Cultural Politics and the Mass Media: Alaska Native Voices / Edition 1

by Patrick J. Daley, Beverly James

Overview

Alaska's indigenous peoples have used various forms of mass media and community media for purposes of cultural expression, self-determination, and political resistance. Patrick J. Daley and Beverly A. James elegantly reveal how newspapers, radio stations and television programs became strategic sites of Native resistance to the economic and cultural agendas of non-Native settlers.

Using six empirically grounded studies, the authors demonstrate that freedom for indigenous peoples is not only premised on control over their political economy, but also on their capacity to tell their own stories. In so doing, Alaska's indigenous peoples develop a powerful, historically grounded argument for understanding cultural persistence as a valuable and vital form of self-determination.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780252029387
Publisher:	University of Illinois Press
Publication date:	07/19/2004
Series:	The History of Media and Communication
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Patrick J. Daley is an associate professor emeritus of communication at the University of New Hampshire. Beverly A. James is a professor emerita of communication at the University of New Hampshire.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	vii
	List of Abbreviations	ix
	Introduction: Alaska Natives' Mass-Mediated Challenges to Euro-American Cultural Hegemony	1
1.	Missionary Voices as the Discursive Terrain for Native Resistance	21
2.	How Raven Gave Voice to a Talking Newspaper: The Case of the Alaska Fisherman	40
3.	Voices of Subsistence in the Technocratic Wilderness: Alaska Natives and the Tundra Times	82
4.	Warming the Arctic Air: Cultural Politics and Alaska Native Radio	139
5.	Whose Vision Is It Anyway?: Technology, Community Television, and Cultural Politics	161
	Conclusion: Cultural Politics and Indigenous Public Spheres	189
	References Cited	201
	Index	215