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Evaluation Soul City Series 6

Houghton: Soul City Institute (2005), 31 pp.

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Sewero! Christian Drama and the Drama of Christianity in Africa: On the Genesis and Genius of Chinyanja Radio Plays in Malawi, with Special Reference to Transworld Radio and African Traditional Religion

Ernst Wendland

Zomba (MW): Kachere Series (2005), 294 pp.

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A Country ICT Survey for Mozambique

Alan Greenberg, George Sadowski

Stockholm: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2005), 64 pp.

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Media and Glocal Change: Rethinking Communication for Development

Oscar Hemer, Thomas Tufte (eds.)

Buenos Aires: Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO); Nordicom (2005), 493 pp.

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Innovative Radio Inspiring Social Change! A Selection of Community Radio Scripts with Accompanying Audio to Inspire Production on Social Development Issues

Venus Jennings

UNESCO; ABC Ulwazi (2005), 85 pp.

"This publication contains a collection of scripts and selected radio episodes that have been produced and distributed by ABC Ulwazi in Southern Africa. The scripts focus on social and health issues, and recognize that local communities are the key drivers of their own development. Each of the progr ... more

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Achieving Social Change on Gender-Based Violence: A Report on the Impact Evaluation of Soul City's Fourth Series

Shereen Usdin, Escra Scheepers, Susan Goldstein, Garth Japhet

Social Science & Medicine, volume 61, issue 11 (2005), pp. 2434-2445

"The Soul City Institute for Health and Development Communication—a South African multi-media health promotion project—together with the National Network on Violence Against Women, formulated an intervention to address domestic violence. Recognising that behavioural change interventions aimed so ... more

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The Theatre of Violence: Narratives of Protagonists in the South African Conflict

Don Foster, Paul Haupt, Marésa De Beer

Capetwon; Oxford: Institute of Justice and Reconciliation; HSRC Press; James Currey (2005), xii, 364 pp.

"If the dominant media stereotype portrays perpetrators as monsters, as ‘Prime Evil’, then the dominant academic image is the opposite. It paints them as ordinary people (gender ignored, but assumed as male) diligently under sway of modern bureaucratic compartmentalisation (the banality of evil ... thesis), or as obedient to authority and conforming to social pressures (the situationist thesis). No monsters here, just ordinary people under rather extraordinary circumstances. The moral message: we co uld all potentially become perpetrators, depending on the situation. There is a competing view: the perpetrator as a willing, even eager, executioner driven by strong negative emotions against the ‘other’. The scholarly world presents us with antagonistic perspectives. What picture do we get from narrative approaches, from stories told by those actually responsible for politically-related violence? First, there are only a few narrative studies. Second, they also paint competing pictures. On the one hand, is a picture of the perpetrator as a victim – of organisational routines, hierarchies, pressures and secrecy, and of dominant ideologies, as well as brutal initiation rites which instil the practice of obedience to authority. These narrative studies support the situationist and ordinary person line of explanation. They also correct the erstwhile neglect of gender issues by placing emphasis on masculinity as an important ingredient. On the other hand, the South African storytelling studies by Marks (2001), Straker (1992) and Campbell (1992) throw up a different picture. While victims in one sense – of Bantu education, poverty and violence at the hands of both state security agents and older vigilante groups – they are also action-oriented moral crusaders in defence of their communities and in politically-minded offensive against the apartheid state and its allies. Once again, we have contrasting and competing pictures of those responsible for political violence. In these particular storytelling perspectives, differences are partly due to the different positions of protagonists across the dividing line of power: state security personnel on the one hand and resistance activists on the other. Apart from the conflicting images from varying epistemological perspectives and different theoretical angles, the very label or category of a ‘perpetrator’ is more muddied, contested and problematic than a first glance would suggest. We described seven grey areas which challenge or disrupt the dominant binaries of victim-perpetrator and the triangular view of dramatis personae: perpetrator – ‘victim’ – bystander/observer. Moreover, in Chapter 4, we raise a number of moral quandaries or dilemmas in the study of those responsible for violence, which again dislodge the simple and tidy categories. Therefore a central component of the present study aims to problematise and disrupt the complacency of the very label and category of ‘perpetrator’. What should be done? In the face of these competing images and explanations we carve out a ‘third space’ beyond, or perhaps better, between the theoretical antagonisms of situationism versus agency (willing killers); among the grey areas between category labels of victim/perpetrator/bystander. Rather than this being seen as an alternative position, it should be read as an attempt at synthesis. Instead of the oppositional pairing of ‘either-or’, it should be seen in terms of the inclusive pairing ‘both-and’ (Foster, 1999).We argue that those responsible for violence should be regarded as potentially both victim and perpetrator, as well as both subject to circumstances/influences and active initiators." (Conclusion, page 321-322) more

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Kommunikation

DED-Brief, issue 3 (2005), pp. 4-53

"Der vorliegende DED-Brief beschäftigt sich mit den unterschiedlichen Facetten von Kommunikation, sei es beim zwanglosen Beisammensein im Internetcafé, auf abgelegenen Weidegründen im Norden von Niger oder bei entwicklungspolitischen Planungsworkshops. Kommunikation gilt als Voraussetzung für so ... more

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Best Practices of ICT4D Projects in Zambia

Glory Mushinge (ed.)

Media and ICT's Network for Development (MIND) (2005), 88 pp.

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Telecentres, Access and Development: Experience and Lessons from Uganda and South Africa

Sarah Parkinson

Burton-on-Dunsmore; Ottawa; Kampala: ITDG Publishing; International Development Research Centre (IDRC); Fountain Publishers (2005), xxiii, 148 pp.

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Streetpapers in Namibia und Deutschland: Eine Analyse des Zusammenhangs zwischen Medium und Umfeld an ausgewählten Beispielen

Melanie Zorn

Stuttgart: Hochschule der Medien, Bachelor Thesis (2005), iv, 86, viii pp.

"Gegenstand der hier vorgestellten Arbeit sind Streetpapers und deren Anpassung an ihr jeweiliges Verbreitungsgebiet. Beispielhaft werden die „Trott-war“ aus Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland, und „The Big Issue Namibia“ analysiert. Die Unterschiede zwischen den beiden Streetpapers sowie zu ko ... more

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Société numérique et développement en Afrique: Usages politiques et publiques

Jean-Jacques Gabas (ed.)

Paris: Karthala; GEMDEV (2005), 379 pp.

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Radio: A Post Nine-Eleven Strategy for Reaching the World's Poor

Stephen Sposato, W. M. Smith

Lanham; Oxford: United Press of America (UPA) (2005), xxvii, 243 pp.

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Media and Democracy: The KAF Democracy Report 2005

Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) (ed.)

Bonn: Bouvier (2005), 323 pp.

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Community Radio in Post-Apartheid South Africa: The Case of Bush Radio in Cape Town

Tanja Bosch

Transformations (2005), 14 pp.

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PICC Position Paper to the Draft Framework for the National Book Policy

Bellville: Print Industries Cluster Council (PICC) (2005), 66 pp.

"In many countries, dedicated plans and policies have been implemented to increase and develop the book publishing sector. In these interventions, books have been recognised as unique products deserving different and exceptional interventions. The salient issues pertaining to book development includ ... more