Communication Rights and Social Justice

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Claudia Padovani, Andrew Calabrese

      Pages 1-13

3. Communication Struggles in a Globalizing Context

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. Communication Rights and the History of Ideas

      • Cees J. Hamelink

      Pages 17-28

   3. Communication Rights and Media Justice between Political and Discursive Opportunities: An Historical Perspective

      • Stefania Milan, Claudia Padovani

      Pages 29-54

   4. Living the New International Information Order

      • Roberto Savio

      Pages 55-73

   5. Continuities and Change in the Nexus of Communication and Development

      • Ingela Svedin

      Pages 74-93

   6. Are States Still Important? Reflections on the Nexus between National and Global Media and Communication Policy

      • Marc Raboy, Aysha Mawani

      Pages 94-112

4. Mobilizing Communications: Regional Perspectives and Practices

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113

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   2. The Democratization of Communication: Latin American Perspectives and Initiatives

      • Sally Burch

      Pages 115-134

   3. Beyond the Dominant Paradigm of Communication Rights? Observations from South Asia

      • Pradip N. Thomas

      Pages 135-151

   4. Establishing a ‘Rights Regime’ in Iran: Thinking Communications, Politics and Gender Together

      • Annabelle Sreberny

      Pages 152-163

   5. Communication Rights as a Networking Reality: Community Radio in Europe

      • Salvatore Scifo

      Pages 164-179

   6. Media Reform and Communication Rights in the USA

      • Andrew Calabrese

      Pages 180-200

5. Ongoing Resistance, New Frames and Changing Narratives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 201-202

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   2. Media Justice and Communication Rights

      • Seeta Peña Gangadharan

      Pages 203-218

   3. Bringing Communication Back In: Social Movements and Media

      • Lorenzo Mosca

      Pages 219-233

   4. Reframing Communication Rights: Why Gender Matters

      • Margaret Gallagher

      Pages 234-248

   5. Practising Communication Rights: Cases from South Korea and Honduras

      • Dorothy Kidd

      Pages 249-268

   6. Communication Rights and Neoliberal Development: Technopolitics in India

      • Paula Chakravartty

      Pages 269-287

Placing struggles for communication rights within the broader context of human rights struggles in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, this broad-based collection offers a rich range of illustrations of national, regional and global struggles to define communication rights as essential to human needs and happiness.

• democratization
• gender
• human rights
• Policy
• radio
• social justice

'This book makes a significant and original contribution to an important and emerging research area. It is unique, broad and full of useful empirical evidence and first hand reflection. It delivers all of this in a highly readable, engaging form that will appeal to various levels of students and to non academic audiences.' - Jeremy Shtern, Ryerson University, Canada

• University of Padova, Italy

  Claudia Padovani

• University of Colorado, USA

  Andrew Calabrese

Sally Burch, Agencia Latinoamericana de Información -ALAI, Ecuador Andrew Calabrese, University of Colorado, USA Paula Chakravartty , New York University, USA Donatella della Ratta, Harvard University, USA Margaret Gallagher, researcher and writer Seeta Pena Ganghdaran, New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute, USA Cees Hamelink, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Dorothy Kidd, University of San Francisco, California Aysha Mawani, McGill University, Canada Stefania Milan, Tilburg University, Netherlands Lorenzo Mosca, University of Roma Tre, Italy Claudia Padovani, University of Padova, Italy Marc Raboy, McGill University, Canada Roberto Savio, Inter Press Service Savatore Scifo, Maltepe University, Turkey Annabelle Sreberny, SOAS, University of London, UK Ingela Svedin, Swedish delegate at the OECD/DAC Pradip Thomas, University of Queensland, Australia Augusto Valeriani, University of Bologna, Italy

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