Indigenizing the national broadcast soundscape – CBC podcast: Missing and Murdered: Finding Cleo

Indigenous audio media are experiencing a growing movement in the field of cultural media studies. One arguably linked to the global rise of indigenous reconciliation and political action in colonial nations such as Australia, United States, Canada and New Zealand. Indigenizing the national broadcast soundscape, Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC) original podcast Missing and Murdered: Finding Cleo weaves its way through the patriarchal reign of liberal pluralism and settler colonialism of Canadian society from wounded vibrations of assimilation, residential school, cultural genocide, the sixties scoop, sexual assault, death and life. Through a cultural sound studies and critical media analysis framework, this article positions Finding Cleo as an anti-colonial soundwork that details the story of one of the many families involved in the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) as they search for the promise of truth to heal what we conceptualize as wounded vibrations.

Liberal Pluralism and Diversity

This chapter engages with William Galston’s work as depictive of CT liberalism. In this approach, a pro-diversity attitude coexists with a reliance on comprehensive commitments (especially value pluralism). Galston’s diversity liberalism promises to be more accommodating of diversity than CA liberalism. Galston objects to any version of autonomy liberalism on the basis that autonomy is not the only way of life in liberal societies. The chapter analyses expressive liberty, political pluralism, and value pluralism as three theoretical pillars on which diversity liberalism relies. However, after a deep analysis of diversity liberalism that considers also educational policies, this approach is found highly problematic. Galston’s view of value pluralism might lead towards ethical relativism. Further problems in Galston’s view come both from his assumption of diversity as a value to be protected rather than merely a factual condition to be faced, and from his strong conception of exit rights.

Continuity in change: A history of radio for national development

In this article, we assert and demonstrate a particular and enduring adaptability of radio in tandem with observable temporal shifts in development communication theory and practice in Africa. Specifically, we use the historical research method to explore and explain the ideological discourses, polity contours and social forces that have overlain the role of radio as both an index and an instrument of development in Ghana. The evidence reveals that radio has transitioned through three key milestones in how the technology has been appropriated and applied to national development efforts: from transplantation, through transmission, to transaction. Each of these phases coincides, incidentally, with paradigm shifts in development communication theorizing: from modernization through diffusion to participation. They also coincide, broadly, with three distinctive epochs of ideological shifts in the historical accounting on radio for development in Ghana: from British imperial hegemony, through post-independence command-and-control, to contemporary liberal pluralism.

From Postmaterialism to Sustainable Materialism

We begin the analysis with a discussion of why movement actors shift from more classic political action and policy development into the development of sustainable materialist practices. There is a clear frustration and disillusionment with both contemporary material life on the one hand, and liberal pluralism and capital on the other. The postmaterialist approach to environmental movements is inadequate in a number of ways, as the movements we explore illustrate a clear frustration and disillusionment with both contemporary material life on the one hand, and liberal pluralism and capital on the other. We introduce and discuss a range of other approaches to material action, including lifestyle politics, political consumerism, sustainable consumption, and postcapitalist frameworks, but also lay out their limitations in fully encompassing and explaining sustainable materialist movements.

Katolicy w państwie liberalnego pluralizmu. Miesięcznik Znak wobec sekularyzacji (lata 1989-2000)

Catholics in the liberal pluralism state. Facing secularisation in the monthly Znak (1989–2000): The aim of this paper is to analyse the philosophical, sociological, politological, theological and press articles on the issue of secularisation that were published in the monthly Znak during 1989–2000. A definition of secularisation is employed that was coined by Charles Taylor in A secular age (Taylor, 2007). It is understood as the endurance of religion in a plural society. The paper delineates three stands that the Znak Catholics have taken when facing secularisation: (1) an open catholicity; (2) a liberal faith; and (3) an ambiguous one. (1) The first approach involves confronting one’s liberal, secular partners in public debates, with a focus on finding some of their points acceptable according to the Church doctrine. Nevertheless, it is burdened with the anxiety of losing one’s own identity. (2) The second approach emphasises some of the connections between liberal and Christian ideas. A particular meaning of liberty and authenticity in human existence is stressed. (3) In the third approach, although it does not admit to its malevolence, the liberal ideas are treated with sharp criticism. Liberalism is accused of limiting the role of religion in a plural society. In the conclusion to the paper, an attempt is made to present the current relations between liberalism and Christianity in Po‑ land. A deep recent transformation is revealed. It is believed that Znak will lose its function as a continuity sustainer in the next few years.

À propos de The Practice of Liberal Pluralism de William Galston, un dialogue avec l’auteur, septembre, 2005

La publication de The Practice of Liberal Pluralism est apparue comme un événement de première importance dans la réflexion contemporaine sur l’apport du pluralisme au libéralisme. La pensée de William Galston a connu une évolution : dans Liberal Purposes, l’accent est mis sur la critique du neutralisme et la position d’un libéralisme perfectionniste, tandis que Liberal Pluralism s’intéresse au contraire aux limites de l’intervention étatique. Cette évolution fait l’objet de nombreuses questions dans la discussion qui suit. The Practice of Liberal Pluralism opère une synthèse intéressante sur ce point. Galston se définit comme un libéral pluraliste dans la lignée de Berlin. Bien qu’il insiste sur le conflit tragique des valeurs, il minimise cet aspect dans les discussions qui suivent, et pose la possibilité consécutive d’avoir des devoirs prima facie (cf. la discussion sur sa négation du particularisme moral). Un des arguments centraux pour justifier le pluralisme des valeurs est qu’il rend le mieux compte de la complexité de notre univers moral (cf. la discussion sur le pluralisme et le sentiment de regret). Galston endosse également un pluralisme politique, lequel signifie que les sources d’autorité sont multiples. Le libéralisme de Galston est très tolérant à l’égard des pratiques communautaires non libérales. Cette tolérance est cependant assortie de la défense du « droit de sortie », notion qui apparaît donc comme fondamentale. Dans les discussions qui suivent, Galston propose la manière adéquate de comprendre l’exercice de ce droit de sortie (cf. les discussions sur les rapports entre liberté expressive, droit de sortie et autonomie).