Economics and Communication for Development and Social Change

McAnany, Emile G.

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“…The analysis of the market exchanges that bring together the Wayanadan farmers with their foreign buyers through the prism of communication for development was my own attempt to provide another viewpoint of the market from below, and to also contribute towards the idea of a new paradigm, where private enterprises gain a more permanent place in development and social change initiatives. The idea of a new paradigm was introduced by Emile McAnany ( 2012 , 2014 ), based on his analysis of social entrepreneurship as a new business approach to development, where social change originates by local people with innovative ideas and is funded by private enterprises. As Noske-Turner ( 2015 ) argues, the term ‘entrepreneur’ is admittedly disconcerting in development circles, as it carries with it a connection with neoliberalism, which in turn contrasts inclusivity and participation.…”

Section: Business Communication and Sustainable Development: Towardmentioning

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Conclusion: Building Bridges for a Sustainable Future

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2020

Sustainable Development and Communication in Global Food Networks

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The chapter presents a reflection on the complex and integrated nature of sustainable development, where the environmental, social, and economic dimensions are impossible to separate. Drawing on key observations from the previous chapters, it calls for a co-creation of knowledge through collaboration between disciplines and actors to achieve the societal transformations required for the materialisation of sustainable development. The chapter also highlights three emerging avenues for further research and innovation: (a) the need for small-scale projects; (b) the role of participatory and non-broadcast communication; and (c) the integration of ideas, actors, and practices from the private sector and the world of business in the field of communication and social change.

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Section: Business Communication and Sustainable Development: Towardmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conclusion: Building Bridges for a Sustainable Future

Touri

2020

Sustainable Development and Communication in Global Food Networks

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“…When large institutions sponsor projects, their bureaucracy often hinders or even undermines the work of genuine change. The social entrepreneur tries to seek funding that she controls, so that the growth of the enterprise responds to the needs on the ground and not to those of the funding institution (see McAnany 2010).…”

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Social Entrepreneurship and Communication for Development and Social Change

McAnany¹

2012

Nordicom Review

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This article argues that social entrepreneurship has not yet been adequately defined even though it is increasingly being used in social change/development practice. Muhammad Yunus, creator of the Grameen Bank and microlending, and Bill Drayton, founder of the global change agency Ashoka, have practiced social change through social entrepreneurship for more than 30 years. Increasingly, the development community has been adopting many of its practices. The basic process of social entrepreneurship involves: defining a social goal for the solution of a serious problem; innovation in solving the problem; ability to expand the organization to serve large numbers of people (scaling up); focusing on the social bottom line with empirical evidence (impact evaluation). Three cases are briefly reviewed to illustrate this process. Finally the article examines how these practices might help Communication for Development (C4D) to better adapt its own practices in achieving real change with people.

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“…A cursory glance at the literature indicates that the participatory approach counters the previous hegemony of modernistic thinking as well as the erstwhile application of socio-economic development. In this sense, the approach is the direct opposite of instrumentalist thinking and the prior use of communication in development and social change (Gumucio-Dagron & Tufte, 2006;McAnany, 2010McAnany, , 2012Mefalopulos, 2008;Melkote & Steeves, 2001;Morris, 2003;Servaes, 1999;Roman, 2005;Wilkins, 2000b).…”

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Theorising participation as communicative action for development and social change

Otto

Fourie

2022

JCSA

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This article explores, through a basic conceptual-theoretical analysis and a review of relevantliterature, the usefulness of employing the communicative action theory of Jürgen Habermasin theorising the elusive notions of participation and participatory communication theory asapplicable to project based development (Burnside-Lawry, 2012; Chang & Jacobson, 2010;Jacobson, 2003; Jacobson & Storey, 2004; Ramella & De La Cruz, 2000; Servaes, 1999). Theproblem with defining participation is that it is ambiguous – both notionally and in actual contexts– as the concept comprises a myriad of dissimilar epistemologies, methodologies and imaginedgoals, while also representing disparate evaluative measures in thinking about and determiningwhether or not participation has actually occurred in its various applied settings (Chitnis, 2005;Huesca, 2008; Jacobson & Storey, 2004; McAnany, 2012; Melkote & Steeves, 2001; Morris,2003; Wilkins, 2000).

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Economics and Communication for Development and Social Change

Cited by 5 publications

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Conclusion: Building Bridges for a Sustainable Future

Conclusion: Building Bridges for a Sustainable Future

Social Entrepreneurship and Communication for Development and Social Change

Theorising participation as communicative action for development and social change

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