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Decolonizing Communication for Social Change: A Culture-Centered Approach
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
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Global Nollywood: The Transnational Dimensions of an African Video Film Industry
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2013), viii, 371 pp.
Storytelling in World Cinemas. Vol. 2: Contexts
London; New York: Wallflower Press (2013), x, 198 pp.
Cinema and Development in West Africa
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
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Postcolonial Cinema Studies
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
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Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples
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
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Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa
Deep Insights
London; New York: Routledge (2011), xiii, 288 pp.
"Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa examines the role that popular media could play to encourage political debate, provide information for development, or critique the very definitions of 'democracy' and 'development'. Drawing on diverse case studies from various regions of the Afric
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La Comunicología de Liberación, otra fuente para el pensamiento decolonial. Una aproximación a las ideas de Luis Ramiro Beltrán
Quórum Academico, volume 7, issue 1 (2010), pp. 65-77
"El artículo plantea que la Comunicología de Liberación propuesta por el boliviano Luis Ramiro Beltrán en 1976 puede ser considerada entre las fuentes del pensamiento decolonial junto a otras elaboraciones del dependentismo y el anticolonialismo latinoamericano de entonces. El programa de invest
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La production des représentations coloniales et postcoloniales
Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales, issue 185 (2010), pp. 4-11
"Entreprise de domination par excellence, la colonisation s’est accompagnée et nourrie de représentations savantes, littéraires et artistiques, des sociétés colonisées, qui ont servi à la légitimer, au nom d’une prétendue mission civilisatrice de l’Occident, ou encore d’une soi-disa
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Indianizing Film: Decolonization, the Andes and the Question of Technology
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press (2009), ix, 282 pp.
Reporting the Sri Lankan Conflict: Ethnic, Separatist or a Fight for Freedom
Media Asia, volume 34, issue 2 (2007), pp. 88-95
"A study by De Alwis (2006) on the reporting of the Sri Lanka conflict under censorship, made comparisons to Western theories and models. The findings disclose the unique techniques used by the local press to circumvent media regulations. Censorship lacks the ability to tighten its hold on the local
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International Media Studies
Malden: Blackwell (2007), xiii, 265 pp.
"The purpose of this book, explained further in Chapter One, is to place before the media scholar, the historicity and continuity in structures of colonialism, postcolonialism, and media globalization around the world. Obviously these are not clearly demarcated processes and colonized countries have
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De-Colonising Journalism Curricula: A Research & “development” Perspective
Media Asia, volume 34, issue 2 (2007), pp. 79-87
"This paper argues that there is a need to decolonise journalism curricula and practices from the prevailing Western models. Putting journalism curricula in the wider context of higher education in developing and non-Western countries is an important step towards this direction. The paper looks at j
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Critical Perspectives on Postcolonial African Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Westport; London: Greenwood Press (1998), 187 pp.
"An interesting collection of essays that provide a great deal of insight into the depth, complexity, richness and diversity of African children’s books. The contributors examine the major issues relating to African children’s literature from several directions and from a variety of angles. The
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