emphasis and approach, changes brought about by political and economic exigencies and by ideological debates. This multi-faceted Handbook is essential reading for anyone with an interest in those debates, and in Africa and its peoples. While the focus is determinedly historical, anthropology, geography, literary criticism, political science and sociology are all employed in this ground-breaking study of Africa's past.

Author : Maija Mustaniemi-Laakso
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315459434
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Rights-Based Change written by Maija Mustaniemi-Laakso and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides different analytical perspectives into how human rights-based approaches to development (HRBADs) contribute to change. Based on the understanding that HRBADs are increasingly integrated into development and governance discourse and processes in many societies and organisations, it explores how the reinforcement of human rights principles and norms has impacted the practices and processes of development policy implementation. To reflect on the nature of the change that such efforts may imply, the chapters examine critically traditional and innovative ways of mainstreaming and institutionalising human right in judicial, bureaucratic and organisational processes in development work. Attention is also paid to the results assessment and causal debates in the human rights field. The articles discuss important questions concerning the legitimacy of and preconditions for change. What is the change that development efforts should seek to contribute to and who should have the power to define such change? What is required of institutional structures and processes within development organisations and agencies in order for human rights integration and institutionalisation to have transformative potential? This book was previously published as a special issue of the Nordic Journal of Human Rights.

Author : Howard Tumber
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317215133
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Media and Human Rights written by Howard Tumber and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Media and Human Rights offers a comprehensive and contemporary survey of the key themes, approaches and debates in the field of media and human rights. The Companion is the first collection to bring together two distinct ways of thinking about human rights and media, including scholarship that examines media as a human right alongside that which looks at media coverage of human rights issues. This international collection of 49 newly written pieces thus provides a unique overview of current research in the field, while also providing historical context to help students and scholars appreciate how such developments depart from past practices. The volume examines the universal principals of freedom of expression, legal instruments, the right to know, media as a human right, and the role of media organisations and journalistic work. It is organised thematically in five parts: Communication, Expression and Human Rights Media Performance and Human Rights: Political Processes Media Performance and Human Rights: News and Journalism Digital Activism, Witnessing and Human Rights Media Representation of Human Rights: Cultural, Social and Political. Individual essays cover an array of topics, including mass-surveillance, LGBT advocacy, press law, freedom of information and children’s rights in the digital age. With contributions from both leading scholars and emerging scholars, the Companion offers an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach to media and human rights allowing for international comparisons and varying perspectives. The Routledge Companion to Media and Human Rights provides a comprehensive introduction to the current field useful for both students and researchers, and defines the agenda for future research.

Author : Herman Wasserman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135716366
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Press Freedom in Africa written by Herman Wasserman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives an overview of current debates surrounding press freedom in Africa in response to ongoing contestations between media and governments on the continent. Through case studies of individual African countries as well as international comparisons, a wide range of global contributors provide critical assessments of the state of press freedom on the continent and critical perspectives on the dominant discourses around freedom and democracy. Some fear an alarming slide towards a media-intolerant environment in South Africa, and the proposed Media Appeals Tribunal and the Protection of State Information Bill (POSIB) have met with strong criticism from journalism practitioners and educators. This book examines these and other recent developments seen to represent a threat to press freedom on the African continent. Contributors to the volume take a comparative look at the situation in South Africa within a broader, global context of transitions to democracy and globalised marketization of the media, as well as inspecting specific African examples that may serve to illuminate broader trends. Case studies from different African countries are examined, but in the process the discourses around press freedom are also subjected to critical scrutiny. Critics state that the South African media are not without fault, and that part of journalism scholarship’s role is to continue to point to these shortcomings and to suggest ways of improving the media’s democratic responsibility. Press Freedom in Africa provides a range of perspectives on the heated debates surrounding press freedom. It illustrates the importance of research-based, scholarly interventions into the often emotional and rhetorical debates surrounding the role of the media in African society. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies.

Author : Jessica Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108654304
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Search of Gender Justice written by Jessica Johnson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What might gender justice look like in matrilineal Malawi? Ideas about gender and human rights have exerted considerable influence over African policy makers and civil society organisations in recent years, and Malawi is no exception. There, concerted efforts at civic education have made the concepts of human and women's rights widely accessible to the rural poor, albeit in modified form. In this book, Jessica Johnson listens to the voices of ordinary Malawian citizens as they strive to resolve disputes and achieve successful gender and marital relations. Through nuanced ethnographic description of aspirations for gender and marital relationships; extended analysis of dispute resolution processes; and an examination of the ways in which the approaches of chiefs, police officers and magistrates intersect, this study puts relationships between law, custom, rights, and justice under the spotlight.