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Certainty Responses
community broadcasting
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County Seat
cultural identity formation
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Ethnic Group's Culture
ethnographic research methods
Exposure Time
External Information Flows
government-sponsored participatory radio network
indigenous media studies
Indigenous Participation
Indigenous Staff Members
Indigenous Staffers
Indigenous Woman Healer
Instituto Nacional Indigenista
Language_English
Latin American participatory radio stations
Li Teracy
Listeners Domain
Maderan Families
Marimba Music
Mexican ethnic minorities
multilingual communication
Network's Social Space
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Participatory Radio
participatory radio impact in Mexico
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Programa Nacional De Solidaridad
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Ranchera Music
Relationship Maintenance
Salinas De Gortari
social development participation
social practices
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Station General Manager
Vernacular Language
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780367303167
- Weight: 610g
- Dimensions: 157 x 241mm
- Publication Date: 09 Nov 2020
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Combining concepts and methods from critical cultural studies with the Freirean approach to development, Lucila Vargas examines the social value of participatory radio and the possibilities and constraints that participatory radio stations hold for improving the living conditions and the sense of self-esteem of the poor in Mexico. This book provides an ethnographic account of the social uses of radio created by several Mexican ethnic minorities by examining the matrix of interactions between a government-sponsored participatory radio network and its indigenous audiences. Vargas specifically emphasizes how and why the politics of race, ethnicity, class, and gender shape the extent and quality of people's participation in development efforts, and she also considers the larger issue of the way subaltern ethnic groups appropriate and refunctionalize modem mass technology. This inquiry leads to a method for analyzing the cultural subtleties and social intricacies of the practices that emerge from participatory radio. Through a thorough investigation of two Tojolabal Maya communities in the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico, Vargas reveals the conflicts and challenging contradictions typical of many participatory radio stations. She finds that despite the rampant racism against indigenous peoples prevalent at the radio stations, groups like the Tojolabal Maya have found creative ways to make the best of the communication resources that this participatory project has made available to them.
Lucila Vargas
