21 pages., Online via UI e-subscription, "This essay makes the argument for the centrality of communication in studying and developing community." Following discussion of general theoretical arguments affirming and advancing this case, the author examined a specific type of community-oriented communicative event - civic communion. "Civic communions are episodes of community interaction that function as rhetorical and performative civic sacraments bonding citizenry around the social and political structures of a specific locale."
Case study of an internationally-finded campesino radio station and cultural negotiation in which local interests engage with - and transform - donor-funded content aimed at the local community.
In an issue located in a chronological file entitled "INTERPAKS - Newsletter" from the International Programs records of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois., From the International Programs records of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign., Author introduces reasons why top-down management and decision making generally results in ineffective extension systems. Also addresses reasons why resistance to organizational change is so persistent and difficult. "Huge benefits will come from changing to a decentralized system that fosters acceptance of responsibility through incentives and provides for local programming through involvement and interaction with the clientele."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D10086
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This abstract is maintained in records of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois > "International" section > "Philippines CARD group" file., Abstract of a research paper presented at the 3rd annual conference of the Communicators for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Mountain State Agriculture College, La Trinidad, Benquet, Philippines, October 21-24, 1982. Page 14., Describes how community residents identified need and cooperatively developed and published a popular manual on how to construct a low-cost fuel-efficient wood stove.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 198 Document Number: D09696
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Online from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Paris, France. 3 pages., Case report of a successful and influential Indonesian River School Movement, which involves establishment of local river schools and activities.
Roth, Michael (author), Frixen, Miryam (author), Tobisch, Carlos (author), and Scholle, Thomas (author)
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Proceedings
Publication Date:
2016
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08818
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Pages 283-298 in Rob Roggema (ed.), Agriculture in an urbanizing society volume one: proceedings of the sixth AESOP conference on sustainable food planning. United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 549 pages.
