Centre Members' Recent Publications
Raising the Civil Dead
by Heather Anderson
What is prisoners' radio? Who is involved in <<creating>> these types of programs and what influence do they have on discourses of law and order? Internationally, radio that operates for, or by, prisoners exists almost within the community radio context. Little has been documented about the genre so far.
Raising the Civil Dead seeks to address this lack of information. It examines prisoners' radio as citizens' media, connecting directly to notions of civic responsibility. It focuses on the ways in which people produce media and how these activities transform those individuals. The research is the result of four in-depth case studies conducted in two countries, complemented by an international inventory of prisoners' radio programs and stations.
Available through Peter Lang website.
Challenging the News: The Journalism of Alternative and Community Media
by Susan Forde
Community media journalists are, in essence, 'filling in the gaps' left by mainstream news outlets. Forde's extensive 10 year study now develops an understanding of the journalistic practices at work in independent and community news organisations. Alternative media has never been so widely written about until now.
Available through the Palgrave MacMillan website.
The Lone Protestor
by Fiona Paisley
In the late nineteen twenties an extraordinary protest was carried out by an Australian Aboriginal man on the streets of London. Taking up his position outside Australia's headquarters in London, wearing tiny skeletons draped around his shoulders he set about condemning the failure of British rule in his country. The remarkable protestor was Anthony Martin Fernando. Drawn from an extensive search in archives from Australia to Europe, it tells for the first time in a full length study the story of Fernando's life and how his search for humanity took him on a self-professed mission that lasted half his adult life. As far as we know, Fernando was the first Indigenous person to protest conditions in Australia from the streets of Europe. His political activities and his life more generally on the streets of its cities dramatically shifts our understanding of Aboriginal history in the first half of the twentieth century.
Available through New South Books.