Media and Power on the Margins of Europe

Media and Power on the Margins of Europe Synopsis

This volume explores the links between the expression of local language and tradition in a globally connected world. The Breton people are like many other cultural groups in Europe whose cultural markers can only be found through a web of national and international media connections. Though no longer actively discouraged by policy at the organisational or institutional levels, the Breton language is still under siege from indifference by the powers that control media outlets.

The book traces the ways that the Breton people have managed to express their language and cultural values through developing their own media, and through navigating the government and corporate institutions that control access to information. Through an in-depth field study of the Breton linguistic and cultural sphere, this book focuses attention on the relationship between media globalisation and the human rights of expression and information in local languages and cultures.