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Unlearning Communication for Social Change: A Pedagogical Proposition
Social Sciences, volume 13, issue 335 (2024), 16 pp.
"We have in recent years seen growing calls for pedagogies for social change amongst communication and development scholars, identifying resistances, critiques, and emerging practices in the field. This review article addresses this ‘pedagogical turn’, suggesting that it is in these pedagogies w
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Freire and the Perseverance of Hope: Exploring Communication and Social Change
Amsterdam; London: Institute of Network Cultures; Loughborough University (2022), 146 pp.
"The Brazilian educator Paulo Freire (1921-1997) is one of the most important thinkers of the 21st century, figuring among the most quoted authors in the fields of education and social sciences all over the world. He is also a core reference to an infinite number of grassroots and activist initiativ
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Paulo Freire, 100 Years
Matrizes, volume 15, issue 3 (2021), pp. 5-284
"Only one of Freire’s (1969/1983) books directly and more broadly addresses the scope of communication; it is 'Extension or Communication?' published in 1969, originally in Spanish, during Freire’s exile in Chile. This book became an important reference for the studies and practices of participa
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Freire’s Vision of Development and Social Change: Past Experiences, Present Challenges and Perspectives for the Future
International Communication Gazette, volume 82, issue 5 (2021), pp. 411-424
"This article proposes to view Freire’s thinking beyond a pedagogical method and rather as a model or even paradigm of development and social change. To build this as an original argument we firstly outline Freire’s ontological call, presenting and discussing his underlying five principles, of w
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De-Constructing Participatory Communication and Civil Society Development in 2020: A Perspective Inspired by Paulo Freire
Commons: Revista de Comunicación y Ciudadanía Digital, volume 9, issue 2 (2020), pp. 48-78
"This article explores the “mindprint” of Paulo Freire upon processes of social change in Brazil, with a particular focus on how his liberating pedagogy has influenced practices of participatory communication and civil society development. In exploring the legacy of Freire, his work is approache
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Communicating for Change: Concepts to Think With
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Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xiv, 186 pp.
"This collection presents 14 concepts from a multi-disciplinary collection of internationally leading and emerging scholars, from 13 countries on 5 continents. They come together around three meta-topics: citizenship and justice, critiques of development, and renewing thought (from and for the margi
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Youth-Led Communication for Social Change: Empowerment, Citizen Media, and Cultures of Governance in Northern Ghana
Development in Practice, volume 28, issue 3 (2018), pp. 400-413
"This article critically assesses the possibilities and limitations of strategic communication initiatives to enhance cultures of governance among youth in Northern Ghana. The analysis is embedded within contemporary debates about communication and social change, with particular focus upon dynamics
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Communication and Social Change: A Citizen Perspective
Malden, Mass.: Polity Press (2017), 256 pp.
"Drawing on examples ranging from the Indignados movement in Spain to media activists in Brazil, from rural community workers in Malawi to UNICEF's global outreach programs, [the author] presents cutting-edge debates about the role of media and communication in enhancing social change. He offers bot
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Communication, Social Movements, and Collective Action: Toward a New Research Agenda in Communication for Development and Social Change
Journal of Communication, volume 67, issue 5 (2017), pp. 635-645
"The growing emphasis on collective action raises new questions for research and practice in communication for development and social change. What actors drive processes of collective action? What are the communication features of their interventions? What type of social change processes do they enh
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Voice & Matter: Communication, Development and the Cultural Return
Göteborg: Nordicom (2016), 266 pp.
Africa’s Voices Versus Big Data? The Value of Citizen Engagement Through Interactive Radio
In: Voice & Matter: Communication, Development and the Cultural Return
Göteborg: Nordicom (2016), pp. 155-171
"We draw on insights from a two-year research project, Politics and Interactive Media in Africa (PiMA), and the related applied research pilot, Africa’s Voices, which worked with local radio stations in eight Sub-Saharan African countries. We examine the social and political significance of new op
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The Language and Voice of the Oppressed
In: Voice & Matter: Communication, Development and the Cultural Return
Göteborg: Nordicom (2016), pp. 43-58
"How should scholars approach study of the processes that characterize voice production among subaltern groups? The study builds on both Marxist and non-Marxist frameworks as theoretical trajectories for conducting class analyses that define how subaltern groups conceive, produce and consume their o
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When and How Does Voice Matter? And How Do We Know?
In: Voice & Matter: Communication, Development and the Cultural Return
Göteborg: Nordicom (2016), pp. 117-128
"This chapter seeks to complicate our understanding of voice in development. It proposes that while it is important to consider not just voice, and the processes of valuing voice, it is also important to understand what voice and agency mean in the complexities of everyday life for populations who a
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Save Us from Saviours: Disrupting Development Narratives of the Rescue and Uplift of the ‘Third World Woman’
In: Voice & Matter: Communication, Development and the Cultural Return
Göteborg: Nordicom (2016), pp. 139-154
"The images used to market development often feature women, as victims of terrible traditions and disempowering situations, or – more commonly these days – as enterprising agents of change, poised to ‘lift’ economies and their families and communities. These images tell a story of victims an
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A History of Cultural Futures: ‘televisual Sovereignty’ in Contemporary Australian Indigenous Media
In: Voice & Matter: Communication, Development and the Cultural Return
Göteborg: Nordicom (2016), pp. 173-187
"When the Aboriginal Programs Unit of Australia’s ABC television began in 1988, every Indigenous person involved was a trainee under the direction of a Euro-Australian professional. They bore the burden of collective selfrepresentation in a televisual wasteland virtually devoid of Indigenous voice
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Gringo Trails, Gringo Tales: Storytelling, Destination Perspectives, and Tourism Globalization
In: Voice & Matter: Communication, Development and the Cultural Return
Göteborg: Nordicom (2016), pp. 189-199
"The documentary film Gringo Trails explores the long-term effects of tourism globalization on cultures, economies and the environment in the developing world through the lens of budget backpacker travelers and their storytelling. This chapter explores the travel narrative to tourism globalization a
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Comunicación para el cambio social: La participación y el empoderamiento como base para el desarrollo mundial
Barcelona: Icaria Editorial (2015), 255 pp.
"El inicio del siglo XXI ha venido marcado por los debates que, en el plano internacional, están sometiendo a revisión la comunicación para el desarrollo con el fin de proponer otras alternativas como comunicación para el cambio social o comunicación para el empoderamiento ciudadano y ecosocial
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Memory on Trial: Media, Citizenship and Social Justice
Wien; Zürich: Lit (2015), ii, 186 pp.
"This book approaches the memory sharing of groups, communities and societies as inevitable struggles over the interpretation of, and authority over, particular stories. Coming to terms with the past in memory work, alone or with others, is always unsteady ground and the activation of memory will al
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Citizens' Journalism: Shifting Public Spheres from Elites to Citizens
In: The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change
Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2014), pp. 393-410
"The phenomenon of academics committed to social justice interrogating social science theory and research, frames the formation of the fields of citizens’ media and citizens’ journalism in the Latin American region. This chapter explains how Chantal Mouffe's ideas and her theory of radical democ
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