Communication for another development : listening before telling / Wendy Quarry and Ricardo Ramírez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Quarry, Wendy, author.

Contributor:

Ramirez, Ricardo, active 1997.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication in economic development.

Communication in community development.

Communication--Developing countries.

Communication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (167 p.)

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

Place of Publication:

London, England : Zed Books, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This lively book argues that in the development process, communication is everything. The authors, world experts in this field as teachers, practitioners and theorists, argue that Communication for Development is a creative and innovative way of thinking that can permeate the overall approach to any development initiative. They illustrate their argument with vivid case studies and tools for the reader.

Contents:

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1

Communication for Development: setting the scene; PART ONE

What we know; 2

The meaning of 'another' development; 3

Planners and searchers: two ways of doing development; 4

Why communicators can't communicate; PART TWO

What we learned; 5

Working in the grey zone; 6

Early champions: uncovering principles; 7

New activists: principles that travel; 8

The forgotten context; PART THREE

What we can do differently; 9

Training and negotiating in the grey zone; 10

Searching and listening: good communication, good development.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages 144-150) and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9781350219274

1350219274

9781848135505

1848135505

OCLC:

609896872