6. From Authenticity to Governmentality: A Brief History of the Media in the DRC

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents VII
3. List of Tables and Figures X
4. List of Abbreviations XI
5. Preface XV
6. 1. From Peace Propaganda to Information Intervention 1
7. 2. A Foucauldian View of UN Information Intervention 11
8. 3. The Liberal Institutionalist Foundations of Post–Cold War UN Information Operations 15
9. 4. Between Propaganda and UN’s Public Information Operations 22
10. 5. A Brief History of Ethnicity, Conflicts and Crisis of Citizenship in the DRC 25
11. 6. From Authenticity to Governmentality: A Brief History of the Media in the DRC 35
12. 7. Radio Okapi: The Making of a “Congolese Voice” 67
13. 8. Information Operations: Contents and Metrics of Effectiveness 74
14. 9. Local Meanings and Perceptions of UN Information Interventions Programmes 116
15. 10. No Intention to Return to Rwanda 160
16. 11. Impacts of Dialogue Entre Congolais 176
17. 12. “Hutus are the ones that have kept us where we are today”: When Psyops Backfire 189
18. 13. Revisiting Unfinished Debates on Information Intervention 194
19. Appendix 1 205
20. Appendix 2 207
21. Bibliography 210