Communication, Culture and Social Change

Meaning, Co-option and Resistance
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-26469-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 410 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 668 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change

Drawing on the culture-centered approach (CCA), this book re-imagines culture as a site for resisting the neocolonial framework of neoliberal governmentality. Culture emerged in the 20th Century as a conceptual tool for resisting the hegemony of West-centric interventions in development, disrupting the assumptions that form the basis of development. This turn to culture offered radical possibilities for decolonizing social change but in response, necolonial development institutions incorporated culture into their strategic framework while simultaneously deploying political and economic power to silence transformative threads. This rise of “culture as development” corresponded with the global rise of neo-liberal governmentality, incorporating culture as a tool for globally reproducing the logic of capital. Using examples of transformative social change interventions, this book emphasizes the role of culture as a site for resisting capitalism and imagining rights-based, sustainable and socialist futures. In particular, it attends to culture as the basis for socialist organizing in activist and party politics. In doing so, Culture, Participation and Social Change offers a framework of inter-linkage between Marxist analyses of capital and cultural analyses of colonialism. It concludes with an anti-colonial framework that re-imagines the academe as a site of activist interventions.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dutta, Mohan

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Sozialisation, Soziale Interaktion, Sozialer Wandel
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction: A framework for communicating social change.- Chapter 2: Development, Dominance, and Communication.- Chapter 3: Marxist Social Change Communication.- Chapter 4: Culture and Social Change Communication.- Chapter 5: Technologies for Development and Social Change.- Chapter 6: Culture-Centered Approach to Communication for Social Change.- Chapter 7:Social Change Communication as Academic-Activist-Community Partnerships.

Über Autor(innen)

Mohan Dutta is Dean’s Chair Professor and Director of the Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE) in the School of Communication, Journalism and Marketing at Massey University, New Zealand. His research and activism explore the interplays of cultural voice, Marxist organizing, indigenous resistance, and movements against neoliberalism.