Turning Land into Capital: Development and Dispossession in the Mekong Region (Culture, Place, and Nature)

ISBN 10: 0295750464 / ISBN 13: 9780295750460

Published by University of Washington Press, 2022

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Turning Land into Capital: Development and Dispossession in the Mekong Region (Culture, Place, and Nature)
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0295750464
• ISBN 13: 9780295750460
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

How Chicana and Chicano community radio strengthened a movement and transformed the airwavesBeginning in the 1970s Chicana and Chicano organizers turned to community radio broadcasting to educate, entertain, and uplift Mexican American listeners across the United States. In rural areas, radio emerged as the most effective medium for reaching relatively isolated communities such as migrant farmworkers. And in Washington’s Yakima Valley, where the media landscape was dominated by perspectives favorable to agribusiness, community radio for and about farmworkers became a life-sustaining tool. Feminista Frequencies unearths the remarkable history of one of the United States’ first full-time Spanish-language community radio stations, Radio KDNA, which began broadcasting in the Yakima Valley in 1979. Extensive interviews reveal the work of Chicana and Chicano producers, on-air announcers, station managers, technical directors, and listeners who contributed to the station’s success. Monica De La Torre weaves these oral histories together with a range of visual and audio artifacts, including radio programs, program guides, and photographs to situate KDNA within the larger network of Chicano community-based broadcasting and social movement activism. Feminista Frequencies highlights the development of a public broadcasting model that centered Chicana radio producers and documents the central role of women in developing this infrastructure in the Yakima Valley. De La Torre shows how KDNA revolutionized community radio programming, adding new depth to the history of the Chicano movement, women’s activism, and media histories.

About the Authors

Philip Hirsch is professor of human geography at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Development Dilemmas in Rural Thailand (Oxford University Press, 1990) and Thai Agriculture: Restructuring in the 1980s and 1990s (University of Sydney, 1990); and editor of Routledge Handbook of the Environment in Southeast Asia (Routledge, 2017) and Seeing Forests for Trees: Environment and Environmentalism in Thailand (Silkworm Books, 1997).

Kevin Woods is a fellow at the East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawai’i.

Natalia Scurrah is an independent researcher based in Thailand. She is coauthor of The Mekong: A Sociolegal Approach to River Basin Development (Routledge, 2016).

Michael Dwyer is assistant professor of geography at Indiana University Bloomington. A political ecologist by training, he received his PhD in energy and resources from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2012. This is his first book.

Kalyanakrishnan "Shivi" Sivaramakrishnan is Dinakar Singh Professor of India and South Asia Studies, professor of anthropology, professor of forestry and environmental studies, and codirector of the Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University.