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A Rough Guide to Small-Scale and Self-Publishing

Colleen Higgs (ed.)

Cape Town: Centre for the Book (2005), 78 pp.

"This guide is one in a series of excellent resources published by the Community Publishing Project of the Centre of the Book in Cape Town. The project provides funding and technical support for small publishers, individual writers, and writers’ groups in South Africa and helps them to develop pub ... more

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The Theatre of Violence: Narratives of Protagonists in the South African Conflict

Don Foster, Paul Haupt, Marésa De Beer

Capetwon; Oxford: Institute of Justice and Reconciliation;HSRC Press;James Currey (2005), xii, 364 pp.

"If the dominant media stereotype portrays perpetrators as monsters, as ‘Prime Evil’, then the dominant academic image is the opposite. It paints them as ordinary people (gender ignored, but assumed as male) diligently under sway of modern bureaucratic compartmentalisation (the banality of evil ... thesis), or as obedient to authority and conforming to social pressures (the situationist thesis). No monsters here, just ordinary people under rather extraordinary circumstances. The moral message: we co uld all potentially become perpetrators, depending on the situation. There is a competing view: the perpetrator as a willing, even eager, executioner driven by strong negative emotions against the ‘other’. The scholarly world presents us with antagonistic perspectives. What picture do we get from narrative approaches, from stories told by those actually responsible for politically-related violence? First, there are only a few narrative studies. Second, they also paint competing pictures. On the one hand, is a picture of the perpetrator as a victim – of organisational routines, hierarchies, pressures and secrecy, and of dominant ideologies, as well as brutal initiation rites which instil the practice of obedience to authority. These narrative studies support the situationist and ordinary person line of explanation. They also correct the erstwhile neglect of gender issues by placing emphasis on masculinity as an important ingredient. On the other hand, the South African storytelling studies by Marks (2001), Straker (1992) and Campbell (1992) throw up a different picture. While victims in one sense – of Bantu education, poverty and violence at the hands of both state security agents and older vigilante groups – they are also action-oriented moral crusaders in defence of their communities and in politically-minded offensive against the apartheid state and its allies. Once again, we have contrasting and competing pictures of those responsible for political violence. In these particular storytelling perspectives, differences are partly due to the different positions of protagonists across the dividing line of power: state security personnel on the one hand and resistance activists on the other. Apart from the conflicting images from varying epistemological perspectives and different theoretical angles, the very label or category of a ‘perpetrator’ is more muddied, contested and problematic than a first glance would suggest. We described seven grey areas which challenge or disrupt the dominant binaries of victim-perpetrator and the triangular view of dramatis personae: perpetrator – ‘victim’ – bystander/observer. Moreover, in Chapter 4, we raise a number of moral quandaries or dilemmas in the study of those responsible for violence, which again dislodge the simple and tidy categories. Therefore a central component of the present study aims to problematise and disrupt the complacency of the very label and category of ‘perpetrator’. What should be done? In the face of these competing images and explanations we carve out a ‘third space’ beyond, or perhaps better, between the theoretical antagonisms of situationism versus agency (willing killers); among the grey areas between category labels of victim/perpetrator/bystander. Rather than this being seen as an alternative position, it should be read as an attempt at synthesis. Instead of the oppositional pairing of ‘either-or’, it should be seen in terms of the inclusive pairing ‘both-and’ (Foster, 1999).We argue that those responsible for violence should be regarded as potentially both victim and perpetrator, as well as both subject to circumstances/influences and active initiators." (Conclusion, page 321-322) more

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Achieving Social Change on Gender-Based Violence: A Report on the Impact Evaluation of Soul City's Fourth Series

Shereen Usdin, Escra Scheepers, Susan Goldstein, Garth Japhet

Social Science & Medicine, volume 61, issue 11 (2005), pp. 2434-2445

"The Soul City Institute for Health and Development Communication—a South African multi-media health promotion project—together with the National Network on Violence Against Women, formulated an intervention to address domestic violence. Recognising that behavioural change interventions aimed so ... more

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Pressefreiheit und Pluralismus in Sambia

Andrea Czepek

Münster: Lit (2005), 234 pp.

"Die großen Hoffnungen, die Anfang der 1990er Jahre in den Demokratisierungsprozess im südlichen Afrika gesetzt wurden, haben sich überwiegend nicht erfüllt. In einer Demokratie soll Journalismus Öffentlichkeit herstellen und zur Meinungsbildung beitragen. Eine Voraussetzung dafür ist Pressefr ... more

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Telecentres, Access and Development: Experience and Lessons from Uganda and South Africa

Sarah Parkinson

Burton-on-Dunsmore; Ottawa; Kampala: ITDG Publishing;International Development Research Centre (IDRC);Fountain Publishers (2005), xxiii, 148 pp.

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Construire la paix dans la région des Grands Lacs: L'engagement des medias. Actes de l'atelier inter-régional de Bagamoyo

Paris: Panos Paris (2005), 123 pp.

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Final Evaluation Report Uganda

Tripartite Training Programme

The Hague: International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) (2005), 34 pp.

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A Resource Kit for Journalists: Children's Media Mentoring Project

Johannesburg: Media Monitoring Project (2005), 39 pp.

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A Developing Connection: Bridging the Policy Gap Between the Information Society and Sustainable Development

Terry Willard, Maja Andjelkovic (eds.)

Winnipeg, Manitoba: International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) (2005), 210 pp.

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Community Multimedia Centres Around the World: A Global Directory

Stella Hughes, Ian Pringle (eds.)

UNESCO (2005), 156 pp.

"Inspired by innovations that emerged from the Kothmale Community Radio and Internet project, Sri Lanka, in 1999 and 2000, UNESCO has since established some fifty CMCs in a wide range of contexts in some twenty countries on three continents. In addition to new facilities and increased local capacity ... more

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With the Support of Multitudes: Using Strategic Communication to Fight Poverty Through PRSPs
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Masud Mozammel, Sina Odugbemi

Washington, DC; London: World Bank, Development Communication Division;Department for International Development (DFID) (2005), 144 pp.

"This publication has been produced in order to improve the chances of success of Poverty Reduction Strategies (PRSs) in two ways: 1. To show policymakers how strategic communication can help them to achieve some of their objectives in formulating and executing effective Poverty Reduction Strategies ... more

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Media and Glocal Change: Rethinking Communication for Development

Oscar Hemer, Thomas Tufte (eds.)

Buenos Aires: Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO);Nordicom (2005), 493 pp.

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Reporting AIDS: An Analysis of Media Environments in Southern Africa

London: Panos (2005), 59 pp.

"This report shares the findings of five studies of media coverage of HIV/AIDS, carried out in Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe by the Panos London AIDS Programme, with the support of Johns Hopkins University. The studies aimed to explore some of the issues and tensions involved ... more

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A Country ICT Survey for Mozambique

Alan Greenberg, George Sadowski

Stockholm: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2005), 64 pp.

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Soul Buddyz Club: Evaluation Report 2005

Parktown: Soul City, Institute for Health and Development Communication (2005), 39 pp.

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Kommunikation

DED-Brief, issue 3 (2005), pp. 4-53

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International Conference on Media Support Strategies for Zimbabwe: Johannesburg, November 28-30, 2005. Background Document

International Media Support (IMS);Netherlands Institute for Southern Africa (NIZA);Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA);Open Society Institute (2005), 71 pp.

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The State of the Arab Media 2004

Ibrahim Fadel (ed.)

Youssef Fadel (introd.)

London: Arab Press Freedom Watch (APFW) (2005), 260 pp.

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Village Phone Replication Manual: Creating Sustainable Access to Affordable Telecommunications for the Rural Poor

David Keogh, Tim Wood

New York: United Nations ICT Task Force (2005), 178 pp.

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Malaria and the Media: Advocating Healthy Policy and Practice in Sub-Saharan Africa. A Report of a Baseline Study Undertaken in Nairobi, Kenya, and the Gambia from the 21st January – 16 February 2005

Angela Dawson

Gates Malaria Partnership, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (2005), 131 pp.

"The work in this report and that found in the International Woman’s Media Foundation / Africa Woman’s Media Centre report, Deadline for Health (2004), provide us with the only insight into malaria reporting in African contexts. Both are baseline studies made prior to journalists training interv ... more

With the Support of Multitudes: Using Strategic Communication to Fight Poverty Through PRSPs Inspiring Practice Key Guidance

With the Support of Multitudes: Using Strategic Communication to Fight Poverty Through PRSPs
Inspiring Practice

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