"Land is Our Mother": Alternative Meanings of Development in Subaltern Organizing

Journal of International and Intercultural Communication

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 203-220

  Pal, Mahuya ^a   Dutta, Mohan J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences ^*  (Singapore)

Author keywords

Culture Centered Approach; Development Communication; Land Grab; Neoliberalism; Subaltern Organizing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880364981     PISSN: 17513057     EISSN: 17513065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17513057.2013.765954     Document Type: Article

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