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Regenerative Voice

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Community Radio's Amplification of Communication for Social Change

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This chapter introduces the term ‘regenerative voice’ to describe a type of value and process of voice that acknowledges the need for rebuilding community, for a rebirth of political voice, as well as the generation of alternative opinions, ideas and imaginaries. From the analysis of case study data, it is argued that community radio—which is, in theory, not-for-profit, participatory, inclusive and socially progressive—is uniquely capable of facilitating a communicative agency that moves beyond a neoliberal value-set and an individualised, commodity-based agency. This exploration unites considerations of community radio ownership, content autonomy, station structure and associated agency in order to view and understand the type of ‘regenerative voice’ that can be spoken and heard.

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Fox, J. (2019). Regenerative Voice. In: Community Radio's Amplification of Communication for Social Change. Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17316-6_7

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