Paula A. Treichler has become a singularly important voice among the significant theorists
on the AIDS crisis. Dissecting the cultural politics surrounding representations of HIV and …

This major study explores the role of the mass media in promoting democracy and
empowering civil society in Africa. The author contextualizes Africa within in the rapidly …

Adele E. Clarke and Susan Leigh Star social worlds framework has become the conceptual
infrastructure of situational analysis (Clarke, 2005), a new extension of the grounded theory …

The Rwandan genocide of 1994 has been partly attributed by some commentators to state
weakness or collapse, and the weakness or collapse has in turn been partly attributed to the …

Focusing on television media reporting of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and its aftermath,
this book explores how African states directly involved in conflict, western states with …

Graham Harrison investigates contemporary African politics by privileging the dynamics of
political struggle and resistance. Through the analysis of peasant politics, debt and structural …

Rwanda is a small country of eight million people in central Africa, with a long history of
violent conflict dating back to 1959, and culminating in the 1994 genocide. Conflict in …

This essay argues that the media-generated spectacle of the dead African body serves as a
historically and rhetorically continuous signifier through which the West mounts a revisionary …

This book offers an examination of how a deeply divided post-conflict society embarks on
democratic transition. Using Rwanda as the case study, it combines analysis of democratic …

Foreign reporting plays a significant role in shining a light on stories of conflict and hardship
that would potentially remain untold, but a reoccurring problem in this practice, particularly …