New mediums, better messages? : : How innovations in translation, engagement, and advocacy are changing international development / / edited by David Lewis,Dennis Rodgers and Michael Woolcock

• TeilnehmendeR: Lewis, David; Rodgers, Dennis; Woolcock, Michael
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Oxford Academic
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (289 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.

The notion of development influences and is influenced by all aspects of human life. Social science is but one representational option among many for conveying the myriad ways in which development is conceived, encountered, experienced, justified, courted, and/or resisted by different groups at particular times and places. This wide-ranging collection from a diverse group of academic and non-academic authors engages with the broad field of development through twelve chapters that deal with music, theatre, fiction, photography, festivals, computer games, the arts, blogging, and other media. It explores three broad areas of alternative forms of knowledge about development, organized around the three themes of 'translation', 'advocacy', and 'engagement'. The first of these is concerned with how popular representations of development can successfully compete with and complement formal social scientific representations; the second relates to the politics of popular representations of development, and the way that popular productions shape debates; and the third asks whether popular representations of development can generate alternative critiques that allow for the articulation of views that would be unacceptable to more orthodox means.

Table of Contents

Introduction -- 1 The Sounds of Development -- 2 The Pedagogy of Trash -- 3 Writing a Development Play -- 4 Entering the Fictional World of Development -- 5 From Poverty to Power -- 6 Playing for Change -- 7 Women Saving the World -- 8 'Being in the spotlight is not something we are used to' -- 9 Allah megh de -- 10 Contemporary Arts Festivals in Nigeria and Nepal -- 11 Who Consumes? -- 12 The Arts in the Economy and the Economy in the Arts