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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.

Table of Contents

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

Product details

Published Mar 09 2000
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 232
ISBN 9780847695881
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions 218 x 152 mm
Series Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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