Reports and Books related to the work of CGCS

• An Introduction to News Media Law and Policy in Jordan (April 2009) - English version
• An Introduction to News Media Law and Policy in Jordan (April 2009) - Arabic version
• Public Opinion Research in a Conflict Zone: Grassroots Diplomacy in Darfur (Fall 2008)
• Researching Attitudes towards Peace and Conflict and Darfur:An analysis of a research initiative from February 2007 - October 2008 (Fall 2008)
• “Public Television and Pluralistic Ideals,” (with Ellen Goodman), in The Price of Plurality: Choice, Diversity and Broadcast Institutions in the Digital Age (2008)
• Owning the Olympics: Narratives of the New China (Spring 2008)
• Broadcasting, Voice, and Accountability: A Public Interest Approach to Policy, Law, and Regulation (Spring 2008)
• The Speculative Influence of Academic Research on the Making of Communications Policy: Reflections, Recollections and Informal Perspectives (February 2008)
• Comparative Analysis of International Co- And Self-Regulation in Communications Markets (2007)
• 2007/8 Yearbook of Global Civil Society: Communicative Power and Democracy (2007)
• Towards an Understanding of Media Policy in Iraq: A Foreword and Two Reports (May 2007)
• Republic of Iraq Communications and Media Commission: Policy Recommendations Concerning Broadcasting in Iraq (December 2006)
• Media Matters: Perspectives on Advancing Governance & Development from the Global Forum for Media Development (2006)
• Why Templates for Media Development do not work in Crisis States: Defining and understanding media development strategies in post-war and crisis states (2005)
• The Federal Institute for Access to information in Mexico and a Culture of Transparency
• Minority-Language Related Broadcasting and Legislation in the OSCE (February 2006)
• The Enabling Environment for Free and Independent Media: Contribution to Transparent and Accountable Governance (January 2002)
• Public Service Broadcasting in Transition: A Documentary Reader (November 2001)
• Mapping Media Assistance (February 2001)
• Restructuring the Media in Post-Conflict Societies: Four Perspectives (May 2000)

You can also visit Professor Price’s Publications to get a sense of current work in development.

دوستان عزیز 4 میلیون نفر از ایران رفته اند. این اکسدوس ایران بوده . در حمله اعراب نسبت به جمعیت این قدر آدم به هند نرفت . اما سوال من از شما این است که در میان این 4 میلیون فقط 40 نفر می توانید پیدا کنید که یک صدا داشته باشند؟ وقتی شما فاقد چنین چیزی هستید ، وقتی شما هیچ محورنظری ، عملی ، اجتماعی و فرهنگی واحد ندارید ، دیگر به ما چکار دارید؟ ما در بستر خودمان حرکت می کنیم و با تشخیص خودمان عمل می کنیم . متاسفانه ما دچار انوع و اقسام جزمیت ها در داخل و خارج هستیم و افراد حرف هایی به شخص می زنند که خودشان هم می دانند بهتان است ولی به هر حال همگی از خط اعتدال خارج شده اند و این مایه تاسف است.

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	The Final Report
	Press Release 12/05/09
	Podcast
	Podcast Transcription

Natalya Nikolaevna Bochegova gave a talk titled “Bakhtin’s Philosophy of the Humanities” as part of the Main Hall Forum lecture series Monday, April 27. Bochegova is dean of the faculty of philology at Kurgan State University in Russia. Her lecture discussed Russian philosopher and literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin and his contributions to 20th-century literary theory in Russia and in the West.
Perhaps best known for his work with the novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Bakhtin published “Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics” shortly before his arrest in 1929. Like many of his Russian contemporaries in the 1920s and ’30s, Bakhtin was sent into exile following his dubious arrest for political crimes. Accused of participating in the underground workings of the Russian Orthodox Church - an essentially illegal organization under Communist rule - Bakhtin was sent to serve time in remote Kazakhstan.
While in exile, Bochegova explained, Bakhtin continued to write and, in keeping with a Russian phenomenon that emerged under Stalin’s purges, managed to form a kind of scholarly network with other intellectuals in exile. During those six years, and following the amputation of his leg - after which Bakhtin’s productivity apparently improved significantly - he wrote the dissertation that would become “Rabelais and His World,” in which Bakhtin would introduce his idea of the “carnivalesque” in literature.
Focusing on a medieval festival called the Feast of Fools and the 16th-century French writer François Rabelais, Bakhtin found a culture of laughter and parody that makes for what Bochegova called a “coded resistance” - parody that becomes something subversive within the context of literature.
In closing, Bochegova discussed the carnivalesque in relation to Bakhtin’s concept of literary discourse. She described Bakhtin’s use of the term “polyphony” to mean a continuous and changing relationship between author, text and reader, which Bakhtin called “polyphony” because of the multiple and alternating voices in the “conversation” that is always taking place in literature.
Said Bochegova: “Literature is highly dependent on time and place,” yet it can transcend the context in which it is written, becoming “fuller and richer” to a different audience. Ideas like these were embraced by post-structuralists and by the French feminist movement some thirty years later in the 1970s, and they sound familiar now. Bakhtin’s legacy lives on in the annals of Russian literary history and in the papers of pretentious humanities students around the world.

     اين تصوير امروز بر روي درگاه تارنماي معتبر نشنال جيوگرافيك قرار گرفته و در شمار 5 تصوير برتر هفته جاي دارد. تصويري كه روزگار 17 ارديبهشت (7 مي) 1388 سرزمين سوخته‌اي را در استراليا نشان مي‌دهد كه كمتر از سه ماه پيش (9 فوريه 2009) اينچنين در آتش سوخت و با خود جان 173 انسان را هم گرفت و بيش از دو هزار خانه را سوزاند … اما امروز دوباره دارد مي‌رويد و تو مي‌تواني شوق رويش دوباره و برق آن رنگ سبز دوست‌داشتني را باز هم بر خاكستر آن زمين نفرين شده ببيني و اوج بكشي … اگر كه يادت باشد، زندگي همواره و در سخت‌ترين شرايط كوره‌راه‌هايي از اميد دارد تا به آدم‌هاي مثبت‌انديشش ارايه دهد …
       و البته اين تصوير مي‌تواند همچنان حامل پيام‌هاي بيشتري هم باشد:
اين كه هرگز گمان مبريد كه به انتها رسيده‌ايد؛ حتا اگر در تيره‌‌ترين يا كسل‌كننده‌ترين دوران زندگي‌تان قرار گرفته‌ايد …
اين كه زندگي بسيار مهربان‌تر از آن چيزي است كه گمان مي‌كنيد؛ به شرط آن كه آن مهرباني را باور كنيد …
اين كه هميشه مي‌توان از دل سياه‌ترين و سوزان‌ترين رخدادها، ترترين احساسات انساني را درك كرد و آفريد …
اين كه مزه‌ي گس و استثنايي حيات را نمي‌توان و نبايد با هيچ مزه‌ي ديگري برابر دانست …
اين كه رويش دوباره‌ي عشق مي‌تواند در هر سرزمين خاكستري و در پس هر آتش سوزاندني شكل بگيرد …
     فقط كافي است نگاه‌مان را عادت ندهيم به بد ديدن!

و يادمان بماند كه:
مردي كه كوه را از ميان برداشت، همان مردي بود كه شروع به برداشتن سنگريزه‌ها كرده بود!
                                                                                                                    همين.

Guy Debord (1931-1994)


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Society of the Spectacle, Part 2, 1973

For a complete translation of the soundtrack of Spectacle by Ken Knabb click here
Subtitles by Keith Sanborn