Communication for Development: Theory and Practice for Empowerment and Social Justice

✍ Scribed by Srinivas Raj Melkote, H. Leslie Steeves

Publisher: SAGE Publications
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 564
Edition: 3
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book critically examines directed social change theory and practice while presenting a conceptual framework of development communication to address inequality and injustice in contemporary contexts. This third ion features significantly revised and updated chapters to include the latest scholarship on, and practices of, media and communication for development. It explores empowerment and social justice to individuals and communities around the world in the context of increasing globalization. Tracing the history of development communication, it looks objectively at diverse approaches and their supporters, and goes on to provide models for the future. It also offers a new chapter presenting the authors' framework foregrounding empowerment and social justice as goals for development communication in the 21st century. The earlier ions of this book, Communication for Development in the Third World (1991 and 2001), are established core texts for courses on development communication throughout the world.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
List of Photographs
List of Boxes
List of Abbreviations
Foreword • Luis Ramiro Beltran Salmon
Preface
Part I: Introduction and Overview
1. Development Communication, Empowerment, and Social Justice in the Globalization Epoch
2. Evolution of Devcom for Development and Social Justice
Part II: Development Discourse, Modernization Theory, and Devcom
3. Modernization, Globalization, and the Dominant Development Discourse
4. Media and Communication in Modernization and Globalization
Part III: Critical Perspectives on Communication and Development
5. Deconstructing the Dominant Development Paradigm
6. Critique of Devcom in the Dominant Paradigm
Part IV: Liberation Perspectives and Practices in Development
7. Liberation Theology and Development
8. Communication and Spirituality in Development
Part V: Participatory and Empowerment Paradigms for Social Justice
9. Participatory Paradigm in Development
10. Media and Communication for Empowerment
11. Devcom for Empowerment and Social Justice
Appendices
Appendix A: Historical Overview of Development/Underdevelopment
Appendix B: Highlights of Media, Communication, and Development Activities since World War II
Bibliography
Index
About the Authors

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