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SUMMARY:Human Rights and African Airwaves: Mediating Equality on the Chich
 ewa Radio - Dr. Harri Englund\, University of Cambridge
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CONTACT:Sharath Srinivasan
DESCRIPTION:A seminar to mark the publication of *_Human Rights and Africa
 n Airwaves: Mediating Equality on the Chichewa Radio_*\n\nAuthor\, Dr Harr
 i Englund (University of Cambridge) in conversation with:\n\nDr Thoko Kaim
 e (University of Surrey) & Dr Florence Brisset-Foucault (CGHR\, University
  of Cambridge)\n\nHuman rights activism\, important as it is to campaigns 
 for equality\, may not mediate the most consequential claims against injus
 tice in Africa’s newly democratizing countries. Radio broadcasting in Af
 rican languages is another vibrant public arena for making claims. Through
  innovative programmes\, it can express grievances in popular idioms and n
 arrative forms.\n\nThis seminar discusses arguments in Harri Englund’s n
 ew book on Nkhani Zam’maboma (News from Districts)\, a daily programme o
 f stories on Malawi’s public radio that takes authorities to task by hig
 hlighting obligation and mutual dependence in the midst of searing inequal
 ities. Englund’s ethnography on journalists’ everyday practices and th
 e popular reception of their broadcasts reveals a quest for justice. The p
 ublic arena they have created for moral and political debate is ignored by
  those critics who see in public broadcasting only an instrument of state-
 sponsored bias and misinformation in Africa. \n\nAs one of liberalism’s 
 key concepts\, equality appears not as a utopian dream pursued by a vangua
 rd of activists and politicians but as a condition for making claims in pu
 blic. By taking seriously African-language genres that are often neglected
  by scholars and activists\, this seminar discusses fresh intellectual res
 ources to confront inequality\, exploitation\, and poverty.\n
LOCATION:Seminar Room A\, 17 Mill Lane\, Cambridge CB2 1RX
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