Watch Professor Melkote talk about Communication for Development: Theory and Practice for Empowerment and Social Justice
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 edition 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 editions 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.
Les mer
Discusses the conceptual framework of development communication (devcom) to address inequality and injustice in contemporary contexts
Foreword by Late Dr Luis Ramiro Beltran Salmon
Preface
I: INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
Development Commmunication, Empowerment, and Social Justice in the Globalization Epoch
Evolution of Devcom for Development and Social Justice
II: DEVELOPMENT DISCOURSE, MODERNIZATION THEORY, AND DEVCOM
Modernization, Globalization, and the Dominant Development Discourse
Media and Communication in Modernization and Globalization
III: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON COMMUNICATION AND DEVELOPMENT
Deconstructing the Dominant Development Paradigm
Critique of Devcom in the Dominant Paradigm
IV: LIBERATION PERSPECTIVES AND PRACTICES IN DEVELOPMENT
Liberation Theology and Development
Communication and Spirituality in Development
V: PARTICIPATORY AND EMPOWERMENT PARADIGMS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE
Participatory Paradigm in Development
Media and Communication for Empowerment
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
Les mer
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9789351502579
Publisert
2015-08-26
Utgave
3. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd
Vekt
610 gr
Høyde
215 mm
Bredde
139 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
568