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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781984103321

Autore

Englund Harri

Titolo

Human rights and African airwaves [[electronic resource] ] : mediating equality on the Chichewa radio / / Harri Englund

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, 2011

ISBN

0-253-00543-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (308 p.)

Disciplina

302.2344096897

Soggetti

Radio broadcasting - Social aspects - Malawi

Radio broadcasting, Chewa - Malawi

Public radio - Malawi

Human rights in mass media

Ethnology - Malawi

Malawi Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Human rights, African alternatives. Rights and wrongs on the radio -- Obligations to dogs : between liberal and illiberal analytics -- Against the occult : journalists and scholars in search of alternatives --  The ethos of equality. A nameless genre : newsreading as storytelling -- Inequality is old news : editors as authors -- Stories become persons : producing knowledge about injustice --  The aesthetic of claims. Cries and whispers : shaming without naming -- Christian critics : an illiberal public? -- Beyond the parity principle.

Sommario/riassunto

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 s