Mohan J. Dutta

14Culture-centered communication and social change: Listening and participation to transform communication inequalities

Abstract: The culture-centered approach (CCA) offers an overarching framework for listening to the voices of those at the margins whose voices have hitherto been erased by the dominant narratives of social change couched in the language of development. Through listening and participation, infrastructures of recognition and representation are co-created, fostering new imaginations that are grounded in the lived experiences of those living at the margins. Essential to the conceptual framework of the CCA is a tentative notion of community-based solidarity that seeks to invert the overarching structures that produce ...

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