Preeti Raghunath’s monograph Community Radio Policies in South Asia examines the Community Radio policymaking process in four South Asian countries – India, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka – on Community Radios. This cross-disciplinary project draws from multiple traditions ranging from political economy and history to grounded theory and anthropology and proposes a new theoretical paradigm – the Deliberative Policy Ecology Approach – to study policy formulation in postcolonial societies with a ground-up, holistic perspective in South Asia. The book is published by Palgrave Macmillan as part of their series ‘Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change’. This review of her book discusses her argument and treatment of ethnographic material in the context of scholarship on media anthropology.

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媒体决策是南亚人类学关注的核心

Preeti Raghunath 的专着《南亚社区广播政策》探讨了四个南亚国家（印度、尼泊尔、孟加拉国和斯里兰卡）在社区广播中的社区广播政策制定过程。这个跨学科项目借鉴了从政治经济学和历史到扎根理论和人类学的多种传统，并提出了一种新的理论范式——审议政策生态学方法——以从根本上的、整体的视角研究后殖民社会的政策制定。亚洲。这本书由 Palgrave Macmillan 出版，作为其“社会变革交流中的 Palgrave 研究”系列的一部分。这篇对她的书的评论讨论了她在媒体人类学学术背景下对民族志材料的论点和处理。