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Accepted Paper:
Local knowledge and state politics: household practices and broadcasted state action in the early 20 century Romania
Corina Sirbu
(National Museum of the Romanian Peasant)
Paper short abstract:
The transition from rudimentary agricultural practices to an mechanized agriculture can also be analysed through the media production. Political action of the emancipation process in the interwar Romania found a privileged medium of communication in radio production, itself in its infancy, in 1930.
Paper long abstract:
The transition from rudimentary agricultural practices specific to rural life to an emancipated (mechanized) agriculture can also be analysed through the prism of media production. This process is even easier to perceive in a country like Romania, which, in the interwar period, was still 80% an agrarian country, and its population was still mostly illiterate. The emancipation of the rural world that began in the mentioned period, and implicitly of the agricultural practices that characterized it, was one of the most important political projects of the time, and the Sociological School from Bucharest was involved in this project. Political action and the ideology of the emancipation process found a privileged medium of communication in radio production, which, in 1930, was itself in its infancy. It is an approach based on analyzing the structure of radio programs for the rural world, as well as the content and topics of this broadcastings.