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The Citizens' Media special issue, Volume 19
(4&5) is guest edited by Jethro Pettit, Juan
Francisco Salazar, and Alfonso Gumucio Dagron.
Citizens? media and communication are still
poorly understood in the mainstream of
development policy and practice and are prone
to simplistic forms of implementation, because
of the lack of a coherent grasp of the social,
cultural, and political processes that make them
transformative. Introducing the articles in this
guest issue, the authors find that citizens?
media is about more than bringing diverse voices
into pluralist politics: it contributes to
processes of social and cultural construction,
redefining norms and power relations that
exclude people. Local ownership and control of
their own media can allow people to reshape the
spaces in which their voices find expression.
Table of contents
Development in Practice, Volume 19 Issue 4 & 5 2009
Special issue: Citizen's Media and communication
Now 8 issues per year
Augusto Boal (1931-2009)
We dedicate this special issue to the memory of
Augusto Boal, the Brazilian director and
playwright whose 'Theatre of the Oppressed'
inspired countless activists worldwide to bring
theatre, art, media, and communication into
their work for social change. Boal created a
critical and mobilising kind of theatre for
'humanising humanity', where actors mix with
people in the streets and on public transport,
and spectators become 'spect-actors'. His work
spread to many countries and evolved into
methods like Forum Theatre, Legislative Theatre,
Journalists' Theatre, Theatre of the Factory,
Theatre of the Office, and many others. Augusto
Boal affirmed that 'the theatre is all of us' -
and that through it we can reveal the power that
shapes our lives, transforms the silences, and
overcomes oppression. May his work live on and continue to inspire.
GUEST EDITORS' INTRODUCTION
Citizens' media and communication
Jethro Pettit; Juan Francisco Salazar; Alfonso Gumucio Dagron
Pages 443 452
ARTICLES: SECTION I: UNDERSTANDINGS OF MEDIA, THE STATE, AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE
Playing with fire: power, participation, and communication for development
Alfonso Gumucio Dagron
Pages 453 465
Negotiating power: community media, democracy, and the public sphere
Saima Saeed
Pages 466 478
'Neither silent nor invisible?: anti-poverty
communication in the San Francisco Bay Area
Dorothy Kidd; Bernadette Barker-Plummer
Pages 479 490
From mouthpiece to public service: donor
support to radio broadcasters in new democracies
Simon Milligan; Graham Mytton
Pages 491 503
ARTICLES: SECTION II: EXPERIENCES OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' MEDIA
Self-determination in practice: the critical making of indigenous media
Juan Francisco Salazar
Pages 504 513
Electronic dreaming tracks: Indigenous community broadcasting in Australia
Michael Meadows
Pages 514 524
Radio, control, and indigenous peoples: the
failure of state-invented citizens' media in Mexico
Antoni Castells-Talens; José Manuel Ramos Rodríguez; Marisol Chan Concha
Pages 525 537
ARTICLES: SECTION III: MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION AS METHODS OF TRANSFORMATION
Transforming images: reimagining women's work through participatory video
Usha Sundar Harris
Pages 538 549
Theatre for transformation and empowerment: a
case study of Jana Sanskriti Theatre of the Oppressed
Sandra Mills
Pages 550 559
Sexual-health communication across and within
cultures: the Clown Project, Guatemala
Anthony Savdié; Andrew Chetley
Pages 560 572
ARTICLES: SECTION IV: MEDIA AND VOICE IN DEVELOPMENT PRACTICE
Participatory content creation: voice, communication, and development
Jo Tacchi; Jerry Watkins; Kosala Keerthirathne
Pages 573 584
Mobile phones and community development: a
contact zone between media and citizenship
Gerard Goggin; Jacqueline Clark
Pages 585 597
ARTICLES: SECTION V: COMMUNITY RADIO AND CITIZEN VOICE
Four steps to community media as a development tool
Stefania Milan
Pages 598 609
Rebel voices and radio actors: in pursuit of
dialogue and debate in northern Uganda
Maggie Ibrahim
Pages 610 620
Transforming public space: a local radio's work in a poor urban community
Dora Navarro
Pages 621 629
ARTICLES: SECTION VI: THE ROLE OF MEDIA IN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Moved to act: communication supporting HIV
social movements to achieve inclusive social change
Robin Vincent; Lucy Stackpool-Moore
Pages 630 642
The state of the art in citizens? communication for social change in Spain
Alejandro Barranquero
Pages 643 653
Citizens' publications that empower: social change for the homeless
Claudia Magallanes-Blanco; Juan Antonio Pérez-Bermúdez
Pages 654 664
ARTICLES: SECTION VII: PARTICIPATORY COMMUNICATION IN RESEARCH
Creating knowledge for action: the case for
participatory communication in research
Laura Cornish; Alison Dunn
Pages 665 677
Giving voice: instigating debate on issues of
citizenship, participation, and accountability
Samuel Ayedime Kafewo
Pages 678 687
