Community Radio Policies In South Asia: A Deliberative Policy Ecology Approach (palgrave Studies In Communication For Social Change)

The book draws on critical media policy studies, to study the principles and performances of policies and policymaking for community radio in four countries of South Asia---Sri Lanka, Nepal, India, and Bangladesh. It focuses on the processes and practices of deliberation that go into policymaking, across space and time, and the global-local spectrum. It stitches together a critical media policy ethnography, drawing on over a 100 formal interviews and informal conversations with policy actors from South Asia, in a bid to present a deliberative policy analysis of policymaking for community radio in the region. Drawing on Grounded Theory, the book fleshes out the Deliberative Policy Ecology Approach as an inclusive heuristic to study media policies. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxiii Media Policy Studies and Community Media (Preeti Raghunath)....Pages 1-45 The Deliberative Policy Ecology Approach to Media Policy (Preeti Raghunath)....Pages 47-85 The Postcolony and Its Radio (Preeti Raghunath)....Pages 87-143 A Glocal Public Sphere: Opening up of Radio to Communities in South Asia (Preeti Raghunath)....Pages 145-192 Plural Policy Actors and Narratives of Practice (Preeti Raghunath)....Pages 193-253 Liminality, Sustainability, and the State (Preeti Raghunath)....Pages 255-289 A Critical Comparative Ecology: Connectedness, Contestation, Comparativity (Preeti Raghunath)....Pages 291-309 Back Matter ....Pages 311-370