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Redeveloping Communication for Social Change: Theory, Practice, and Power

Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield (2000), 216 pp.

Contains index

ISBN 0-8476-9587-5 (hbk); 0-8476-9588-3 (pbk)

1 Introduction / Karin Gwinn Wilkins, 1
I. RECONCEPTUALIZING DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATION THEORY
2 Gendered Agendas: Dialogue and Impasse in Creating Social Change / H. Leslie Steeves, 7
3 Governing Reproduction: Womens Empowerment and Population Policy / Ronald Walter Greene, 27
4 Reinventing Development Support Communication to Account for Power and Control in Development / Srinivas R Melkote, 39
5 Cultural Hybridity and the Public Sphere / Thomas L. Jacobson, 55
II. RECONSIDERING DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATION PRACTICE
6 Communication for Social Change among Mexican Factory Workers on the Mexico-United States Border / Robert Huesca, 73
7 Power and Praxis in Development Communication Discourse and Method / Jody Waters, 89
8 A Discursive Perspective on Development Theory and Practice: Reconceptualizing the Role of Donor Agencies / Douglas Storey, 103
9 Mexican Popular Culture and Development: An Intertextual History of Agustin Laras Aventurera / Mark Pedelty, 119
10 Same Language Subtiding on Indian Television: Harnessing the Power of Popular Culture for Literacy / Brij Kothari, 135
11 Civil Society and Citizens' Media: Peace Architects for the New Millennium / Clemencia Rodriguez, 147
III. NEW DIRECTIONS
12 Place, Power, and Networks in Globalization and Postdevelopment / Arturo Escobar, 163
13 Border Crossings: Gender, Development, and Communication / Edna F. Einsiedel, 175
14 The Contexts of Power and the Power of the Media / Bella Mody, 185
15 Accounting for Power in Development Communication / Karin Gwinn Wilkins, 197