| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 251 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction: Theatre & media as catalysts for integration in a globalising context / Liwhu Betiang & Esekong H. Andrew-Essien -- Theatre, media, and national integration in a globalised world / Ahmed Yerima -- From normative theories to normative theories : constructive deconstruction / Eddie Iji -- Comparative review of Black identity and cultural citizenship in emerging Pan-African festivals / Ofonime E. Inyang & Gideon I. Morison -- National monument design, architecture, and national spirit in Nigeria : the case of the old residency museum and other prefabricated buildings in Calabar / Joy Jio-Ofumaka -- Nollywood : Nigeria dream factory for a globalised image and identity / Teddy Thaddeus Hanmakyugh -- Nigerian films as national identity drivers : the case of Nollywood epics / Holyns Hogan -- Citizen journalism as activism in a globalised world : the case for national integration / Mabel Evwierhoma -- Tablets, smartphones as instruments for positive citizen media activism and national integration / Cyril Onyemaechi Oleh -- Social media as a the fifth estate : the albatross of existing discourse in Nigeria's integration efforts / Stanislaus Iyorza -- Theatre, dramaturgy, and Nigerian national integration / Odiri Solomon Ejeke -- Creating visual, performative, and multimedia message for national development and integration in Nigeria / Esekong H. Andrew-Essien -- Story theatre and spousal emotional bonding as the foundation for a virile nation state / Edisua Merab Yta -- Transnational cultures, carnivals and their influence on nation branding and identity in Nigeria / Ocholi Joseph Abraham -- Participatory communication approaches for national integration / Edang Yolanda Ekpo Bassey -- Overpopulation and its implications for national integration : a development communication perspective / Eric Jamo Dung & Enuwa Evelyn Obekpa |
| Summary |
Every social change engenders new models and paradigms to manage evolving conflicts. The colonial configuration and post-colonial contradictions, globalising tensions, and local efforts at democratisation and development have escalated the threat of national disintegration in Nigeria. This book shows how the cultural instruments of theatre and media can be used to provide viable options for negotiating the contradictions of the nation-state within the fluxes of global re-configuration. Beyond expanding the literature of how theatre and media have been deployed for differing interventions, the methods and articulation here provide statesmen, politicians and policy makers who want to look for alternative methods for national engineering for viable nationhood. Like the Freirean "legislative theatre" method, this book builds on the creative potentialities of people's cultural resources to galvanise the nation state. Beyond this, the globalising era creates a common global community: despite discordant local effects and reactions, the experiences documented from Nigeria in the global South will provide possible models for similar global settings. The candour and frankness of the contributors to this book make it irresistibly inviting reading |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Theater and society -- Nigeria
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Theater -- Political aspects -- Nigeria
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Postcolonialism and theater.
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Postcolonialism and theater
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Theater and society
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Theater -- Political aspects
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Nigeria
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Betiang, Liwhu, editor.
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Andrew-Essien, Esekong H., editor.
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| ISBN |
1527583279 |
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9781527583276 |
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