Rethinking Development
About the Book Series
Rethinking Development offers accessible and thought-provoking overviews of contemporary topics in international development and aid. Providing original empirical and analytical insights, the books in this series push thinking in new directions by challenging current conceptualizations and developing new ones.
This is a dynamic and inspiring series for all those engaged with today’s debates surrounding development issues, whether they be students, scholars, policy makers and practitioners internationally. These interdisciplinary books provide an invaluable resource for discussion in advanced undergraduate and postgraduate courses in development studies as well as in anthropology, economics, politics, geography, media studies and sociology.
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Communicating Development with Communities
1st Edition
By Linje Manyozo
June 16, 2017
Development theory and practice are often taught in a manner that strips them of their historical context and obscures alternative intellectual assumptions and critical frameworks. This prevents students from acquiring a holistic understanding of the world and consequently, when it comes to ...
Education, Learning and the Transformation of Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Amy Skinner, Matt Baillie Smith, Eleanor Brown, Tobias Troll
July 20, 2016
Whilst education has been widely recognised as a key tool for development, this has tended to be limited to the incremental changes that education can bring about within a given development paradigm, as opposed to its role in challenging dominant conceptions and practices of development and ...
Celebrity Humanitarianism and North-South Relations: Politics, place and power
1st Edition
Edited
By Lisa Ann Richey
September 03, 2015
Discussion over celebrity engagement is often limited to theoretical critique or normative name-calling, without much grounded research into what it is that celebrities are doing, the same or differently throughout the world. Crucially, little attention has been paid to the Global South, either as ...
Art, Culture and International Development: Humanizing social transformation
1st Edition
By John Clammer
December 12, 2014
Culture is not simply an explanation of last resort, but is itself a rich, multifaceted and contested concept and set of practices that needs to be expanded, appreciated and applied in fresh ways if it is to be both valued in itself and to be of use in practical development. This innovative book ...
New Media and International Development: Representation and affect in microfinance
1st Edition
By Anke Schwittay
September 23, 2014
New Media and International Development is the first in-depth examination of microfinance’s enduring popularity with Northern publics. Through a case study of Kiva.org, the world’s first person-to-person microlending website, and other microfinance organizations, the book argues that international ...
International Aid and the Making of a Better World: Reflexive Practice
1st Edition
By Rosalind Eyben
May 29, 2014
How can international aid professionals manage to deal with the daily dilemmas of working for the wellbeing of people in countries other than their own? A scholar-activist and lifelong development practitioner seeks to answer that question in a book that provides a vivid and accessible insight into...
Celebrity Advocacy and International Development
1st Edition
By Dan Brockington
May 15, 2014
Celebrity advocacy is a curious phenomenon. It occupies a significant proportion of the public domain, but does so without engaging particularly well with much of the public. Yet this may not matter very much. Many people at the core of advocacy, and in political and business elites, simply do not ...
Popular Representations of Development: Insights from Novels, Films, Television and Social Media
1st Edition
Edited
By David Lewis, Dennis Rodgers, Michael Woolcock
October 04, 2013
Although the academic study of development is well established, as is also its policy implementation, less considered are the broader, more popular understandings of development that often shape agendas and priorities, particularly in representative democracies. Through its accessible and ...