Foundations for Social Change: Critical Perspectives on Philanthropy and Popular Movements

2007 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-294
Author(s):  
John H. Stanfield
2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 267
Author(s):  
Amanda Miranda

Com passagens e pesquisas em universidades ao redor do mundo – como na América Latina e na África, o professor Thomas Tufte, natural da Dinamarca, mas estabelecido na Inglaterra, traz a análise de experiências recentes em comunicação e mudança social no seu novo livro, intitulado “Communication and Social Change: a Citizen Perspective”, publicado pela Polity, sem tradução em Português. Em comum entre estas experiências está o fato de serem orquestradas por novos agentes – os movimentos sociais e os usos que eles fazem das tecnologias para comunicar, informar e produzir conhecimento.            Nessa entrevista, realizada na cidade de Leicester, Inglaterra, em setembro de 2017, Tufte resume alguns dos principais conceitos dispersos na obra, conectada ao pensamento de estudiosos latinos, cuja tradição, segundo ele, é baseada na comunicação participativa, e não no modelo norte-americano, mais funcionalista. Entre tais conceitos, Tufte destaca o de Cibercultur@, proposta pelo mexicano Jorge Alejandro Gonzalez como uma forma de enfrentar a comunicação enquanto prática transformadora – a ser realizada “de baixo para cima”, enfatizando os sistemas de informação, as praticas de comunicação e a produção de conhecimento que surge em pequenas e grandes comunidades.            Tufte também fala sobre movimentos sociais que emergem com novas experiências comunicativas, provocada pela ascensão e popularização das novas tecnologias, e lembra que os espaços institucionalizados têm muito a aprender com esses movimentos, tanto na gestão da tecnologia, como na gestão das emoções – um outro componente reconhecidamente “em jogo” nos processos de mudança.            Com pesquisas relacionadas ao Brasil já publicadas, o professor também propõe alguns eixos reflexivos acerca de fenômenos sociais recentes no país, como as jornadas de junho de 2013 e a chegada de novos grupos sociais conservadores – que, repete ele, não são o foco dos seus estudos, cuja abordagem para novos fenômenos e práticas é mais otimista, embora consciente de que a crise de representação vivenciada no mundo também é uma crise de comunicação.            Thomas Tufte é atualmente diretor de pesquisa da University of Leicester, além de ser fundador do Orecomm, Centro para a Comunicação e Mudança Glocal.  O Professor também atua como Senior Research Associate na University de Johannesburg, na África do Sul, e dirige o projeto internacional intitulado “Critical Perspectives on New Media and Processes of Social Change in the Global South”, com foco no Quênia.


Author(s):  
Emile G. McAnany

This chapter focuses on the rise of the critical or dependency paradigm in Latin America and the success of its theories but somewhat limited applications over a period from the early 1970s through the mid-1980s. It first examines the context of the paradigm shift that paved the way for a new theory in the discourse of communication and social change, and how that may have affected practice. It then considers how the dependency approach to communication for development (c4d) first came into favor in Latin America. It also discusses the dependency paradigm in theory and practice and Everett Rogers's critique of the old or dominant paradigm, which he articulated in the book Communication and Development: Critical Perspectives (1976a). The chapter concludes by demonstrating how practice and critical theory came together in a government project in Tanzania's ujamaa villages.


2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 435-452
Author(s):  
Luke Martell

This article discusses criticisms that utopia and utopianism undermine social change. It outlines two types of utopia, future and current. It argues against claims that utopianism is idealist and steps aside from material and conflictual dimensions of society and so undermines change, proposing that utopias are material and conflictual and contribute to change. Against liberal and pluralist criticisms that utopianism is end-ist and totalitarian and terminates diversity and change, it argues that utopianism can encompass liberal and pluralist dimensions and be dynamic rather than static. It is proposed that criticisms create false conflations and dichotomies. Critical perspectives, rather than being rejected, are answered on their own terms. Utopianism, it is argued, is part of change, materially, now and in the future.


2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 13-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Patrice McSherry

The musical movement known as Chilean New Song became a key mobilizing force in politics in the 1960s and early 1970s in Chile, inspiring, uniting, and motivating people in a common cause and articulating the dreams and hopes of masses of people for progressive social change. Similarly, the New Song movement in exile, after the 1973 coup, helped to generate and sustain the support and solidarity of Chilean exiles and foreign nationals around the world, speaking about the repression in Chile, communicating the ideals of the popular movements, and inspiring and strengthening solidarity movements in many countries. El movimiento musical conocido como la Nueva Canción Chilena fue una fuerza movilizadora clave en las luchas políticas de los años 60 y principios de los 70 en Chile. Sirvió como fuente de inspiración para unir a la gente en una causa común y para articular los sueños y las esperanzas de un cambio social progresista de las masas del pueblo. De igual manera, en el exilio, después del golpe de 1973, el movimiento ayudó a generar y sostener el apoyo y la solidaridad de los exiliados chilenos y de los extranjeros alrededor del mundo, ofreciendo testimonio sobre la represión en Chile, dándole voz a los ideales de los movimientos populares y fortaleciendo los movimientos de solidaridad en muchos países.


2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth McGibbon ◽  
Sionnach Lukeman

There is increasing urgency to enact critical perspectives in the profession of nursing, with a resurgence of the political, a deliberative focus on social change, and a growing uneasiness with remaining neutral in the face of such pressing need. This analysis starts with a brief overview of critical perspectives, underscoring nursing’s complex positioning at the interface of witnessing peoples’ suffering, and the structural change necessary to address its root causes. Although witnessing may imply watching, or even bystanding, here it refers to historical and cultural meanings of witnessing as standing alongside in solidarity and action throughout the struggle for justice—bearing witness as a moral and a political obligation. Moral bystanding is described as a foundational barrier to achieving the moral imperative of critical perspectives. We conclude with pathways for cultivating and enacting a critical gaze, and a call for moral courage to systematically integrate critical perspectives in nursing. Throughout the discussion, we draw upon the work of nurse ethicists to provide important links about enacting critical perspectives as part of the moral foundation of nursing. Our intention is not to provide an analysis of the moral contexts of nursing, but rather to situate critical perspectives within the moral territory of social change, synthesizing key ideas that have direct salience for critical social justice in nursing. Keywords: critical perspectives in nursing, critical social justice in nursing, moral bystanding, social change    


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