How can a community re-create itself after a civil
war? In El Salvador, returning refugees from the
devastated northern regions established local
community radio stations to inform, entertain and
build a new cultural identity. Based on a year of
ethnographic research, Naming the Future argues that
these new community radios worked to activate a
vision of civil society, and fought to create local
public spaces which could also help them enter the
national public sphere. They melded popular culture
with mass media through their partipatory programs.
This popular culture helped their communities...