Communicating for Change Concepts to Think With
- Submitting institution
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Loughborough University
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- 2529
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- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9783030425128
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This book interrogates the expanded nature of the field of communication and social change, establishes its contemporary importance and strengthens its conceptual underpinnings. It responds to the growing need to reconceptualise how we approach communication and change in the context of the contemporary fast pace of socioeconomic, political and technological change across the globe. It helps us expand and enrich research on communication and social change, providing fourteen new concepts that reveal and define three central areas of concern for the field; issues of justice (social and cognitive) and citizenship, critiques of development and its processes/project, and appreciation of the need to renew our work, through and for the margins. The book includes a co-authored introduction and solo-authored concept chapter by Tacchi, the lead Editor. At a meeting between the editors in 2016 Tacchi proposed the need to uncover, discuss and circulate the most innovative conceptual thinking in this shifting field. Tacchi organised a ‘conceptual hackathon’ in September 2017, a two-day event collecting together fourteen invited participants including established and emerging scholars from thirteen countries. The concepts were presented and rigorously questioned and challenged (‘hacked’) during the meeting culminating in collective reflection on the state and future of the field. Collectively the concepts critique the conditions of citizenship and knowledge production in contemporary societies and challenge dominant discourses and practices of international agencies. In rethinking the field, the book shows that at the centre of our concern sits issues of equity and justice. It reveals a need to allow for and insist upon recognition of different ways of being and knowing that challenge dominant paradigms. The manuscript was reviewed by the Palgrave series editors and external peer reviewers. Over a period of 18 months, the concept chapters were further revised and refined, including three rounds of feedback from the editors.
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