VII Congresso Português de Sociologia

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VII CONGRESSO PORTUGUÊS DE SOCIOLOGIA

PARA O VII CONGRESSO PORTUGUÊS DE SOCIOLOGIA

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Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto

Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto

Resultados da pesquisa por: «África Lusófona»

PAP0432 - Towards African Communication for Development. An African experience: the Guinea-Bissau & Mozambique cases

PAP0432 - Towards African Communication for Development. An African experience: the Guinea-Bissau & Mozambique cases

GT Comunicação Social This article focuses on a comparative analysis of community radio realities in two Lusophone African countries: Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique, whose local field research refers to 2003, 2004, 2007 and 2009, respectively. It focuses on the tense relationship between political power and community radios through theoretical reviewing of two emerging concepts: “Communication for Development” and “Glocalization”. A comprehensive ground-breaking study, it aims at determining what role these media can play so as to build challenging and participative citizenship. It exposes the dangers threatening the sustainability of these tools of empowerment, on being deprived of viable institutional frameworks. The main objective is to identify similarities and differences, to discuss resulting issues and to investigate the feasibility of unifying criteria, formats and definitions. Against expectations, the Globalization phenomenon has not eliminated social and economic obstacles in the contemporary world. On the contrary, it has greatly contributed to a growing gap between developed and developing countries, with poverty and social exclusion emerging as immediate consequences of this process. On the other hand, in Africa, in particular, globalization is responsible for the emergence of local development initiatives that require new perspectives for the adjustment of national policies to local singularities of urban and rural areas. Community radios are essential tools for structuring these new physical, economic, social and cultural dimensions. Local development comprises a vast range of practices and perspectives, a reality deriving from the multiplicity of actors involved in the management of territories. Democratic engagement and endogenous entrepreneurship stand out as primary aspects of human and social development which requires the participation of civil society and local socio-economic fabric as a precondition for the sustainability of development. Redesigning sustainable strategies for social inclusion based on the paradigm "Think globally, act locally" is a pre-requisite for Africa to board the train of modernization.

PAULA, Patrícia Filipa da Mota