Individualism, Community, and Cooperatives in the Development Thinking of the Union Soudanaise-RDA, 1946–1960

2008 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica M. van Beusekom
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Evolutionary Models ◽  
Shared Language ◽  
French Soudan ◽  
Patterns Of Interaction

Abstract:In the late 1940s and 1950s, nationalists and colonial officials in French Soudan (Mali) shared a language of development centered on the concepts of tradition, modernity, community, and individualism. This shared language permitted collaboration but also masked important differences in nationalist and colonial analyses of social change and the direction of rural development. Particular areas of contention were social evolutionary models of change, the likelihood of rising individualism, and the potential of communitarian development. The patterns of interaction in this debate reveal that intellectual exchanges between and among officials and nationalists were multidirectional and characterized not by borrowing but by exchange, adaptation, and reformulation.

scholarly journals Theorizing media, communication and social change: towards a processual approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 482-501 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabina Mihelj ◽  
James Stanyer
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Shared Language ◽  
Agent Of Change ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
Conceptual Language ◽  
Processual Approach

Debates about the role of media and communication in social change are central to our discipline, yet advances in this field are hampered by disciplinary fragmentation, a lack of shared conceptual language and limited understanding of long-term shifts in the field. To address this, we first develop a typology that distinguishes between approaches that foreground the role of media and communication as an agent of change, and approaches that treat media and communication as an environment for change. We then use this typology to identify key trends in the field since 1951, including the sharp downturn in work focusing on economic aspects of change after 1985, the decline of grand narratives of social change since 2000 and the parallel return to media effects. We conclude by outlining the key traits of a processual approach to social change, which has the capacity to offer the basis for shared language in the field. This language can enable us to think of media, communication and social change across its varied temporal and social planes, and link together the processes involved in the reproduction of status quo with fundamental changes to social order.

Chinese Women and Rural Development: Sixty Years of Change in Lu Village, Yunnan. By Laurel Bossen. [Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2002. 391 pp. Hard cover $80.00, ISBN 0-7425-1107-3; paperback $29.95, ISBN 0-7425-1108-1.]

2003 ◽  
Vol 173 ◽  
pp. 214-251
Author(s):  
Elisabeth J. Croll
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Field Study ◽  
Yunnan Province ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Chinese Women ◽  
Everyday Practice ◽  
Market Driven ◽  
Hard Cover

This study constitutes a major contribution to our understanding of women, gender and rural development within and beyond China. Examining 60 years of economic, political and social change in one village in Yunnan province, this book has both depth and breadth. Research in Lu village, also the site of Fei Xiao-tong's very fine field study conducted in the 1940s and reported in Earthbound China, enables the author to examine how larger concepts and abstractions such as Chinese culture, communist planning and market-driven reforms shape and are shaped by gender definitions and relations in everyday practice.

First be a woman? rural development, social change and women farmers’ lives in Thessaly-Greece

2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 164-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chrysanthi Charatsari ◽  
Afroditi Papadaki-Klavdianou
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Women Farmers

Margaret Harkness, novelist: social semantics and experiments in fiction

2019 ◽  
pp. 130-146
Author(s):  
Lynne Hapgood
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Experimental Writing ◽  
Literary Realism ◽  
Urban Modernity ◽  
Shared Language ◽  
The Future ◽  
Historical Moment ◽  
Social Semantics

This chapter is based on Harkness’s three London novels to explore how they provided a space in which she was able to experiment with a new style of literary realism designed to reflect both its historical moment and an evolving linguistic and political discourse. It argues that, in a period of social change, Harkness’s task in writing novels about contemporary social conditions required her to employ the shared language and conventions of the present but, crucially, to listen and hear the as yet unarticulated but evolving meanings of the future. It explores the ways in which Harkness’s writing participates in and contributes to emerging forms of experimental writing that seek to relay the experience of urban modernity.

Amul India: A Social Development Enterprise

2007 ◽  
Vol 11 (02) ◽  
pp. 293-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harish Chawla
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Social Enterprise ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Life Stages ◽  
Dairy Farmer ◽  
Quality Of Leadership ◽  
Farmer Management

Amul initiated as an experiment in two villages, collecting 250 kg of milk per day. As the cooperative expanded its branches over the course of its 50-year journey, Amul boasts of more than six million kilograms of milk collection daily. What had initiated as a process of liberation from the Dairy King, brought a revolutionary transformation across the country. This case provides a vivid example of how a cooperative can become the catalyst for social change and rural development. This case takes us through the journey of Amul, from its dawn period when it was attempting to take root, through its progression along the enterprise life stages and the associated challenges. Insights into the quality of leadership and the farmer/management relationships are its defining characteristic. The Amul Model narrowed the gap between the producer and the consumer, connecting the dairy farmer to the consumer through its organic network. The success of this model ignited interest across India, where this model was replicated, in essence leading to the White Revolution. The case provides sufficient insights and learnings to develop a framework to comprehend the basic essence of a prosperous social enterprise — factors that make it successful. It is this learning that this case desires to impart to its readership, enhancing interest in this rather lively subject of social enterprises.

Well-being and nature: policy convergence in forestry, health and rural development (essay) | Well-being and nature: policy convergence in forestry, health and rural development (essay)

2010 ◽  
Vol 161 (3) ◽  
pp. 62-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcus Sangster
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Health Science ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
Policy Convergence ◽  
Language Of Science ◽  
Shared Language ◽  
Traditional Understanding

The importance of natural environments to human health was generally accepted until the early 20th century, but subsequently has been neglected. Today that traditional understanding is being rediscovered, but is now conceptualised in the language of science. For contributions in this field to have an impact today, therefore, they must be communicated in the language of medical and public health science. Concepts of well-being are now seen to be central to, and have been adopted in, policies relating to social sustainability. The emergence of lifestyle as a focus for concern both in health and sustainability is leading to convergence in policy and in practice and to the development of shared language.

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