Comments on: Chapter two is done! Sort of… http://www.wardmin.info/2009/05/chapter-two-is-done-sort-of/ The Academic side of life Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:51:39 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Ward http://www.wardmin.info/2009/05/chapter-two-is-done-sort-of/comment-page-1/#comment-111 Ward Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:51:38 +0000 http://www.wardmin.info/?p=202#comment-111 @Serene Implications as in 'what is the point?' Very good question and of course you may. I am researching a radio show that was designed to make Bahamians nice to tourists. The radio show was a part of a larger courtesy campaign. That campaign came out of a tradition of other such campaigns that had been going on for over 20 years. The campaigns themselves come out of the Bahamas dependence on Tourism, that itself has its own peculiar history stretching over 100 years... So to talk about the show I first need to get the reader to the front door. Think of it as a three chapter foyer. The point of the whole thing is to investigate ways that the state manipulates its citizens to get what it wants. And how the state convinces those citizens that they want what the state wants. Classic social control / hegemony... This particular manifestation (the radio show) was much more creative than other methods and interestingly became a cultural phenomenon. Today, no one remembers that the show had anything to do with tourism. In other words, it became something else. So this whole thing is (I believe) an compelling tale of the government of a microstate, a colonizing metropole, and the people, taking what they were given and transforming it into an expression of themselves... You know, conquering human spirit and all that. Does that answer anything? @Serene
Implications as in ‘what is the point?’ Very good question and of course you may. I am researching a radio show that was designed to make Bahamians nice to tourists. The radio show was a part of a larger courtesy campaign. That campaign came out of a tradition of other such campaigns that had been going on for over 20 years. The campaigns themselves come out of the Bahamas dependence on Tourism, that itself has its own peculiar history stretching over 100 years…

So to talk about the show I first need to get the reader to the front door. Think of it as a three chapter foyer.

The point of the whole thing is to investigate ways that the state manipulates its citizens to get what it wants. And how the state convinces those citizens that they want what the state wants. Classic social control / hegemony…

This particular manifestation (the radio show) was much more creative than other methods and interestingly became a cultural phenomenon. Today, no one remembers that the show had anything to do with tourism. In other words, it became something else.

So this whole thing is (I believe) an compelling tale of the government of a microstate, a colonizing metropole, and the people, taking what they were given and transforming it into an expression of themselves…

You know, conquering human spirit and all that.

Does that answer anything?

]]> By: Serene http://www.wardmin.info/2009/05/chapter-two-is-done-sort-of/comment-page-1/#comment-108 Serene Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:04:09 +0000 http://www.wardmin.info/?p=202#comment-108 If I may? What are the implications of these brief social histories? If I may? What are the implications of these brief social histories?

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