1st Edition

Communicating Social Change Structure, Culture, and Agency

By Mohan J. Dutta Copyright 2011
360 Pages
by Routledge

374 Pages
by Routledge

360 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: Theorizing Social Change Communication

Section I: Structures and Marginalization

Chapter 2: Poverty at the Margins

Chapter 3: Agriculture and Food: Global Inequalities

Chapter 4: Health at the Margins

Chapter 5: Gender and Marginalization

Section II: Communicating for Social Change

Chapter 6: Dialogue and Social Change

Chapter 7: Performing Social Change

Chapter 8: Organizing for Social Change

Chapter 9: Participation, Social Capital, Community Networks and Social Change

Chapter 10: Mediated Social Change

Chapter 11: Epilogue: The Praxis of Social Change Communication

Biography

Mohan J. Dutta is Professor of Communication and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education in Liberal Arts at Purdue University, where he teaches and conducts research in international health communication, critical cultural theory, poverty in healthcare, politics of resistance, and public policy and social change. In recognition of his scholarly productivity, Professor Dutta has been recognized as the Lewis Donohew Outstanding Scholar in Health Communication, and as the Lim Chong Yah Professor of Communication and New Media at the National University of Singapore. Currently, he serves as senior editor of the journal Health Communication.