Communicating Gender and Advocating Accountability in Global Development

by Karin Wilkins

Overview

Case studies of micro-enterprise, girls' education, and population programs suggest that our discourse limits our potential to conceive of development, communication, and gender outside of neoliberal ideologies. Advocacy for global social justice demands a different accountability through critical research.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137450487
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	01/26/2016
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	212
File size:	280 KB

About the Author

Karin Gwinn Wilkins has a PhD from the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania and is John P. McGovern Regents Professor in Health and Medical Science Communication and Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. Her work addresses scholarship in the fields of development and social change, health communication, and global communication.

Table of Contents

1. Communication, Gender, Development
2. Communicating Gender in Micro-enterprise Development
3. Communicating Gender in Population Development
4. Communicating Gender in Education Development
5. Advocacy & Accountability for Gender Justice