Community Radio and Social Activism in Chile 1990–2007: Challenges for Grass Roots Voices During the Transition to Democracy

2007 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 212-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosalind Bresnahan
Keyword(s):  
Social Activism ◽  
Transition To Democracy ◽  
Community Radio ◽  
Grass Roots

Islamically Framed Mobilization in Tunisia: Ansar al-Sharia in the Aftermath of the Arab Uprisings

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frédéric Volpi
Keyword(s):  
Social Activism ◽  
Social Recognition ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
State Control ◽  
Party Discipline ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Arab Uprisings ◽  
Religious Competition ◽  
System P ◽  
Tunisian Revolution

This chapter addresses two main aspects of Islamically framed social mobilization, with a particular focus on the protest dynamics that took place in the aftermath of the 2011 Arab uprisings in Tunisia. It outlines the evolution of such mobilizations over time, as state control of the political and religious field changed and as intra-religious competition was reshaped. In Tunisia, while institutionalized political Islam was mainly channeled through the pragmatic approach developed by Ennahda, Islamically framed social activism was nonetheless significantly influenced by the Salafi network centering on Ansar al-Sharia. The attractiveness of the Salafi discourse, particularly among young and disenfranchised protesters in the aftermath of the Tunisian revolution, was that it offered immediate opportunities for action and for social recognition. Ultimately, Ansar al-Sharia failed to institutionalize their influence and to shape the patterns of democratization in the country, primarily because they could not agree between themselves on a political agenda, and because they could not impose party discipline on their youthful new supporters. The rapid grass-roots mobilization that underpinned the rise of the Salafi movement created a situation of hubris and was quickly followed by demobilization when the state used the security apparatus to repress activities that were seen as a threat to the newly established democratic system.

‘Great markers of culture’: The Australian sport field

2016 ◽  
Vol 158 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Rowe
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Community Radio ◽  
Discussion Paper ◽  
Private Funding ◽  
Aboriginal Community ◽  
Radio Stations ◽  
Broadcast Media ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Policy Discussion

In Creative Nation, sport is distinguished by its almost complete absence, except as a competitor for sponsorship with ‘cultural organisations’, and in brief mentions as content for SBS Radio and Aboriginal community radio stations. Sport is not mentioned at all in the 2011 National Cultural Policy Discussion Paper, but in the ensuing policy, Creative Australia, is treated, with art and religion, as one of the ‘great markers of culture’ in which, distinctively, elite professionalism, amateurism and fandom/appreciation happily co-exist. This article reflects on developments in the Australian sport field over the last two decades, highlighting the management of elite-grass roots and public–private funding tensions, and relevant parallels in the arts field. It addresses the pivotal relationship between the sport and broadcast media fields, arguing that sport, as a Bourdieusian ‘field of struggles’, is an under-appreciated domain of national cultural policy in which different forms of capital collide and converge.

scholarly journals Melawan Hegemoni Media dengan Strategi Komunikasi Berpusat pada Masyarakat

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
YudhiMario Antonius Birowo
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Alternative Media ◽  
Present Form ◽  
Community Radio ◽  
Radio Stations ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
The People ◽  
Ruling Elites ◽  
The Mass Media

Abstract : The present form and structure of mass media has become the most effective tool in the pursuit of globalization and hegemony of ruling elites. Consequently the mass media do not provide a space for people to participate in the process of production, which causes a gap between the mass media and people. Therefore the mass media cannot play a role in social change because it does not have roots within the people. To fulfill this gap, grass-roots people need alternative media which help them to be heard. One type of alternative media is community radio. This media started in the 1940s with the first community radio stations in Colombia and Bolivia. In Indonesia, this media started in 1990s. The existence of community radio cannot be separated from civil society movement.

scholarly journals Tribal radio stations as key community informants and sites of resistance to mainstream media narratives

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 43-55
Author(s):  
Jana Wilbricht
Keyword(s):  
Alaska Native ◽  
Social Activism ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Community Radio ◽  
Community Media ◽  
Radio Stations ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Digital Divides ◽  
The Us ◽  
Media Narratives

Rural US Indigenous communities are disproportionately affected by digital divides, insufficient infrastructures, and health disparities, so that community radio still represents a key medium in the lean mediascapes of these communities. The first US radio stations licensed to American Indian/Alaska Native tribes began broadcasting in 1971, about 50 years after the rise of rural radio in the US, which until then had almost entirely ignored Indigenous news, concerns, and voices. This paper draws on interview data from 2016 fieldwork conducted in Alaska and Arizona with two community radio stations serving the local, mostly Indigenous audience, to highlight how its historical ties to social activism continue to play a role in how tribal radio functions as a medium today. Tribal radio stations value not only traditional journalistic standards, but also advocacy for the community, combating stereotypes, and view themselves as distinct from mainstream and other community media.

scholarly journals The radical turn of Portuguese social work during the democratic transition (1974–76)

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Gabriel Silva
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Direct Democracy ◽  
Transition To Democracy ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Grass Roots Initiatives ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Radical Intervention

The transition to democracy in Portugal in the 1970s provides the socio-historical background for this article. It focuses on the period of 1974–76, known as the revolutionary phase, when a series of progressive political programmes, forms of direct democracy, collective mobilisation and widespread grass-roots initiatives emerged in the aftermath of the dictatorial regime. The experiences of Portuguese social workers in the aforementioned revolutionary vanguards will be compared and interpreted by using the radical social work approaches that sprang up in the UK and US at the time. Ten in-depth interviews with social workers involved in radical intervention during the revolutionary phase will be compared to the key tenets of the radical social work literature of the 1970s.

scholarly journals Adolescent Sex and Psyche in Brazil: Surveillance, Critique and Global Mental Health

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 686-709 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominique P. Béhague
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
Population Control ◽  
Global Mental Health ◽  
Transition To Democracy ◽  
Clinical Practices ◽  
Historical Ethnography ◽  
Public Health Programs ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Measurement Tools

AbstractDrawing on a historical ethnography conducted in Southern Brazil, this article explores how public health programs for adolescent reproductive and mental health have emerged in Brazil and begun to intersect with the growing field of “global mental health” (GMH). The story I recount begins not in the 2010s with the rapid rise of expert interest in adolescent health within GMH, but in the 1990s, the decade when young teens in Brazil were first coming into contact with practices and approaches in research, schools and clinics that have both underpinned and critiqued the production of an adolescent mental and reproductive health sub-field. In parsing what young women’s encounters with the then newly-emerging questionnaires, measurement tools, school-based programs and clinical practices came to mean to them, I use a genealogical approach to consider how histories of education reform, population control, psychoanalysis, social medicine, the transition to democracy, feminism and grass-roots politics all entered the fold, shaping the way adolescent sex-and-psyche materialized as a contested object of expertise. I end by exploring what this case can teach global mental health advocates and social theorists about practices of critique.

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