"In den letzten Jahren sind die Cultural Studies in den deutschsprachigen Humanwissenschaften verstärkt rezipiert worden. Es fällt jedoch auf, dass Forschungen in und über Afrika deutlich unterrepräsentiert sind. Dies kann zumindest nicht an mangelnder Relevanz oder am Fehlen geeigneter Untersuc
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hungsgegenstände liegen, bietet doch insbesondere das urbane Afrika ein immenses Reservoir an populärkulturellen Medien und Praktiken an. Ein herausragendes Beispiel im westafrikanischen Senegal sind Presseberichte über die Hausmädchen, die mit Geschichten von Sex and Crime von sich reden machen. Der vorliegende Artikel geht in der Tradition der Aneignungsstudien aus den Cultural Studies der Forschungsfrage nach, ob und wie sich die senegalesischen Hausmädchen die Populärpresse aneignen und wie sie die Auswirkungen auf ihr Ansehen und ihren Berufsalltag einschätzen. Die qualitativen Interviews fokussieren das Selbstverständnis der senegalesischen Hausmädchen: Halten sie die berichteten Geschichten überhaupt für wahr oder von einem sensationsgierigen Boulevardjournalismus erfunden? Decken sich die im Arbeitsalltag auftauchenden Probleme der Hausmädchen mit der journalistischen Agenda? Nimmt das Ansehen des Berufsstandes durch die reißerische Berichterstattung Schaden? Zum Abschluss des Artikels werden die verschiedenen Argumentationsfäden zusammengeführt und erörtert, welches Erkenntnispotential eine verstärkte Berücksichtigung von westafrikanischen Massenmedien im Rahmen der Cultural Studies bereitstellt." (Zusammenfassung)
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"This qualitative study aims to show the need to encourage more Mozambican women to enter and to stay in journalism, and the need to mainstream gender in media coverage. The study, carried out by UNESCO, follows on the heals of a gender and media baseline study conducted by Gender Links (GL), an NGO
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based in Johannesburg, and MISA. The GL/MISA study found that women in Mozambique constitute only 3 per cent of those working in the media, which is far below the regional average of 22 per cent. Women only constituted 15 per cent of the sources used in the media. This UNESCO qualitative study involved in-depth interviews with 34 media experts. It was carried out in Maputo, the capital, Beira, in the central province of Sofala, and Nampula, in the north, during the months of October, November and December 2003. In addition to the interviews, a two-hour workshop was held in December with senior women journalists and editors to discuss the study and their views on gender and the media. The UNESCO study showed that women journalists are especially under-represented in Mozambique’s print media with some newspapers, such as the Sunday newspaper, Domingo, and the Independent, Zambeze, having no women journalists. Others had only one or two women. Most, although not all, editors felt that it was a problem having so few women journalists, but there was no agreement as to how to change this situation." (Executive summary)
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"One in a series of collections from the Nigerian Book Fair Trust containing the opening addresses, keynote speeches, and papers presented at the Nigeria International Book Fair, held annually since 2002, each fair focusing on a special topic or topics. The proceedings of the 2003 book fair, which h
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ad the theme “Women Empowerment Through Publishing”, contain the keynote address delivered by the Indian feminist publisher Urvashi Butalia, together with papers on the challenges and obstacles faced by women writers and the experience of African women in publishing, including those by Unni Nielsen of the Norwegian Authors’ Association, Akoss Ofori-Mensah of Sub-Saharan African Publishers in Accra, and Nigerian publisher Bimpe Aboyade." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 2397)
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"Los sitios en internet de organizaciones vinculadas a las dinámicas del conflicto y de la paz en Colombia expresan una pugna por la visibilidad social, la legitimación de discursos y prácticas, y la construcción de identidad. Son testimonio de la decisión política de confrontar y debatir medi
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ados por la comunicación y el lenguaje. Son intentos por hacer resistencia y, al mismo tiempo, socavar y competir con los discursos de los medios y la mediación social alcanzada por ellos. La guerra es representada como eje dinamizador de la vida social pasada, presente y futura, y como un factor que copa todos los lugares y tiempos. La paz es vista como un ideal, un sueño sin referentes propios ni definiciones, un correlato de la guerra. El discurso de la guerra crea víctimas y victimarios e identifica hechos injustos que comprometen la dignidad de sus agentes y sirven para justificar o motivar su participación o su aislamiento de la guerra. Los victimarios son los únicos responsables de las afrentas, y al lado de las víctimas, emergen los mártires, salvadores o mesías llamados a responderlas y a construir un nuevo orden social. El discurso dramático sobre la guerra muestra la historia sin finales, ni cierres, pero mantiene un signo trágico permanente en el tiempo. El potencial de esta investigación fue asistir analíticamente a un proceso, el comunicativo e informativo, desde una perspectiva cultural, y desde allí poder decir que el conflicto colombiano mantiene un trasfondo político que se ha opacado públicamente, así como algunos de sus análisis. La paz se ve como un discurso etéreo y desgastado. En este sentido, estar o no estar en guerra parece minúsculo al preguntarse cómo se llegó allí, y cómo encontrar salidas a sus múltiples causas. Lo que "Internet, guerra y paz en Colombia" hizo fue encontrar algunas pistas para entender cómo y por qué seguimos enfrascados allí." (Cubierta del libro)
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"An insightful collection of papers and personal accounts providing a picture of African women in publishing in Africa today, primarily in English-speaking Africa. The eleven contributors are all women who have made notable achievements and impacts in publishing in Africa, have headed publishing com
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panies, or have set up their own imprints. The contributors are from Ghana, Kenya, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe, who came to publishing from different routes, and have been active, or are currently active, in a variety of publishing operations, such state and commercial publishing, activist, non-profit or community publishing, and there is also a contribution by a bookseller." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 2380)
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"In Making Her Up, the authors try to elucidate the precise ambivalence of the image of the modern woman, which is (un)wittingly created by the producers of women’s magazines in co-operation with capitalistic advertising mechanisms and, not least, their own readers. Through the discourse and conte
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nt analysis of a diverse selection of Slovenian women’s magazines (Cosmopolitan, Jana, Modna Jana, Glamur, Naša žena, and Moj malcek), the writers have uncovered a few representative topics: the contradictory contents of ‘universal women’s culture’; the phenomenon of subtle advertising, with its inexhaustible options among the various types of magazines; fashion as the main theme of each and every one of these magazines; the disciplining of a woman’s mind through the disciplining of her body; cosmetics advertisements; medicine, pregnancy, birth, and the cult of motherhood, which still prevails over the image of the independent, successful, emancipated woman." (City of Women)
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"The project ran from November 98 to May 2001, involving 13 rural women’s clubs in the Mpika district of Zambia, 600 km north of Lusaka. The clubs recorded their discussions of development issues or requests for development support; the tapes were sent to a radio producer in Lusaka, who recorded a
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response from a relevant service-provider or politician. The discussion and response were edited into one programme and broadcast as a regular weekly programme by the national broadcaster, ZNBC. The clubs listened to the programmes and discussed them at their weekly meetings. This evaluation assessed the development impact of the project, principally by talking to members of the clubs and others in their communities. An audience survey was also carried out, in three different areas. The main findings of the evaluation were: The project has brought substantial material benefits and new information to the communities. To some extent the clubs and communities have been empowered to access development inputs themselves, though the mediation of the radio programme producer has also been an important factor; The success in achieving material benefits for the communities was probably a strong force in building community support for the clubs in the early months of the project, but now their role in providing information and stimulating discussion is equally appreciated; The Clubs have not achieved material benefits specifically for their own incomegenerating activities, which was the original aim of the project, and which they see (on a video) happening in Zimbabwe. Income-generating is still the clubs’ main purpose, so the project should seek to help them strengthen their income-generating activities; The project has stimulated intense discussions, in the clubs and the communities, about social issues. The clubs’ ability to discuss and present issues clearly is greatly appreciated by men and young people in the communities; There is an emerging perception of a role for the clubs as educators for their communities. They are confidently passing on their own experience, and information from outside sources, as well as “hosting” outside experts in their radio programmes; The programmes are widely listened to and appreciated all over Zambia." (Summary)
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"This Gender Sensitive training package is divided into two component parts: The Manual and Reading Materials The two are parts of the whole and are mutually supportive. Although the manual can stand alone, the trainer needs the 'reading materials' to enable her/him to implement a knowledge-based in
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-depth course. The reading materials are organised in such a way as to fit into the intended 8-day training programme. The package is for trainers who are intent on furthering the interest of more gender sensitive reporting in the southern African media." (Introduction, page 2)
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