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The Language and Voice of the Oppressed

In: Voice & Matter: Communication, Development and the Cultural Return
Oscar Hemer; Thomas Tufte (eds.)
Göteborg: Nordicom (2016), pp. 43-58

ISBN 978-91-87957-31-4 (print); 978-91-87957-32-1 (pdf)

"How should scholars approach study of the processes that characterize voice production among subaltern groups? The study builds on both Marxist and non-Marxist frameworks as theoretical trajectories for conducting class analyses that define how subaltern groups conceive, produce and consume their own voices. The discussion, a semiotics analysis in itself, aims to make significant contribution to communication studies, through demonstrating the fragile, slippery and class-based politics that are prevalent when marginalized groups use various art forms, even their bodies, as battlegrounds for contesting oppressive power relationships." (Abstract)