Radical International Media and Malawi's Independence Struggle

激进的国际媒体与马拉维的独立斗争

• 批准号: 2707982
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Birkbeck, University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2707982
• 关键词: Radical; International; Media; Malawi; Independence

Comprising both a history and film/practice component, my multi-disciplinary AV-PhD research project is not just a story about decolonisation or an instant in decolonisation. Rather, it pivots on the unique instance of Malawi's independence struggle against the controversial Central African Federation (CAF, 1953-1963). A short-lived political and constitutional creation by the British against the wishes of the African majority combining the two Rhodesias and Nyasaland, it collapsed due to mounting and forceful African opposition. Focusing on the forgotten history of the extraordinary mobilization of the radical international media behind the struggle and the 'war of words' it sparked with the pro-CAF press, it also examines the role of British colonial films as dimensions of politicking and propaganda against the struggle.

包括历史和电影/实践部分，我的多学科AV博士研究项目不仅仅是一个关于非殖民化或非殖民化瞬间的故事。相反，它以马拉维反对有争议的中非联邦（CAF，1953-1963）的独立斗争为中心。这是英国人违背非洲多数人的意愿，在政治和宪法上建立的一个短命的组织，它由于非洲人越来越强烈的反对而崩溃。聚焦于斗争背后激进的国际媒体的非凡动员以及它与支持CAF的媒体引发的“口水战”的被遗忘的历史，它还考察了英国殖民电影作为反对斗争的政治和宣传维度的作用。