Voices of Resistance: Communication and Social Change - Paperback

by Mohan J. Dutta (Author)

This book represents voices of resistance from across the globe to document the communicative processes, practices, and frameworks through which neoliberal global policies are currently being defied. Based on examples, case studies, and ethnographic reports, Voices of Resistance serves as a space for engaging various perspectives from the global margins in dialogue. The emphasis of the book is on the core idea that creating spaces for listening to voices of resistance fosters openings for the politics of social change-interweaving the stories of the local, the national, and the global. The book is divided into chapters addressing the politics of resistance in the contexts of global economic policies, agriculture, education, health, poverty, and development.

Author Biography

Mohan J. Dutta is professor of communication and director of the Center on Poverty and Health Inequities (COPHI) at Purdue University, where he teaches and conducts research in international health communication, critical cultural theory, poverty in health care, activism in globalization politics, indigenous cosmologies of health, subaltern studies and dialogue, and public policy and social change. Spanning over one hundred articles and six books, his research examines marginalization in contemporary health care and the ways in which participatory, culture-centered processes and strategies are organized in marginalized contexts.