Voices of Resistance: Communication and Social Change

by Mohan J. Dutta

Overview

This book represents voices of resistance from across the globe to document the communicative processes, practices, and frameworks through which neoliberal global policies are currently being defied. Based on examples, case studies, and ethnographic reports, Voices of Resistance serves as a space for engaging various perspectives from the global margins in dialogue. The emphasis of the book is on the core idea that creating spaces for listening to voices of resistance fosters openings for the politics of social change-interweaving the stories of the local, the national, and the global. The book is divided into chapters addressing the politics of resistance in the contexts of global economic policies, agriculture, education, health, poverty, and development.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781557536273
Publisher:	Purdue University Press
Publication date:	09/15/2012
Pages:	325
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.70(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Mohan J. Dutta is professor of communication and director of the Center on Poverty and Health Inequities (COPHI) at Purdue University, where he teaches and conducts research in international health communication, critical cultural theory, poverty in health care, activism in globalization politics, indigenous cosmologies of health, subaltern studies and dialogue, and public policy and social change. Spanning over one hundred articles and six books, his research examines marginalization in contemporary health care and the ways in which participatory, culture-centered processes and strategies are organized in marginalized contexts.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Chapter 1 Introduction: Voices of Resistance 1

Chapter 2 Resisting Global Economic Policies 43

Chapter 3 Agriculture: Voices of Resistance 91

Chapter 4 Resistance, Social Change, and the Environment 137

Chapter 5 Social Change and Politics 185

Chapter 6 Resistance, Development, and Social Change 229

Chapter 7 Epilogue: Voices in Motion 275

References 291

Index 311