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Perpetrators in Documentaries on Genocide

Julian Koch
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2026), 268 pp.
"Perpetrators in Documentaries on Genocide is a wide-ranging comparative study that analyses how numerous genocides and their perpetrators have been presented in documentary film. Spanning seven 20th-century genocides across three continents and combining interviews with filmmakers, distant reading, ... more
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Global Screen Worlds: Conversations across Cinema Cultures

Lindiwe Dovey, Kate Taylor-Jones, Georgia Thomas-Parr (eds.)
New York et al.: Bloomsbury Academic (2026), xx, 348 pp.
"Global Screen Worlds brings together scholars from around the world to collaborate on comparative studies of specific African and Asian cinemas and audiovisual narrative media. This open access collection advances the concept of "screen worlds" rather than "world cinema" to acknowledge and recko ... more
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Journalismuskulturen in Sierra Leone: Zwischen globalen Normen und lokalen Zwängen

Sarah Bomkapre Koroma
Cham: Springer VS (2026), xxi, 238 pp.
"Dieses Buch bietet neue Einblicke in die Perspektiven von Journalist:innen in Sierra Leone und in ihre Arbeit, indem es ihre journalistischen Werte und die Einflüsse untersucht, die diese prägen. Es betrachtet Journalismus sowohl als berufliche Identität als auch als eine Gemeinschaft, die auf d ... more
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Critiquing Generative AI in Africa's Media Ecosystems

Lungile A. Tshuma, Trust Matsilele
London; New York: Routledge (2026), 215 pp.
"The book argues that as technology is a social construct reflecting existing power dynamics, those in the Global South, and in Africa in particular, are bound to be marginalised and have their knowledge, systems overlooked as the Global North dominates technological developments. The birth of AI ha ... more
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Elgar Companion to Building Durable Peace

Paul R. Williams, Ryan Jane Westlake (eds.)
Edward Elgar Publishing (2026), 472 pp.
"This timely Companion explores how peace is negotiated, implemented and sustained in the world’s most challenging conflict zones. Experts who have helped shape negotiations, post-conflict institutions and accountability mechanisms in peace processes across the globe, provide insights through firs ... more
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Macro-Economic Inequality and National Stereotypes in 45 Non-Western Countries

Vukašin Gligoric, John T. Jost, Jessica V. Schaaf et al.
Social Psychological and Personality Science, volume 17, issue 4 (2026), pp. 492-509
"The assumption that people favor ingroups and disfavor outgroups is based largely on theory and research from Western countries. However, groups subjected to economic exploitation and inequality might come to favor more advantaged outgroups. The present large-scale study (N = 12,339) involving 45 n ... more
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Critical Health Communication: Theory and Practice

Shaunak Sastry, Heather M. Zoller, Ambar Basu (eds.)
Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge (2026), xxiii, 285 pp.
"This book offers strong rationales for adopting a critical view of health communication by demonstrating how theories and critical practices can be enriched by foregrounding issues of power, politics, and culture.In health communication, critical approaches highlight the role of communication in co ... more
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Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives, Volume 3

Stuart Allan, Einar Thorsen (eds.)
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2026), xii, 372 pp.
"This third volume of Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives seeks to build upon the agenda set in motion by the first and second volumes, namely by: 1) offering an overview of key developments in citizen journalism since 2014, including the use of social media in crisis reporting; 2) providing a n ... more
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Global South Creator Cultures

Tugce Bidav, Smith Mehta (eds.)
New Delhi: Routledge India (2026), x, 196 pp.
"Global South Creator Cultures situates creator labour within the geographic specificities of nation-states and examines the working conditions of social media creators and the geographical challenges of their work, offering a four-part conceptual framework for studying creator cultures. Rather than ... more
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The Routledge International Handbook of Trauma-Responsive Peacebuilding
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Sara Clarke-Habibi, Cordula Reimann (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2026), xxxii, 541 pp.
"This comprehensive handbook offers a multidisciplinary exploration of research and practice at the intersection of trauma and peacebuilding. Highlighting case studies from diverse conflict contexts around the globe, the book offers conceptual reflections and practical illustrations of trauma-sensit ... more
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Climate Change Communication in Africa

Tendai Chari, Allen Munoriyarwa (eds.)
Oxford: Routledge (2026), xxv, 328 pp.
"From legacy media’s framing of climate narratives to the mobilising potential of digital media, the volume examines the multi-faceted ways in which climate change is mediated through different communication channels and how different media can be harnessed to amplify African voices on climate cha ... more
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Oral Histories of Genocide in Bosnia, Indonesia, and Rwanda: Symbolic Violence and Social Death

Erin Jessee, Annie Pohlman
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2026), 408 pp.
"Grounded in extensive oral historical, archival, and ethnographic research in the aftermaths of the Bosnian (1992-95), Indonesian (1965-66), and Rwandan (1994) genocides, this book investigates the symbolic meanings associated with spectacular forms of torture, murder, and mutilation that perpetrat ... more
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Community Media, Sustainability and Crisis Lessons from Covid and Beyond

Andrew Ó Baoill, Salvatore Scifo (eds.)
Bloomsbury Academic (2026), 214 pp.
"This original collection draws on a truly global set of perspectives, with authors from Asia, Europe, Africa, and both North and South America, who explore a range of ideological, political, economic, and cultural factors that shape how community media projects respond to crises. Contributors analy ... more
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Voice and Publics in West African Radio: »Grogneurs« as Media Activists in Bénin

Tilo Grätz
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2026), 182 pp.
"This book examines the role of new media actors in the West African Republic of Bénin, commonly referred to as grogneurs or faiseurs d’opinion. These are frequent callers to interactive radio shows that openly discuss politics and society in contemporary Bénin. I argue that it is too simplistic ... more
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Decolonising Approaches to Users and Audiences in the Global South: Context, Theory and Method

Tarik Sabry, Winston Mano, Andrea Medrado (eds.)
London: Routledge (2026), xvii, 334 pp.
"Including original essays and contemporary case studies spanning Africa, Middle East, Latin America, and Asia, this book provides a nuanced double critique of both local and West‑centric approaches, pushing back against historically extractive audience research logics that have marginalised globa ... more
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Handbook of Global Oral History
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Mark Cave, Selma Leydesdorff (eds.)
Leiden: Brill (2026), x, 699 pp.
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Regulating New Media in Africa: Politics, Law and Governance

Vincent Obia, Sulayman Bah, Yemisi Akinbobola, Oliver Carter (eds.)
Intellect (2026), 242 pp.
"A collection of research on digital media regulatory interventions across Africa, an area that has largely been overlooked in the literature. It considers a range of perspectives from scholars within and outside Africa on the subject, providing a compendium on digital media regulation on the contin ... more
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Navigating Trauma in African Journalism, Volume 2

Chikezie E. Uzuegbunam, Kealeboga Aiseng (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2025), xxiii, 262 pp.
"This second volume focuses on primary trauma experienced by journalists, with a particular focus on the gendered dimensions, as shared by female journalists and researchers. By focusing on female journalists’ firsthand encounters, the book explores the complex psychological, emotional, and profes ... more
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L’essor des technologies numériques en Côte d’Ivoire: Réalités et enjeux

Jean-Jacques Maomra Bogui
Paris: L'Harmattan (2025), 227 pp.
"Au début du troisième millénaire, la Côte d’Ivoire, à l’instar d’autres pays africains, au sortir de sommets internationaux, tirant la « sonnette d’alarme » sur la nécessité de combler le fossé numérique entre le Sud et le Nord, va prendre des initiatives en vue de favoriser la p ... more