Rádios comunitárias no processo de democratização na Gguiné-Bissau: estudo de caso da rádio comunitária Papagaio-buba

Abstract

The objective of this dissertation is to understand the importance of community radios in the democratization process in Guinea-Bissau, based on the actions of Radio Papagaio, in the city of Buba. It seeks to articulate how community communication on the radios can encourage the exercise of rights and duties of citizens at the local and national level in the construction of citizenship for social emancipation. The work has as theoretical support, the discussion on the theory of democracy, in Joseph Schumpeter (1984) e Robert Dahl (2001) and its historical process in Guinea-Bissau. In this sense, the analysis proposed here on community communication and democracy involves an understanding of democracy that goes beyond the limits of Eurocentric democracy and goes beyond the hegemonic forms of granting democracy (above all, liberal democracy in its instrumentalist conception), developed by Santos and Avritzer (2002), that is, the work discusses practices of community movements that can provide alternatives to the way of understanding democracy, enhanced in community radios. And, in relation to community communication, the interest is to reflect on the experiences of community radios as an expression of popular movement initiatives in Guinea-Bissau, especially Radio Papagaio, from non-governmental organizations, community associations and other expressions linked to social movements. The case Study on Radio Papagaio aims to effectively highlight the identification of the characteristics of participatory, educational and community communication in the way the community participates and mobilizes itself in concrete actions within the city of Buba.