Communication, power and change in the Caribbean / by Paloma Mohamed ; with an introduction by Dennis Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mohamed, Paloma, 1967- author.

Contributor:

Alexander Street Press.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication--Social aspects--Guyana.

Communication.

Communication--Social aspects--Trinidad and Tobago.

Social change--Guyana.

Social change.

Social change--Trinidad and Tobago.

Trinidad and Tobago--Social conditions.

Trinidad and Tobago.

Guyana--Social conditions.

Guyana.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Hertford, Hertfordshire : Hansib Publications, 2013.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Communicative power is the ability of a communicative act to realize the intentions of its originators. Communicative acts are goal directed and rely on varying levels of collaboration in order to achieve their intended objectives. In an interesting polemic Paloma Mohamed argues that variations in communicative power are directly related to variations in other types of power in any society. Therefore low communicative power is directly related to inequality and social and economic marginalisation.This book takes a fascinating holistic, multi-level actor oriented approach to examining social change in two Caribbean countries. Mohamed evaluates the power of various communicative artefacts produced by various strata in those societies. She continues by investigating what constitutes this power, how it is used, how it is maintained and in whose interests. The result is a richly researched, deeply thoughtful and passionately argued case for placing communication at the core of evaluations of power and change in the world.

Contents:

A place for communication in social change?

Communicative power and social change: towards a theory

Guyana: historical, social and economic context

Communication patterns in Guyana: the press, theatre and popular music

Communicative power and Guyana: towards a preliminary formulation

Trinidad and Tobago: historical, social and economic context

Communication patterns in Guyana Trinidad and Tobago: the press, theatre and popular music

Communication power and Trinidada and Tobago: toward a formulation

Communicative power and social change: towards a conclusion.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed September 11, 2019).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-176) and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Mohamed, Paloma, 1967- Communication, power and change in the Caribbean.

OCLC:

1130726681

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