Full Description
Community media has the potential for deepening democracy by creating spaces for people to raise and discuss their concerns. However, its practice in India tends to be based on top-down decision-making, which is the legacy of the Development Communication paradigms, thus ignoring the creative and transformative possibilities of marginalized community voices. The perspectives in this book, rooted in years of fieldwork experience, by scholars and practitioners of community media, both question and offer alternatives to the dominant paradigms. Many Voices, Many Worlds: Critical Perspectives on Community Media in India is a critical reflection on governance and policymaking, development, disability, knowledge and other social markers in the context of community media. Bringing together different modes of community media—such as video, radio, theatre, information and communication technologies (ICTs) and new media—into a productive conversation with each other, the book focuses on how communities through their communicative practices, negotiate the politics of caste, class, gender, and access to funding and technology.
Contents
Foreword by P. V. Satheesh
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Other Worlds Are Breathing - Faiz Ullah, Anjali Monteiro, K. P. Jayasankar
SECTION I Waves of Freedom: Community Radio and Its Discontents
Negotiating 'the Political' in the Community Radio Sphere: Historical Choices, Contemporary Predicaments - Vinod Pavarala and Kanchan K. Malik
Dalits and Adivasis in Community Radio: Understanding Representation and Participation in Bundelkhand - Bidu Bhusan Dash
Understanding the 'Community' in Community Media: Women's Experiences of Leadership in Mandakini ki Awaaz - Shweta Radhakrishnan
SECTION II In Their Own Moving Image: Community Video Practices
Collaborative Animation: Challenges of Participatory Film-making with the Bhil Community - Nina Sabnani
'Sangam Shot': Community Video as Assemblage - Madhavi Manchi
The Disability and Film-making Community in Film Practice-As-Research: The Case of We Make Film - Shweta Ghosh
Dalit Camera: Resisting Caste Atrocities Through Video - Raees Mohammed
Section III. Durable Margins: Asserting Citizenship
Community Media and Potential for Responsive Listenership on Campus - Nikhil Thomas Titus
Muslim Community Media and the Public Sphere: The Contribution of The Milli Gazette and TwoCircles.net - Mahtab Alam
Theatre for Community Education, Capacity Building and Research - Madhura Dutta
Doing Theatre, Fighting Stigma: Budhan Theatre and the Creative Struggle of the Chharas - Dakxinkumar Bajrange
SECTION IV Trajectories of Change: Spaces of Hope
A Delicate Weave: The Place of Local Wisdoms in Community Media Initiatives - Anjali Monteiro and K. P. Jayasankar
Notes on the Political Economy of Community Media: The Self-organizing Power of Communities - Faiz Ullah
Doing Feminist Community Media: Collectivizing in Online Spaces - Shilpa Phadke and Nithila Kanagasabai
'Divided We Stand, United We Fall': The Newfound Wisdom of Digital Age Communication Technology - Hemant Babu
Index
