Redeveloping Communication for Social Change

Theory, Practice, and Power
Herausgeber: Wilkins, Karin Gwinn

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

To reshape the field of development communication, Redeveloping Communication for Social Change proposes situating theory and practice within contexts of power, recognizing both the ability of dominant groups to control and the potential for marginal communities to resist. Contributors from communication and anthropology explore the global and institutional structures within which agencies construct social problems and interventions, the discourse guiding the normative climate for conceiving and implementing projects, and the practice of strategic interventions for social change. Examining early and emerging models of development, power dynamics, ethnographic approaches, gender issues, and information technologies, they speculate how a framework accounting for power might contribute toward new directions and applications in the field. Instead of mourning the demise of development communication, this volume should provoke critical debate that will help us change our approaches to meet new challenges.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 377g
• ISBN-13: 9780847695881
• ISBN-10: 0847695883
• Artikelnr.: 21507378

Autorenporträt

Karin Gwinn Wilkins is assistant professor in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin, with joint appointments in the Center for Asian Studies, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and the Population Research Center.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 1. Introduction
Part 2 Part I: Reconceptualizing Development Communication Theory
Chapter 3 2. Gendered Agendas: Dialogue and Impasse in Creating Social
Change
Chapter 4 3. Governing Reproduction: Women's Empowerment and Population
Policy
Chapter 5 4. Reinventing Development Support Communication to Account for
Power and Control in Development
Chapter 6 5. Cultural Hybridity and the Public Sphere
Part 7 Part II: Reconsidering Development Communication Practice
Chapter 8 6. Communication for Social Change among Mexican Factory Workers
on the Mexico-U.S. Border
Chapter 9 7. Power and Praxis in Development Communication Discourse and
Method
Chapter 10 8. A Discursive Perspective on Development Theory and Practice:
Reconceptualizing the Role of Donor Agencies
Chapter 11 9. Mexican Popular Culture and Development: An Intertextual
History of Agustin Lara's Aventurera
Chapter 12 10. Same-Language Subtitling on Indian Television: Harnessing
the Power of Popular Culture for Literacy
Chapter 13 11. Civil Society and Citizens' Media: Peace Architects for the
New Millennium
Part 14 Part III: New Directions
Chapter 15 12. Place, Power, and Networks in Globalization and
Postdevelopment
Chapter 16 13. Border Crossings: Gender, Development, and Communication
Chapter 17 14. The Contexts of Power and the Power of the Media
Chapter 18 15. Accounting for Power in Development Communication