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dc.contributor.authorAnderson, Heather
dc.contributor.authorBedford, Charlotte
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-02T06:39:12Z
dc.date.available2022-02-02T06:39:12Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.issn2206-5857
dc.identifier.doi10.1386/joacm_00093_1
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/411906
dc.description.abstractPrisoner and prison radio ‐ audio production and broadcasting that services prisoner and prison communities ‐ has existed in a variety of forms in a diverse range of countries for over 30 years and has recently seen a surge in popularity and awareness. At the same time, the prison abolition movement has also gained momentum and visibility, after an equally long presence and history. Recently in the United States, the New York City Council voted to close Rikers Island by 2026 in response to community campaigning driven by an abolition agenda. Likewise, the Black Lives Matter movement has introduced an abolitionist discourse (especially around defunding police services) to the mainstream vernacular. This article considers the relationships between broadcasters/audiences and the State ‐ embodied through government departments responsible for managing the incarceration of its citizens, and how these impact on prisoner radio’s capacity to act as an agent of change. To do so, we take a scholactivist approach to critically reflect on our experiences as prisoner radio practitioners and researchers and consider the potentials for prisoner radio to either support or hinder a prison abolition agenda. Can the genre contribute to the prison abolition movement when it often requires the support of the prison-industrial complex to exist?
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageen
dc.publisherIntellect
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom55
dc.relation.ispartofpageto68
dc.relation.ispartofissue1
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of Alternative & Community Media
dc.relation.ispartofvolume6
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCommunication and media studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchMedia studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4701
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode470107
dc.titlePrisoner radio as an abolitionist tool: A scholactivist reflection
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dcterms.bibliographicCitationAnderson, H; Bedford, C, Prisoner radio as an abolitionist tool: A scholactivist reflection, Journal of Alternative & Community Media, 2021, 6 (1), pp. 55-68
dcterms.licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
dc.date.updated2022-02-01T23:58:49Z
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gro.rights.copyright© The Author(s) 2021. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited.
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gro.griffith.authorAnderson, Heather G.


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