Communication, Development, and New Social Movements: A European Perspective.

Autor/in	Servaes, Jan
Titel	Communication, Development, and New Social Movements: A European Perspective.
Quelle	(1988), (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Appropriate Technology; Developing Nations; Developmental Programs; Economic Development; Global Approach; Mass Media; Network Analysis; Networks; Social Theories + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Entwicklungsplan; Wirtschaftsentwicklung; Globales Denken; Massenmedien; Netzplantechnik; Gesellschaftstheorie
Abstract	At the present time the social sciences implicitly or explicitly start from a normative vision which has a dialectical objective: a reasoning that is at once theoretical and practical, or that is both a political and a scientific discourse. A focus on Jurgen Habermas' theory of communicative action provides possibilities of shifting the frontier to interactive planning that explicitly takes up the problem of the relationship between authority and society. The theories and concepts of other European thinkers like Althusser, Gramsci, Lukacs, Weber, and Foucault, are also important for an understanding of the Western European intellectual climate. Habermas's theory envisions a number of new, collective decision-making forms. It must be seen as a directive for a new political praxis, a criterion against which the organization of both the political and the social life can be tested and judged. However, the political relevance of this third paradigm (emerging from criticism of the modernization and dependency paradigms) as a realistic counter-strategy has a chance to succeed only if an organic bond can be forged internationally between the grass-roots movement in the West and in the Third World. 'Networking' may be a crucial step towards its materialization. As a step towards this, the participants at a 1986 conference on Communication, Development and Human Rights held in Rome, recommended that transnational networks of communication, solidarity, and support be developed between local and national groups and organizations to give some protection to vulnerable groups. (Fifty-five references are attached.) (RAE)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC