Voces Alternativas: La Radio como un Micrófono Comunitario
Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Halpin A recipient of a Latin American & Iberian Institute and Tinker Foundation Field Research Grant will present research conducted in Guatemala on community radio.
Elizabeth Halpin, a Masters student in Community & Regional Planning and Latin American Studies, will present her thesis research on community radio in Guatemala. The presentation will consider how community radio is used as a tool for social development that builds the human capital necessary to enact decolonization. Halpin will also describe how the radio is a conduit for community knowledge production, a platform for Indigenous rights, a pillar for community solidarity, and an arena for the empowerment of all community members. Using an asset-based approach to development, the presentation will frame radio as a facilitator of collaborative civic engagement networks at the local, national, and international levels. It is this creative appropriation of technology by which these communities operationalize ideologies of decolonization.
For event flyer, click here.
For more information about the LAII and Tinker Foundation FRG, click here.
Elizabeth Halpin, a Masters student in Community & Regional Planning and Latin American Studies, will present her thesis research on community radio in Guatemala. The presentation will consider how community radio is used as a tool for social development that builds the human capital necessary to enact decolonization. Halpin will also describe how the radio is a conduit for community knowledge production, a platform for Indigenous rights, a pillar for community solidarity, and an arena for the empowerment of all community members. Using an asset-based approach to development, the presentation will frame radio as a facilitator of collaborative civic engagement networks at the local, national, and international levels. It is this creative appropriation of technology by which these communities operationalize ideologies of decolonization.
For event flyer, click here.
For more information about the LAII and Tinker Foundation FRG, click here.
RSS Feed
