Les Switzer
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 116089 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Les Switzer |
| PRENOMES | Les |
| SOBRENOME | Switzer |
| ASSINATURA | LES SWITZER |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Houston |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1980 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2009 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
God in the Corridors of Power
God in the Corridors of Power: Christian Conservatives, the Media, and Politics in America is a comprehensive study of Christian conservative power in America's political culture—how it was achieved, how it is maintained, and where it is going. It came about in part because of an enduring influence in the school room, the seminary and in the pulpit, and in part because conservatives are so skilled at using commercial and non-commercial media, inc…
Propaganda and the subversion of objectivity
Osama bin Laden must be supremely confident about the continuing success of international terrorism, given events of the seven years following the 9/11 attacks. The West's response thus far has weakened the United States and its allies and generally strengthened terrorist organisations across the globe. We argue that the terrorist victory stems in part from media coverage of the George W. Bush administration's march to war. We argue that the medi…
God in the corridors of power
God in the Corridors of Power: Christian Conservatives, the Media, and Politics in America offers a multifaceted understanding of Christian conservative activists in politics today. Authors Michael Ryan and Les Switzer argue that the astonishing electoral successes of Christian conservatives at all levels of government was made possible, not only by a coalition of political interests, but also because of an emerging consensus on what constitutes …
Reflections on religion, media and the marketing of America’s wars
The international Christian community was celebrating World Communion Day on Sunday October 7, 2001, when the United States started bombing Afghanistan. The religious significance of this political event was not lost on many Americans – on the day when Christians throughout the world take communion in a symbolic act of unity and peace. Three years later, Americans are fighting two traditional wars and one non-traditional war. Clearly, the non-tra…
Mediating religion in the American-sponsored War on Terrorism
The following essay is a reflection on how American religion and the mass media became unholy (but not unwitting) partners in selling the American-sponsored War on Terrorism. I leave it to readers of this journal to decide if there are parallels to the South African experience-especially in the past
Communication and Democratic Reform in South Africa
The book examines the reform of the communication sector in South Africa as a detailed and extended case study in political transformation - the transition from apartheid to democracy. The reform of broadcasting, telecommunications, the state information agency and the print press from apartheid-aligned apparatuses to accountable democratic institutions took place via a complex political process in which civil society activism, embodying a post-s…
South Africa's Resistance Press
South Africa's Resistance Press is a collection of essays celebrating the contributions of scores of newspapers, newsletters, and magazines that confronted the state in the generation after 1960. These publications contributed in no small measure to reviving a mass movement inside South Africa that would finally bring an end to apartheid. This marginalized press had an impact on its audience that cannot be measured in terms of the small number of…
South Africa's Resistance Press
South Africa's Alternative Press
Introduction: South Africa's alternative press in perspective Les Switzer Part I. An Independent Protest Press, 1880s-1930s: 1. The beginnings of African protest journalism at the cape Les Switzer 2. Qude maniki! John L. Dube, Pioneer Editor of Ilanga Lase Natal R. Hunt Davis Jr 3. From advocacy to mobilisation: Indian opinion, 1903-1914 Uma Shaskikant Mesthrie 4. Voice of the coloured elite: APO, 1919-1923 Mohamed Adhikari 5. Moderate and milita…
South Africa's Alternative Press
South Africa's subaltern press
The poststructuralist view of language posits that all texts, including cultures as ‘texts,’ are constructed essentially out of their own rhetorics. The meaning of any text is continually ‘deconstructed’ and any imposition of a particular or ‘authorised’ or ‘official’ meaning on an utterance or text is usually an exercise of power. Following a poststructuralist view of language, this article argues that South Africa's subaltern press mirrored in …
The challenge of university training in the new South Africa
(1998). The challenge of university training in the new South Africa: an outsider's perspective. Scrutiny2: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 3-19
The Ghost of Equality
South Africa's Alternative Press
Christianity, Colonialism and the Postmodern Project in South Africa
forces or structures. And some activities are more important than others: spiritual life and agrarian practice, clothing and architecture, labor and bodily disposition ... became central and were often contested; much more so than, say, patterns of public decision making or rituals of office (1997, 28-29). One problem for the Comaroffs is how to represent this conversation. The meat of their argument lies in the familiar distinction in history, j…
Christianity and the Postmodern Project in Southern Africa
(1997). Christianity and the Postmodern Project in Southern Africa: Paradigms and Procedures in an Ongoing Debate. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 284-306
Other Voices
Power and Resistance in an African Society
Power and Resistance in an African Society
The Growth of the Media in the Third World. African Failures, Asian Successes
Africa's Media Image
Broadcasting in South Africa
The Ambiguities of Protest in South Africa
The 1920s were a time of ferment in South Africa, and the African nationalist press played an important role in communicating the issues and events of this decade to their audiences. The images of reality projected by these newspapers and magazines were necessarily contradictory, but they differed substantially from those projected by the established white press a crucial distinction, since African experiences were rarely represented in these pub…
Bantu World and the origins of a captive African commercial press in South Africa
(1988). Bantu World and the origins of a captive African commercial press in South Africa. Journal of Southern African Studies: Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 351-370.
Books reviewed
Peter Duignan and L.H. Gann, The United States and Africa. A History (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984). Pp. xiv+450. William Minter, King Solomon's Mines Revisited. Western Interests and the Burdened History of Southern Africa (New York: Basic Books, 1986). Pp. xiii+401. $21.95. Megan Vaughan, The Story of an African Famine (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987). Pp. ix+181. £22.50. Andrew Ross, John Philip (1775–1…
Broadcasting in South Africa
South Africa's Resistance Press
The Ghost of Equality
The Ambiguities of Protest in South Africa
The 1920s were a time of ferment in South Africa, and the African nationalist press played an important role in communicating the issues and events of this decade to their audiences. The images of reality projected by these newspapers and magazines were necessarily contradictory, but they differed substantially from those projected by the established white press a crucial distinction, since African experiences were rarely represented in these pub…
The Growth of the Media in the Third World. African Failures, Asian Successes
Books reviewed
Peter Duignan and L.H. Gann, The United States and Africa. A History (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984). Pp. xiv+450. William Minter, King Solomon's Mines Revisited. Western Interests and the Burdened History of Southern Africa (New York: Basic Books, 1986). Pp. xiii+401. $21.95. Megan Vaughan, The Story of an African Famine (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987). Pp. ix+181. £22.50. Andrew Ross, John Philip (1775–1…
A critique of the mass media at the Assa congress
Steyn Commission 1
(1981). Steyn Commission 1: The Press and Total Strategy. Critical Arts: Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 41-45
The Black Press in South Africa and Lesotho
The Black Press in South Africa and Lesotho
The African Christian Community and its Press in Victorian South Africa.
L. Switzer — La communauté chrétienne africaine et sa presse dans l'Afrique du Sud victorienne. La chrétienté sud-africaine et sa presse sont situées dans le contexte de l'action missionnaire au xixe siècle, de sa pénétration de la culture orale traditionnelle et de son rôle dans la création d'une culture écrite. Rédacteurs et lecteurs étaient les produits d'une culture missionnaire qui transcendait les limites individuelles, confessionnelles et …
The Press and Apartheid
Ferment in the Field? Review Essay
Media and Dependency in South Africa
Cultural Studies and African Culture
L. Switzer - Éthologie culturelle et culture africaine. Partant de la recension de l'étude monographique d'un groupe tswana d'Afrique du Sud par un auteur se réclamant du marxisme, L. S. critique, par implication, l'abus, fréquent dans la littérature contemporaine, d'une certaine langue de bois et d'automatismes stéréotypiques tenant lieu d'explication
Bantu World and the origins of a captive African commercial press in South Africa
(1988). Bantu World and the origins of a captive African commercial press in South Africa. Journal of Southern African Studies: Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 351-370.
Books reviewed
Peter Duignan and L.H. Gann, The United States and Africa. A History (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984). Pp. xiv+450. William Minter, King Solomon's Mines Revisited. Western Interests and the Burdened History of Southern Africa (New York: Basic Books, 1986). Pp. xiii+401. $21.95. Megan Vaughan, The Story of an African Famine (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987). Pp. ix+181. £22.50. Andrew Ross, John Philip (1775–1…
The Ambiguities of Protest in South Africa
The 1920s were a time of ferment in South Africa, and the African nationalist press played an important role in communicating the issues and events of this decade to their audiences. The images of reality projected by these newspapers and magazines were necessarily contradictory, but they differed substantially from those projected by the established white press a crucial distinction, since African experiences were rarely represented in these pub…
Broadcasting in South Africa
Africa's Media Image
Other Voices
Power and Resistance in an African Society
Power and Resistance in an African Society
The Growth of the Media in the Third World. African Failures, Asian Successes
Christianity and the Postmodern Project in Southern Africa
(1997). Christianity and the Postmodern Project in Southern Africa: Paradigms and Procedures in an Ongoing Debate. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 284-306
South Africa's subaltern press
The poststructuralist view of language posits that all texts, including cultures as ‘texts,’ are constructed essentially out of their own rhetorics. The meaning of any text is continually ‘deconstructed’ and any imposition of a particular or ‘authorised’ or ‘official’ meaning on an utterance or text is usually an exercise of power. Following a poststructuralist view of language, this article argues that South Africa's subaltern press mirrored in …
The challenge of university training in the new South Africa
(1998). The challenge of university training in the new South Africa: an outsider's perspective. Scrutiny2: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 3-19
The Ghost of Equality
South Africa's Alternative Press
Christianity, Colonialism and the Postmodern Project in South Africa
forces or structures. And some activities are more important than others: spiritual life and agrarian practice, clothing and architecture, labor and bodily disposition ... became central and were often contested; much more so than, say, patterns of public decision making or rituals of office (1997, 28-29). One problem for the Comaroffs is how to represent this conversation. The meat of their argument lies in the familiar distinction in history, j…
South Africa's Alternative Press
Introduction: South Africa's alternative press in perspective Les Switzer Part I. An Independent Protest Press, 1880s-1930s: 1. The beginnings of African protest journalism at the cape Les Switzer 2. Qude maniki! John L. Dube, Pioneer Editor of Ilanga Lase Natal R. Hunt Davis Jr 3. From advocacy to mobilisation: Indian opinion, 1903-1914 Uma Shaskikant Mesthrie 4. Voice of the coloured elite: APO, 1919-1923 Mohamed Adhikari 5. Moderate and milita…
Political science (25 obras) · Sociology (22 obras) · South African History and Culture (18 obras) · History (16 obras) · African history and culture studies (11 obras) · Media studies (11 obras) · Geography (9 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Biology (8 obras) · Economics (8 obras)