Writing/righting truths across borders : learning from transnational peoples' journalism and politics ...

• Main Author: Plaut, Shayna Gilana
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: University of British Columbia 2014
• Subjects: saami
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0166048; https://doi.library.ubc.ca/10.14288/1.0166048

My dissertation explores how journalists who self-identify as “transnational” shape their journalism to make human rights claims that trouble, open up and go beyond the nation-state. The project is a multi-sited, ethnographic, comparative case study of journalism education among two different transnational peoples: Romani/Gypsy and Saami (the Indigenous peoples in the current states of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia). Drawing upon 45 interviews with journalists and journalism educators, my research suggests there are two distinct strategies in how transnational peoples’ journalism is conceived, taught and assessed. These strategies influence and are influenced by larger socio-political contexts: the Saami media work within an Indigenous rights framework; their goal is to engage with journalism as a form of self-determination. This differs from Romani media programs, which are funded by non-state donors who aim to use Romani media as a form of claiming citizenship. These citizenship claims are both within ...