Interrogating the Theory and Practice of Communication for Social Change

Pradip Ninan Thomas is Associate Professor and Head of the School of Journalism and Communication, The University of Queensland, Australia. He is a leading academic and renowned author in the areas of communication and social change, communication rights, religion and media and the political economy of communications in India.Elske van de Fliert is Associate Professor and Director at the Centre for Communication and Social Change, The University of Queensland, Australia. Previously she worked internationally for a range of organisations in research, development and teaching positions. Her main interests are in the areas of participatory communication and transdisciplinarity.

• List of Figures List of Tables Preface 1. Revisiting CSC Theory 2. Revisiting CSC Practice 3. Participation in Theory and Practice 4. Communication, Power and Social Change 5. Agencies, Structures and Social Change 6. The IT Fix 7. The Making and Unmaking of CSC Policy 8. Complexity, Transdisciplinarity and CSC Strategy 9. Communication Rights and Social Change

'Thomas and van de Fliert compose a compelling and insighful interrogation of Communication for Social Change, raising much needed and rarely seen critical dialogue on theory and practice. Positioning communication within institutional contexts and political and economic conditions, their analyses foreground power, not just in terms of deconstruction but also as a way to consider conditions through which communication might succeed. They raise pressing questions about the future of the field and the promotion of communication rights, offering engaging directions for future research.' - Karin Gwinn Wilkins, University of Texas at Austin, USA