Spatial turn in development, poverty and development communication

Date

4-2014

Abstract

A spatial turn in the reading and analysis of development and poverty concepts in the context of rural-to-urban shift, this dissertation attempts to assert (In) Visibility as a category for spatial analysis in development communication. Centering on Matnog, Sorsogon [Philippines], where twelve girls live and experience poverty on a daily basis, this discourse narrates the conversations with them and the photographs they took of their spaces. These preliminary notes elucidated a meta-narrative on re-appropriation of economic spaces, establishing boundaries and demarcation lines between the center and periphery reifying social differences and spatial continuance of synchronizing a singular knowledge: urban development. Emphasizing the consequences of spatial changes effecting these girls and their community presents a reading of the space as initial locus for unfolding truths and realities on poverty, development knowledge and development communication to exacerbate on-going debates on these concepts.

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree

Doctor of Philosophy in Development Communication

College

Graduate School (GS)

Adviser/Committee Chair

Alexander G. Flor

Language

English

Location

UPLB Main Library Special Collections Section (USCS)

Call Number

LG 996 2014 D46 S73

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