Dr Linje Manyozo
Biography
I read my PhD in the Department of Media Studies, La Trobe University (2007), Melbourne, Australia. Research was a development communication examination of the theory and practice of development radio broadcasting in Southern Africa.
My MA was undertaken under Keyan Tomaselli’s Semiotics of the Encounter Project within the CCMS Program at the University of Natal. The research was a visual anthropology study into questions of representation and otherness in ethnographic photography of the indigenous Kalahari San/Bushmen.
BA (Hons), University of Natal (2001). Research project was a collaborative entertainment education drama production that examined cultural myths and misconceptions on gender issues among primary school pupils in rural KwaZulu Natal.
BA (Humanities) degree with majors in Theatre for Development and History, University of Malawi (1998). Theatre for Development. Research project examined the role of developmental theatre in social change and community empowerment.
Research interests
I am interested in questions of voice, participation and authority in development policy formulation and implementation as applied to developing world economies. Key research questions encompass development communications, community/stakeholder engagement, science communication, media development, participatory action research. My research has been governed by one question: How can governments and institutions conceive and make development with and alongside communities? I am deeply concerned with the continued implementation of development interventions along the modernisation paradigms, in which development industries have co-opted the praxis of participation, paving the way for the implementation of socio-culturally irrelevant interventions, without adequate consideration for complex power relations within local contexts and have found ways of making stakeholder constituencies to rubberstamp socio-culturally irrelevant initiatives that have been designed outside project sites.
These research interests are largely founded on my work experience in Malawi and South Africa. As a development journalist in Malawi, my work involved researching, writing and producing communication content which challenged communities to speak and unspeak their world, as Paulo Freire suggests in Letters to Cristina (1996). I worked on team assignments funded by USAID, UNICEF, UNDP, UNESCO and GTZ in using communications tools and processes in order to empower communities, enabling them to improve their communities, livlihoods and the environment. In South Africa, my work spanned entertainment education, indigenous development, community tourism as well as community engagement policy development for municipalities.
Teaching
I am lecturing on the new MSc Programme in Media, Communications and Development, as well as on topics in the other MSc programmes.
I have been department head and postgraduate studies coordinator in communication in the School of Social Sciences, University of Fort Hare.
At the University of Malawi, I taught in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts, until 2003, when I successfully proposed the establishment of Africa’s first ever undergraduate degree programme in development communication, which started in 2005.
Documentary films
Manyozo, L (2002). Reading photographs in the Kalahari. A reflective and auto-ethnographic critique of the challenge of reading indigenous representations.
Manyozo, L (2001) Sunglasses: Story of a Blind Student. An experiment in reflexive and ethnographic documentary.
Manyozo, L (2000) Forgotten Cornerstones: Child labour on Malawi’s tea plantations. Produced as part of UNDP’s Assisting Communities Together (ACT) Project.
Selected publications
Manyozo, L. (2007) University training in communication for development: Trends and approaches. Media Asia: An Asian Communication Quarterly. 34 (1): 51-60.
Manyozo, L. (2007) Local rural radio as a development radio: Dzimwe community radio in Malawi. In the Global Journal of Communication for Development and Social Change. 2 (2): 167-192.
Manyozo, L. (2007) Method and practice in participatory radio: Rural radio forums and citizen participation in local development dialogues in Malawi. Ecquid Novi: African Journal of Journalism Research. 28 (1-2): 11-29.
Manyozo, L. (2006) Manifesto for development communication: Nora Quebral and the Los Baños School of Development Communication. The Asian Journal of Communication.16 (1): 79-99.
Manyozo, L. (2005) The practice of participation in broadcasting for development, Journal of Social Development in Africa. 20 (1): 77 - 105.
Manyozo, L. (2005) Locating the praxis of development radio broadcasting within development communication. Journal of Global Communication Research Association. Vol 1 (December).
Manyozo, L. (2004) Hegemony, ideology and political journalism broadcasting media, Africa Media Review, (12)2: 73-92.
Manyozo, L. (2003) Reality and representation in ethnographic photography. University of Malawi Journal of Humanities, 17: 1-25.
Manyozo, L. (2003) Depoliticising Paulo Freire’s liberatory education in Southern Africa’s participatory social development advocacy programs. Journal of Development Communications, 2 (14): 49-59.
Manyozo, L. (2002) Community theatre without community participation? Reflections on Development Support Communication Programs. Convergence, 35 (4): 55-69.
Contact details
Dr Linje Manyozo
Room S119d
Department of Media and Communications
London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE
T. +44 20 7852 3738
Fax: +44 20 7955 7248
Email: L.manyozo@lse.ac.uk
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