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Learning From Communicators in Social Change : Rethinking the Power of Development by Jan Servaes is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Learning From Communicators in Social Change : Rethinking the Power of Development about?
This book presents the perspectives of some of the main players, both academics and professionals, in communication for sustainable development and social change so as to provide valuable lessons for future generations of change agents. It places emphasis on both the theoretical foundation and practical applications and ethical concerns in communication for development and social change. Most of the available historical accounts in development communications make a distinction between the modernization paradigm, the dependency paradigm and the multiplicity or participatory paradigm. These historical accounts have been dominated by framing developments within these paradigms, as the logical offspring of the Western drive to develop the world after colonization and the Second World War. The subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union in the late eighties, together with the rise of the U.S. as the only remaining ‘superpower,’ the emergence of the European Union and China, the gradual coming to the fore of regional powers, such as the BRICS countries, and the recent meltdown of the world financial system has rendered disastrous consequences for people everywhere. This book responds to thes
Who reads Learning From Communicators in Social Change : Rethinking the Power of Development?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Jan Servaes
- Publisher
- Springer Singapore, Imprint: Springer
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789811582806
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Political Science, Science, Economics