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Talk Less
Authors: Blanchard Kathryn D. 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
Disagreements over abortion do not occur only between Christians and non-Christians, or between Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox Christians. The question is divisive even among Protestants themselves. Protestants ostensibly agree on the centrality of Biblical Scripture for ethics, but Scripture’s meaning has never been self-evident. Other factors—namely tradition, reason, and experience—condition our readings. After decades of getting no closer to theological agreement, and in the wake of the 2022 repeal of Roe v. Wade, perhaps it is time for Protestants to take a break from talking about abortion as such. Instead, we should focus our limited time and energy on creating systemic conditions for reproductive justice and engaging in concrete practices of hospitality and neighbor love.
Public Opinion and Attitudes toward Abortion
Authors: Jelen Ted G. 
Published: September 2024

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This article summarizes empirical research concerning attitudes associated with beliefs about the acceptability of abortion among ordinary citizens across religious traditions. Although the bases of religious teaching on abortion vary across major religious traditions, the specific bases on which laypeople come to support or oppose legal abortion are remarkably similar. For virtually all religious traditions, the strongest predictors of abortion attitudes are respondent beliefs about non-marital sex. About half as important as attitudes toward sexual morality are attitudes about the sanctity of human life. By contrast, attitudes toward socially appropriate gender roles, and toward gender equality, are much weaker predictors of citizen beliefs about abortion.
Evangelical Perspectives on Prenatal Testing
Authors: Comstock Cunningham Paige 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
Evangelical Protestant attitudes about prenatal diagnosis, including pre-implantation genetic testing, are guided by beliefs about procreation, the status of the unborn child, the cultural mandate, the commandment to love one’s neighbor, the sovereignty and Providence of God, and the meaning of suffering in the context of infertility or disability. These are understood in the broader context of an evangelical theology of marriage, family, procreation, and children. An evangelical theological anthropology rejects the potential for instrumentalizing children, rather than welcoming them as a gift from God. Broader societal concerns include potential eugenic consequences and discrimination against persons with disabilities. While the practices of evangelical Protestants regarding prenatal testing are not well studied, their practical support for pregnant women, disabled persons, and their families, and their embrace of adoption suggest behaviors that align with stated beliefs.
Labour Market Dynamics in Zambia
Authors: Musondela Best , Siakalima Daniel , Wamundila Sitali , Chompolola Abson , Nkhowani Jessie , Phiri Daphne 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
The government of the Republic of Zambia over the years has impacted the labour market through the formulation and development of policies and strategies that have fostered job creation. The extent to which these policies and strategies have impacted the labour market is the focus of this chapter. The chapter reveals, among other things, that Zambia has a fast-growing population. However, the labour market trends do not reflect a proportionate growth in the key labour market indicators namely population, labour force, and employment. The country still faces inadequate jobs and the employment sector is dominated by informal employment. Unemployment and underemployment still remain the biggest challenges in the labour market. In view of this, the chapter recommends the need to institute strategic and policy measures that facilitate long-term planning for exploitation and utilization of natural resources in order to promote job creation.
Social Policy and Social Development in Zambia
Authors: Sambo Cleopas Gabriel , Michelo Stanfield , Masumbu Gibson 
Published: September 2024

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This chapter discusses the evolution of social policy in Zambia and demonstrates the various influences which have shaped both its form and content. It shows that the concept of social policy has in the recent ten years begun to capture practices and ideas previously conceptualized as social development practice in Zambian national policy discourses. Although this conceptual turn is pronounced, much of the ideas and practices remain the same—a dominance of social assistance programming characterized by safety-net-type interventions. The chapter argues a path dependency in which electoral politics, economic considerations, and global policy ideas remain the major determinants of policy reform. Particularly, it demonstrates that initial ideas and practices of social policy in Zambia represented imaginings of universalist provision emphasizing citizen entitlement; however, the turn to multiparty electoral politics in the 1990s, which coincided with downward economic trends, has led Zambian social policy to be dominated by social assistance programming even though attempts have been made to strengthen other dimensions such as insurance-based provision in the area of health over the past five years. This turn has also coincided with increased involvement of international actors in domestic policymaking. These contours, we argue, are best interpreted as pragmatic attempts to dismantle enduring levels of chronic poverty but within a global neoliberal architecture and to limited effect.
The Manufacturing Sector in Zambia
Authors: Mulenga James , Mulenga Mulenga C. 
Published: September 2024

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The manufacturing sector plays an important role in economic growth and employment creation in Zambia. This chapter broadly focuses on the sector’s performance under the import substitution industrialization strategy (ISI) and the export-oriented industrialization strategy. Using time series data from various sources, Labour Force Surveys, and the World Bank Enterprise Surveys, the chapter shows that Zambia’s manufacturing sector is dominated by resource-based manufacturers and low technology manufacturing industries, although with low employment share. The chapter establishes that Zambia’s manufacturing sector has revealed comparative advantage in various products with explosives and pyrotechnic products, lime, cement, fabricated and construction materials, and sugar, molasses, and honey topping the list. The chapter concludes that the contribution of the manufacturing sector is suboptimal due to various challenges it faces. Addressing the various challenges and devising strategies to boost the growth of the manufacturing sector can help accelerate economic growth and enhance employment creation.
Evolution of Monetary Policy in Zambia since Independence
Authors: Chipili Jonathan M. , Zgambo Peter 
Published: September 2024

AbstractThis chapter discusses monetary policy in Zambia during the pre- and post-1991 periods. Prior to 1991, monetary policy pursued multiple objectives which included credit provision, promotion of growth, and inflation control. Monetary policy was conducted using direct instruments such as interest rate controls. In addition, monetary policy was used to finance fiscal deficits, leading to hyperinflation. This contributed to macroeconomic instability. In the post-1991 period, monetary policy was streamlined to focus on price stability with reliance on market-based instruments. In general, monetary policy has contributed to relative macroeconomic stability and improved economic performance for most of the post-1991 period. To increase its effectiveness, money and secondary markets must be deepened to enhance the transmission mechanisms and improve coordination between monetary and fiscal policies to minimize fiscal dominance and support macroeconomic stability. Developments in Fintech pose a challenge to the effectiveness of monetary policy which the authorities must pay attention to.
Regional Value Chains and Regional Markets
Authors: Hampwaye Godfrey , Kaliba Matildah , Kaleng’a Wisdom C. , Nyanga Progress H. 
Published: September 2024

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This chapter examines Zambia’s participation in regional value chains and regional markets. The regional markets of focus are Southern African Development Community, Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa and Africa in general. In order to understand regional value chain, three major exports are discussed: copper, maize, and soya beans. The chapter draws upon and analyses information from various documentary sources. The discussion shows that indeed the value chains for the three products have great potential for Zambia’s industrialization with great opportunities and can enhance industrialization in the region. The key obstacles to achieving fully regional value chains include those related to policy inconsistences, lack of capacity, lack of skills, and poor infrastructure. The region must start thinking about enhancing regional value chains through collaboration among countries.
Socioeconomic and Development Dynamics in Zambia
Authors: Manda Simon , Nchungo Josephat , Mungu Mwape 
Published: September 2024

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This chapter revisits crucial issues at the heart of contested development debates, particularly political and economic elements that produce and reproduce poverty and inequality in the global south. This chapter shows Zambia’s socioeconomic development trends as reflective of the outcomes of the interaction between domestic and international interests embedded as policy directions. By drawing from an understanding of how different state strategies and policies have shaped economic dynamics and how these in turn influence prospects for social development, outcomes reveal persistent reproduction of poverty within the neoliberal policy context. Using the analytical lenses of the mining and agricultural sectors—largest contributors to GDP, avenues for income disbursements, and touted realistic drivers of socioeconomic development—this chapter shows how reduction of poverty and wider development prospects have been elusive for the copper-dependent country Zambia.
Digital Archives and Unexpected Crossings
Authors: Faniyi Ololade , Gajjala Radhika 
Published: September 2024

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This chapter explores the hashtag #EndDiscriminationAgainstHijab within a larger context of digital archives as it connects to transnational hijab struggles. Adopting a data feminist approach, the chapter presents an exploration of Twitter data related to a small, situated part of the larger conversation around the #hijab. Through computational analysis and close feminist reading of tweet clusters, the examination focuses on the contextual implications in Nigeria and reveals instances of context collapse. It examines how users intentionally forge links between distinct hijab struggles in Iran and Nigeria, as well as draw connections between Amada Firdaus’ hijabi resistance and Rosa Parks’ activism. Emphasizing the significance of networked conversations on Twitter, the findings highlight powerful connections that transcend geopolitical borders. By showcasing the navigation and contextual interpretation of these tweet interactions, the chapter aims to highlight the importance of engaging with context, power structures, and agency in social media activism for transnational feminist media studies scholars.
Subaltern Digital Cultures
Authors: Lim Elisha , Kaur-Gill Satveer , Kantachote Krittiya 
Published: September 2024

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This chapter offers a critical evaluation of TikTok for social justice, particularly inequitable and taken-for-granted assumptions about “creators,” and “users,” typically assumed by social media studies and particularly influencer studies, that users are individuated subjects of social capital or, as Spivak argues, a “naturally articulate subject of oppression.” Instead this chapter considers how platform business models support and repress subaltern communities. For example, in host countries in which it is illegal for migrant domestic workers to participate in civil society, TikTok is used for promoting voice, collectivizing informational resources, and centering identities beyond those marked for workers in host countries. However, this empowerment through social media participation is not without limitations. The chapter discusses domestic workers in Singapore as unfree TikTok users lodged within the employment context of soft violence, economic indenture, and commercial erasure. The question, Can the subaltern TikTok? recognizes their produsage as one of extreme digital (im)mobility.
Health Media Activism
Authors: Hernández Leandra Hinojosa 
Published: September 2024

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This chapter examines Latin American perspectives on health activism in the mass media through the lens of digital interactivity, leaderless networks, and community resistance to feminicides and violence against women. Specifically, this chapter, building upon previous research, explores the ways in which Latin American activists have engaged in leaderless rebellions through the lens of digital interactivity and hashtag feminism to respond to feminicides or the senseless murdering of women in Latin American contexts because of their gender. The chapter first explores the history of Ni Una Menos, one of the world’s foremost anti-violence and anti-feminicide activist groups. Next, it analyzes Ni Una Menos’ social media and physical engagement in anti-femicide organizing to combat violence against women. Finally, it discusses the evolution of health media activism in social media contexts.
Using Artificial Intelligence to Address Health Disparities
Authors: Merrill Kelly 
Published: September 2024

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In recent years, researchers and practitioners have demonstrated the various benefits of using artificial intelligence (AI) for addressing health disparities. For example, AI can provide health care providers with substantial patient-generated health data and recommendations regarding patient care, which reduce administrative strain and allow the provider to spend more time with the patient. However, limited people have access to AI designed for health, and AI that is currently available tends to serve a specific group of people. Thus, this chapter discusses the various shortcomings of using AI in health care, with a particular focus on accessibility, usability, algorithmic bias, privacy, and trust. This chapter also discusses ways to overcome these shortcomings to ensure that AI for health can benefit a greater number of individuals. The chapter concludes with suggestions regarding the use of AI for health.
Emboldening Democratic Pedagogies About Media and Justice Through Critical Media Literacy and Peer Teaching
Authors: Gambino Andrea , Share Jeff 
Published: September 2024

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This chapter describes the authors’ experiences teaching critical media literacy to undergraduates at a public university during the COVID-19 pandemic and the authors’ attempts to disrupt traditional power structures that position instructors as experts and students as passive receivers of information. To guide students to critically analyze and create alternative media, the critical media literacy framework and the three pedagogical dimensions of critical awareness, skills, and disposition were used. In the tradition of John Dewey and Paulo Freire, students were invited to design and facilitate lessons for their peers to critically analyze media and act upon the issues that concern them. Peer teachers led their classmates to challenge problematic media representations by collaboratively creating alternative media texts. Incorporating peer teaching with critical media literacy during the COVID-19 pandemic led to online, in-person, and hybrid examples of the potential to improve learning and teaching for social and environmental justice.
LGBT Activism, Social Media, and the Politics of Queer Visibility in Ghana
Authors: Asante Godfried A. , Mohammed Wunpini Fatimata , Appiah-Kubi Ama Boatemaa 
Published: September 2024

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This chapter explores how lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and sassoi (LGBTS) Ghanaian activists use social media to mitigate the tensions around their desire for political visibility and need for personal safety. Same-sex sexual relations continue to be a criminal offense in Ghana under the carnal knowledge clause instituted by the British during colonization. Although the law does not specifically mention same-sex sexual relations, the carnal knowledge clause criminalizes all forms of nonheterosexual sexual activities, creating room for the legitimation of vigilante and state violence against LGBT persons. The criminalization of same-sex sexual relations has sparked intense debates about African subjectivity. In Ghana, such debates are largely shaped by anti-LGBT media organizations that have partnered with anti-LGBT politicians and religious fundamentalists both in Ghana and in the United States to discursively frame LGBT rights as part of Western colonial efforts. In Ghana, it is argued that LGBT rights and gay marriage will morally bankrupt the nation and further entrench Western imperialist control of Ghana’s culture and resources. False arguments such as this have created a rationalization for homophobic violence and discrimination against LGBT Ghanaians. Social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram allow for such complex maneuvering to occur by creating room for anonymity and privacy. Nonetheless, such sites are not outside the confines of social hierarchy in face-to-face interaction. As such, these sites should be approached as spaces where desires for social justice intersect with corporate capitalist extractivist tactics and in turn complicate the efficacy of social justice efforts.
Indigenous Media Organizing
Authors: Dutta Mohan J. , Elers Christine Ngā Hau 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
Across diverse global registers, Indigenous media reflect the ongoing struggles of Indigenous people to secure sovereignty over symbolic and material resources. The neo/settler colonial processes that have historically constituted and continue to shape the expulsion and displacement of Indigenous people from land, habits, livelihoods, and ecosystems continue to Indigenous struggles, catalyzed by the accelerated processes of extreme neoliberalism. This chapter explores the nature of Indigenous media as spaces of raising claims to social justice from the framework of Indigenous rights. Drawing on a decolonizing register, and specifically building on the culture-centered approach to communication, the chapter depicts the processes of Indigenous organizing constituted around the co-creation and sustenance of media infrastructures for Indigenous justice.
The Future of Media and Social Justice
Authors: Ramasubramanian Srividya , Banjo Omotayo O. 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
Nation-states, the military–industry–prison complex, and fundamentalist organizations use media and technology as tools for surveillance, violence, exploitation, propaganda, genocide, and apartheid. Against this backdrop, scholars, educators, and community leaders are urged to use media and technology to elevate the voice, agency, and resistance of those in the margins. Centering intersecting structures of social inequalities such as White supremacy, patriarchy, capitalism, classism, heteronormativity, casteism, fundamentalism, and colonialism within cultural and media systems means that media scholar–activists have to stay vigilant of how social justice is being weaponized, co-opted, and contained in ways that serve status quo dominant ideologies. Scholar–activists must work collectively to create spaces for solidarity, safety, and sense-making within classrooms, creative industries, and communities for scholar–activists and media-makers who speak out against repression by those in power. Together, they must re-envision the role of media and technology in people’s shared collective futures through reckoning, restoration, and reparative justice for collective healing and flourishing.
Critical Media Effects Framework
Authors: Ramasubramanian Srividya , Banjo Omotayo O. 
Published: September 2024

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This chapter advances the Critical Media Effects (CME) framework as a way of bridging two major subfields of communication that seldom speak to one another: media effects scholarship and critical cultural communication. CME is situated within the dominant mode of social scientific theorizing within media effects scholarship and draws on four key interrelated concepts from critical cultural communication: power, intersectionality, context, and agency. CME advocates for greater reflexivity, rigor, and nuance in theorizing about media effects to better respond to the complexity and dynamicity of emerging global sociopolitical mediated contexts. Recommendations, salient examples, and future directions for co-creating a shared research roadmap for CME are discussed. Through this work of bridging, the goal is to promote more collaborative partnerships, productive engagement, and mutual solidarity across these two important subfields to address the most pressing social issues and challenges of the world today.
Black Audiences and Media Resistance
Authors: Stamps David 
Published: September 2024

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Black individuals have always engaged in acts of resistance, and using the media to aid in resistance is not novel. This chapter draws attention to scholarship on Black audiences’ media use and its relationship to the group’s collective efforts of resistance to anti-Blackness. The text draws on salient concepts, including intersectionality, racial centrality, and counterpublics, as concepts that connect the group’s efforts to advocacy and resistance. A discussion is provided of contemporary research and theoretical frameworks that have examined Black representation, media consumption, and the impact on Black audiences’ efforts toward resistance. The chapter argues that resistance is interwoven into Black individuals’ media use. As such, media is one of many tools to engage in resistance and seek liberation.
Queer of Color Approaches to Critical Cultural Media Studies
Authors: Kimura Keisuke , Eguchi Shinsuke 
Published: September 2024

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LGBTQ+ movements advocating equality and human rights for LGBTQ+ people are gaining visibility throughout the world. Under such trends, queer of color approaches that centralize connections between queerness and race as the analytic method for studying media and social justice are increasing. Queer of color approaches politicize, historicize, and contextualize complexities and contradictions of racialized queerness as non-normative identities, performances, and politics to de/reconstruct taken-for-granted conditions, structures, and relations of power. Accordingly, queer of color approaches value the historically saturated and culturally specific ways of knowing about interactions and processes, institutions, and systems that emerged from the lived experiences of queer people of color mirroring the simultaneous operations of differences. Hence, centering intersectional knowledge as the referring points, scholars who deploy queer of color approaches question and critique media practices that alter, shape, and reinforce situated meanings.