Media, Conflict and Peacebuilding in Africa : Conceptual and Empirical Considerations

著者名：Maweu, Jacinta (EDT)/Mare, Admire (EDT)

Routledge（2021/03/29発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9780367726508
• eISBN：9781000361421

Description

This book explores the role and place of popular, traditional and digital media platforms in the mediatization, representation and performance of various conflicts and peacebuilding interventions in the African context.

The role of the media in conflict is often depicted as either ‘good’ (as symbolized by peace journalism) or ‘bad’ (as exemplified by war journalism), but this book moves beyond this binary to highlight the ‘in-between’ role that the media often plays in times of conflict. The volume does not only focus on the relationship between mass media, conflict and peacebuilding processes but it broadens its scope by critically analysing the dynamic and emergent roles of popular and digital media platforms in a continent where the semi-literate and oral communities still rely heavily on popular communication platforms to get news and information. Whilst social media platforms have been hailed for their assumed democratic and digital dividends, this book does not only focus on these positive aspects but also shines a light on dark forms of participation which are fuelling racial, gender, ethnic, political and religious conflicts in highly polarized and stratified societies.

Highlighting the many ways in which traditional, digital and popular media can be used to both escalate conflicts and promote peacebuilding, this volume will be a useful resource for students, researchers and civil society groups interested in peace and conflict studies, journalism and media studies in different contexts within Africa.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Cyril Obi　

1. Introduction. Changing the tide: Re-examining the interplay of media, conflict and peacebuilding in Africa

Jacinta Maweu and Admire Mare

Part I. Different Conceptual and Methodological Considerations

2. Rethinking peace journalism in light of Ubuntu

Colin Chasi and Ylva Rodny-Gumede

3. Researching Africa Peace Journalism through Borderlands: A Theoretical and Methodological Exploration

Fredrick Ogenga

4. The Limits of Peace Journalism in Restricted Societies: Reporting the Gukurahundi Genocide in Zimbabwe

Phillip Santos

5. The Prospects and Challenges of mediating peacebuilding in Africa: Towards a human rights journalism approach

Ibrahim Seaga Shaw

6. The Role of Folk Media in Peacebuilding: Folk Storytelling Tradition as a Site for Peaceful Negotiation for Gender Harmony in African Families

Egara Kabaji

Part II. The Good and Bad of Traditional Media in Conflict and Peacebuilding

7. A Critical Reflection on the Role of the Media in Conflict in Africa

Dumisani Moyo

8. Assessing the impact of terrorism and counter-terrorism laws on freedom of the media in Kenya

Benjamin Muindi

9. Catalysts of conflict or Messengers of Peace? Promoting Interfaith Dialogue between Christians and Muslims in Kenya through the Media

Jacinta Maweu

10. Media Diplomacy and the Kenya-Somalia Maritime Territorial Dispute

Doreen Muyonga

11. "In their own words": Journalistic mediation of electoral conflict in polarized Zimbabwe

Admire Mare and Stanley Tsarwe

12. The role of the media in conflict and peacebuilding in Sierra Leone

Francis Sowa

13. War Reporting In Africa: The Case Of Sudan’s War In The Nuba Mountains

Ogata Moganda Silvester

14. Peace-makers or Peace-Wreckers? Discursive Construction of Domestic Conflict and Peacebuilding in the Zimbabwean Diaspora Media

Tendai Chari

Part III: Digital Media, Conflict and Peacebuilding

15. Precarity, Technology, Identity: The Sociology of Conflict Reporting in South Sudan

Richard Stupart

16: "Walking through History" Together: Gukurahundi, Memory and the Role of Digital Media in Shaping "Post-conflict" Zimbabwe

Mphathisi Ndlovu

17. "We have Degrees in Violence": a Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Online Constructions of Electoral Violence in Post-2000 Zimbabwe

Allen Munoriyarwa

18. Of Beaches, Monkeys and Good Old Days: How Social Media Race-Talk is Dismantling the ‘Rainbow Nation’

Shepherd Mpofu