Narratives and new voices from India : cases of community development for social change /

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Imprint:	Singapore, Singapore : Springer, [2022]
Description:	xxi, 318 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Communication, culture and change in Asia ; volume 8 Communication, culture and change in Asia ; v. 8.
Subject:	Social change -- India -- Case studies. Community development -- India -- Case studies. Ethnoscience -- India. Community development. Ethnoscience. Social change. India. Case studies.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12756804

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Other authors / contributors:	Kaushik, Alankar, editor. Suchiang, Abir, editor.
ISBN:	9789811924958 9811924953 9789811924965
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:	This volume focuses on indigenous knowledge in analyzing the traditions and communication processes within various communities of Northeast India. It deals with the historical and theoretical trajectory of communication for social change as a discipline, bringing together a series of interesting case studies from the sphere of meaningful learning where individuals and communities engage in a cooperative and dialogic environment to promote change at multiple levels. The case studies cover a range of media - radio, video, forum theatre - and considers both practitioners and audiences. The authors focus on narration, diversity, participation, and interaction is timely, and expands knowledge relating to these areas by linking them in new ways. It is of interest to an academic audience as well as practitioners researching and working in areas of education, communication, community development, and social work. .

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Part I: Community Centered Development and Shifting Paradigms
Chapter 1. Politics of Development and its Shifting Paradigms, Addressing the Politics of Community Centered Development Approaches over the Years
Chapter 2. The relevance of Rabindranath Tagore and Paulo Freire for Participatory Communication
Chapter 3. The Politics of Development Paradigms: The Relevance of Community-Centered: Approach to Development in the Wake of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Chapter 4. Experience and Knowing : Rational and Knowledge
Part II: Community Voices and Narratives
Chapter 5. Enabling People to Participate in Development and Social Change through Forum Theatre: A Case of Jana Sanskriti in West Bengal, India
Chapter 6. Safeguarding Desia Culture through Community Radio : A Cultural Analysis of Radio Dhimsa in Koraput, Orissa
Chapter 7. Gender Sensitive Programming and Practices among Community Radio in India: An Analysis of International Guides and Policies
Chapter 8. Development and Community Radio : Uneasy Bedfellows
Part III: Community Voices of Northeast India: Practices in Development process
Chapter 9. Participatory Video as a tool for Social Change : Insights from the Khasi Community in Meghalaya
Chapter 10. Community Radio Platform to promote voice and culture: A case study of Hajong Community from Dhemaji, Assam
Chapter 11. Greenhub Project on Young Filmmakers from NE India
Chapter 12. Community Media Practices in the NE India
Chapter 13. Towards SDG 5 : The Interplay of Gender Power Relations among the Khasi Tirbes in Matrilineal Meghalaya
Chapter 14. Traditional Healing Practices in Thailand with a special focus on Lanna or the Eight Northern Provinces, and their implications for Holistic Health Communication
Chapter 15. Contribution of Traditional Medicines towards Primary Healthcare in Meghalaya
Chapter 16. Decoding the Community Paradigm : Participation and Community Health in the Northeast India
Part IV: Health Communication for Social Change
Chapter 17. Nutrition Communication- Experiment for a Researcher, Experience for a Practitioner but Exasperation for People?
Chapter 18. Adolescent Health, Well-Being, and Empowerment: Participation and Decision Making as Key Elements : Field Experience from rural Gujarat
Chapter 19. Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices in India and Poshan Abhiyaan A Case Study from Northern India
Chapter 20. Developing Scientific Temper on Health among Tribal Women in Tamil nadu
Chapter 21. Food Safety in Nutrition Transition
Chapter 22. Dietary Diversity and Non- Communicable Diseases.

Narratives and new voices from India : cases of community development for social change /

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