This work will nourish the reflections of researchers interested in radio, public space, communities migrants / minorities and underground cultural production. It will also be of interest to multiple community radio volunteers who want to feed their inspiration for renewed inclusiveness. [Translated from original French]

Communication

An impressive feat of political and intellectual imagination, although rooted in detailed empirical research. A major landmark in the study of post-communist Russia and Ukraine.

Richard Sakwa, Professor of Russian and European Politics, University of Kent

One of the most important and original books on the mediation of social change and "development." It tears apart the fabric of neocolonial platitude and calls intellectuals to account for their failure to understand that effective response to social injustice first requires subversion of its corresponding epistemological injustice.

Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Bowling Green State University

Miscommunicating Social Change is applied discourse theory at its best, driven by theory, but with a keen eye for socio-political complexity and messiness. The book is a chilling and sobering analysis of the derailment of democratic protest and activism, which does away with the romanticism of revolution. It is a grim reminder that social change projects built on essentialist and antagonist logics carry the seeds of destruction, of both themselves and their others. Most importantly, the book convincingly demonstrates how important the discursive is for the study of conflict and democracy, reminding us that we first think the enemy to death, and only then move in for the kill.

Nico Carpentier, Uppsala University