Media, conflict and peacebuilding in Africa: Conceptual and empirical considerations
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London; New York: Routledge (2021), xii, 263 pp.
Series: Routledge Contemporary Africa
ISBN 978-0-429-34486-2 (ebk); 978-0-367-36028-3 (print)
"This book explores the role and place of popular, traditional and digital media platforms in the mediatization, representation and performance of various conflicts and peacebuilding interventions in the African context. The role of the media in conflict is often depicted as either 'good' (as symbolized by peace journalism) or 'bad' (as exemplified by war journalism), but this book moves beyond this binary to highlight the 'in-between' role that the media often plays in times of conflict. The volume does not only focus on the relationship between mass media, conflict and peacebuilding processes but it broadens its scope by critically analysing the dynamic and emergent roles of popular and digital media platforms in a continent where the semi-literate and oral communities still rely heavily on popular communication platforms to get news and information. Whilst social media platforms have been hailed for their assumed democratic and digital dividends, this book does not only focus on these positive aspects but also shines a light on dark forms of participation which are fuelling racial, gender, ethnic, political and religious conflicts in highly polarized and stratified societies." (Publisher description)
1 Introduction. Changing the tide: Re-examining the interplay of media, conflict and peacebuilding in Africa / Jacinta Maweu, Admire Mare
PART I: DIFFERENT CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS
2 Rethinking peace journalism in light of Ubuntu / Colin Chasi and Ylva Rodny-Gumede
3 Researching Africa peace journalism through borderlands: a theoretical and methodological exploration / Fredrick Ogenga
4 The limits of peace journalism in restricted societies: reporting the Gukurahundi genocide in Zimbabwe / Phillip Santos
5 The prospects and challenges of mediating peacebuilding in Africa: towards a human rights journalism approach / Ibrahim Seaga Shaw
6 The role of folk media in peacebuilding: folk storytelling tradition as a site for peaceful negotiation for gender harmony in African families / Egara Kabaji
PART II: THE GOOD AND BAD OF TRADITIONAL MEDIA IN CONFLICT AND PEACEBUILDING
7 A critical reflection on the role of the media in conflict in Africa / Dumisani Moyo
8 Assessing the impact of terrorism and counter-terrorism laws on freedom of the media in Kenya / Benjamin Muindi
9 Catalysts of conflict or messengers of peace?: promoting interfaith dialogue between Christians and Muslims in Kenya through the media / Jacinta Maweu
10 Media diplomacy and the Kenya-Somalia maritime territorial dispute / Doreen Muyonga
11 "In their own words": journalistic mediation of electoral conflict in polarized Zimbabwe / Admire Mare and Stanley Tsarwe
12 The role of the media in conflict and peacebuilding in Sierra Leone / Francis Sowa
13 War reporting In Africa: the case of Sudan's war in the Nuba mountains / Ogata Moganda Silvester
14 Peace-makers or peace-wreckers? Discursive construction of domestic conflict and peacebuilding in the Zimbabwean diaspora media / Tendai Chari
PART III: DIGITAL MEDIA, CONFLICT AND PEACEBUILDING
15 Precarity, technology, identity: the sociology of conflict reporting in South Sudan / Richard Stupart
16 "Walking through history" together: Gukurahundi, memory and the role of digital media in shaping "post-conflict" Zimbabwe / Mphathisi Ndlovu
17 "We have degrees in violence": a multimodal critical discourse analysis of online constructions of electoral violence in post-2000 Zimbabwe / Allen Munoriyarwa
18 Of beaches, monkeys and good old days: how social media race-talk is dismantling the 'rainbow nation' / Shepherd Mpofu
PART I: DIFFERENT CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS
2 Rethinking peace journalism in light of Ubuntu / Colin Chasi and Ylva Rodny-Gumede
3 Researching Africa peace journalism through borderlands: a theoretical and methodological exploration / Fredrick Ogenga
4 The limits of peace journalism in restricted societies: reporting the Gukurahundi genocide in Zimbabwe / Phillip Santos
5 The prospects and challenges of mediating peacebuilding in Africa: towards a human rights journalism approach / Ibrahim Seaga Shaw
6 The role of folk media in peacebuilding: folk storytelling tradition as a site for peaceful negotiation for gender harmony in African families / Egara Kabaji
PART II: THE GOOD AND BAD OF TRADITIONAL MEDIA IN CONFLICT AND PEACEBUILDING
7 A critical reflection on the role of the media in conflict in Africa / Dumisani Moyo
8 Assessing the impact of terrorism and counter-terrorism laws on freedom of the media in Kenya / Benjamin Muindi
9 Catalysts of conflict or messengers of peace?: promoting interfaith dialogue between Christians and Muslims in Kenya through the media / Jacinta Maweu
10 Media diplomacy and the Kenya-Somalia maritime territorial dispute / Doreen Muyonga
11 "In their own words": journalistic mediation of electoral conflict in polarized Zimbabwe / Admire Mare and Stanley Tsarwe
12 The role of the media in conflict and peacebuilding in Sierra Leone / Francis Sowa
13 War reporting In Africa: the case of Sudan's war in the Nuba mountains / Ogata Moganda Silvester
14 Peace-makers or peace-wreckers? Discursive construction of domestic conflict and peacebuilding in the Zimbabwean diaspora media / Tendai Chari
PART III: DIGITAL MEDIA, CONFLICT AND PEACEBUILDING
15 Precarity, technology, identity: the sociology of conflict reporting in South Sudan / Richard Stupart
16 "Walking through history" together: Gukurahundi, memory and the role of digital media in shaping "post-conflict" Zimbabwe / Mphathisi Ndlovu
17 "We have degrees in violence": a multimodal critical discourse analysis of online constructions of electoral violence in post-2000 Zimbabwe / Allen Munoriyarwa
18 Of beaches, monkeys and good old days: how social media race-talk is dismantling the 'rainbow nation' / Shepherd Mpofu
