Communication for development in the third world: theory and practice for empowerment/
Srinivas R. Melkote and H. Leslie Steeves
- 2nd ed.
- New Delhi: Sage, 2001.
- 422 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
I: Introduction and overview -- Introduction to communication, development, and empowerment in the third world -- Evolution of the theory and practice of development communication -- II: Development discourse, modernization theory, and communication -- The enterprise of modernization and the dominant discourse of development -- Communication approach in the modernization of the third world -- III: Critical perspectives on communication and development -- Deconstructing the dominant paradigm of development -- Critique of communication approaches in third world development -- IV: Liberation perspectives on development -- Liberation theology and development -- Communication and spirituality in development -- V: Communication and empowerment -- Communication strategies for empowerment.
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