Communication for Development in the Third World

This text traces the history of development communication, presents and critiques diverse approaches and their proponents, and provides ideas and models for development communication in the current century. It examines the discourse on modernisation and development theory and practice in the developing world with the goals of examining the power dynamics of knowledge systems and the exercise of social power. According to the publisher, this revised edition is organised conceptually, where the first edition was organised historically, and is updated to include the literature on development and communications from the 1990s and to integrate it with the theory and practice of development communication.

Following a preface, contents include:

• Introduction and overview:
1. Introduction to communication, development, and empowerment in the developing world.
2. Evolution of the theory and practice of development communication.
• Development discourse, modernisation theory, and communication:
1. The enterprise of modernisation and the dominant discourse of development.
2. Communication approach in the modernisation of the developing world.
• Critical perspectives on communication and development:
1. Deconstructing the dominant paradigm of development.
2. Critique of communication approaches in the developing world.
• Liberation perspectives on development:
1. Liberation theology and development.
2. Communication and spirituality in development.
• Communication and empowerment:
1. Communication strategies for empowerment.
• Appendices. Index.

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