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"The text provides advanced undergraduate, and postgraduate, students with an introduction to the key theoretical perspectives in both media theory and development studies. It also brings these two bodies of theory into dialogue with each other, by examining the ways in which both media and development produce social changes (both intended and unintended), and by looking at how media has been, and could be, 'harnessed' by development agencies, developing world governments, NGOs, and peoples in the developing world as part of their wider attempts to achieve positive social change"--

Double alienation: Evans-Prichard's Zande & Nuer photographs in comparative perspective / Christopher Morton -- Photographing "the bridge": product & process in the analysis of a social situation in non-modern Zululand / Chris Wingfield -- Frontier photographs: Northern Kenya & the Paul Baxter collection / Neil Carrier & Kimo Quaintance -- Memories of a Blue Nile home: the photographic moment & multimedia linkage / Judith Aston & Wendy James -- Emptying the galler: the archive's fuller circle / Erin Haney -- 'Ça bousculait!': democratization & photography in Senegal / Jennifer Bajorek -- 'A once and future Eden': Gorongosa National Park & the making of Mozambique / Katie McKeown -- Political billboards as contact zones: reflections on urban space, the visual & political affect in Kabila's Kinshasa / Katrien Pype -- On 'the ultimate patronage machine': photography & substantial relations in rural south-western Uganda / Richard Vokes -- 'The terror of the feast': photography, textiles & memory in weddings along the East African coast / Heike Behrend -- Ceremonies, sitting rooms & albums: how Okiek displayed photographs in the 1990s / Corinne A. Kratz

From the mid‐1980s onwards, the number of charismatic leaders operating in the Great Lakes region of Eastern‐Central Africa has risen dramatically. This article draws a connection between this rapid expansion of charismatic authority and the concurrent proliferation of new radio broadcasting cultures across the zone. It notes that practically every new leader who has emerged over the last two decades has engaged in some form of radio broadcasting, and that in a number of instances, such broadcasts have been central to a particular leader's very claim to power. It then examines the reasons why radio broadcasting has emerged as so important here. Through a detailed study of one charismatic leader, Kihura Nkuba – who rose to prominence in Southwestern Uganda in 1999 – the article argues that the power of the new radio broadcasting stems from the 'cosmopolitan' subject position it engenders amongst listeners. However, this is a quite different form of cosmopolitanism which is at least partly unintended, or involuntary (and stems from the insertion of a 'global' technology – i.e. the physical radio set – into the listening context). Yet it is still compelling, a fact which helps us to understand why some listeners of these broadcasts have been motivated – after listening to charismatic leaders' broadcasts – to engage in extreme, socially abnormal, acts. The article goes on to argue that this provides a perspective from which to understand events in Rwanda in 1994, when radio listeners were induced, by a group of charismatic radio presenters (on the station Radio‐Télévision Libre des Mille Collines, RTLM) to participate in genocidal killings.RésuméDepuis le milieu des années 1980, le nombre de chefs charismatiques a considérablement augmenté dans la région des Grands Lacs d'Afrique centrale et orientale. L'auteur établit ici un lien entre l'expansion rapide de l'autorité charismatique et la prolifération en parallèle de nouvelles cultures de la radiodiffusion dans cette zone. Il note que tous les nouveaux chefs, ou presque, qui sont apparus au cours des deux dernières décennies sont présents sur les ondes de multiples manières. Cette présence radiophonique est souvent un élément essentiel de leurs revendications de pouvoir. Il examine ensuite les raisons de l'importance des émissions de radio dans cette région. Par le biais d'une étude détaillée de l'un de ces chefs charismatiques, Kihura Nkuba, qui s'est fait connaître en 1999 dans le Sud‐ouest de l'Ouganda, l'article montre que le pouvoir des nouvelles émissions de radio tient au positionnement en tant que sujet « cosmopolite » qu'elles suscitent parmi leurs auditeurs. Il s'agit toutefois d'une forme de cosmopolitisme très différente, au moins partiellement fortuite ou involontaire (et née de l'insertion d'une technologie « globale », le récepteur de radio lui‐même, dans le contexte d'audition). Cette captivation peut nous aider à comprendre comment les auditeurs de ces émissions ont pu être incités, après avoir écouté les émissions de leurs chefs charismatiques, à s'engager dans des actes extrêmes et anomiques. L'auteur affirme que cette approche peut éclairer les événements de 1994 au Rwanda, qui ont vu les auditeurs des radios incités par un groupe de présentateurs charismatiques (ceux de la Radio‐Télévision Libre des Mille Collines, RTLM), à participer à des massacres génocidaires.

"Shifting States draws on a rich history of anthropological theorising on all kinds of states - from the pre- to the post- industrial - and explores topics as diverse as bureaucracy, infrastructure, surveillance, securitization and public health. As we enter the third decade of the twentieth-century, there is a growing sense that 'the state' is everywhere in crisis. Although the nature of this perceived crisis varies from place to place, it is everywhere seen to have been caused by some combination of the (inter-related) forces of 'globalisation', of successive economic shocks, and of the rise of social media-fuelled populist movements. Yet conversely, there is also a creeping perception that state power is becoming more pervasive in its reach, and in its effects, in ways which make it ever more imminent to the material worlds in which we live, more fundamental to the ways in which we conceive of the future, and more foundational to our very sense of self. How might we try to make sense of, and to mediate, these apparently contradictory impressions? Based on ethnographic case studies from all over the world, this timely volume forges new ways of thinking about how state power manifests, and is imagined, and about the effects it has on ordinary people's lives. In so doing, it provides tools not only for understanding states' responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, but also for judging what effects these responses are likely to have"--