Books in the Rethinking Development series

This book explores the practical delivery of participatory arts projects for international development.

International development stakeholders harness communication with two broad purposes: to do good, via communication for development and media assistance, and to communicate do-gooding, via public relations. This book aims to unpack the ways in which different efforts to do good via communication are combined with attempts to look good, be it to donor constituencies, policy-makers or journalists. This book is perfect for students and scholars in the areas of development communication and international development, and will also appeal to practitioners and officers working in international aid who are directly affected by the challenge to communicate for and about development.

This book is perfect for development practitioners, adult education teachers and policy makers, as well as scholars and students within development studies and numeracy education.

This book is perfect for development practitioners, adult education teachers and policy makers, as well as scholars and students within development studies and numeracy education.

Through a collection of insightful and provocative chapters, this book will examine the role of learning in shaping new discourses and practices of development. By drawing on contributions from activists, researchers, education and development practitioners from around the world, this book situates learning within the wider political and cultural economies of development. It critically explores if and how learning can shape processes of societal transformation, and consequently a new language and practice of development. This book makes an important and original contribution by reframing educational practices and processes in relation to broader global struggles for justice, voice and development in a rapidly changing development landscape.

Through a collection of insightful and provocative chapters, this book will examine the role of learning in shaping new discourses and practices of development. By drawing on contributions from activists, researchers, education and development practitioners from around the world, this book situates learning within the wider political and cultural economies of development. It critically explores if and how learning can shape processes of societal transformation, and consequently a new language and practice of development. This book makes an important and original contribution by reframing educational practices and processes in relation to broader global struggles for justice, voice and development in a rapidly changing development landscape.

There is a pressing need to examine celebrities and the role of context in the power relations that constitute North-South relations. This book gazes through the keyhole of `celebrity¿ in order to investigate key concepts such as accountability, agency, authenticity, brand, development, mediation, inequality, need, public engagement and representation. This book offers a global, interdisciplinary and theoretically-informed collection of cases highlighting celebrity engagement in over a dozen countries on five continents.

There is a pressing need to examine celebrities and the role of context in the power relations that constitute North-South relations. This book gazes through the keyhole of `celebrity¿ in order to investigate key concepts such as accountability, agency, authenticity, brand, development, mediation, inequality, need, public engagement and representation. This book offers a global, interdisciplinary and theoretically-informed collection of cases highlighting celebrity engagement in over a dozen countries on five continents.

This book examines some of the innovative new south-south financial arrangements and institutions that have recently emerged, as countries seek new ways to transform their economies and to shield themselves from economic turbulence. It will interest practitioners, researchers and students working on development finance.

This book examines some of the innovative new south-south financial arrangements and institutions that have recently emerged, as countries seek new ways to transform their economies and to shield themselves from economic turbulence. It will interest practitioners, researchers and students working on development finance.

This book uncovers how power operates around the world, and how it can be resisted or transformed through empowered collective action and social leadership.

International development stakeholders harness communication with two broad purposes: to do good, via communication for development and media assistance, and to communicate do-gooding, via public relations. This book aims to unpack the ways in which different efforts to do good via communication are combined with attempts to look good, be it to donor constituencies, policy-makers or journalists. This book is perfect for students and scholars in the areas of development communication and international development, and will also appeal to practitioners and officers working in international aid who are directly affected by the challenge to communicate for and about development.

This book asks how governments in Africa can use evidence to improve their policies and programmes. It will be perfect for policy-makers, practitioners in government and civil society, researchers and academics with an interest in how evidence is used to support policy making in Africa.

This book asks how governments in Africa can use evidence to improve their policies and programmes. It will be perfect for policy-makers, practitioners in government and civil society, researchers and academics with an interest in how evidence is used to support policy making in Africa.