Political economy of Nollywood: A literature review

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 247-262
Author(s):  
Ezinne M. Ezepue
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Power And Control ◽  
Production Distribution ◽  
Nigerian Film ◽  
And Control

Political economy studies control and survival in social life. It is simply defined as the study of production and exchange and how these activities relate with the state and its laws. It is interested in how politics interacts with economics. Extensive essays and texts on the political economy of the film industry in general, and of Hollywood in particular abound. Such studies on Nollywood, the Nigerian film industry, remains scarce. But in recent times, authors, both indigenous and foreign, are beginning to give increased attention to the struggle for power and control within the industry. This study is interested in how economic activities in Nollywood interact with the law and government. It searches existent scholarship to interrogate what has been discussed on aspects of the political economy of the industry. It discusses these studies under production, distribution and consumption. It reviews other important industry matters like policies, interrogating briefly the place of MOPICON in the political economy of Nollywood. This review forms an important document for research on Nollywood, to curb and forestall consistent repetition of studies within Nollywood scholarship.

Postmodernism and Social Policy: A Small Step Forwards?

1996 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue Penna ◽  
Martin O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
The Political ◽  
Small Step ◽  
Power And Control ◽  
And Control

ABSTRACTThe term ‘postmodernism’ has recently entered the study of social policy, prompting debate over its usefulness for social policy analysis. Peter Taylor-Gooby's (1994) appraisal of literatures often described as ‘postmodern’ leads him to reject them as having little to offer the discipline of social policy. This article argues that such a view derives from a confusion about the field of ‘postmodernism’; in particular, from a conflation of several different theoretical positions and schools of thought. This article provides a clarification of these literatures in order to argue that the issues they raise have important implications for the way in which we might understand the prospects for policy formulation and implementation. The article distinguishes between the political economy strand of the ‘post’ literatures – postindustrialism and postfordism – and the cultural studies strand – poststructuralism and postmodernism – showing that the different issues they highlight, and the ways in which they conceptualise power and control will lead to different theoretical connections between social policy and political action.

scholarly journals Sonic memory interventions against politics of urban silencing

Muzikologija ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 89-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Hofman ◽  
Srdjan Atanasovski
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
The Political ◽  
Power And Control ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
And Control

We discuss the political implications of the noise/silence dialectic in order to reflect on the urban and social materialities of sonic memory activism in the post- Yugoslav space. We see the privatization of public space as one of the defining issues of current socio-political tensions and we strive to offer a more nuanced model for thinking about grassroots practices of musicking and listening in the context of resistance and power and control redistribution. Discussing sonic interventions in Ljubljana and Belgrade enables us both to uncover how important global processes are reflected in these local contexts and to locate diversity of present practices of resistance.

scholarly journals Playing development roles: the political ecology of performance in agricultural development

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 638 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Flachs ◽  
Paul Richards
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Multiple Scales ◽  
Special Section ◽  
The Political ◽  
Farm Work ◽  
Farming Communities

Performance is a useful lens through which to analyze agrarian life, as performance illuminates the ways that farmers manage the complex socioecological demands of farm work while participating in social life and in the larger political economy. The dialectic of planning and improvisation in the farm field has produced scholarship at multiple scales of political ecology, including the global ramifications of new technologies or policies, as well as the hyper-local engagements between farmers and fields in the context of modernity and development. Political ecologists are also beginning to understand how affects, such as aspirations and frustrations, influence agriculture by structuring how farmers and other stakeholders make decisions about farms, households, capital, and environments. To understand farm work as a performance is to situate it within particular stages, roles, scripts, and audiences at different scales. The articles in this Special Section ask how farmers have improvised, planned, and performed in response to agroecological challenges, bridging scholarship in political ecology, development studies, and the study of agrarian landscapes through new empirical case studies and theoretical contributions. Agriculture both signals social values and fosters improvisations within farming communities' collective vulnerability to weather and the political economy. We argue that the lens of performance situates the political ecology of agriculture within the constraints of the political economy, the aspirations and frustrations of daily life, and the dialectic between improvised responses to change and planning in the field.Keywords: Performance, agriculture, planning, improvisation, agrarian studies

The Political Economy of Administrative Burdens: A Theoretical Framework for Analyzing the Organizational Origins of Administrative Burdens

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 566-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rik Peeters
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
The Political ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Behavioral Patterns ◽  
Access To Services ◽  
Formal Procedures

Most research on administrative burdens focuses on measuring their impact on citizens’ access to services and benefits. This article fills a theoretical gap and provides a framework for understanding the organizational origins of administrative burden. Based on an extensive literature review, the explanations are organized according to their level of intentionality (deliberate hidden politics or unintended consequences) and their level of formality (designed into formal procedures or caused by informal organizational practices). The analysis suggests that administrative burdens are often firmly rooted in a political economy of deeply engrained structures and behavioral patterns in public administration.

The Political Economy of Charles E. Lindblom

1978 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 1012-1016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles W. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Institutional Design ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Market Mechanisms ◽  
Social Coordination ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
And Control ◽  
Coordination And Control

The consistent theme in Charles E. Lindblom's work is a vision of political economy as constitutional engineering. Lindblom sees the question of institutional design in terms of a mechanical metaphor in which political economic systems are contrived out of relatively simple components. Politics and Markets compares a broad range of capitalist and socialist systems as a means of evaluating market mechanisms and authority structures as instruments of social coordination and control. Lindblom's argument that the privileged power of the corporation poses a problem for liberal market-oriented societies is logically distinct from his case that the corporation fits “oddly” with democratic theory, and the latter may be the more significant theme for further inquiry in political economic theory.

Communication Policy in Asia: Limited Democracy and the Public Sphere

1998 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Birch
Keyword(s):  
Mass Communication ◽  
The Political ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Communication Policy ◽  
Policy Studies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Power And Control ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Ideal

Communication policy in Asia has been, and is likely to remain, a highly exclusive, non-participatory, localised means of expressing and maintaining power and control. If it defines democracy, it defines a very different and limited one compared to the ideal envisioned, for example, by Habermas. This paper explores some of the issues involved, particularly with respect to communication policy studies in Asia, and argues for an approach to the development of communication studies and theory which is prepared to engage with the political and economic rather than just with the technical and social as is still the case with so many ‘mass communication’ approaches.

scholarly journals Professor Janet Wasko: An Interview with the President of the IAMCR and one of the Key Representatives of the Political Economy of Communication Approach

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-27
Author(s):  
Jernej Amon Prodnik ◽  
Janet Wasko
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
International Association ◽  
The Political ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Communication Approach ◽  
The University ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
Political Economy Approach

This paper presents an interview with Janet Wasko. She is a Professor and Knight Chair in Communication Research at the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication and widely considered as one of the key authors working in the tradition of the political economy of communication. Currently she is serving as the President of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), one of the key international associations in the field of media and communication studies. She previously held several other positions in the IAMCR and served as the head of the Political Economy-section, which she also helped to establish. Professor Wasko published several influential books on the film industry, especially on Hollywood and the Disney Corporation. We talked especially about the influences on her approach, about her position in the IAMCR, her understanding of how the cultural and media industries work, the political economy approach in media and communication studies, and issues related to the film industry, which she mostly tackles in her own research.

scholarly journals Wellbeing and Worldbuilding: The Science Fiction of Wellbeing Measurement

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jo Walton
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
The Political ◽  
Interested Party ◽  
Social Analytics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Data Infrastructures ◽  
The Many

Wellbeing has evolved into a fragmented, contextual, and multi-dimensional construct, underpinned by numerous measurement methodologies at many different scales. To explore wellbeing through science fiction and fantasy (SFF), we don’t just need SFF about health and happiness. We also need SFF about measurement: SFF that explores surveillance, data infrastructures, the political economy of personal data, ‘the metric gaze,’ social analytics, and the social life of metrics. This chapter explores just a few linkages between wellbeing, measurement, and SFF, mainly emphasising dystopian fiction. Has SFF struggled to imagine wellbeing policy — or any holistic stance on the myriad factors that inform the happiness and flourishing of populations — except where the interested party is some sinister elite? How might SFF's narratives of distant planets and more-than-human intelligences help us to formulate a more inclusive understanding of the wellbeing of the many morally weighty beings and worlds that inhabit this planet?

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