Local Folktales on the Radio: Orature and Action Research

Jonas Agerbæk

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-40466-0_4

Local Folktales on the Radio: Orature and Action Research

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Abstract

With the ROAR method, Agerbæk offers a distinct approach to participatory content creation and communication for social change. Developed during his fieldwork in rural Malawi, he uses it to investigate how local storytellers can create radio folktales (nthano) and use them to address critical issues of collective concern. Grounding his analysis in discussions of citizens’ media and dialogic democracy theory, he provides a telling indication of the importance of indigenous knowledge as well as the values and challenges of supporting local village dwellers in exercising their communicative capabilities as citizens and conducting social critique.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Methodological Reflections on Researching Communication and Social Change
Editors	Norbert Wildermuth, Teke Ngomba
Number of pages	25
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date	2016
Pages	53-77
Chapter	4
ISBN (Print)	978-3-319-40465-3
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-319-40466-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40466-0_4
Publication status	Published - 2016

Series	Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change

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10.1007/978-3-319-40466-0_4

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Local Folktales on the Radio: Orature and Action Research. / Agerbæk, Jonas.
Methodological Reflections on Researching Communication and Social Change. ed. / Norbert Wildermuth; Teke Ngomba. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. p. 53-77 (Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

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