The Right to Communicate: Historical Hopes, Global Debates and Future Premises has just appeared in print. A major goal is to contribute to an intellectual and multidisciplinary framework that will help better understand emerging issues in the practice of this complex human right.

This is the first book devoted to theme of the right to communicate since 1983 when L.S. Harms and Desmond Fisher published their landmark The Right to Communicate: A New Human Right – now out of print.

 The book is divided into three parts. Part I: Historical Hopes. Chapter 1 ‘The Baron of the Right to Communicate: Jean d’Arcy (1913-1983)’ by Aliaa Dakroury. Chapter 2 ‘The Roots of the Right to Communicate and Emerging Participatory Policy’ by Jenifer S. Winter and Dan J. Wedemeyer. Chapter 3 ‘Communication as a Human Right: Picking up the Challenge?’ by Cees J. Hamelink and Julia Hoffmann. Chapter 4 ‘A Historical Testimony: From the New World Information and Communication Order to the Digital Order’ by Mustapha Masmoudi. Chapter 5 ‘Communication Rights and the Millennium Development Goals’ by Philip Lee.

 Part II: Global Debates. Chapter 6 ‘The Right to Communicate: From Intergovernmental to Global Civil Society Debates’ by Lauren B. Movius. Chapter 7 ‘Skimming the Cream, Throttling the Tubes, Doing the Policy Laundering, and Jiving to the Supply-Side Boogie: Challenges to the Right to Communicate in Canada’ by Leslie Regan Shade. Chapter 8 ‘Rights on Paper, but Not in Practice: A History of State Censorship in Canada’ by Patricia Mazepa. Chapter 9 ‘Communication Rights are Human Rights: A Case Study of Thailand’s Media’ by Jan Servaes, Patchanee Malikhao, and Thaniya Pinprayong. Chapter 10 ‘Peace Journalism: The Right to Communicate and the Open Broadcast Network in Bosnia’ by Vladimir Bratic, Susan Dente Ross, and Hyeonjin Kang-Graham

 Part III: Future Premises. Chapter 11 ‘Putting Practice into Theory: A Right to Communicate Research Strategy’ by William F. Birdsall. Chapter 12 ‘The Right to Communicate Religious Speech in the Public Sphere’ by Jason Hannan. Chapter 13 ‘Communication “Postcards” from Canada: The Public Interest, the Right to Communicate, and Political Activism’ by Vanda Rideout. Chapter 14 ‘Mass Media, Civil Society, and the Right to Communicate in Latin America’ by Miriam Wimmer and Octavio Penna Pieranti. Chapter 15 ‘Alternative Arab Media and the Right to Communicate in the Middle East’ by El Mustapha Lahlali.

The publisher will have an updated link to the book in the near future at: http://www.kendallhunt.com/index.cfm?PID=219&CID=219&CEL=992&PRD=22671.

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