ISBN:
9780415878739
,
9780415878746
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 342 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Communication series
Parallel Title:
Print version Communicating Social Change
DDC:
302.2
Keywords:
Communication Social aspects
;
Social change
Abstract:
Communicating Social Change: Structure, Culture, and Agency explores the use of communication to transform global, national, and local structures of power that create and sustain oppressive conditions. Author Mohan J. Dutta describes the social challenges that exist in current globalization politics, and examines the communicative processes, strategies, and tactics through which social change interventions are constituted in response to the challenges. Using empirical evidence and case studies, he documents the ways through which those in power create conditions at the margins, and he provides
Description / Table of Contents:
COMMUNICATING SOCIAL CHANGE; Copyright; CONTENTS; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Theorizing Social Change Communication; PART I: Structures and Marginalization; 2 Poverty at the Margins; 3 Agriculture and Food: Global Inequalities; 4 Health at the Margins; 5 Gendered Marginalization; PART II: Communicating for Social Change; 6 Dialogue and Social Change; 7 Performing Social Change; 8 Organizing for Social Change; 9 Participation, Social Capital, Community Networks, and Social Change; 10 Mediated Social Change; 11 Epilogue: The Praxis of Social Change Communication; Notes
Description / Table of Contents:
ReferencesIndex
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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