Robert Huesca
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673180 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Huesca |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Huesca |
| SIGNATURE | HUESCA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trinity University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Top-down, bottom-up, or both: Successful structures and processes in youth radio training projects
Beginning in the early 1990s, radio training projects aimed at teaching young people (aged 15 – early 20s) the basics of audio production began emerging throughout the United States. By decade’s end, these ‘youth radio’ training programmes mushroomed to about 40 different places across the country due to the availability of grants from individuals, foundations and state agencies with a variety of agendas. Despite more than a decade of experience,…
They are the Experts: A Workers' Agenda for Social Change in Mexico'sMaquiladoras
This study explores theories of globalization and new social movements through the examination of an empirical case of the organizing efforts of maquiladora workers on the Mexico-U.S. border. The article is divided largely into two parts: a theoretical overview that introduces key notions surrounding globalization and new social movements, and an empirical research report that describes movement activities of a community organizing group called t…
Cross‐border justice movements and maquiladora workers
This article reports the findings of a study of a self‐help organization of maquiladora workers, focusing on its cross‐border efforts to effect social change. The findings of this study are preceded by an abbreviated review of scholarship of the maquiladora industry, which provides a contextual grounding for the empirical research. The article also includes a review of scholarship of globalization and cross‐border movements, which constitutes the…
Social Aspects of Labor Organizing: Maquiladora Workers in a Grassroots Development Effort
Beginning in the mid-1960s, Mexico encouraged the development of industrial assembly plants known as maquiladoras along its northern border and in selected areas of the interior. Although it began as a stopgap measure to employ men returning from the U.S. bracero worker program, the Border Industrialization Program soon became Mexico’s principal development initiative for the border region. Since then, numerous scholars have evaluated the success…
Conceptual Contributions of New Social Movements to Development Communication Research
The field of development communication faces a critical juncture regarding its theoretical and pragmatic relevance due to both internal debates and criticisms, and external restructuring of political, economic, and social systems on a global scale. The internal debates and criticisms indicate, at best, that the field is in some degree of conceptual disarray and, at worst, that it is detrimental to the goals of improving the human condition materi…
Diversity in communication for social change
Media practice for social change has been extensively examined, for various media (such as print, radio, television, and computer) and from various perspectives (such as humanist, critical, Marxist, and communitarian). While this research may seem wide‐ranging, it's actually quite similar. It also shares many of the same weaknesses. One of them is how practitioners cope with "difference" when responding to a diverse society. To sort this out, I w…
Participation for development in radio: An ethnography of the Reporteros populares of Bolivia
Reporteros populares (people's reporters) have emerged in a number of Latin Amer ican countries as a fruitful means of incorporating grass-roots participation into media devel opment practices. Scholars have documented and described a number of people's reporters projects, yet few have explained how participation is constructed and enacted in any theoret ically systematic way. This article reviews the limited work on people's reporters from Latin…
A procedural view of participatory communication: Lessons from Bolivian tin miners' radio
Subject‐authored theories of media practice: The case of Bolivian Tin Miners’ radio
The author argues that scholarship focused on developing theories of alternative media‐practices organized by democratic principles and driven by social change agendas‐is marked by a central paradox that disempowers the research subjects as social and communication theorists. He posits that media practitioners move through their worlds on the basis of complex notions of how social change occurs and what role communication plays in that process. E…
Theory and Practice in Latin American Alternative Communication Research
Robert Huesca, Brenda Dervin; Theory and Practice in Latin American Alternative Communication Research, Journal of Communication, Volume 44, Issue 4, 1 Dec
Conceptual Contributions of New Social Movements to Development Communication Research
The field of development communication faces a critical juncture regarding its theoretical and pragmatic relevance due to both internal debates and criticisms, and external restructuring of political, economic, and social systems on a global scale. The internal debates and criticisms indicate, at best, that the field is in some degree of conceptual disarray and, at worst, that it is detrimental to the goals of improving the human condition materi…
They are the Experts: A Workers' Agenda for Social Change in Mexico'sMaquiladoras
This study explores theories of globalization and new social movements through the examination of an empirical case of the organizing efforts of maquiladora workers on the Mexico-U.S. border. The article is divided largely into two parts: a theoretical overview that introduces key notions surrounding globalization and new social movements, and an empirical research report that describes movement activities of a community organizing group called t…
Cross‐border justice movements and maquiladora workers
This article reports the findings of a study of a self‐help organization of maquiladora workers, focusing on its cross‐border efforts to effect social change. The findings of this study are preceded by an abbreviated review of scholarship of the maquiladora industry, which provides a contextual grounding for the empirical research. The article also includes a review of scholarship of globalization and cross‐border movements, which constitutes the…
Subject‐authored theories of media practice: The case of Bolivian Tin Miners’ radio
The author argues that scholarship focused on developing theories of alternative media‐practices organized by democratic principles and driven by social change agendas‐is marked by a central paradox that disempowers the research subjects as social and communication theorists. He posits that media practitioners move through their worlds on the basis of complex notions of how social change occurs and what role communication plays in that process. E…
Participation for development in radio: An ethnography of the Reporteros populares of Bolivia
Reporteros populares (people's reporters) have emerged in a number of Latin Amer ican countries as a fruitful means of incorporating grass-roots participation into media devel opment practices. Scholars have documented and described a number of people's reporters projects, yet few have explained how participation is constructed and enacted in any theoret ically systematic way. This article reviews the limited work on people's reporters from Latin…
Theory and Practice in Latin American Alternative Communication Research
Robert Huesca, Brenda Dervin; Theory and Practice in Latin American Alternative Communication Research, Journal of Communication, Volume 44, Issue 4, 1 Dec
A procedural view of participatory communication: Lessons from Bolivian tin miners' radio
Subject‐authored theories of media practice: The case of Bolivian Tin Miners’ radio
The author argues that scholarship focused on developing theories of alternative media‐practices organized by democratic principles and driven by social change agendas‐is marked by a central paradox that disempowers the research subjects as social and communication theorists. He posits that media practitioners move through their worlds on the basis of complex notions of how social change occurs and what role communication plays in that process. E…
Diversity in communication for social change
Media practice for social change has been extensively examined, for various media (such as print, radio, television, and computer) and from various perspectives (such as humanist, critical, Marxist, and communitarian). While this research may seem wide‐ranging, it's actually quite similar. It also shares many of the same weaknesses. One of them is how practitioners cope with "difference" when responding to a diverse society. To sort this out, I w…
Participation for development in radio: An ethnography of the Reporteros populares of Bolivia
Reporteros populares (people's reporters) have emerged in a number of Latin Amer ican countries as a fruitful means of incorporating grass-roots participation into media devel opment practices. Scholars have documented and described a number of people's reporters projects, yet few have explained how participation is constructed and enacted in any theoret ically systematic way. This article reviews the limited work on people's reporters from Latin…
Conceptual Contributions of New Social Movements to Development Communication Research
The field of development communication faces a critical juncture regarding its theoretical and pragmatic relevance due to both internal debates and criticisms, and external restructuring of political, economic, and social systems on a global scale. The internal debates and criticisms indicate, at best, that the field is in some degree of conceptual disarray and, at worst, that it is detrimental to the goals of improving the human condition materi…
Social Aspects of Labor Organizing: Maquiladora Workers in a Grassroots Development Effort
Beginning in the mid-1960s, Mexico encouraged the development of industrial assembly plants known as maquiladoras along its northern border and in selected areas of the interior. Although it began as a stopgap measure to employ men returning from the U.S. bracero worker program, the Border Industrialization Program soon became Mexico’s principal development initiative for the border region. Since then, numerous scholars have evaluated the success…
Cross‐border justice movements and maquiladora workers
This article reports the findings of a study of a self‐help organization of maquiladora workers, focusing on its cross‐border efforts to effect social change. The findings of this study are preceded by an abbreviated review of scholarship of the maquiladora industry, which provides a contextual grounding for the empirical research. The article also includes a review of scholarship of globalization and cross‐border movements, which constitutes the…
They are the Experts: A Workers' Agenda for Social Change in Mexico'sMaquiladoras
This study explores theories of globalization and new social movements through the examination of an empirical case of the organizing efforts of maquiladora workers on the Mexico-U.S. border. The article is divided largely into two parts: a theoretical overview that introduces key notions surrounding globalization and new social movements, and an empirical research report that describes movement activities of a community organizing group called t…
Top-down, bottom-up, or both: Successful structures and processes in youth radio training projects
Beginning in the early 1990s, radio training projects aimed at teaching young people (aged 15 – early 20s) the basics of audio production began emerging throughout the United States. By decade’s end, these ‘youth radio’ training programmes mushroomed to about 40 different places across the country due to the availability of grants from individuals, foundations and state agencies with a variety of agendas. Despite more than a decade of experience,…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (6 works) · Media Studies and Communication (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media (5 works) · Social Media and Politics (5 works) · Citizen journalism (4 works)