Wildman, Paul (author) and Blomely, Bilyana (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C16751
Notes:
Chapter 9 in Sohail Inayatullah and Susan Leggett, Transforming communication: technology, sustainability, and future generations. Praeger, Westport, Connecticut. 200 pages.
International: Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd, New Delhi.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D05712
Notes:
258 pages., "The developing world is littered with bodies of abandoned or dead development initiatives...Development dies on the very day that external and internal experts, without an understanding of the local setting, come in with their fancy ideas about implementing strategies and initiatives that do not build on local knowledge and strengths."
23 pages, Via UI Library online subscription., Authors described issues and potentials addressed by poor women farmers in India through sanghams (cooperatives). Findings pointed toward the desire and need for communication sovereignty in resistance to patriarchal, expert-led concepts of privatization that discount their knowledge and their role in making decisions.
This article is maintained in the office of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois > "International" section > "Philippines CARD Group" file folder., "...for all their seeming importance, these continuous outpourings of government and foreign aid and the steady diffusion of developmental projects and innovations are only pallatives. Thus, the wheel of agricultural development must reel off with a farmer-oriented concept of development which gives prominent role to farmers' participation in programs which are supposedly designed for their upliftment. ... "How can farmers be mobilized to participate in their own development? Simply by the abolition of 'transmission mentality' in communication and its replacement with a more liberating type of communication that would contain more dialogue..."
