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From Research to Action: The Practice of Decolonizing ICT4D
Information Technology for Development, volume 28, issue 3 (2022), pp. 443-450
"The production of knowledge in Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) research has been characterized by an ongoing shift from dominantly Western-based to Indigenous theory formulations. This editorial puts forward core concepts in the decolonization of ICT4D, arguing that
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Needles in a Haystack: An Analysis of Global South Roles in Humanitarian Knowledge Production
Humanitarian Advisory Group (2022), 25 pp.
Mahatma Gandhi and Mass Media: Mediating Conflict and Social Change
London; New York: Routledge (2022), xiv, 180 pp.
"This book explores Gandhi's engagement with print news media. It examines how Gandhi, the man and his message, negotiated with the sociopolitical circumstances of his milieu and the methods of communication that he adopted towards this end. It analyses the role that he played in building up alterna
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Afrika und die Welt: Betrachtungen zur Globalgeschichte Afrikas in der Neuzeit
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2022), 335 pp.
"Bis heute hält sich der globale Norden für kompetent, Erwartungen an Afrika zu formulieren und dessen Entwicklungen zu bewerten Der Afrikawissenschaftler Arno Sonderegger zeichnet nach, wie Europäer aus imaginierter Überlegenheit heraus über Jahrhunderte den Sklavenhandel aus Afrika betrieben
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A Polycentric Broadcasting Model: Radio and the Promotion of Portuguese Colonialism
Journal of Radio & Audio Media, volume 29, issue 1 (2022), pp. 10-25
"The article demonstrates how Portugal lacked a true policy of imperial broadcasting which led it to become dependent on colonial stations for the dissemination of colonialism. The broadcasters established in the Portuguese Empire dedicated significant airtime to the dissemination of Portugal’s co
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The Handbook of Global Interventions in Communication Theory
New York; London: Routledge (2022), xxviii, 515 pp.
"Moving beyond the U.S.-Eurocentric paradigm of communication theory, this handbook broadens the intellectual horizons of the discipline by highlighting underrepresented, especially non-Western, theorists and theories, and identifies key issues and challenges for future scholarship. Showcasing diver
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From “communicating” to “engagement”: Afro-Relationality as a Conceptual Framework for Climate Change Communication in Africa
Journal of Media Ethics, volume 36, issue 1 (2021), pp. 36-50
"This study interrogates the conventional understanding of and practice within mediated climate change communication (CCC) as a forum where transformative ideas on sustainability practices are shaped. Besides the dominance of non-African contexts and epistemologies in literature analyzing the media-
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African Communication Systems and the Digital Age
London et al.: Routledge (2021), 164 pp.
"African Communication Systems and the Digital Age contextualizes communication by bringing to the table African contributions to the field, examining the importance of African indigenous forms of communication and the intersection of African communication systems and the digital age. The book cover
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Collective Memory and the Dutch East Indies: Unremembering Decolonization
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2021), 334 pp.
"This book examines the afterlife of decolonization in the collective memory of the Netherlands. It offers a new perspective on the cultural history of representing the decolonization of the Dutch East Indies, and maps out how a contested collective memory was shaped. Taking a transdisciplinary appr
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Subordinating Freedom of Expression to Human Dignity: Promoting or Undermining Journalism—A Case of Zimbabwe
African Journalism Studies, volume 42, issue 2 (2021), pp. 43-58
"Motivated by a 2014 Constitutional Court opinion that under Zimbabwe’s new constitution of 2013, freedom of expression might have to be considered as subordinate to human dignity, the study analyses the implications of this on journalistic practice. The study argues that such a move would undermi
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Routledge Handbook of African Media and Communication Studies
Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge (2021), xiv, 286 pp.
"The book goes beyond critiques of the marginality of African approaches in media and communication studies to offer scholars the theoretical and empirical toolkit needed to start building critical corpora of African scholarship and theory that places the everyday worlds, needs and uses of Africans
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Re-Imagining Communication in Africa and the Caribbean: Global South Issues in Media, Culture and Technology
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xxiii, 381 pp.
"This book advances alternative approaches to understanding media, culture and technology in two vibrant regions of the Global South. Bringing together scholars from Africa and the Caribbean, it traverses the domains of communication theory, digital technology strategy, media practice reforms, and c
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The Evolution of Popular Communication in Latin America
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xv, 234 pp.
"This book brings together twelve contributions that trace the empirical-conceptual evolution of Popular Communication, associating it mainly with the context of inequalities in Latin America and with the creative and collective appropriation of communication and knowledge technologies as a strategy
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Zurückgeben: Über die Restitution afrikanischer Kulturgüter
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2020), 223 pp.
"Oft ging Kolonisation mit dem Raub von Kultur- und Kunstgütern der unterworfenen Bevölkerungen einher. Dabei wird das fremde Kulturerbe – abgeschnitten von seinen spirituellen und historischen Ursprüngen – meist in privaten Sammlungen oder Museen aufbewahrt. Die Objekte dienen als Statussymb
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Makeovers Made Over: Ubuntu and Decolonization in Reality TV
Television & New Media, volume 21, issue 5 (2020), pp. 439-456
"Narratives about Africa are often shaped by deficit discourses that frame “development” as an instrument for advancing the interests of global capitalism. From within this neoliberal view, Africa has to “catch up” to and “be taught” how to emulate and achieve the standards promulgated i
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The Decolonial Turn in Media Studies in Africa and the Global South
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xvi, 308 pp.
"This book develops a nuanced decolonial critique that calls for the decolonization of media and communication studies in Africa and the Global South. Last Moyo argues that the academic project in African Media Studies and other non-Western regions continues to be shaped by Western modernity's histo
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Tradiciones de investigación en diálogo: Estudios sobre comunicación en América Latina y Europa
Ramada (PO): Media XXI; Formalpress (2020), 358 pp.
Media Studies: Critical African and Decolonial Approaches
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Cape Town: Oxford University Press Southern Africa (2020), xii, 340 pp.
Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema: Poetics of Space, Sound, and Stability
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2020), 224 pp.
"Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema explores a geopolitically situated set of cultures negotiating unique relationships to colonial history. These particular Singaporean, Malaysian, and Indonesian identities are discussed through a variety of commercial films, art cinema, and experimenta
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