Post-Doc, Anthropology
LSE Fellow
London School of Economics
Thesis Title: Radio soberania: sovereign voice of the Bolivian Cocalero?.
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Prof Penelope Harvey
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About
Thomas Grisaffi is a Fellow in the department of Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics.
Thomas Grisaffi conducted ethnographic research in the Chapare province, Bolivia. His doctoral thesis, 'Radio Soberana: The Sovereign Voice of the Bolivian Cocalero', examines the political assent of Bolivia's coca leaf producers and their use of community owned radio. At the heart of the thesis is the story of how leaders and media producers operate radio with the aim to enhance the unity, solidarity, and organization of the coca growers' union. The second line of enquiry that runs throughout the thesis deals with the coca union's mutation into a governing political party and the impact that this has had on the management and broadcast content of union owned radio. The central question that the thesis deals with is; how do small media shape concepts and practices of the public sphere?
