Learning from Communicators in Social Change: Rethinking the Power of Development

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxiii
 Introduction: The Murky Beginnings and Confusing Guidelines of a “Do-Good” Ideology  (Jan Servaes)....Pages 1-12
 Is It Government Communication or People Communication?  (Nora C. Quebral)....Pages 13-22
 A Personal Account of the History of Devcom: Beginning in 1964  (John A. Lent)....Pages 23-32
 Communication for Development: Looking Backward, Looking Forward  (Emile G. McAnany)....Pages 33-48
 The Beginnings of DSC in FAO  (Silvia Balit)....Pages 49-58
 Communication Planning Recalled  (Alan Hancock)....Pages 59-70
 A Personal Encounter: Some Reflections on Communication for Development and Social Change  (Jan Servaes)....Pages 71-81
 Understanding the Promise of Communication for Social Change: Challenges in Transforming India Towards a Sustainable Future  (Kiran Prasad)....Pages 83-99
 Participatory Environmental Communication: Pedagogy and Practice  (Usha S. Harris)....Pages 101-118
 The Development of Documentary in Post-1990s China  (Zhou Bing)....Pages 119-124
 Sure Ducks: What I Learned in the Village  (Timothy Kennedy)....Pages 125-144
 Growing up with and Within an Emerging Field: A Professional-Personal Development Story  (Birgitte Jallov)....Pages 145-171
 Power/Poder: Working Class Organizing, Confronting Race and Ethnic Hatred  (James Lescault)....Pages 173-190
 Rethinking Social Change and Development Communication in Africa  (Charles Okigbo)....Pages 191-209
 Twenty Years of Communicating Social Change: A Southern African Perspective on Teaching, Researching and Doing  (Ruth Teer-Tomaselli, Lauren Dyll, Eliza Govender)....Pages 211-233
 RNTC—Latin America: Lessons Learnt During Three Decades of Educational Communication for Development  (Daniel Prieto Castillo, Amable Rosario, Carlos Eduardo Cortés)....Pages 235-250
 Conclusion: Some Suggestions for Communication for Development and Social Change  (Jan Servaes)....Pages 251-265
Back Matter ....Pages 267-270