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Voice & Matter: Communication, Development and the Cultural Return

Göteborg: Nordicom (2016), 266 pp.

Contains bibliogr. pp. 249-263

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

Introduction. Why Voice and Matter Matter / Oscar Hemer & Thomas Tufte, 11
I. REFRAMING COMMUNICATION IN CULTURE AND DEVELOPMENT
Communication and Cultural Identity: An Anthropological Perspective / Francis B. Nyamnjoh, 25
The Language and Voice of the Oppressed / Linje Manyozo, 43
Stealing the Fire: Communication for Development from the Margins of Cyberspace / Stefania Milan, 59
The Political Economy of the Development Industry / Karin Gwinn Wilkins & Kyung Sun Lee, 71
International Volunteering in Development Assistance: Partnership, Public Diplomacy, or Communication for Development? / Susanne Schech, 87
Mediating Stuart Hall / Anders Høg Hansen, Faye Ginsburg & Lola Young, 101
II. ETHNOGRAPHY AND AGENCY AT THE MARGINS
When and How Does Voice Matter? And How Do We Know? / Jo Tacchi, 117
Building Voice and Capacity to Aspire of the Urban Poor. A View from Below / Sheela Patel, 129
Save us from Saviours. Disrupting Development Narratives of the Rescue and Uplift of the 'Third World Woman' / Andrea Cornwall, 139
Africa's Voices Versus Big Data? The Value of Citizen Engagement through Interactive Radio / Sharath Srinivasan & Claudia Abreu Lopes, 155
A History of Cultural Futures: 'Televisual Sovereignty' in Contemporary Australian Indigenous Media / Faye Ginsburg, 173
Gringo Trails, Gringo Tales: Storytelling, Destination Perspectives, and Tourism Globalization / Pegi Vail, 189
III. THE RETURN OF THE POLITICS OF HOPE
Debating the Politics of Hope: An Introduction / Ronald Stade, 203
On The Capacity to Aspire. Conversation with Arjun Appadurai / Ronald Stade, 211
Nigel Rapport: Aspiration as Universal Human Capacity. A Response to Arjun Appadurai, 217
Is Good Intention Enough to Be Heard? On Appadurai's 'Capacity to Aspire' / Gudrun Dahl, 225
Hope, Fairness and the Search for the Good Life. A Slightly Oblique Comment to Arjun Appadurai / Thomas Hylland Eriksen, 241