Community Radio Policies in South Asia

Preeti Raghunath is an Assistant Professor at the Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication (SIMC), Symbiosis International University (SIU), Pune, India. Her research work and praxis are located at the intersections of global media policies, transitional societies, human security and deliberative democracy in South Asia. She works with critical theories and their potential for emancipatory politics, and specializes in policy ethnography as a methodology in the study of media policies and policymaking.

Chapter 1: Introduction: Critical Media Policy and Community Media in South Asia.- Chapter 2: The Deliberative Ecology Approach to Media Policy.- Chapter 3: The Post-Colony and its Radio: ‘Imperium’ and ‘Liberation’ on air.- Chapter 4: A Glocal Public Sphere in the Waves: Principles, Policies, Performances and Practices in South Asia.- Chapter 5: Plural Voices of Policy Actors: Associational-Networked Deliberation and Potential Democratisation.- Chapter 6: Reconstructing Community Radio in South Asia: Sustainable Community Radios, Public Diplomacy, and the Right to Communicate.- Chapter 7: Reflexivity and Responses: Deliberative Sound Cultures of the Anthropocene.