Overview
- Uses a culture-centered approach (CCA) that aims to achieve structural transformations of neoliberalism through the framing of alternative economic and political structures
- Provides a comprehensive map of social change communication and a review of Marxist social change communication discourses
- Concludes with a chapter that seeks to reimagine the role of the academic and their relationships with activists and communities at the margins of society
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change (PSCSC)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Communication, Culture and Social Change
Book Subtitle: Meaning, Co-option and Resistance
Authors: Mohan Dutta
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26470-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-26469-7Published: 01 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-26472-7Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-26470-3Published: 30 June 2020
Series ISSN: 2634-6397
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6400
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 410
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Development Communication, Media and Communication, Cultural Theory, Development and Social Change