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- Title
L'«assainissement urbain», un lieu d'effacement des clivages à Kinshasa?
- Authors
LAVU, PUDENS MALIBABO
- Abstract
From a semio-narrative point of view, this study demonstrates the ways political divisions between newspapers and between journalists are disappearing with respect to urban sanitation in Kinshasa. This is unexpected in light of existing literature on journalism, particularly in the DRC, which establishes how Congolese media is divided along lines defined by political orientation. This study cross-analyzes journalistic articles dedicated to the urban waste management issue and the discourses of these articles' authors on the production conditions of the latter. It takes into account an analysis of the work on the relationship between the media (press, radio, television) and political power in the DRC, since the daily press considers urban waste management a highly political issue. Following a discursive approach of the mobilized corpus, inspired by a semiotic narratology, the author discovered uniformity in the content of this corpus in three instances: 1) the observation of the extent of public insalubrity after the end the financing of the Kinshasa City Rehabilitation and Urban Sanitation Support Project (PARAU) by the European Union (EU), 2) the incapacity of the Congolese government to finance the evacuation of waste from public landfills built by the EU and to enforce public health law, and 3) the ambivalence of the status of the population as seen by news writers as both responsible and victim of public insalubrity. In all three instances, the textual indices agree and the narrative structures of the corpus analyzed are similar. In this respect, this study provides an interesting caveat regarding the effect of newspapers' political positioning on content and deserves further study.
- Subjects
KINSHASA (Congo); EUROPEAN Union; WASTE management; PUBLIC health laws; NEWSPAPER journalists; PUBLIC finance; ELECTRONIC newspapers; AMBIVALENCE; PARASOCIAL relationships
- Publication
Sur le Journalisme, About Journalism, Sobre Jornalismo, 2019, Vol 8, Issue 2, p168
- ISSN
2295-0710
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.25200/slj.v8.n2.2019.409