This valuable resource offers a wealth of practical and conceptual guidance to all those engaged in struggles for social justice around the world. It explains in accessible language and painstaking detail how to deploy and to understand the tools of media and communication in advancing the goals of social, cultural, and political change.

• A stand-out reference on a vital topic of primary international concern, with a rising profile in communications and media research programs
• Multinational editorial team and global contributors
• Covers the history of the field as well as integrating and reconceptualising its diverse perspectives and approaches
• Provides a fully formed framework of understanding and identifies likely future developments
• Features a wealth of insights into the critical role of digital media in development communication and social change

Karin Gwinn Wilkins is Professor in the Department of Radio, TV, and Film at the University of Texas at Austin, USA, where she is also Associate Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and chair of the Global Studies Bridging Disciplines Program. Prof Wilkins has won numerous awards for her teaching and research, which focuses on development communication, global communication, and political engagement. She is the author of Home/Land/Security: What We Learn about Arab Communities from Action-Adventure Film (2008), Re-Developing Communication for Social Change (2000), and is a prolific contributor to journals including the Journal of Communication and Media, Culture & Society.

Thomas Tufte is Professor of Communication at Roskilde University, Denmark. An experienced director of international research projects, he is the author or editor of a dozen books including Living with the Rubbish Queen: Telenovelas, Culture and Modernity in Brazil (2000), as well as more than fifty research papers published in books and journals. Prof Tufte is a former UNESCO Chair of Communication at Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona and was a long-standing council member of the International Association for Media and Communication Research. He is widely consulted by high-profile international development agencies including UNESCO and the World Bank.

Rafael Obregon is Chief of Communication for Development at the United Nations Children’s Fund, New York, and a former Associate Professor in the School of Media Arts & Studies at Ohio University, USA. With more than two decades of academic experience in development and health communication, he has published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles on related topics, and co-edited The Handbook of Global Health Communication (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012) alongside Silvio Waisbord.

Introduction
Karin Gwinn Wilkins, Thomas Tufte, & Rafael Obregon

Part I. Communicating Development and Social Change

1. Development Communication & Social Change in Historical Context
Pradip Ninan Thomas          

2.  Globalization and Development
Toby Miller

3. Political Economy of Development
James Pamment

4.  Advocacy Communication                                 
Karin Gwinn Wilkins

5. Equality &  Human Rights
Cees Hamelink

6. Public Health
Colin Chasi

7.  Multiculturalism and Indigenous Communities
Alfonso Gumucio-Dagron

8. Communication, Development, and the Natural Environment
Elske van de Fliert

9.  Emerging Issues
Karin Wilkins

Part II. Developing Strategic Communication for Social Change

10. The Strategic Politics of Participatory Communication
Silvio Waisbord

11.  Rethinking Entertainment-Education for Development & Social Change
Rafael Obregon and Thomas Tufte

12.  Storytelling for Social Change
Kate Winskell & Daniel Enger

13.  Theatre for Development
David Kerr

14.  Media Development
James Deane

15.  Economics and Communication for Development and Social Change
Emile McAnany

16.  Peace Communication for Social Change
Ana Fernández Viso

17.  Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC)                           
Neil McKee, Antje Becker-Benton, & Emily Bockh

18.  A Participatory Framework for researching and evaluating Communication for Development and Social Change
Jo Tacchi & June Lennie

19.  Emerging Issues
Rafael Obregon

Part III: Activist Approaches for Development and Social Change

20. Social Movement Media
John D.H. Downing

21.  Transnational Civil Society and Social Movements
Anastasia Kavada

22.  Communication for Transparency and Social Accountability
Norbert Wildermuth

23.  Citizens’ Journalism
Clemencia Rodríguez & Ana María Miralles

24.  Citizen’s media
Rosa María Alfaro Moreno

25.  Community Radio
Tanja Bosch

26. Youth-Generated Media
Joe F. Khalil

27.  Video for change
Tina Askanius

28.  Emerging Issues
Thomas Tufte

Index